Launching today
NilaMind
A private, fully on-device mental health companion
10 followers
A private, fully on-device mental health companion
10 followers
NilaMind is an Android app built around Nila — someone to talk to by voice or text for everyday emotional support. The AI model, crisis-safety checks, voice transcription, and all your data stay on your phone. No account, no backend, no analytics by default. Now with research-backed protocols (Relapse Prevention, Mindfulness, Behavioral Experiments), a redesigned private diary, and clinician PDF export — everything still runs fully on-device, nothing leaves your phone.
The decision to keep everything on-device including the crisis-safety layer is impressive engineering for a phone, and you can feel it in how snappy the conversation feels. Real respect for turning your own experience into something this careful and private.
@oktaycabbairwt Thank you, that really means a lot. Honestly the crisis-safety layer was the hardest part to get right — it had to run independently of the AI model itself (so a confused or jailbroken model can never suppress it), while still feeling fast enough not to get in the way of an actual conversation. Really glad it comes through as snappy rather than janky. Appreciate you looking at the engineering, not just the pitch!
Love that everything stays on-device. One thing I'd really appreciate is a simple widget for quick voice check-ins without opening the app, maybe with a tap-to-talk button right on the home screen for those moments when you just need a few seconds of grounding.
@abdullahboyu Really appreciate that — and yes, took it seriously. Just shipped a "Talk to Nila" widget: one tap from your home screen lands you straight on the voice check-in screen, no extra navigation. Didn't go all the way to auto-starting the mic from the widget itself (that would mean recording audio outside the app's normal safety pipeline, which felt like the wrong tradeoff to rush) — but this gets you from home screen to mic-ready in one tap. Out now: https://github.com/sampathmannam... — would love to hear if it's what you had in mind.