A place to set things down.
Mooring is an AI conversational tool, not a human. It is a wellness app for adults 18+. It is not therapy, not crisis support, and not a substitute for professional mental health care.
Mooring starts with a free, private journal — write it out, or tap to talk and it writes itself, transcribed on your phone and stored nowhere else. When you want more than a page, subscriptions add sessions: a real back-and-forth where Mooring listens and responds, in writing or out loud. In voice it hears tone, pace, and pauses. In text it reads carefully and replies thoughtfully.
Mooring is not a wellness score. Not a tool that watches your patterns. Not a friend. It's a moment to set something down before that something becomes heavier.
Write it out, or tap to talk and watch it write itself. Entries are transcribed on-device and live only on your phone — never uploaded, never read by anyone, not even Mooring. No account, no streaks, no pressure. Free forever.
For the drive home, the step outside, the moments when speaking aloud fits. Mooring listens and responds. Works with CarPlay, so you'll start a voice session from your car's dashboard, hands-free, before you've pulled out of the parking lot.
For quiet contexts — late at night, hospital break rooms, public transit, anywhere voice doesn't fit. You write, Mooring writes back. Conversations are saved encrypted and fully deletable.
Different days need different shapes of conversation. All three modes work in both voice and text sessions.
Unload
When you just need to get it out and be heard. No questions, no fixing, no advice — just presence.
Sort It Out
When something happened and you're trying to make sense of it. Reflective conversation that helps you think through what's there.
Walk In Lighter
When you need to ease the transition home. A brief conversation to soften the edge between work and the rest of your life.
Mooring was built first for the people who carry the most weight: ER nurses, paramedics, firefighters, police officers, dispatchers, corrections officers, and the other trauma-exposed workers who often have nowhere to set things down at the end of a shift.
The trauma community comes first, but we offer this for everyone as well.
If you're a teacher at the end of a long week, a parent in a hard stretch, a caregiver, or anyone whose work takes more than it gives back — Mooring is for you too. We built it with the people who need it most in mind, then opened the door wide.
The private journal — text and tap-to-talk — costs nothing, forever. These tiers add sessions, where Mooring responds:
No streaks. No badges. No engagement tricks. Pricing is designed so the product is sustainable without optimizing for maximum use.
Text Only
$7.99
per month · $79.99/year
Base
$17.99
per month · $179.99/year
Premium
$29.99
per month · $299.99/year
The journal is free forever — no trial needed. Sessions start with a 3-day free trial of any tier. Card required at signup; auto-renews unless cancelled.
I'm Daniel. I built Mooring because I kept noticing the same thing: the people we count on to walk into the worst moments of strangers' lives don't have a real place to put what they witness when the shift ends. They drive home alone. They process it in silence. They carry what they saw into their families.
The evidence for what helps is decades old. Putting hard experiences into structured language — out loud or in writing — helps people convert chaotic experience into coherent understanding. Voice AI and text-based AI now make that available in moments it wasn't before: in your car on the drive home, in the quiet bedroom at midnight, anywhere you happen to be.
Mooring isn't therapy or peer support. It's a tool for the moments those other things can't reach. I'm building it because the people doing the hardest work deserve better than what currently exists.
— Daniel Kernan, founder
Mooring is built on James Pennebaker's 40-year body of work on expressive writing — the evidence that putting hard experiences into structured language helps people make sense of them. The voice equivalent is supported by Slavin-Spenny et al. (2011), which showed that verbal disclosure produces comparable outcomes to written disclosure.
Mooring does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition. It is not a medical device. It is a wellness tool that offers a moment of structured processing in a day that doesn't otherwise have one.
Journal entries never leave your phone — they're transcribed on-device and stored only there, never sent to any server or AI provider. Voice session audio is processed live and discarded when the session ends — never retained. Text session conversations are stored encrypted on your behalf so you can come back to them, and you can delete any entry, or all of them, at any time.
Mooring does not use your conversations to train AI models, does not sell your data, and does not share individual session content with employers. Full details in our Privacy Policy.
Mooring is built first for the drive home — the real psychological transition most apps miss. With CarPlay, you'll start a voice session from your car's dashboard, hands-free, before you've pulled out of the parking lot. It's voice only: text mode isn't available in CarPlay by design, to keep your attention on the road.
Built for iPhone, with CarPlay for the drive home. Free to download — the journal costs nothing. Sessions start with a 3-day free trial.