Learn to feel and understand emotions
Animi is the first app dedicated to help you improve alexithymia, emotional awareness and emotional intelligence
I’ve improved immensely - almost unrecognizably. Now I find myself much more capable of crying, expressing myself, and recognizing my emotions much faster, almost instantly. I have more capacity to motivate myself, approach others, and socialize. I am much happier and adapt better to my environment.
The app is in my opinion much better than emotion wheels as there is so much more details/information.
Very helpful!
Feel like the tool has allowed me to regulate even when having very distressing emotions through understanding. Easier to map them using symptoms on the body. 10/10 something I didn't even know I needed or could help so much with PTSD/ADHD.
The best app ive ever used in my life!
I cannot recommend enough.
As someone who struggles with emotional dysregulation this has been exponentially helpful for me, as well as my family.
It feels like the app was tailored for me and reached me at the perfect moment. Regular therapy and methods have not worked for me cause guess what - I DON’T KNOW WHAT I FEEL! 😂 With Animi - I finally feel seen, valued, like I matter in this world and best of all - I feel tremendous hope. ❤️
This app is very helpful. I know a lot of people with autism use this. But ever since my injury I had a hard time figuring out what I was feeling. This app has been helping me by identifying my physical reactions and helping me match them up with a word.
I really like this app - it's going to be genuinely useful for me. The emotion compass is the best part. My wife agrees! It helped me to have a conversation I would otherwise have struggled with, by showing her the cards.
This was far more informative than talking with a therapist for an hour to figure out what I'm feeling, so I would recommend it.
I DON'T LOVE this app, I learn WHAT IS LOVE in this app.
Highly recommended for people with traumatic histories, people with poor emotional intelligence who cannot get along with peers and with those who were never trained in assessing their own emotions in their early developmental stages of life.
Use one of our tools to find a word that precisely describes what you are feeling. If you're not sure about the exact meaning of the word, consult our dictionary of emotions that provides further context and identification clues.
Introspect about your feelings and emotions, the situation that triggered them, and overall context with the help of guided questions. This over time helps you develop emotional intuition.
Use one of the three breathing techniques to calm down, focus, or get a boost of energy. Or figure out what exactly is the message behind what you're feeling, and express it to somebody else in a productive way.
Use one of our tools to narrow down your experience to a few labels that are likely to fit, and select them.
Dig down into more and more specific clusters of emotions to find the most fitting label.
Search our knowledge base using keywords or by asking a question or describing your situation to our optional LLM search.
Indicate how much energy you currently feel and whether it's overall pleasant or unpleasant and get a few suggested labels.
Select where in your body you feel activated, and then swipe on specific sensations to refine suggestions.
Specific emotions are tied to specific situations, bodily sensations, expressions, and other clues. They have various functions, evoke different thoughts, and protect specific needs. Learn all about each emotion label in our encyclopedia to better understand the full meaning and implication of each word. This also further helps you find the right label to describe your experience even if your emotional vocabulary is limited. Helpful analogy included!
Journal about your experience to capture more context. Expressive writing and journaling has been shown to be helpful in training the ability to detect emotions, as well as understanding and regulating them.
Browse through question prompts designed to help you write more introspective and insightful journals.
Tag each journal with however many tags you like, to later get insights about your emotional patterns with relation to different tags and contexts.
After you identify an emotion, you can choose how to work with the emotion using one of our workbooks. Process to understand its message fully, quickly regulate your nervous system to calm down, or make sure you express it in a way that people understand.
Fully experience and explore the meaning, purpose, and message behind identified emotions
Perform a quick 3-min breathing technique to shift how you feel to a different place
Formulate a message clearly expressing how you feel in an understandable and productive way
Emotions 101 is the first comprehensive course built specifically to support alexithymics. It teaches you the language of feelings through evidence-based techniques lesson by lesson.
The more lessons you complete, and the more emotion logs and journals you add, the more value you get from our comprehensive analytics section that surfaces your patterns.
Regularly take the latest academically validated test to see how your score and subscores improve over time to actully measure the change.
Your daily practice for emotional growth, addressing three different aspects of alexithymia directly. There are 12 comprehensive modules, taking you from foundational concepts to advanced emotional skills. Each lesson takes just 5-15 minutes.
Learn the "why" before the "how" - understand what emotions are, what they do, and why they matter.
Follow our exercise curriculum and learn to recognize the physical signatures of different emotional states.
Build your conceptual map of which emotions match specific situations, sensations, and thoughts.
Use our detailed analytical engine to understand patterns, dig deeper with the help of extremely modular filters, and uncover insights that will help you make sense of your emotional life. Or optionally ask our AI for insights from a slice of your journals.
Insightful charts showing your emotional landscape, top emotions, words, sensations, tags, needs, time,...
Filter all your emotion data by emotion label, sensations, needs, words, time, and combine all of it.
Optionally request an LLM summary and insights you might miss yourself from a slice of your emotional data.
Take the latest scientifically validated questionnaire, get your alexithymia score, and understand exactly which things to focus on from the detailed test subscores. Repeat the test every month to track the progress of your emotional awareness journey.
We've spent the last few years researching alexithymia and developing a product that holistically addresses it. During that time we've ran across hundreds of scientific papers describing the prevalences of alexithymia in various communities, as well as important (and sometime unexpected) associations and insights, such as the examples above.
We've summarized them in a manifesto explaining why alexithymia is the most overlooked emotional health problem.
If you're interested in quickly getting up to speed about alexithymia, the manifesto will build your initial understanding quickly and for free.
Animi aims to build one stop solution for alexithymia. To help people understand, work with and communicate emotions, and ultimately improve the wellness, quality of life and relationships for millions of people.
We only collect anonymized alexithymia test data and other metadata to assess effectivity of the app, unless you opt-in. Your sensitive journal data stays on the device by default. We don't share the data with any third-parties nor sell it nor use it for any kind of advertisement.
We incorporated Animi as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) to clearly signal to users, investors, or other stakeholders that we are motivated not only by profit, but mainly by our mission. Our impact has been recognized by the Social Impact Award organized by Impact Hub in 2022.
The app and resources are based on the scientific literature, and initial internal data shows great results (see for yourself). We are exploring options to validate our app in pilot studies, as the initial internal data shows the app can significantly improve alexithymia in a dose-dependent way. Please reach out if you're interested in collaborating.