Animi: Emotional Intelligence

Animi

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About this app

Are you struggling with emotions? Do you find it difficult to connect with others? You're not alone. Every 1 in 10 people has alexithymia - difficulty, or inability to identify, understand, and express emotions. And it’s even more prevalent among neurodivergent people (autism, ADHD,...).

Animi is a free app (currently only in English) with some optional premium extra features that helps you learn about your emotions, understand their causes, manage them effectively, and over time figure out your patterns. Like an evidence-based emotion coach utilizing the latest research on alexithymia and emotion regulation, Animi is designed to improve alexithymia, emotional awareness, and emotional intelligence, and over time help you build emotional vocabulary and understand the nuances of hundreds of feelings and emotions.

- Take an alexithymia test and learn your alexithymia score, indicating how severely you are disconnected from your emotions

- Identify & log your emotions with the help of one of our emotion wheel like tools (on a much more detailed and granular level than other emotion trackers)

- Understand the meaning, causes, and symptoms of emotions with the help of our emotion encyclopedia

- Experience quick breathing techniques to regulate emotions (like cyclic physiological sighing, bhastrika, or resonance breathing)

- Learn how to communicate emotions in a productive way

- Journal about your emotions with the help of introspective, reflective prompts

- Get daily notifications to check in with yourself and build a streak

With our optional Premium subscription, you'll also get access to:

- 100-lesson, 3-month daily evidence-based Emotions 101 course designed specifically to address alexithymia by teaching a productive mindset about emotions, interoception, and emotion schemas

- Optional AI-enhanced features including guided identification & processing chat workflows, knowledge base search & LLM-generated journal insights

- Cross-device user accounts and data backups to sync data on phone & browser

- Advanced analytics, including the ability to filter logged journals with multiple filters and extract useful insights from unique charts

And over the longer period of using the app:

- Reduce your alexithymia score

- Improve your relationships

- Enhance your mental health and even physical health

Download Animi now and start your self-care journey today!

Sample of user reviews:

- The app is in my opinion much better than emotion wheels as there is so much more details/information.
- 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.
- Very helpful! Feel like the tool has allowed me to regulate even when having very distressing emotions through understanding.

Disclaimer: Animi is incorporated as a public benefit corporation with a mission to build a solution that improves alexithymia, and that's also why we collect the anonymized alexithymia test data, so we know whether the app succeeds at it. Your sensitive journal data stays on the device by default. It can be stored on our server for cross-device sync only with your opt-in explicit permission after enabling that feature. By default we are only collecting metadata necessary to evaluate the effectiveness and improve the app, though you can opt-in to share more detailed data for research and creation of future helpful content. We don't share the data with any third-parties nor sell it or use it for any kind of advertisement.

Ratings and reviews

This app is really great for helping to identify emotions, recommend for anyone with or suspdcfed alexithymia. It's got a number of different ways to approach it, which I love! I like it enough I recommended it to my therapist who has shared it with other clients. The developer is also super responsive and kind! I reached out with one small navigation issue and a few suggestions and not only did they fix the issue but also followed up to ensure it was working as intended.

This app is a great resource. I particularly appreciate the extensive and highly detailed encyclopedia of emotions. It gives me words to describe what I feel with a high degree of specificity and allows me to identify nuance between emotions. The part of the app that identifies emotions based off of body sensations I use more as a jumping off point, as sometimes the results can be wild and I don't resonate. Lastly, it would be awesome to have this available in more languages!

First time using it. May update the review after longer use. Seems interesting. I appreciate the elements in the app so far. When it gives suggestions for bodily sensations, the image will sometimes get stuck when it is swipping off screen and will not disappear until you either press it again or press the next one.

What’s new

Improved the journal entry screen for large emotion selections and made the text field stay visible above the keyboard.
Improved emotion card text readability across different backgrounds.