Aurora – everyday life with DID, in one place
Aurora is built for plural systems: for every alter sharing one life. DID, OSDD, or no diagnosis at all – the app never asks for a label. If all you know so far is that time goes missing after trauma, that is reason enough.
ONE ANCHOR, ONE PLACE
Every screen starts from the anchor: a single vertical list, one area under the next, each with a large picture and a colour of its own. Nothing is hidden behind swipes or menus. If reading is hard right now, the picture carries you.
WHEN THINGS ARE HARD
Grounding – five exercises, step by step, with pictures: orientation, senses, body, container, breath. You can stop after one step. Nothing counts your progress.
Emergency – your own contacts and helplines, reachable in one tap.
Help – places to turn to, gathered in one calm list.
INSIDE THE SYSTEM
Profiles – every part (alter, headmate) can have its own profile with a name, avatar, colour and age. A name is optional.
Internal chat – write to each other, share drawings, voice notes, pictures or video. Everyone stays in the loop.
Permissions – what a profile may see and do is set per profile, so younger parts meet a smaller, gentler app.
A language per alter – not everyone in a system speaks the same language. Aurora speaks English, German, Spanish, French and Italian, and each profile sets its own.
EVERYDAY LIFE
Calendar for appointments and therapy sessions. Medication plans with reminders and a log. Diary for what should not get lost. Contacts with notes. Finder for places and things you put down somewhere – for the gap after dissociation or a lost hour. Timeline showing who was fronting when, so a switch does not erase the day.
PRIVACY
Your content stays on your device – profiles, chats, diary, appointments are stored locally. No account, no cloud sync.
Two things you send yourself, both voluntary: your feedback, when you send it, and anonymous usage signals, if you switch them on in the settings. Every transmission is shown word for word in the app under "What Aurora sends", and none of them carries profile IDs, an installation ID, a location or timestamps that could tie entries together.
Two features also need the network, and only while you use them: the map fetches its tiles from OpenStreetMap, and in an emergency you share your location with the contacts you picked yourself. Nothing else leaves the device.
Aurora is free, shows no ads and sells nothing.
Aurora is not therapy and does not replace treatment – for DID, OSDD, CPTSD or anything else. It is a tool for the day, built so that on a bad day it still works.
DID or OSDD? A profile per alter, inner chat, grounding, diary – all local.