Basal - Therapy Journal

Lab 1908 LLC

About this app

Basal runs your thought through ten real therapeutic frameworks — CBT, Stoicism, IFS, ACT, DBT, Psychodynamic, Existential, Narrative, Somatic, and Self-Compassion — and shows you how each one interprets what you said. No other journaling app does this.

HOW IT WORKS
Write or speak a thought. Map the feeling underneath using the Yale RULER emotion model. Read ten perspectives that each see something different in what you shared.

A cognitive therapist finds the distortion. A Stoic finds what's in your control. An IFS therapist asks which part of you is speaking. They don't agree — and that's what makes it useful.

WHAT THIS IS NOT
Basal is not a chatbot trying to be your therapist. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or give advice. It's a structured tool for examining your own thinking — a lab, not a couch.

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE
No account required. Thoughts are stored on your device only. Text sent for analysis is encrypted in transit, never stored on our servers, and never used to train models.

Free tier includes daily credits and 7-day history. Basal Pro removes all limits.

What’s new

• New History and Trends tabs — see every thought and assessment in one timeline, with a 7-day, 30-day, or all-time window and a calendar view for any day
• 37 validated self-report assessments with automatic scoring and severity bands
• Encrypted backup & restore in Settings — move Basal to a new phone with a single passphrase-protected file. AES-256-GCM, no servers, no accounts
• Bigger, more obvious mic button on the thought input; clear-and-restart button for in-progress thoughts