MindShift

Sage Child Arbor

About this app

MindShift is an empathy coach that listens while you talk and tells you,
in the moment, how what you just said is likely to land — and what you
could say instead.

Most communication advice arrives too late. You read the book, you agree
with it, and then Tuesday night happens and you say the thing anyway.
MindShift works in the ninety seconds where it matters: while the
conversation is still in front of you.

HOW IT WORKS

Start a session, put one earbud in, and talk. MindShift transcribes the
conversation, tracks the tone on both sides, and offers short, specific
alternatives you can actually say out loud. An empathy slider decides the
stance — from "hold your boundary" at one end to "pure validation" at the
other — so the coaching matches what this conversation needs rather than a
generic script.

When the conversation is over, you get the part that is genuinely hard to
see from the inside: where it turned, who escalated first, and the two or
three moments where a different sentence would have changed the next ten
minutes.

BUILT WITH THERAPISTS IN MIND

MindShift began as a tool for couples therapy, and it still shows.

• Share a session with your therapist by email. They see the transcript,
the tone timeline, and the analysis — and can keep private notes on it.
• Progress you can point at. Warmth, defensiveness, escalation and repair
are tracked over weeks, so "we're doing better" stops being a feeling and
becomes a line on a chart.
• Homework that produces evidence. The between-sessions conversations are
where the work actually happens; this is a way to bring them into the room.

IN-APP CALLS

Phone calls lock other apps out of the microphone, so MindShift hosts the
call itself. Two people can talk with each side coached separately and
privately — you never see the suggestions written for the other person — and
a therapist can sit in as a silent observer, seeing the shared transcript
and both sides' coaching. The audio goes peer-to-peer; MindShift's server
only introduces the two phones to each other.

RECORD OR UPLOAD

Not every conversation is a live one. Record audio or video in the app, or
upload something you already have, and get the same analysis: who spoke,
how it landed, and what a better version of the sticky part would have
sounded like.

PRIVACY, PLAINLY

This app hears private conversations, so here is the short version, and the
full version is at https://arborfam-hub.web.app/privacy.

• A live coaching session keeps its audio by default so you can replay
and re-analyze it — turn Keep audio off and it's transcribed as it
streams and thrown away. Nothing else is stored unless you ask for it.
• Recordings are opt-in, one at a time, with a consent tick.
• Your voice signature is a set of numbers, not a recording, and one tap
in Settings deletes it.
• Sharing is something you do on purpose, to one therapist you name by
email, and you can revoke it.
• Delete your whole account, and everything in it, yourself: Settings →
Account → Delete my account. It happens immediately.
• No ads. No advertising SDKs. Nothing sold to anyone, ever.

WHAT IT IS NOT

MindShift is a communication coach, not therapy, not counselling, and not a
medical or mental-health service. It does not diagnose or treat anything.
If you or someone else is in crisis, contact a qualified professional or
your local emergency services.

Requires a microphone. No account needed to try it — tap "Continue as
guest"; create an account when you want your sessions kept. English only
for now.

What’s new

Calmer nudges: the first buzz now needs three seconds of raised voice, and a cloud tone judge can veto loud-but-happy moments. Continue as guest to try it without an account. Now-playing controls while you replay a session. Heart-rate logging with the watch.