Second Look: Relationship Log

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About this app

Some relationships feel "off" but you can't quite name why.

That partner who shifts from warm to cold and you're not sure what triggered it. The family member who somehow always makes you doubt your own memory. The friend whose patterns are exhausting. The coworker whose moods set the temperature for the whole room.

Second Look is for those moments.

Log what just happened in a few words. Second Look's on-device AI analyzes it across six dimensions, weighs in with two or three different perspectives, and over time builds a running theory of the relationship — what you keep seeing, what's escalating, what's just stress.

▸ How it works

• Six lenses on every moment — Behavioral (what literally happened), Emotional (what was felt on both sides), Pattern (where this fits in the history), Relational (what it means for the dynamic), Temporal (which direction this is moving), and Counter-narrative (what you might be missing from inside it).

• Multiple perspectives weigh in — Two or three voices give their take: a Therapist's clinical eye, a Best Friend's protective read, a Devil's Advocate challenging your interpretation, the Subject's Defender steelmanning their side, a 10-years-from-now You with the longer view, or a Pattern Detective naming what they've seen before.

• A running theory that grows — Each analysis adds to a per-relationship theory you can read and edit. Themes the AI keeps noticing get reinforced. Things you'd disagree with, you can rewrite — the AI never overwrites your own beliefs.

▸ Built for privacy from the start

Second Look runs entirely on your phone. No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. Your most personal observations never leave the device.

You download an open-source Gemma AI model once — 530 MB on most phones, 2.4 GB on higher-end devices — and the analysis happens locally, even offline.

▸ Completely free

Second Look used to be paid. It isn't anymore. No subscription, no trial, no premium tier, no ads. Everything in the app is yours to use.

▸ Who it's for

• People navigating a relationship dynamic they can't quite name
• Anyone wary of telling sensitive things to ChatGPT or cloud-based AI
• Adults reflecting on partners, family, friends, coworkers, or anyone in their orbit
• People between therapy sessions who want help organizing observations

▸ Important

Second Look is a thinking partner, not a diagnostic tool. It doesn't replace therapy. If you're in crisis or need clinical support, please talk to a professional.

Open the app, create a profile for someone on your mind, log one interaction. Second Look will take it from there.

What’s new

Second Look opens differently now. A new walkthrough makes your first page with you, a step at a time, instead of listing features you have not used yet. The bar at the bottom has been rebuilt. Settings now open with your own record — how long you have kept it, what is in it — rather than a wall of switches. Starting a page asks for less and reads better. And if you want a nudge when it has been a while, the app asks once, early, instead of surprising you later.