Most journaling apps give you a blank page and wish you luck. Reflct gives you a mirror. Every evening, answer three guided questions from 120+ rotating prompts. Log your mood in one tap. Then let AI do what humans can't - connect the dots across weeks and months of entries to reveal patterns in your mood, energy, and thoughts you'd never notice alone. Free to start. No credit card required.
I built Reflct because I genuinely couldn't stick to journaling. Every app I tried either gave me a blank page (intimidating) or required twenty minutes of deep reflection I didn't have energy for at 10pm. I wanted something that fit into real life, quick, guided, and actually useful over time.
So I built it. Three questions every evening, under two minutes.
The AI isn't gimmicky. It genuinely analyzes your entries over weeks and surfaces patterns you wouldn't notice yourself. Things like "your mood consistently drops mid-week" or "you feel most settled when you protect your evening routine." Stuff that takes a therapist months to observe, surfaced automatically.
What's live today:
Free tier:
120+ guided questions across 8 categories
Mood tracking with a visual heatmap
Voice entries (speak instead of type)
Streak tracking
AI acknowledgment after every reflection (a quiet personal response to what you just shared)
Genuinely useful without ever paying
Pro at $7.99/month adds:
AI weekly summaries every Sunday
Deep pattern detection at 20+ entries
AI monthly mood narrative
Full-text search across all entries
Unlimited history
Question swapping with preference learning
Sign in with Google, LinkedIn, X, or email.
I'd love honest feedback, especially from anyone who has tried journaling and quit. That's exactly who I built this for.
Happy to answer anything 🙏
Support email for any question or if you would like to help out and report any bugs: [email protected]
The '120+ rotating prompts' detail is interesting — do people actually exhaust those or does novelty wear off around week 3 regardless? The real problem with journaling apps isn't the blank page, it's that reflection feels like homework after a long day. Three guided questions might lower the barrier enough, but I'd be curious whether the AI pattern-matching is what retains users or just what sells them on signing up. The mood-over-time angle is genuinely useful if the insights surface something surprising — most people quit when the feedback loop feels obvious.
Love the simplicity of this! 2 minutes is such a smart commitment threshold for people who’ve struggled to stick with journaling. The mirror metaphor is really well done, too. Congrats on the launch!
Hey Mark, this is one of the more thoughtful launches I've seen today.
The under two minutes constraint is what makes this work. Most journaling apps ask too much, and users bail. You've removed that friction in a way that feels deliberate.
The AI surfacing patterns over time is also the kind of feature that could easily feel gimmicky but doesn't here. That's harder to pull off than it looks.
One copy thought a concrete example in the hero could do a lot of work. Something like "Notice your mood dips every Wednesday; fix it before it compounds" makes the outcome feel real, especially for someone who's already quit three other journaling apps.
Curious what prompt types drive the most retention, I work with SaaS founders on messaging and positioning, so I'm always trying to understand what keeps users coming back at the product level. Would love to know what you're seeing.
I'm exactly the person you built this for—I've quit journaling many times because of that intimidating blank page. Does the AI 'acknowledgment' after each entry feel like a real conversation, or is it more of a summary?
Journaling apps live or die by habit formation — smart that you built the prompts and mood tracking into the core loop rather than leaving people with a blank page. Congrats on the launch!
Would be cool if you added a feature where after a journal entry, it pulls up a random journal entry you made a while ago to show you how your entry / mood has evolved over time. - This would also match the name "Reflct".
Great idea though! Wishing you the best with this 🍃
I like the approach of AI reflecting rather than advising — with data this personal it is the safer path. But I am curious where the line is. When the AI sees mood dropping for several weeks in a row does it just surface that or does it suggest a next step?
As it analyses patterns and sort of voices them out I think it would be nice to include suggestions and advices of what to do and how to improve your overall mood
How does Reflct’s AI ensure the privacy and security of sensitive journal entries while processing them to identify long-term emotional and behavioral patterns?
Mark
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Mark, a solo builder.
I built Reflct because I genuinely couldn't stick to journaling. Every app I tried either gave me a blank page (intimidating) or required twenty minutes of deep reflection I didn't have energy for at 10pm. I wanted something that fit into real life, quick, guided, and actually useful over time.
So I built it. Three questions every evening, under two minutes.
The AI isn't gimmicky. It genuinely analyzes your entries over weeks and surfaces patterns you wouldn't notice yourself. Things like "your mood consistently drops mid-week" or "you feel most settled when you protect your evening routine." Stuff that takes a therapist months to observe, surfaced automatically.
What's live today:
Free tier:
120+ guided questions across 8 categories
Mood tracking with a visual heatmap
Voice entries (speak instead of type)
Streak tracking
AI acknowledgment after every reflection (a quiet personal response to what you just shared)
Genuinely useful without ever paying
Pro at $7.99/month adds:
AI weekly summaries every Sunday
Deep pattern detection at 20+ entries
AI monthly mood narrative
Full-text search across all entries
Unlimited history
Question swapping with preference learning
Sign in with Google, LinkedIn, X, or email.
I'd love honest feedback, especially from anyone who has tried journaling and quit. That's exactly who I built this for.
Happy to answer anything 🙏
Support email for any question or if you would like to help out and report any bugs: [email protected]