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Issue 08 · August 2026

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Issue #08August 2026Latest

We didn't add a streak. We added something you'd actually want.

Your cards have looked the same since day one — every thought, every mood, the same flat background. Nothing about a 2am spiral and a Tuesday-afternoon annoyance feels the same, so why should the card? Nine new themes, live now.

New FeatureCard ThemesPersonalization

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Issue #07July 2026

See your mood. See your patterns.

Ever have a day that feels "off" — and you can't tell if it's just today, or if it's been building since Tuesday? Now you can actually see it: a one-tap daily mood check-in on a weekly chart, and a Top Pattern pulled from your own reframes.

New FeatureMood TrackingTop Pattern

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Issue #06July 2026

More Ways In: the Explore update.

Overthinking doesn't sort itself into neat boxes — it hits in the morning, mid-focus, and quiet at 11pm. The new Explore tab adds an entry point for every kind of spiral, so the app meets you exactly where you are.

New FeatureExploreCategories

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Issue #05June 2026

The AI Update: reframes that finally sound like you.

For months the most common feedback was "the reframes feel a bit generic." This issue is about how we fixed that — and why making AI sound like a specific person turns out to be a genuinely hard problem.

New FeatureAI ReframesProfile

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Issue #04May 2026

Hablamos español: building a bilingual CBT app.

Spanish isn't just a translation — it's a completely different emotional register for talking about anxiety and self-talk. This issue is about what it took to get that right, and why we spent three months on suggestion chips alone.

New FeatureSpanishLocalization

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Issue #03April 2026

Your history, finally searchable — and why it took so long.

The History tab rebuild took four sprints. Not because search is hard, but because we kept asking: what does it mean to find the right reframe at the right moment? Here's what we landed on.

ImprovementHistoryiOS 18 Widget

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Issue #02March 2026

Streaks that forgive — and goals that steer.

Two ideas in one release: a streak grace window that removes the guilt trip, and focus goals that quietly shape every reframe you get. Small system changes with outsized effects.

StreaksGoalsChips

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Issue #01February 2026

The quiet launch: what we shipped and what we fixed.

Our first issue. We shipped quietly, watched what broke, and fixed three things within the week. The Android 12 save bug. The chips offline fallback. The streak timezone edge case. Here's the story.

Bug FixesAndroidOffline

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