Reflection that actually goes somewhere.
Your personal growth and therapy companion, Map & Mirror holds your story and reflects your journey back to you. Build a map of your life, see your patterns, the people, the questions, and the things you have committed to. In your own words, quoting you.
Free while we build. No card, no trial clock.
In one minute
Write for a minute. Something reads it back.
You write, or you talk, for about as long as it takes to make coffee. A reply comes back while you are still going, and a reflection when you finish.
That is the reflecting. The part that goes somewhere is what happens over weeks: a map builds itself out of what you said, every card carrying your own sentences, dated, so you can always see why it is there. Every entry gets a painting.
Nothing is shared with anybody unless you send it, one piece at a time, and you can take it back.
Which of these is you?
I already keep a journal
Years of entries you have never read back. Bring them in and see what they say.
Read more →
I am in therapy
The week disappears before Thursday. This is the six days in between.
Read more →
We are working on our relationship
Two private journals, one shared map, and nothing crosses over unless you send it.
Read more →
Also
Two more ways in
If you are a therapist and wondering whether to point a client here. Nothing is asked of you: no account, no dashboard, no login.
If you already do this with ChatGPT or Claude at one in the morning, and eight months of it is stuck in a sidebar.
The map
Where it goes
Any one entry is just a day. The eleventh time you write about the same thing is a pattern, and nobody can hold eleven entries in their head.
The map holds them: the questions you are actually turning over, the people who keep appearing, what you have decided, what keeps happening. It is built from the entries and it changes as they do.
In your own words
It quotes you. It does not summarise you.
Every card carries the sentences that put it there, word for word, with the date and a link back to the entry they came from.
That is the whole difference between something you believe and something you can check. If a card is wrong, you can see exactly why it got there, and you can take the quote off it.
The paintings
A picture of your life, not a mood board
Every entry is painted. So is every card, and every person on your map. They come from what you actually wrote: the kitchen at eleven at night, the gate you finally fixed, the river you walked to.
It is the thing that makes a journal worth scrolling back through.
Yours
What happens to what you write
- Delete any entry, or everything, whenever you want.
- Export all of it, whenever you want.
- Bring in what you have already written, whenever you want.
- Never used to train anything.
- Nothing is shared with anybody unless you share it, one piece at a time, and you can take it back.
- You can point it at a model running on your own machine.
Questions worth asking first
Is this therapy?
No. It is not therapy, it is not a therapist, and it does not treat anything. It is a journal that keeps track of what you have already said, so you can see it. If you are working with somebody, this is a thing to bring to them. If you are in crisis, please contact a crisis line or emergency services.
What does it cost?
Nothing right now. It is free while it is being built, and there is no card to enter. If paid plans arrive, everything you have written stays yours and exportable either way.
Who can see what I write?
You, by default, and nobody else. Sharing is per card and per entry, one deliberate action at a time, and anything you share you can unshare. Nothing is public and there is no feed.
What happens to my writing?
It stays in your account and you can export all of it whenever you like, in a plain readable format. Deleting your account deletes it. It is never sold, and it is never used to train a model.
Do I have to write every day?
No. There is a streak if you want one and it can be switched off entirely in settings. Coming back after months away is a normal thing to do and the app is built to handle it without making a point of it.
Can I bring years of old journals with me?
Yes. There is an importer for ChatGPT, Claude, Rosebud, Bear and Standard Notes exports, and for plain text. You review every entry before anything is kept, and you decide separately whether any of it feeds your map.
What if it says something about me that is wrong?
Every card is yours to reword, hide or delete, and every one carries the quotes it was drawn from so you can check it against what you actually said. There are thumbs on everything the app writes, and the thumbs down opens a form that a person reads.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. It runs in the browser and installs to your home screen on iOS and Android, where it behaves like an app. There is nothing to download from a store.
Start with one minute of writing.
The reflecting happens straight away. The going somewhere takes a few weeks and then it is yours.
Free while we build. No card, no trial clock.