Frequently asked questions

SelfSight is an intention, journaling, and reflection app. You can plan by date, record mood and private reflections, review summaries from the sources you choose, and explore pattern chains that suggest possible relationships across your days. It does not block apps, provide medical advice, or prove that one event caused another.

Not yet. SelfSight is currently in development for iOS 26. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when early access and the App Store release are ready.

Anyone curious about the gap between what they meant to do and where their attention went. SelfSight offers a clearer view of that gap without blocking apps, scoring your discipline, or adding guilt.

SelfSight uses Apple's Family Controls and Device Activity frameworks to receive aggregate Screen Time totals, categories, and pickup counts after you authorize access. It does not read message, photo, webpage, or app content. Health, Calendar, Location, Microphone, Speech Recognition, and Notifications use their own permission flows; Focus and battery information come from iOS without the same kind of prompt.

A pattern chain is a hypothesis based on timing, repetition, and the data available to SelfSight. For example, it might flag that shorter sleep often appeared before higher phone use. Confidence scores describe support in the available data; they do not prove causation, and patterns can be wrong or incomplete.

An intention is a timed plan you make for yourself. You can create it for any day, browse plans in the intention calendar, optionally schedule a gentle reminder, and later mark it completed or not completed. SelfSight places that plan beside the summaries and reflections available for the same day; it does not lock apps or claim to capture every part of your context.

No. SelfSight is designed for reflection and awareness rather than restriction. It shows summaries and possible patterns, while you decide what—if anything—to change.

SelfSight can use Screen Time totals, categories and pickups; HealthKit sleep, steps, active energy, workouts, distance and resting heart rate; Calendar counts, durations and free blocks; a weather summary from a one-time location request; Focus data; and battery summaries. You can decline or revoke permission-gated sources. Focus and battery do not use the same permission prompt as Health, Calendar, Screen Time, or Location.

Core records stay on your device by default, but some features use external services. Accounts and support use Supabase; subscriptions use Apple and RevenueCat; the waitlist uses EmailOctopus and Cloudflare Turnstile. External AI is a separate opt-in feature and remains unavailable unless consent, eligibility, provider, and release checks all pass. Encrypted cloud sync is not enabled for the current v1 release. The Privacy Policy explains each case.

Core records use Apple's protected app storage. Encrypted cloud sync is release-gated off for v1, so it is not a current SelfSight+ feature. If you choose to sign in, Supabase holds account and support records; RevenueCat holds entitlement data; EmailOctopus holds waitlist details. See the Privacy Policy for the exact boundaries.

No. SelfSight does not sell your attention data or use it for advertising. The app uses service providers for specific functions such as optional accounts, support, and subscriptions; the website uses EmailOctopus for the waitlist and Cloudflare Turnstile for abuse prevention. These services are disclosed in the Privacy Policy.

Permission-gated features can request Screen Time, Health, Calendar, approximate Location for WeatherKit, Notifications, and—when you dictate a journal entry—Microphone and Speech Recognition. Dictation is required to run on-device. Focus and battery summaries do not use equivalent permission prompts. You can revoke granted permissions in iOS Settings; affected features may then stop working.

SelfSight will be free to download. The free tier includes intentions and the month calendar, journal and mood reflections, Today and Weekly Review, pattern chains up to 3 observations, and a 14-day analysis window. SelfSight+ adds pattern chains up to 6 observations, a 90-day analysis window, and more detailed pattern analysis. Encrypted cloud sync is not included in the current v1 release. Current monthly and annual prices will be shown before you subscribe.

SelfSight has a free tier, so payment is not required to start. Any free trial or introductory offer for SelfSight+ will be shown in Apple's purchase sheet if one is available at the time. Offers, eligibility, and duration can change.

The current implementation offers SelfSight+ as monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions, not a one-time purchase. Apple shows the current price and terms before confirmation and handles billing, cancellation, and refund requests under its policies.

SelfSight is built for iOS 26 and later. The iPhone app uses a native tab bar, while iPad uses a native sidebar layout.

Yes. On iPad, SelfSight uses a native sidebar and split-view layout designed for the larger screen.

SelfSight relies on Apple frameworks rather than recording screen activity itself. Actual battery use still depends on your device, enabled sources, sync, network conditions, and how often you use the app. We do not promise a specific battery impact.

Yes. Settings can generate a JSON file containing exportable intentions, pattern chains, journal entries, and daily and weekly summaries, then open the iOS share sheet. The current app does not export CSV or PDF.

SelfSight is currently in development for iOS 26. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when early access and the App Store release are ready.

If a beta opens, availability and eligibility will be announced to selected waitlist members. Joining the waitlist does not guarantee an invitation or a launch date.

The current app already includes native iPhone and iPad layouts, Today, intentions with a month calendar, daily and weekly review, typed and voice journaling, mood check-ins, connected data sources, pattern evidence, a home-screen widget, and SelfSight+. Future work will be announced when it is concrete rather than promised here.