See your thoughts through ten lenses.
Write what's happening. Basal shows how CBT, IFS, ACT, DBT, Stoicism, and more would each understand it, then adds optional assessments and trends when you want to track patterns over time.
Free on iOS & Android. No account required.
Same thought
Ten lenses respond
Different frameworks notice different patterns.
Ordered by what fits your thought
A deeper lens
Internal Family Systems
What part of you is trying to protect you, and what does it need?
Optional measurement
Assessments and trends
Add measurement when it helps.
Assessments are not the main event. They give your journal a second signal when you want structured check-ins alongside the therapeutic lenses.
Validated self-report questionnaires
Choose from freely usable scales for depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, wellbeing, resilience, and more.
37 instruments, scored automaticallyScores that explain themselves
Basal handles scoring, severity bands, subscales, and result history so a check-in becomes something you can read.
Automatic scoring + severity bandsTrends, cadence, and calendar
Set self-paced cadences, see what is due, and watch feelings and scores move across 7-day, 30-day, and all-time views.
Due reminders + longitudinal trendsAssessments are self-report tools for reflection and tracking; they are not a diagnosis.
One thought. Ten lenses.
Write what is happening
A conflict, a recurring worry, something you cannot shake. Type it or speak it on your phone or Apple Watch.
See ten frameworks respond
CBT, Stoicism, IFS, ACT, DBT, Psychodynamic, Existential, Narrative, Somatic, and Self-Compassion each notice a different pattern.
Track the wider pattern
Add optional assessments and feeling trends when you want a clearer signal for what is changing over days, weeks, and months.
Built for how you actually think
Capture thoughts wherever they happen. Keep them private.
Voice input
Speak your thoughts instead of typing. Useful when writing feels too slow.
Home screen widget
One tap to start reflecting. Daily quote on the medium size.
Apple Watch capture
Dictate from your wrist and send the thought to your iPhone when it is ready.
Ten therapeutic lenses
Real frameworks practiced by licensed therapists. Each one looks at your experience in a fundamentally different way.
Privacy, plainly
Your journal is not another social profile.
Basal is built for private reflection. Your history stays on your device, there is no account to manage, and AI processing happens when you choose to submit a thought.
Read the full privacy policyNo login to start
Basal does not make you create an account before you can write something down.
Your history stays on your phone
Your past thoughts, feelings, saved perspectives, assessments, and settings live on your device.
Only the current thought is sent
When you ask for perspectives, the thought you submit is sent so Basal can generate the response.
You can clean up your data
Delete sessions in the app. For billing or usage records tied to your device, email us and we will help.
Start understanding what changes
Write what's happening, explore it through ten lenses, and add assessments when you want to track patterns over time.
Generous free tier with 7-day history, no card required. Pro removes all limits for $6.99/month or $59.99/year.