Basal - Therapy Journal

Basal runs your thought through ten real therapeutic frameworks — CBT, Stoicism, IFS, ACT, DBT, Psychodynamic, Existential, Narrative, Somatic, and Self-Compassion — and shows you how each one interprets what you said. No other journaling app does this.

HOW IT WORKS
Write or speak a thought. Map the feeling underneath using the Yale RULER emotion model. Read ten perspectives that each see something different in what you shared.

A cognitive therapist finds the distortion. A Stoic finds what's in your control. An IFS therapist asks which part of you is speaking. They don't agree — and that's what makes it useful.

WHAT THIS IS NOT
Basal is not a chatbot trying to be your therapist. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or give advice. It's a structured tool for examining your own thinking — a lab, not a couch.

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE
No account required. Thoughts are stored on your device only. Text sent for analysis is encrypted in transit, never stored on our servers, and never used to train models.

Free tier includes daily credits and 7-day history. Basal Pro removes all limits.