A place for the voices in your head
A place for all the voices in your head.
The app people use to deal with their mental health.
Why Shado
Life happens in moments.Patterns happen across them.
The moments.
You live them separately. But the interesting thing is usually not inside any one of them.
You can’t change what you can’t see.
You’re inside the reaction while it’s happening. The evidence arrives months apart, and memory is not a recording — what you remember about yourself is edited every time you remember it.
Reflection isn’t the same as insight.
Journaling gives you the raw material. It doesn’t connect March to September, and it doesn’t come back to you with what it noticed. Shado does.
Shado is a living system for understanding yourself.
Where it shows up
Your patterns don’t stay in your head.They control your life.
The same patterns show up in your relationships, your mind, your career, your behavior and your well-being.
Relationships
shutting down
Across four daily-life studies, greater emotion suppression during interactions was associated with feeling less accepted and connected, lower relationship satisfaction, and more distancing behavior.
closeness
The argument gets emotional and you have nothing to say. Then you have everything to say, three hours later, alone.
Evidence pending review.
rejection
You wanted them to want you. Now they do, and something has gone quiet.
Evidence pending review.
Mind
replaying conversations
A meta-analysis of 35 studies found a moderate association between more post-event rumination and greater social-anxiety symptoms.
rumination vs reflection
Your mind gets louder the second the room gets quiet.
Evidence pending review.
focus
You can’t stop thinking about someone and you’re not even sure you want to be with them.
Evidence pending review.
Career
carrying work home
Across 91 employee samples, greater psychological detachment from work was associated with less exhaustion and better well-being and sleep.
confidence
Ten things went right. The one that didn’t is the one you’re thinking about.
Evidence pending review.
performance
You left at six. You’ve been at work in your head since.
Evidence pending review.
Behavior
self-regulation
Across 47 experimental tests, interventions produced a medium-to-large change in intentions but a smaller change in behavior.
avoidance
You said you changed your mind. You got uncomfortable.
Evidence pending review.
habits
The decision felt urgent, and it felt urgent because you were upset.
Evidence pending review.
Well-being
sleep
A meta-analysis of 55 studies found that more worry and rumination were associated with poorer sleep quality, shorter sleep, and longer time to fall asleep.
recovery
Tomorrow starts taking over tonight.
Evidence pending review.
mental load
The emotional conversation replays at 1am, in full.
Evidence pending review.
How it works
What happens to a momentafter you put it into Shado.
Say you write two paragraphs about an argument on a Tuesday.
01 Capture
While it’s still real, not reconstructed a week later.
The more Shado learns about you, the clearer your map becomes.
What it becomes
Map · Guide · Journey
The Map is where you’ve been. The Guide helps you understand where you are. The Journey determines where you go next.
Your life isn’t a timeline. It’s a network.
MAP · over time
Memories accumulate. Connections form. The picture changes.
GUIDE · every Sunday
Your Guide has read your week. You step back and decide what to carry forward.
JOURNEY · daily
Where the work goes. First through your own history, then shaped by what Shado has learned.
After a year you don’t have 365 journal entries. You have a map, a record of what you actually worked on, a history of what kept coming back, and a Guide that knows all of it.
Where to start
Discover how your mind works.
A first reading
what seems to be showing up, in your own described terms, and where it came from.
The beginning of your Mind Map
the first nodes and the relationships between them.
A Guide
matched to how you said you want to be met.
A place to start
the first prompt of your first Journey.
Questions
Before you start.
Is this therapy?
No, and it is not a substitute for it. Shado is for the space between doing nothing and therapy — before it, alongside it, or on its own. If you’re in crisis, you deserve real-time help; in the US, call or text 988.
Is this AI?
Yes. Shado uses AI to read what you write, reflect it back in your own words, and find relationships between things you described at different times. It does not diagnose you, it does not give advice as an authority, and it does not claim to know anything you didn’t tell it.
What if it gets something wrong about me?
You say so, and it comes off your map — along with everything that depended on it. Every statement Shado makes about you can be opened to see exactly what it came from, and corrected or removed.
Do I need the app?
Your Mind Profile works on the web. The ongoing product — daily reflection, your Guide, Journeys and your Map — is the iOS app today.
What does it cost?
Billed annually, monthly or weekly, with a 14-day free trial on the annual plan. Your Mind Profile is yours whether or not you subscribe.
What happens to my Profile if I don’t subscribe?
It’s yours. You can come back to it, correct it, export it, or delete it — whether or not you ever subscribe.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Web subscriptions are managed from your Shado account or the Stripe customer portal; App Store subscriptions from your Apple account. Cancel before a trial ends and nothing is charged; cancel before a renewal and the next charge stops. Your Profile and your writing stay yours either way.
Your Mind Profilestarts the map.
Your life fills it in. No account until you have something worth saving.