FAQ

A private reflection app for iPhone, Android, and web. You write a Moment, choose one of fifteen Lenses, and read a reflection built from your own words. The app gives no advice and no diagnosis. Over time it spots recurring patterns, suggests a current archetype read, and prepares a monthly Distillation.

No. That refusal is the design. The Mirror shows you what you said, what you did, and what keeps repeating. What to do about it stays yours.

Yes, and we are direct about it. AI composes the Reflections and Distillations from your own words, under published output rules. Machine composed text is labeled in the app. The AI never adds advice, never diagnoses, and never scores you. It holds your wording at a new angle and asks a question. Your reflections are never used to train outside models.

Because a general assistant is built to answer, and Aynshara is built to refuse. Ask an assistant about your life and it hands you advice in seconds, without asking whether advice is what helps you. Aynshara reflects your own words back through fifteen Lenses and sixty archetypes and leaves the conclusion to you, because the decisions that hold are the ones you reach yourself. The differences run deeper too. By default, popular assistants use your conversations to train their models. Aynshara never does, by contract and by architecture. An assistant remembers facts about you. Aynshara keeps a structured Record of your reflections, so your patterns become visible as evidence. And an assistant has no published limits on what it may claim about your mind. Aynshara runs every reflection through output checks that reject advice, diagnosis, and unsupported claims before anything reaches you. A blank chat box gives you answers. A mirror with a method helps you shape your own reality.

An archetype names a pattern in you. It is a tendency you can see in the choices you repeat. A Lens is a way of looking. It is one of fifteen traditions, each asking its own question about a Moment you wrote. The archetype is the pattern being observed. The Lenses are the angles of observation.

No. Aynshara is a self reflection app, not therapy or medical care. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. If you are in crisis, use the Grounding page to find immediate human support. Help is here →

Only you can read your Moments in the app. They are encrypted, never sold, and never used to train outside models. You can export or delete your Record at any time. Practitioner accounts have no access to anyone else's words. If you work with a coach or counselor who uses Aynshara, they see only what you choose to show them. What we will never do →

A founding seat holds a full plan for the life of the account, paid once. The $299 Focus seat holds five Lenses you choose, all twelve Quests, unlimited Moments, monthly Distillations, and up to three open Crucibles. The $599 Spectrum seat holds all fifteen Lenses, layered viewpoints, every voice, and up to ten open Crucibles. The $1,799 Practitioner seat adds weekly mini Distillations, the named method behind each Lens, licensed professional use in client work, and a numbered physical certificate. Practitioner seats hold numbers 1 to 100, Spectrum seats hold 101 to 400, and Focus seats hold 401 to 1,000. Every founding seat also carries a permanent seat number, first access to the beta and to new features, a vote on which archetypes and Lenses come next, and an optional listing in the Founders' Register.

When the thousandth seat sells, and not before. Founding is not tied to the launch date. If seats remain after public launch, they stay available until all 1,000 are claimed. Once they are, founding closes forever. Lifetime seats will never be sold again, because selling them later would devalue what founding members funded.

Yes, while seats remain. A founding member can move up from Focus to Spectrum, or from Spectrum to Practitioner, by paying the difference in seat price, as long as a seat is open in the higher tier. Once all 1,000 seats have sold, upgrades close along with founding.

Yes. Focus members choose five Lenses and can swap one each month. Patterns shift. Your Lenses can too.

Yes, two ways. At launch, every new account starts with a 14-day free trial of the full Spectrum set, with no payment details needed. And the fifteen question archetype assessment gives you a first read of your strongest patterns in about ten to fifteen minutes, free, no account needed, today. Try the assessment → At public launch, the Glimpse plan at $6 a month offers two Lenses, three Quests, and up to five Moments a day.

New members join by monthly subscription. Glimpse is $6, Focus is $12, Spectrum is $24, and Practitioner is $72. Founding accounts keep their full plan, including everything added to their tier later, with no payment ever again.

You can request a full refund within thirty days of purchase, no questions asked. If Aynshara ever closes, members will receive at least 90 days notice and a complete export of their Record.

Founding members receive access in stages during private testing, ahead of everyone else. Public launch is planned for fall 2026 on the US App Store and Google Play, with the web app alongside. Other regions follow. We will email each member when their access is ready.

A Distillation is a monthly summary of the recurring words, themes, and changes across your Moments, reflections, and Crucibles. It quotes your own language and links back to the source entries. Each monthly Distillation also draws on every Distillation before it, so the picture deepens as the months accumulate. Practitioner accounts add a weekly mini Distillation, which reads only the last 30 days of the Record.

A Crucible is one hard subject you choose to take on. A business to start. A relationship to strengthen. A habit to outgrow. The app gathers every Moment that touches it, so you can watch the subject change over time, and watch yourself change with it.

Twelve short sets of situational questions. What would you do? Each takes about five minutes. There are no correct answers and no score to improve. They help the app surface your strongest archetype patterns.

Start with one sentence. "I keep thinking about Tuesday" is enough. You can add context later if it helps.

Aynshara was founded by Alexander Anguelov, DJ Le Rouse, and Ilian Nikolov. They developed the product together after a series of conversations in Bangkok. Meet the founders →