Description
Mentalium is a voice-first CBT thought-record diary with on-device AI transcription — Whisper runs locally and offline, so your voice never leaves the phone. Speaking captures the moment as it actually happens, in five guided CBT steps, instead of being typed from memory hours before a therapy session — helping people in therapy, self-guided CBT users, and anyone managing anxiety, depression, OCD or ADHD.
Audience Reach
Early-stage but live: the app is published on the App Store across 7 markets (EN, ES, FR, PT-BR, DE, IT, RU) and the promo site at mentalium.me is indexed in Google, Yandex and Bing in all 7 languages. Current monthly reach is organic and growing, driven by SEO, a multi-language Pinterest presence, a YouTube demo, and technical articles on Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium and HackerNoon. Addressable audience is large: CBT is the most widely practised evidence-based talk therapy, and structured thought-record homework is a near-universal part of it — anyone in or starting CBT is a potential user.
Target Users
Three groups. (1) People actively in CBT with a therapist who want their thought-record homework to actually get done — captured in the moment instead of reconstructed from memory before a session. (2) Self-guided CBT practitioners managing anxiety, depression, stress, OCD or panic. (3) People with ADHD, for whom speaking removes the "I can't sit down and write it out" barrier that makes traditional journaling fail. Consumer self-help product (B2C), not enterprise — no notable corporate customers; value is direct to the individual and, indirectly, to their therapist via an exportable session report.
Technologies
Other, Flutter / Dart, Riverpod, SQLite (sqflite), Whisper.cpp (ggml-small-q5_1, ~181 MB) running fully on-device — iOS via Metal GPU, Android via JNI — for offline speech-to-text, fl_chart for progress graphs, PHP + MySQL backend used only as an encrypted email relay (AES-256-GCM), RevenueCat for subscriptions, AppMetrica for analytics. No cloud AI and no server-side voice processing — all transcription happens locally on the device.
Traction Evidence
Deployed and live (not pre-launch):
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764609587
• Promo site, 7 languages, indexed: https://mentalium.me
• Demo video: https://youtube.com/shorts/EV2HcHoCHHY
• Technical write-ups: Dev.to (https://dev.to/pavel_trubetskov/i-built-a-voice-cbt-diary-with-offline-ai-heres-how-it-works-23c6), Hashnode (https://trubetskov.hashnode.dev/on-device-ai-for-a-mental-health-app-what-i-learned-building-mentalium), Medium (https://medium.com/@p.trubetskov/on-device-ai-for-a-mental-health-app-what-i-learned-building-mentalium-17e036e4ec6a)
• Press: PRLog (https://www.prlog.org/13148471-mentalium-launches-voice-cbt-diary-with-offline-ai-transcription-on-the-app-store.html), OpenPR (https://www.openpr.com/news/4529189.html), 1888PressRelease (https://www.1888pressrelease.com/mentalium-launches-voice-cbt-diary-with-offline-ai-transcrip-pr-767133.html)
• Listings: LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Wellfound, F6S, Trustpilot, Behance
Android version is in active development. As a recently launched indie product, growth so far is organic; the projection is steady SEO/content-driven acquisition across all 7 markets.