What Meloa actually does

Add the thing you’re dreading and rate how hard you expect it to be, 0 to 100. It takes a second. It’s a guess made before you know the answer, which is what makes the second number mean something later.

The scale is called SUDS, short for Subjective Units of Distress. Therapists have handed it out on paper for sixty years. What the ranges mean, and how to rate honestly.

Meloa blocks off time before, so nothing lands on the hour you need to get ready. It blocks off time after, so you don’t walk straight into the next thing. The harder you said it would be, the more room you get.

These aren’t reminders. They’re real blocks on your calendar, attached to the event. That time belongs to the thing, and it’s exactly what an optimistic you would book over.

If you have to travel, the trip gets its own block each way, including the ride home. Why this is the whole product.

Setting the time yourself is free. Having it added automatically to everything needs a paid plan.

The picture above is the Sun Dial, and it’s the real view: an arch of the day’s hours, with your events as cards along the outer band. A list tells you what’s happening. The dial shows you how much day is left around it.

Day, week, month and year views, all free. If a column of rows never quite feels like a day to you, this view was built for that.

When the thing is over, Meloa asks how it actually went, on the same 0 to 100 scale. The Dread Gap is the space between your two numbers: what you expected, and what happened.

One pair doesn’t tell you much. After three, your Record page draws them as two lines with the space between them shaded. It counts the days that went easier than you expected, and it doesn’t hide the ones that didn’t.

Once it’s over, Meloa asks how it actually went. This is the half that usually gets skipped, and it’s the half that lets a guess be checked.

After three of those, your Record page puts what you expected next to what happened. After a few months it’s a record, split by people, work and you, with your own baseline behind it.

Export the last 30 days as a PDF on any plan, free, and choose what goes in it. A paid plan exports your whole history and adds short anxiety and mood check-ins on the same timeline. They’re four questions each, adapted from the GAD-7 and PHQ-9, plus a social-anxiety check-in written for Meloa. If you see a therapist, the page written for them says exactly what’s in that export.

The dolphin. He’s the one who’s been saying “I” this whole time. He’s also the AI: anything in Meloa that thinks is him.

He can see your calendar and your ratings, so his answers are about your week, not advice in general. He won’t diagnose, and he’ll say so if you ask. He reacts to what you’ve finished, not what’s coming, on purpose. Reassurance right before a hard thing turns into a habit, and not a good one.

On a paid plan you can also hear him. Turn on his voice in a chat and he reads his replies aloud as the words appear, in a soft, AI-generated voice. It stays off on each device until you turn it on, and he never speaks in a moment of crisis.

Every plan includes some Talu each month. How much is the main thing a paid plan buys.

Meloa keeps a plain list of what it’s noticed: which hours you rate calmest, which kinds of thing run high, which check-ins you skip. Each one shows where it came from and how many readings it’s based on.

Every fact has an eraser next to it. Delete one and it stops being used. Correct one and Talu reads your version. Meloa also works out a reading for each to-do in the background, and shows the reason in a plain line on the to-do. The full list of what it uses is on the What Talu knows page.

Facts from your numbers are free. Facts from your own notes need a paid plan.

Meloa reads each to-do before you touch it: what kind of thing it is, who it involves, how long it has waited, how the day is going, and how you’ve rated things like it. It uses that to order your list and to choose what Talu offers.

When the reading stands out, one to-do on your list says why in a plain line, like “Likely a heavy one: this kind of thing has run high for you, and it’s a call.” The line names what kind of thing it is, who it involves, or your own ratings. It never says how long something has waited, and there is no score. Tap the line to see what Meloa looked at.

It’s an estimate, made so an unrated thing isn’t treated as easy. Your own rating always wins and is never argued down, and Meloa never fills in a rating for you.

The reading isn’t stored. It’s worked out fresh each time you open your list, on every plan.

A to-do that says call, text, email or reply can say who it’s to and how long they’ve been waiting. You tell Meloa that. It can’t read your messages.

Today brings up the reply that has waited longest, one at a time, and Talu can write a first draft. You get one draft and one rewrite. After that it’s yours to send, change by hand, or leave for now. Meloa never sends anything for you.

A couple of days in, you get one nudge offering a draft. It never names the person, and it has its own switch in Settings.

The card is free. A draft uses some of your month’s Talu.

When a to-do looks likely to slip and something rides on it, Talu offers a smaller way in: a first draft, or a two-minute first step. When it’s heavy and will happen anyway, he offers room after it to land. When little rides on it, letting it go is a fair choice.

Each one is an offer. Nothing is applied for you, and a heavy to-do is never hidden from your list.

Meloa keeps a record of which offers you took and whether the thing then got done, so Talu leans on what has helped. Saying no is remembered too, so he stops offering that for a while. The What Talu knows page shows what tends to help you start, with a Forget button that clears the record.

By default Talu learns from your ratings, what you do with plans, your notes, and the journal entries you ask him about. Nothing else.

Turn on Let Talu learn from everything and he also learns from your sleep, the fears you track, the people in your Almanac, your hard dates and What helps. A second switch, Include my journal and jots, adds those. Both are off until you turn them on, and neither reaches your medications.

Turn one off and Meloa asks whether to forget what was learned from it.

Once there’s enough in your record, Meloa suggests one change to the day: move this call to the morning, put an hour between these two. The reason is stated in your own numbers. One card, two buttons, and an undo that doesn’t expire on a timer.

Saying no is remembered. Turn down the same kind of suggestion a few times and Meloa stops offering it for a while. The What Talu knows page shows what is paused, and you can clear it there.

On Sunday, Meloa looks at the week ahead and offers up to three ways to ease it, built only from what is really there: keep a hard date light, lighten the fullest day, add room after the thing you’re dreading, or text someone who helps.

Under each one, Talu says exactly what he would change. With a paid plan, Do these for me makes those changes in one tap: flexible tasks move to lighter days, inside the hours you keep, and the recovery after the hard thing grows. Events never move, and Undo puts everything back where it was.

The suggestions are free. The one tap is part of Premium. If you let Talu move flexible tasks on his own, he does it on Sunday morning and tells you, with an undo.

Off by default, for everyone. Turn it on and you can log the day a period starts with one tap. Meloa then compares the days before it to your usual and tells you what it finds, the same way it does with everything else.

It only looks back at days that already happened. It never predicts a hard week, and it never guesses your cycle from your mood. The one forward-looking thing is a preference you set yourself: more room in the days before an estimated period. The estimate is labeled as one.

“Mom picks me up at 5:30, hair at 6, then dinner with my brother and sister.” Say that, and the whole evening lands on your calendar: each part at its time, travel between them, the people tagged, and room around the outing.

Tags come from the words themselves, however an event arrives. “With my parents” becomes a Parents tag, “lunch with Kaylee” finds last month’s Kaylee tag, “at Blue Bottle” becomes a place. You never add them, and you can remove any of them.

The room wraps the whole outing, not each leg. Nobody recovers for thirty minutes in a car between appointments, so Meloa doesn’t pretend to book it. And Talu never fills in how hard it’ll be. That number is yours to put on it, and the held time grows as you do.

For days when there’s so much to do you can’t start any of it. Dump in everything you’ve been avoiding: typed badly, in any order, or said out loud. You get back one thing, picked for how much relief it buys for the time it takes. If it’s a message you’ve been putting off, it’s already drafted.

You never see the pile ranked. The list is the problem. Seeing it all in order is what costs you the afternoon, so Meloa sorts it and shows you only the top.

Or just tell Talu. Type the whole weekend into the chat, the wedding and the appointments and the six things you owe people, and he’ll offer to put the timed parts on your calendar and sort the rest. You don’t have to sort them first.

A school newsletter, an appointment confirmation, the group chat that finally settled the weekend. Paste it in, or forward it to your own Meloa address, and Talu puts every date on your calendar with room already around it.

On Premium, you can also hand him something hard, not just something with dates in it. Share an email or a message and he goes through it with you.

A screenshot, an invite, a poster, a note someone handed you. Take a photo or pick one, and Talu turns the dates and details into events with room around them. You see them first, before anything lands on your calendar.

Tasks live beside the calendar, not on it. Anything you didn’t get to rolls quietly forward instead of turning red. A list that turns red is a list you stop opening.

Type what needs doing and Meloa guesses how long it will take, from the words alone. You can change that with a tap. Meloa also makes its own estimate of how heavy each one is, so an unrated to-do isn’t treated as easy. Your own rating always wins, and Meloa never fills one in for you. Today’s list then opens on one thing at a time, with the reason it was picked. If the day feels like too much, tap Start small for the easiest thing to begin. Or clear the day: everything that can move goes back to your pile, what you starred or is due soon stays, and you can undo it.

Anything too big to start can be split into steps small enough to feel boring. A task you’ve been avoiding usually isn’t hard. It’s just unstarted.

Meloa watches the space around a due date, not just the date. If there’s no calm window left before something is due, the task is marked on your list now, not the morning of, when the only option left is to do it badly.

Some dates are heavy every year: the day someone died, their birthday, an anniversary nobody else remembers. Mark one with just a date and your own words. The year is optional, and so is everything else.

In the days before, on the day and just after, Meloa goes quiet. No offers to upgrade, no streaks, no confetti, and reminders and emails wait until it passes. The calendar washes those days a soft lavender with a lantern on the day, and Talu keeps to gentle, written words you can change or rule out.

On the day itself, Today opens on the essentials: water, food, your meds if you take them, and one person you’d reach for. Choose Essentials only, or Leave me be today. Text someone opens your own messages app with the words already drafted. Meloa never sends anything for you.

Free on every plan, for as many dates as you need. A few weeks before each one comes around again, Meloa asks whether to keep it the same, make it softer, skip this year, or let it go.

The amber button in the header, for the day that has to stop. One tap clears what’s coming. No string of small decisions, in the exact state where small decisions are hardest.

Nothing is deleted. It moves.

Breathing exercises and grounding are free on every plan and one tap from anywhere, including from inside a held window, which is usually when you want them.

Guided audio sessions and the extra fidget toys are on the paid plans. They’re the least important thing on this page, and they’re lovely.

Plain writing and drawing, kept private. Numbers show you a pattern. Words are what make it make sense, and this is where those go.

Nothing reads an entry unless you tap to ask about that entry. Your weekly reflection counts that you wrote, so a week spent writing doesn’t look empty, but it never opens what you wrote.

A painted world you swim as your own sea creature, an otter, a seal, a sea turtle or a hermit crab, with Talu beside you. Every part of Meloa has an island: your people, your journal, rest, your record. Swim to one and step inside that part of the app.

Sea glass is the one thing you collect, and it comes three ways. Any one thing you do in Meloa on a day, a rating, a to-do, a line in your journal, a breath, leaves a piece, once a day. Facing something leaves three: an event rated before and after, or a moment that scared you, logged. And milestones leave more, the bigger the milestone.

It buys things for a home you decorate, and the bridges between the islands. A small thing takes about a week of showing up; a new island, a few weeks. Premium doubles the day’s piece.

A 90 and a 20 earn exactly the same. Nothing counts down and nothing is lost by being away, and every island opens its part of the app from the first day. The whole harbor, creature by creature.

Connect Google Calendar and events flow both ways. What’s already booked shows up in Meloa, ready for room around it. What you plan here lands back on the calendar everyone else sees. Free on every plan.

Meloa is on the App Store, on Google Play, and in any browser. It’s one account wherever you open it, so switching later loses nothing.

A high reading brings grounding tools and real crisis lines, 988 and the Crisis Text Line, to where you already are. Meloa doesn’t watch you in real time and doesn’t replace emergency services. In a crisis, call 911 or 988.

What you log is yours. Every record is locked to your account in the database itself. Analytics and AI features are two separate switches, both off until you turn them on. We don’t sell data. The long answer, written to be checked.

Meloa is a planning and self-tracking tool. It isn’t a medical device, doesn’t treat anything, and doesn’t replace therapy.