About snapout

snapout is for the moment when your inner voice turns harsh. When you're comparing yourself to people on a feed. When you're replaying a conversation that didn't go the way you wanted. When it's 11pm and you're not sure why your chest is tight.

I built this because I needed it. About 8 months ago I went through a hard stretch, and what kept me upright wasn't a tool or a technique. It was the slow practice of becoming a kinder voice in my own head. The inner mother I hadn't reliably had. The wise friend I wished lived between my ears. I didn't know at the time that what I was doing has names in clinical psychology, compassion-focused therapy, mindful self-compassion, reparenting. I just knew it worked.

So I built snapout for the people who could use that voice and don't have it yet.

snapout is informed by Compassion-Focused Therapy (Paul Gilbert), Mindful Self-Compassion (Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer), and the practice of reparenting yourself (Lucia Capacchione, formalized in Schema Therapy by Jeffrey Young). The voice you'll talk to, Somer, is built on these traditions. She is not a therapist. She is closer to a wise friend who happens to know what she's doing emotionally.

snapout is currently in private alpha, built and operated by one person: Sep Advani, an independent developer based in the Netherlands. There is no team, no investor, no parent company. As snapout grows, a clinical advisor with CFT training will review the system prompts and crisis handling.

snapout's design reflects what it's for. There are no streaks, no badges, no notifications pulling you back. Your conversations stay private, encrypted, never used to train AI, never sold. No ads. No engineered attachment loops.

If snapout ever helps you need it less, that's the goal.