Anxious, wired, flat, or just too tired to think straight. Tell Shora in one tap or a few words, and it composes a guided session for exactly that, from twenty techniques with published research behind them.
Most meditation apps hand you a library and ask you to choose. That works right up until the moment you actually need it.
I used to open Headspace and pick a focus session before work. I wasn’t unfocused. I was tired. Wrong session, wrong morning, nothing gained. Other times I needed picking up and got breath counting to settle me down instead.
That was never a browsing problem. Better search would not have fixed it. I was diagnosing myself badly, at exactly the moment I was least equipped to do it well.
So Shora asks first, then picks.
No library to browse. No deciding what you need while deciding is the thing you cannot do.
However you arrive, Shora meets you there. Tell it how you feel, or tell it what you need, and it composes the session either way.
We built the other version first. It read your journal entry and wove what you wrote into the meditation itself, which is exactly what most AI meditation apps sell today.
It made things worse. Naming your worries out loud in the middle of a session keeps your mind on them, and quieting that chatter is the entire point. So we threw it out.
Now the journal is only ever used to read your mood. The words you hear come from twenty fixed techniques written from published protocols. Cyclic sighing, box breathing, NSDR, body scan, cognitive reframing.
Write what's on your mind and Shora reads the tide, then suggests where to go next. Naming how you feel is a practice in itself, not just a step before one. Putting words to it is half of getting a handle on it, and over weeks your check-ins start to draw a picture of your own weather.
Your journal is private and encrypted. It is used for one thing, suggesting your next session. Never sold, never used for ads.
See how journaling works →
A check-in, a matched session, and the loop that learns. Watch how a voyage actually goes.
Breathing, cognitive, somatic, visualization and hybrid practices. Cyclic sighing, box breathing, 4-7-8, NSDR, body scan, loving-kindness, cognitive reframing, five-senses grounding, and twelve more. Each one carries its evidence grade and the research behind it.
If you’re hoping meditation will be mystical, or that it will float you out of your body, this is the wrong app. Here is the actual deal. You show up, you check in with yourself, you practice, and you feel a bit better. Or you don’t, and that’s fine too. Shora learns from that as well.
It also doesn’t work if you only do it when things get bad. This is closer to a healthy habit than a rescue.
Just short exercises matched to what you need today.
The short answers. all of them here →
Shora is a meditation app that matches short guided sessions to how you feel right now. You check in on four dials: mood, energy, focus, connection. Shora then composes a 3–20 minute session from twenty evidence-based techniques, and learns from how it landed.
Yes, though less of Shora is AI than the name suggests. A language model reads what you write about your day and turns it into four numbers, and that is the only model involved. Choosing the technique, fitting the minutes and learning what suits you are all plain algorithms, and people wrote every word you hear. Every script comes from a published protocol: cyclic sighing, box breathing, NSDR, body scan and the rest. Each is graded for evidence and linked to its study.
Those apps are libraries: thousands of sessions, and you do the choosing. Shora flips it. It asks how you feel first, picks for you, and gets better at picking every time you rate a session. Less browsing, more practicing.
The core experience is free. Check in, get matched, and take guided sessions, no card required. Pro unlocks longer sessions, more depth, and extra voices, and your first month of Pro is on us with code SHORA30.
Published research: breathing studies, MBSR, ACT, compassion-focused therapy, yoga nidra and more. Each technique in the library shows an evidence level, Strong, Moderate, or Emerging, and cites the studies behind it. The Science page has the full reading list.
A ninety-second, one-tap reset for panic or sudden stress. It runs a fixed sequence with no choices to make: paced cyclic sighing until your body comes down, then 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, in that order because grounding needs a mind that can think again. It pins to your home or lock screen, works with no signal, and is free forever with no account. It is never counted against any limit.
No. Shora is a wellness practice, not treatment, and we’re careful about that line. If you’re struggling, a licensed professional is the right ship. Shora can be a good companion alongside, and its SOS session is there for overwhelming moments.
Not to try it. You can check in and take sessions right away. An account (free) syncs your streak, journal, and what Shora has learned about you across devices.
A few minutes for most. You pick the time you have, from about three minutes up to twenty for deep-rest practices, and Shora composes to fit it.
