It doesn't need to live in your head all day.

Okay*ish

Okay*ish helps you laugh it off and put it down, in under two minutes.

From stuck to okay*ish in under two minutes.

The whole thing takes less time than replaying the situation in your head for the fourth time.

1

Tell us what happened.

Type it in your own words. Just enough to get it out of your head. Okay*ish never keeps what you type.

2

Swipe through your kit.

You get three takes on your moment, written for it, not pulled from a template. Swipe right if one lands, left for meh. Every swipe teaches Okay*ish a little more about what makes you laugh.

3

Get back to your day.

Grab a one-liner or a song for the road if you want one. Then that's it. No ongoing tasks. No check-ins. Just a moment that doesn't have to own the rest of your day.

Built for the moment you're actually in.

Your Okay*ish Kit

Built around your moment, not a template. Whatever's in it is for you, right now. Not generic. Not something that would work for anyone. Something that's actually for you.

It Learns Your Sense of Humor

Every time something lands, Okay*ish learns something. Over time it gets sharper about what works for you and stops offering things that don't. The longer you use it, the more it feels tuned to you.

For Whatever Won't Leave You Alone

The meeting that went sideways. The comment you can't stop replaying. The low-grade annoyance you can't quite shake. The day that's just a lot. If it's taking up space in your head, Okay*ish is for it.

Private by Design

Okay*ish never keeps what you type. Your words are used to write your kit, then they're gone. It only remembers which responses made you laugh, never what you said.

Fast by Design

One input. Instant output. The whole thing takes under two minutes. Built for the moment something happens, not for when you've already moved on.

Simple by Design

No daily check-ins. No streaks to maintain. No reminders asking how you're doing. Okay*ish is there when something actually happens, and quiet the rest of the time.

Sometimes there's no one you can tell.

When your coworker got credit for your idea and you have to sit next to them in a meeting about it tomorrow.

When the person who upset you is also the person you're going home to tonight.

When you've already talked about this with your friend too many times and you can see them getting tired of it.

When you can't lose it on your teenager even though you really, really want to.

When your therapist is great but your appointment is in 11 days.

The Okay*ish llama

That's what the llama is for.

Say the part you'd never say out loud. The llama won't tell anyone. Mostly because it's a llama.

We don't store what you tell us.
We only remember what makes you laugh.

Your words are yours. Okay*ish uses them to write your kit, and then they're gone. Not saved on our servers. Not saved on your phone. Not summarized. Not tied to your account. What Okay*ish remembers is what made you laugh, kept as numbers, not a story. Not why. Not what led up to it. Just the signal that something landed.

One honest note: the AI company that writes your kit may hold onto a request for up to 30 days for safety checks, then deletes it. We never send it anything that says who you are, and it doesn't use your words to train its AI.

Your words aren't kept

Used to write your kit, then gone. No history, no diary of your bad days.

Preferences, not content

We learn what humor lands for you, never the story behind it. Sign in and those scores follow you to a new phone.

No ads, no selling

No ad trackers. Your information is never sold or used to target you.

Feedback is your call

If you tap Share feedback, we keep what you send so we can read it and reply. Never your kit, and never what you typed.

There's actual science here. We'll keep it brief.

Three things happen when you use Okay*ish. None of them require you to believe in anything.

1

Writing it down changes it.

When you put something into words, it shifts from something happening to you to something you're describing. Psychologists call this affect labeling. You probably call it getting it out of your head. Both are right. Either way, something loosens.

2

A different angle is not the same as advice.

The situation doesn't change. But the way you're holding it can. Okay*ish offers a fresh way to look at what happened. Not to convince you of anything, just to give you somewhere else to stand for a second. That's usually enough.

3

The peak of a bad feeling lasts about 90 seconds.

Here's something most people don't know: the physiological peak of an emotional response lasts roughly 60 to 90 seconds. After that, you're mostly just re-triggering it. By the time you've read your kit, that window has usually passed. You didn't suppress anything. The moment just ran its course.

Free to start. More when you're ready.

Your first 10 uses are free. Upgrade anytime for unlimited use.

Free

$0

Your first 10 uses are on us. No credit card, no commitment.

  • ✓ 10 free uses to try it
  • ✓ Full access to every kit
  • ✓ Private by design
  • ✓ Learns what lands for you

Monthly

$6.99 / month

Unlimited uses. Whenever you need it, as often as you need it.

  • ✓ Unlimited uses
  • ✓ Everything in Free
  • ✓ Learns you faster
  • ✓ Cancel anytime

Prices in Canadian dollars. The App Store shows your local price.

You can't prevent the hard moments but you can decide how long they own you.

Okay*ish is free to try. No commitment, no credit card, no daily check-ins asking how you slept.

For Therapists and Psychologists

The gap between sessions matters.

Okay*ish gives your clients something constructive to reach for when a difficult moment arrives but their next appointment is days away.

Grounded in cognitive reappraisal research.

Okay*ish is built on a well-established body of research into how changing the way we interpret a situation changes how we feel about it.

Affect Labeling

Putting feelings into words reduces emotional intensity

Writing down what happened isn't just venting. Research found that labeling emotions with words measurably reduces activity in the amygdala, creating an immediate calming effect on emotional intensity, even without any deliberate effort to regulate.

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Cognitive Reappraisal

Reappraisal is more effective for regulating emotions than moods

This PMC study found that cognitive reappraisal specifically targets the appraisal stage, making it highly effective for in-the-moment emotional regulation, with longer-lasting effects than attention-based strategies.

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Humor and Coping

Humor functions as a cognitive reappraisal strategy

Research on humor as a coping mechanism shows it operates through the same cognitive pathway as reappraisal, creating psychological distance from a stressor without requiring deliberate effort. Humor isn't avoidance; it's a well-studied route to a lighter frame.

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Emotional Timing

Brief engagement at the moment of distress prevents escalation

Affect labeling works as implicit emotion regulation, meaning the brief act of putting a difficult moment into words can interrupt the escalation cycle before it compounds. The window for intervention is short, and early engagement makes a measurable difference.

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Neuroimaging

Cognitive reappraisal and emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies

Reappraisal recruits frontal and parietal control regions to modulate emotional responding in the amygdala, a well-replicated mechanism across 48 neuroimaging studies reviewed in this meta-analysis.

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AI-Assisted Reappraisal

Large language models are capable of offering cognitive reappraisal, if guided

Research from arXiv demonstrates that LLMs can deliver clinically grounded cognitive reappraisals when structured appropriately. This is the mechanism Okay*ish is built on, with the addition of personalized humor calibration, structured session design, and privacy-first architecture that general AI tools don't offer.

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A between-sessions resource, not a replacement.

Okay*ish is designed to complement professional care, giving clients a structured way to work with difficult moments as they happen rather than waiting until they can articulate them in session.

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    Between sessions

    Clients can use Okay*ish during the week when something comes up and they can't reach you.

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    Reinforces reappraisal skills

    The reframe kits apply the same cognitive restructuring principles central to CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic approaches.

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    No clinical overreach

    Okay*ish does not diagnose or provide treatment. If a moment looks serious, it shows crisis resources instead of jokes. It is not a replacement for your care.

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    Private, for real

    Okay*ish never keeps what clients type. You receive no data. There is no clinical record created.

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    Low barrier to entry

    No lengthy onboarding. Clients can be using it within minutes of your referral.

Ready to refer a patient?

Send them a link and they can get started in minutes. Nothing to configure on your end, no data comes back to you.

For Companies

Something happens.
Focus disappears.
Okay*ish is the fix.

Okay*ish gives your team a private, on-demand resource for the moments that derail focus and productivity, without the overhead of an EAP nobody calls.

23 min
to fully regain focus after a single disruption
Source: Gloria Mark, UC Irvine ↗
< 2 min
average time to complete a session

That's 21 minutes of productivity back. Per person. Per disruption.

The benefit your team will actually reach for.

Most workplace wellness benefits go unused because they're either too clinical, too time-consuming, or feel like something HR will see. Okay*ish solves all three.

Fits into the real workday

A two-minute session during lunch is realistic. A 45-minute EAP call when you're swamped is not. Okay*ish is built for the former.

Genuinely private

No one at your company sees usage data, session content, or individual activity. Not HR, not management. And what people type isn't kept, so even we can't read it. This is what makes people actually use it.

Keeps people productive

Every unprocessed hard moment is lost focus. Okay*ish gives employees a quick, private way to work through it and get back to their day.

No clinical infrastructure required

Okay*ish doesn't require an onboarding program, manager training, or ongoing administration. Deploy it and let people find it when they need it.

A meaningful benefit signal

Offering Okay*ish signals that your company takes emotional wellbeing seriously, without requiring people to raise their hand and ask for help.

Works alongside your EAP

Okay*ish is not a replacement for professional mental health support. It's the first line, the thing you reach for before things escalate.

Priced to fit your team.

Every company is different. Get in touch and we'll take it from there.

Ready to get started?

Contact us at support@okayish.app