Questions to stay with
While you sit with something, you get two questions made with AI for this feeling, so you get past your first thought.
Made by a psychologist · Based on Focusing · For iPhone
For the feelings you can’t name yet.
Little Somethings helps you pause with that vague something in your body. Give it a shape, sit with it for a minute, and find out what it wants to tell you.
- [★ rating] on the App Store
- Based on the work of Eugene Gendlin
- Made by Max, MSc Psychology
Not a mood tracker. Not a therapy app. A place for what you can’t name yet.
Most apps ask how you feel and hand you five smileys to choose from. But a feeling is often still vague: a heaviness, something fluttering, an empty spot. Little Somethings gives it a shape, without asking you to find the word first.
Try it for a moment
What’s there right now, somewhere in you?
You don’t need a name for it. Pick a shape that roughly fits, give it one word and sit beside it for a while.
Nothing you pick or type here is saved or sent.
What shape is it?
One word for how it feels
How it works
Four small steps. Nothing to know or get right.
- 01
Notice it
Tap where you feel it, shape a little blob that fits, and give it one word.
- 02
Sit with it
It comes close and breathes with you while you notice how it feels right now.
- 03
Something shifts
Sometimes something changes. It gets lighter or takes a new shape. You note what it said.
- 04
Let it go
When it’s ready, it steps off your path. It’s kept safe, in case you ever want to look back.
Features
What’s inside
Small and quiet, with everything you need.
[Check: only keep what’s already in the app.]
All your somethings at a glance
See what’s going on, how close you keep each feeling, and what you’ve already let go.
Follows the light of the day
Light during the day, dark in the evening. Just like the light outside, so it never glares at you.
A widget on your home screen
A gentle nudge when a something has been waiting for a few days.
The science
Built on science
Little Somethings is based on Focusing: a method that grew out of more than fifty years of research into how people come to understand what they feel. It was developed by philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin, working with Carl Rogers.
Based on research from
University of ChicagoUCLAAalto University
University of Chicago
1968
Clients who checked their words against what they felt inside were more likely to finish therapy successfully.
Gendlin et al. · Published by the American Psychological Association
Read the study →UCLA
2007
Naming a feeling dampens the response of the amygdala, the brain’s alarm system.
Lieberman et al. · Psychological Science
View the paper →Aalto University
2014
We feel emotions in recognisable places in the body, across more than 700 participants from Europe and Asia.
Nummenmaa et al. · PNAS
View the paper →Translated by a psychologist
Max (MSc Psychology) distilled the steps of Focusing into small moments that fit your day.
Inspired by Stutz
The 2022 documentary in which psychiatrist Phil Stutz shares practical ‘tools’ for difficult feelings.
This research is about the principles behind the app, not about Little Somethings itself. Little Somethings is not therapy or a medical device, and isn’t affiliated with the universities named, Phil Stutz or the makers of Stutz.
Reviews
What people say
[4.8]
“[Real App Store review 1]”
“[Real App Store review 2]”
“[Real App Store review 3]”
Made by Max
I’m Max. I have a master’s degree in psychology and have spent years working where psychology, research and technology meet.
[Your story in two or three sentences: why you made Little Somethings.]
“[Quote from Roderick Reichenbach, only after his approval]”
Privacy
What you feel stays yours.
Feelings might be the most personal thing you can write down. So this is how we handle them:
[Suggestions: only keep what’s true, and add what’s missing.]
No ads
There will never be ads in Little Somethings.
No selling data
What you write and feel is never sold or shared with anyone.
[On your iPhone / in the EU]
[Where your data is stored, in one sentence.]
Delete everything, anytime
You can always fully delete your data yourself.
Pricing
Start for free
Try it at your own pace. Cancel anytime through your Apple ID.
[Suggestion: adjust the prices and the split between Free and Plus to your real model.]
Free
€0Forever
- Notice somethings and give them a shape
- Sit with them, one question at a time
- Your path and your overview
- Widgets on your home screen
Plus
€[x]per month, or €[y] per year
- Everything in Free
- Questions from AI while you sit with something
- Your archive of somethings you let go
You only pay after the trial.
Who it’s not for
You’re in crisis
In the Netherlands, call 113 or 0800-0113 (free), or chat at 113.nl. Elsewhere, contact your local crisis line. In immediate danger, call your local emergency number.
You’re looking for treatment
Little Somethings isn’t therapy and doesn’t replace a psychologist or doctor. It’s a self-care app for quiet moments.
Questions
- What is Focusing?
- A way of paying attention to a vague feeling in your body, developed by Eugene Gendlin. You don’t need to understand it right away. You stay with it for a while, until it becomes clearer.
- Do I need to know Focusing?
- No. The app takes you through it step by step, one question at a time.
- How long does it take?
- As long as you like. You can always stop and come back later.
- How do I cancel?
- Through the subscriptions in your Apple ID, in a few taps. You keep Plus until the end of your billing period.
- Where does your money go?
- [Suggestion: to secure servers, the AI questions while you sit and the work of one maker. Not to ads, because there aren’t any.]
- Is it on Android?
- Not yet. Little Somethings is available for iPhone. Leave your email and we’ll let you know as soon as the Android version is live.
What’s there for you today?
Give it a place. It doesn’t have to be clear yet.
Download for iPhone