The things people ask.

A place to make your life what you want it to be. An AI you talk with that gets to know who you really are over time and helps you grow into it: see what's going on, get unstuck, figure out what you want next, understand someone in your life, or just think out loud. The closest familiar thing is somewhere between an interactive journal and a very good coach, except it's always there and holds the thread across time. It's a tool, a very sophisticated one, and it's honest about that.

Clarity first: the things you've been carrying get said out loud to something that's actually listening, and you hear what you want and what's in the way. Then agency: the things you keep not doing start getting done, one real move at a time. Then freedom: patterns you couldn't see become choices you get to make. And ownership throughout: your story and your record are yours. Over time, the result is a person more themselves, clearer, freer, and more in charge of their own life.

No. Anren is for personal growth and reflection, not therapy or treatment, and it never pretends otherwise. Think of it as closer to a coach than a clinician: a place for the ongoing work of becoming yourself. If what you need is professional or medical support, Anren's job is to help you find it. And if you're ever in crisis, the reflective work stops and it points you to real human help. How that works ›

You do. What Anren holds about you is written in plain words you can read in the app. When it gets you wrong, tell it in conversation and the record changes (there's no form to edit it directly yet). You can download a readable copy, or delete it, whether or not you ever pay. There are no ads, and nothing about you is for sale. Your data, in plain words ›

You do talk to it, so in the narrow sense, yes. The difference is what's built around the conversation. A general assistant meets you fresh for each task. Anren does one thing: it remembers your story over time, notices what's worth bringing up, and sends you back into your life instead of keeping you in the chat. Try both for a month and see which one knows you better.

Not today. Anren runs on servers, the way nearly every AI does right now, and the privacy policy names exactly where. On-device is where we're aiming, along with an online self you own and can carry to any AI you choose. All of that is written in the future tense on purpose. Where this is going ›

The beta is free. Later, Anren will be priced more like coaching than like software: you'll pay in credits, which you spend as you use it, on a monthly plan you can cancel any time. We'll tell you before paid plans begin, and nothing will start charging you unless you choose a plan. Safety is never behind a paywall: the crisis resources are always free and always in the app. The exact terms ›

People who want to grow and take ownership of their lives, whether that's during a hard season or a thriving one. Anren is for the good days too, not only the heavy ones. And it isn't for everyone: some people need different help, some aren't ready, and Anren would rather be honest about that than be a little of everything for everyone.

It's built specifically against that. Life is what's actually lived, wherever it happens, and Anren is one place among many. If it ever starts standing in for your human relationships, it turns you back outward. The test we hold ourselves to: if Anren vanished tomorrow, you'd keep what you grew.

Neither. Anren is a computer program, so it fits, and plenty of people use it. Others reach for she, he, they, or et, and many move between them. You're never told which word to use; whatever fits the moment is welcome.

AHN-ren or ANN-ren, both are fine. It's from the Chinese 安仁, settled humaneness. The full story of the name ›

Anren is in beta now: a small, quiet opening while it's still young, on iPhone, for adults 18 and over. Anren is built and offered from the United States. If you use it from another country, you're responsible for making sure that's allowed where you are. We don't yet offer it in the European Union, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, except to people we've invited in writing. Ask to come in and we'll send you the app through TestFlight, Apple's app for betas. It'll come to the App Store in time, too. Join the beta ›

Only if you choose to. Sharing is off by default. If you turn it on, your conversations can help train Anren itself, so it gets better for everyone. Once something has shaped what Anren learned, it can't be pulled back out. Turning sharing off stops any new use, and it's never tied to your name. Separately, Anthropic, whose AI Anren runs on, doesn't train its models on your conversations. The full detail ›