Coming soon to iPhone
A guided meditation made for what’s on your mind.
Type or speak a reflection. Karira uses AI to turn what you share into personalized guided audio, with a practice chosen for your moment.
No payment required. Choose email updates in the form for launch invitations.
Invitation dates and launch countries are not yet announced.
The Karira story
The world asks a lot of you.
Take a moment to see the day differently.
How it works
From a reflection to your own guided audio.
Start with what’s on your mind. Shape the session around the time you have. Then press play.
- 01
Tell Karira what’s going on.
Write a message or use the mic to dictate. Your conversation gives the AI context for your meditation.
Your reflection is the starting point. - 02
Make room for your moment.
Choose the length and background ambience. Karira creates guided audio from your recent conversation. Longer sessions are part of Premium.
Choose how your session feels. - 03
Listen. Come back when you need.
Play your meditation, pause whenever you like, and return to saved sessions in your library.
A guided practice, ready to listen to.
Two free personalized sessions at launch. No card required.Join the waitlist
More than a single session · Premium
A practice with some memory.
You can keep the conversation going. Karira uses past reflections to help shape what comes next.
- Notice recurring themes
- See the topics that come up in your reflections, gathered in one place.
- Return to what matters
- Personal insights and weekly reflections help you look back at what you’ve shared.
- Keep your sessions close
- Your library makes it easy to return to a meditation you want to hear again.
Nine ways to meet the moment.
Karira draws on established meditation techniques to shape your session. The references below describe research on individual practices, not clinical testing of Karira. Experiences vary.
- Cyclic sighing1
- Long, slow exhales to settle a wound-up body. Improved mood and slowed breathing in a randomised trial.
- Yoga nidra2
- Guided deep rest for winding down. Studied in adults with chronic insomnia.
- Self-compassion3
- Meeting a harsh inner voice with some warmth. Associated with lower self-criticism across 27 trials.
- Savoring4
- Staying with a good moment instead of moving past it. Linked to more positive emotion across 20 trials.
- Body scan
- Moving attention slowly through the body, noticing what's held.
- Breath anchor5
- Returning attention to the breath each time it wanders.
- Open awareness5
- Resting attention wide, without fixing on anything.
- Cognitive defusion
- Watching a looping thought as a thought, rather than arguing with it.
- Sensory grounding
- Naming what you can see, hear and feel right now.
Your words deserve care
Personal doesn’t have to mean unclear.
AI and infrastructure providers process your content to deliver Karira. We don’t sell your conversations or use them to train AI models.
App usage analytics are linked to your account identifier, without message text. You can delete conversations or your account.
Read the Privacy PolicyAt launch: two free sessions. Premium when you choose.
Joining the waitlist is free and creates no payment obligation. The free tier does not automatically convert to Premium.
Free
$0to begin, no card required
- Personalized meditations, made from your chat
- Up to 5 minutes, 2 sessions to try
- A selection of guided library sessions
Premium
$12.99USD / month in the US
- 20 new meditations per month, up to 15 minutes each
- 200 chat messages per month
- Full meditation library and emotional memory
- Themes, streaks and weekly reflections
Optional Apple subscription. Renews monthly until cancelled in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Karira. Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal. Local prices appear before purchase.
Before you start: questions about Karira
How is this different from Calm or Headspace?
Karira starts with a conversation about your day and uses it to create personalized guided audio. You can choose your session length and ambience, then return to saved sessions. Explore the screenshots above to see how it works.
Is what I say private?
AI and infrastructure providers process your content to deliver Karira. We do not sell your conversations or use them to train AI models. App usage analytics are linked to your account identifier, without message text. You can delete conversations or your account. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Do I need to know how to meditate "correctly"?
No. You just talk like a normal person about what's going on. Karira handles the technique — choosing the practice, writing the script, and guiding you through it out loud.
What do I get free versus premium?
Free gives you two real personalized meditations, up to 5 minutes each, plus a selection of guided library sessions. Premium opens up longer meditations — up to 15 minutes, 20 new ones a month — plus 200 chat messages a month, along with emotional memory across sessions, themes, streaks, and weekly reflections. $12.99/month, cancel anytime.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. The free tier does not automatically become a paid subscription, and there is no free trial. If you buy Premium, it renews monthly. Cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Karira at least 24 hours before renewal. You keep access until the paid period ends.
A question before you join?
Visit Support or write to support@karira.app.
References
These studies are of the techniques, not of Karira. They examined these practices as traditionally delivered — usually in person, usually taught by a person, usually over weeks. Karira has not been clinically evaluated, and nothing here is a claim about what it will do for you. Several of these practices are components of longer programmes and were studied as part of the whole. Karira is a wellbeing product, not treatment. Body scan, cognitive defusion and sensory grounding are described on this page rather than claimed for: body scan reliably raises self-reported mindfulness but has not been shown to improve clinical symptoms on its own, and the other two are studied as components of wider therapies rather than as standalone practices.
- Balban MY, Neri E, Kogon MM, et al. Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal. Cell Reports Medicine. 2023;4(1):100895. doi:10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100895 — 111 healthy adults, 5 min/day for one month. Cyclic sighing improved positive affect and reduced respiratory rate more than mindfulness meditation. No significant change in heart-rate variability or resting heart rate.
- Datta K, Tripathi M, Verma M, Masiwal D, Mallick HN. Yoga nidra practice shows improvement in sleep in patients with chronic insomnia: a randomized controlled trial. National Medical Journal of India. 2021;34(3):143–150. doi:10.25259/NMJI_63_19 — 41 patients with chronic insomnia, against CBT-I, with polysomnography. A small trial in a clinical population.
- Ferrari M, Hunt C, Harrysunker A, Abbott MJ, Beath AP, Einstein DA. Self-compassion interventions and psychosocial outcomes: a meta-analysis of RCTs. Mindfulness. 2019;10:1455–1473. doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01134-6 — 27 trials; moderate effects on self-criticism, stress and depression. The underlying programme is an eight-week course, not a single session.
- Chen et al. Effectiveness of savoring interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. 2026. doi:10.1111/aphw.70134 — 20 trials, 4,805 participants. Effects for positive-psychology interventions generally are small.
- Britton WB, Davis JH, Loucks EB, et al. The contributions of focused attention and open monitoring in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for affective disturbances: a 3-armed randomized dismantling trial. PLOS ONE. 2021;16(1):e0244838. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244838 — 104 participants with mild-to-severe depression and anxiety, across three eight-week trainings. Cited here for these being distinct, studied styles of attention practice — not for any per-session effect.
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- Karira supports your wellbeing but is not a substitute for professional medical or mental-health care.
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- Questions or trouble with the app? Write to support@karira.app. A person reads every message.
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- In the US and Canada call or text 988. Elsewhere, contact your local emergency services or a crisis line in your country.