AI meditation companion

A companion that listens first, then creates a meditation just for you.

You talk. Karira listens, understands, and creates a guided meditation designed for exactly what you're feeling right now.

3 days free  ·  Then $12.99/mo  ·  Cancel anytime

Imagine this…

You shareYou tell Karira how you're feeling — typed, or spoken out loud.
It understandsIt reads what you're going through and picks a practice suited to it.
It createsIt writes and narrates a meditation made only for you.
You feel betterYou come out calmer, lighter, and more like yourself.

If this sounds familiar

The problem was never you. It was the one-size-fits-all script.

You sit down carrying something specific — a hard conversation, a 2am spiral, a win you never let yourself feel. A pre-recorded library can't know that.

The usual way

Ten minutes of a stranger's script

You scroll a grid of generic titles, pick the closest one, and try to bend your evening to fit a meditation that was written for no one in particular.

So it slides off. You give up on the habit and quietly blame yourself for it.

With Karira

It hears you first, then guides you

You say what's going on — typed, or dictated out loud. Karira chooses a practice suited to that state and narrates a session made for this moment.

The meditation fits, so the practice sticks. Calm becomes something you can actually keep.

What you get

A practice that adapts to your life — and remembers it.

Meditations built around your actual life

Talk it through — type it, or tap the mic and speak it. Karira reads the moment and picks the right protocol — from a racing mind to a heavy heart — then writes and narrates it just for you.

A companion that remembers what matters

Over time it surfaces your recurring themes and offers a quiet weekly reflection — so your practice builds on itself instead of starting cold every day.

Watch your calm compound

Streaks, a mindful-minutes calendar, and gentle stats show your practice taking root — kept quiet and reflective, never gamified with badges or confetti.

Grounded in real practices

Practices people have studied, not vibes.

Karira draws from nine established techniques and matches the one that fits your state — so every session has a reason to be the shape it is. Where a practice has been studied directly, we cite it.

Cyclic sighingLong, slow exhales to settle a wound-up body. Improved mood and slowed breathing in a randomised trial.1
Yoga nidraGuided deep rest for winding down. Studied in adults with chronic insomnia.2
Self-compassionMeeting a harsh inner voice with some warmth. Associated with lower self-criticism across 27 trials.3
SavoringStaying with a good moment instead of moving past it. Linked to more positive emotion across 20 trials.4
Body scanMoving attention slowly through the body, noticing what's held.
Breath anchorReturning attention to the breath each time it wanders.5
Open awarenessResting attention wide, without fixing on anything.5
Cognitive defusionWatching a looping thought as a thought, rather than arguing with it.
Sensory groundingNaming what you can see, hear and feel right now.
Read the science behind it

Why it gets better

A relationship that grows with you

Karira remembers your conversations and reflections, so each meditation builds on the last one instead of starting from nothing.

Learn how it gets to know you
Week 1You can't sleep. Karira helps you unwind tonight.
Week 3It notices the patterns behind those nights, and adapts.
Month 2You feel more in control, and you're sleeping better.
Month 6You look back and see how far you've come.
Made for you,
nothing shared
Your conversations stay private. No ads, and your reflections aren't for sale.
Personalized
every time
No library to scroll. Every session is written for the moment you're in.
Ready in
about 2 minutes
From your first message to a finished guided meditation.
Backed by
science
Nine established practices for sleep, stress and anxiety — each one cited.

Nothing to lose

Try it for three days, free. Your reflections stay yours.

3-day free trial Cancel anytime, in Settings Private by design — your chats aren't for sale No ads, ever

In their words

Meditation that finally met people where they were.

Illustrative · pre-launch
"I used to doom-scroll till 2am. Now I tell Karira my head's too loud and it walks me down. I'm actually sleeping."
Maya R. illustrativeNurse · nights
"Every other app felt like homework. This one asks how I'm doing first — so I actually kept a 40-day streak."
Daniel K. illustrativeFounder
"The weekly reflection noticed I only ever spiral on Sundays. No app has ever seen me like that."
Priya S. illustrativePhD student

Simple pricing

Start free. Go deeper when you're ready.

Free
$0
to begin, no card required
  • Personalized meditations, made from your chat
  • Up to 5 minutes · 2 sessions
  • Themes, streaks & reflections
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Premium
$12.99/mo
3-day free trial · cancel anytime
  • Unlimited meditations, up to 30 minutes
  • Priority generation
  • Offline downloads
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Good questions

Before you start

How is this different from Calm or Headspace?

Those give everyone the same recorded library. Karira composes a new meditation each time, based on what you tell it and matched to an established practice for that state. It's personal, not a catalog.

Is what I say private?

Your reflections are yours. Karira is built private-by-design — your conversations are used to create your meditations and your personal insights, not sold or handed off. You can delete a conversation, your whole history, or your account at any time.

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 real personalized meditations up to 5 minutes, two sessions, plus themes, streaks, and reflections. Premium unlocks unlimited sessions up to 30 minutes, priority generation, and offline downloads — $12.99/month after a 3-day free trial.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Cancel in Settings before your trial ends and you're never charged. After that it's month-to-month with no lock-in — cancel whenever you like.

Get in touch

Something not working? Ask us.

Questions about your account, billing, privacy, or a session that didn't land right — write to support@karira.app and a person will get back to you.

Your practice, without limits

A meditation made for this moment. And the next one.

Deeper sessions, a companion that listens, and memory that grows with you. Start tonight — it only takes saying what's on your mind.

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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.