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Emochi
Voice journal to understand yourself through art and science
227 followers
Voice journal to understand yourself through art and science
227 followers
Emochi turns your voice notes into a living, generative character that reflects your emotional world. Vent about your day, untangle a thought, or check in with yourself. Your words are transcribed instantly, helping you notice patterns in how you feel. Built by a doctor, a designer, and two AI engineers, Emochi brings affective science and playful art to private, non-clinical self-reflection. Start with a voice note. Meet your Mochi.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋🏻
Excited to introduce Emochi, a voice journal that turns your thoughts and feelings into a living “Mochi” character.
I’m hunting it for Cynthia, Mawuli, and their team. I love how it makes self-reflection feel approachable and creative.
I’ll let Cynthia share the story behind it below!
@nzieber thank you Nick!
I'm Cynthia, a doctor and researcher in psychiatry. With my co-founders Mawuli, Vanessa, and James, I built Emochi, a voice journal grounded in affective science.
As a doctor, I've always recommended journaling. Expressing our feelings helps us make sense of them (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986), and talking may work at least as well as writing (Esterling et al., 1994). But after a long shift, a blank page felt exhausting, and a 1–10 mood scale felt shallow.
Emochi is built on three ideas from research:
1️⃣ Naming emotions calms the noise. Putting feelings into words is linked to a calmer brain and body response (Lieberman et al., 2007).
2️⃣ Specifics help. People who can tell their emotions apart tend to regulate them more readily (Barrett et al., 2001).
3️⃣ Noticing matters. Regular mood check-ins boosted self-awareness in young people (Kauer et al., 2012). Emochi turns your entries into shapes so you can see your patterns.
Non-clinical, private, and judgment-free. Emochi supports your personal growth.
We'll be here all day reading your feedback! 💙
I like the idea of talking through your day and seeing it reflected in a little character. Can I change the emotion it picks if it gets me wrong? Sometimes the same words can mean very different things depending on how you say them.
I am finding the trend spotting feature very useful in showing me things that have a positive and negative impact on my day.
Good luck to the Emochi team!
@john_morris6 appreciate your support! You can unlock more about the trends and nuances of your emotions upon logging 25 entries as well ✨
Journaling has never been this fun! 🥹 I’ve had the opportunity to try Emochi early, and the mochi character is a super cute and helpful way to visualize my emotional day. I also like that the app helps me see trends and encourages me to journal more and be positive while also being accepting of what I may be feeling. Highly recommended!
@justinling thank you so much for being one of our early adopters!! Emochi is all about introspecting in a kind and gentle way. We’re so grateful for your support in helping Emochi grow, and we hope Emochi can continue to be a cute companion to witness your personal growth too 💛
I wanted to add a snippet about the visual design of Emochi.
When working on Mochi the character, we made an intentional choice: Mochi continuously morphs and shifts colour based on your journal entries, often ending up in misshapen, lopsided forms. The idea was to reflect how human emotions aren't clean, symmetrical, or perfect, but in fact wonderfully messy and imperfect. I hope that you find comfort in meeting this quirky little character, and I'd love to hear your feedback on this design~
Emochi came about from the founding team's desire to create something that would help with self-understanding, and because we knew how valuable journalling is and how difficult it can be to build and maintain a habit of it. From the little things like being able to speak instead of write when needed to the bigger things like providing you with regular reports that help you better understand your own patterns, we're really proud of what we've built so far. There's a lot more to come, and we'd love to hear what you think.