Meet yourself where you're at
Our app helps you show up for life the way you are, not the way you're "supposed" to be.We're all going through some real s#!% right now.
We don’t need to have our stress and pain ignored. We don’t need to just think more positively or do some yoga about it. (Not that there’s anything wrong with yoga. We love yoga. It just can’t solve all our problems.)
What we all need is a way to figure out where our energy and attention is going when we’re overwhelmed and redirect it back on the things that matter: self-care, connection, and community.
So we’ve developed an app that does things a little bit differently. It takes the data that corporations are already harvesting and uses it to help you understand yourself better. Not so you can work harder or buy more crap you don’t need or engage with more content.
Our app helps you meet yourself where you’re at so that you can show yourself the same compassion you usually reserve for everyone else.
How it works
An app that learns and adjusts to your capacity throughout the day so you can feel good about what you do.
1. Build your foundational daily routines
Build your ideal routine, and then versions for different types of days. Including the days you’re just trying to survive.
2. Check in with the app at least twice a day
You only need to check in twice a day to start gaining insights into how your capacity changes over time.
3. Your routines and task lists will adapt automatically
If your day starts out on a high and takes a turn, the app will adjust your tasks and routines to match your new capacity.
Features
Ditch the shame-inducing, late-stage capitalism productivity apps that just harvest your data.
Track your capacity
Your energy, pain, and mood become one honest number. Stop guessing what you can handle.
Check in with ease
Take ten seconds or ten minutes. Three levels of check-ins that meet you exactly where you are.
Build routines that adapt
Your routines reshape around your capacity. Survival mode gets a different list than a good day.
Follow your own rhythm
From wakeup to bedtime, your daily structure moves with you whether you’re an early bird or night owl.
See where you're at
Your dashboard shows your capacity, mood, pain, self-care, and your agenda for the day.
Only take on what you can
Your agenda and routines adjust automatically based on your capacity, not from pressure.
Manage overwhelm easier
Access helpful tools to get what you need even when it all feels like too much.
Develop coping strategies
Build your own toolkit so that it’s ready before you need it to manage stress or take space.
Learn your deep patterns
Weeks and months of data reveal what single days can’t, and help uncover meaningful correlations.
Make the app work for you
Your identity, your conditions, your life. Every feature in the app adapts to who you actually are.
Our story
We built this app because we really f*%$ing needed it. We think it might help you, too.
Amy struggles with chronic illness, chronic pain, complex trauma, disability, and ADHD. Reid also manages a mood disorder and ADHD. We’ve both tried every effing productivity and wellness app, and most just made us feel worse about ourselves.
Especially the ones where we had to take care of a virtual bird or plant. Every single app assumed we’d have roughly the same energy and capacity day to day.
But we can’t always predict a flare up or depressive episode or hyperfocus spell. Or a president starting a war without congressional approval and having families detained and deported for no reason. And because we can’t predict how each day is going to unfold, we found ourselves feeling immense guilt and shame when something overwhelmed us. That always led to a spiral that was hard to climb out of.
But we can’t always predict a flare up or depressive episode or hyperfocus spell. Or a president starting a war without congressional approval and having families detained and deported for no reason. And because we can’t predict how each day is going to unfold, we found ourselves feeling immense guilt and shame when something overwhelmed us. That always led to a spiral that was hard to climb out of.
Then we realized we were watching the people we love go through the same shit. Different conditions, different lives, but the same cycle of pushing too hard, crashing, and then beating themselves up about it.
We started tracking things on paper, just for ourselves, and spent years nerding out on neuroscience and harm reduction and behavioral psych trying to figure out what actually mattered. Turns out, when you stop pressuring yourself and adjust your focus to what’s actually happening, everything changes.
Seven years later, the official beta release for FunctionalMe is finally ready.
Early access
Apply to our beta program to enjoy early lifetime access to FunctionalMe.
We’re letting 100 people into the beta program right now. We need people who will actually use the app, report bugs, and help us make it better. In return, you get full access to everything we’re building and free access for life when the app goes live.