Salwa
A practice for letting go.
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
You don't have to carry everything with you. Ninety seconds: write what's weighing on you, sit with it, then let it go for good. Or hold it and release when you're ready.
Salwa is a 90-second practice for training your brain to let things go, not just feel better for a moment.
THE METHOD
Write down what you're carrying. Anything unresolved. Anything you keep coming back to.
Then sit with it. A breathing timer runs while you stay present with what you wrote. Ninety seconds by default, longer if you want it. Then let it pass through you.
When the timer ends, you decide.
Release it and it's permanently deleted. Or save it as a Moment and return when you're ready.
Letting something go feels different from just forgetting it. That difference is the whole practice.
THE POND
The pond reflects where you are. Release something and the water settles. Keep showing up and it goes still. Step away for a while and it ripples again.
The pond doesn't judge you. It only reflects.
YOUR MOMENTS
The reflections you save stay with you. Come back when you're ready. Sit with them again. Release them when the time is right.
You can hold up to 7 Moments at once. More than that and holding becomes collecting. The constraint asks you to stay honest about what still matters.
YOUR ACTIVITY
After a few weeks, the Activity tab shows which emotions have been coming up most. It's there when you want to look.
ON YOUR HOME SCREEN
A widget sits under the same sky the app does. The light moves through the day, and it tells you where your pond stands. Tap it to sit, or to start writing. There is a lock screen version too.
PRIVACY
Everything you write is encrypted before it leaves your phone. Salwa can't read your reflections and neither can anyone else. When you release something, it's gone for good.
WHY SALWA
This isn't another motivation app. Motivation fades, usually right when you need it.
What Salwa builds instead is the resilience to break the emotion loop, the part of you that keeps replaying something long after it's done anything useful. The memory stays. The loop is what lets go.
THERE'S AN OLD ZEN STORY
Two monks are traveling together and come to a river, where a young woman stands at the bank, unable to cross. Without a word, the older monk offers his help, picks her up, carries her across, and sets her down on the other side.
They walk on. An hour passes. Another. Finally the young novice monk can't hold it in.
"How could you carry her? We've taken vows."
The older monk says: "I set her down at the river. Why are you still carrying her?"
Most of us are the young novice monk. We carry things long after we could have put them down. Not because we have to. Because no one ever taught us how to set them down.
That's what Salwa is for.
Salwa offers a 14-day free trial with full access to all features, followed by an auto-renewable subscription: $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year.
Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings.
Privacy Policy: https://salwaspace.com/privacy
Terms of Use: https://salwaspace.com/terms
The pond is real water now.
Not a loop of an animation, an actual simulation. It moves when you touch it, settles when you leave it alone, and carries the state your practice is in. It's in Calm Space, behind the empty screens, and at sign-in.
A WIDGET
salwa has a home screen widget. It sits under the same sky the app does, so the light moves through your day and clouds drift across the afternoon. It tells you where your pond stands. Tap it to sit, or to start writing. There is a lock screen version too.
DAYLIGHT
The sky the app draws used to go flat and grey between morning and evening. It carries real colour now, all the way from first light through to dusk.
ACTIVITY, REBUILT
Your practice now lays out as a life in weeks - one dot per week, all of it on one screen. Open a week to see what you held, what you released, and which feelings kept coming up. Open a year to see the shape of it.
MOMENTS
What used to be called Anchors are now Moments. Same thing, clearer name.
A NEW FIRST RUN
Onboarding is a real release now, not an explanation of one. You do the practice, then decide.
ALSO
- The release screen finishes instead of cutting off
- The background during a release is built from your own feelings
- Clearer contrast throughout, in both light and dark
- One daily reminder instead of two
The developer, Quan Ho, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Quan Ho
- Size
- 22.5 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Salwa Monthly $5.99
- Salwa Annual $59.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Quan Ho
