Your fire just got a little brighter. Meet the Lantern A new library of reads to keep you company. Open an entry, settle in, and see exactly where each piece comes from with the new Sources sheet. Pick up right where you left off. A new streak experience - Frozen days now keep your streak safe, shown in frost blue. - Missed a day? Rekindle your streak right from your day card. - A new full-screen moment when your streak is held - A contribution graph on your profile shows how you've shown up. - Milestone notifications celebrate your consistency. - Kindling unlocks arrive with a new announcement from Flux. A calmer follow-up Check-ins are now a full-screen experience. Depending on how you're feeling (lighter, processed, still here, or heavier), you'll get a next step that actually fits: something to read, listen to, or share anonymously. A gentler start New here? Flux now offers a few simple starter suggestions to help you begin, and they adapt to what you share. Bug fixes & polish - Faster, smoother performance across the app - Better VoiceOver / Talk Back support in sheets and transcripts - More accurate emotion and life-area understanding - Fixed library reading position not saving after resuming the app - Assorted fixes and small improvements

New: a music and audio library, organized by topic, for when you need something to listen to, not just something to say. After a tough session, we'll quietly put together a few gentle next steps for you: a track, a breathing exercise, or a chat with a Xolacer. Check Today to see what's ready. Plus a few smaller fixes and polish along the way.

A letter from the founder Right after you sign up, Nathaniel, Xolace's founder, introduces himself in his own words and tells you why this exists. If you've been here a while, he says that too. A few short questions, once New sign-ups now walk through a brief intake so Xolace can meet you where you actually are instead of guessing. It runs one time, then gets out of the way. The Reflect screen, rebuilt Tapping to write now opens the page that's already in front of you instead of jumping to a new screen. The background carries a soft wash of your theme's color, and your draft is kept if you close the composer by accident. Keep a quote. Star a daily quote to save it; kept quotes now have their own archive you can scroll back through. Quotes arrive with a title now, and you can reply to the question the deck asks. Steadier and quicker A sign-in hang is fixed, the home screen loads faster, and there's a round of smaller fixes and polish throughout.

A refreshed welcome and a couple of things you asked for: NEW ONBOARDING First time here? You'll meet the fire one beat at a time before signing in. Coming back? You'll land straight on the sign-in screen, no more digging through screens to get back in. CHANGE YOUR USERNAME Pick a new display name anytime from Settings. EDIT YOUR XOLACER PROFILE Already listed as a Xolacer? Go back and update your photo, bio, and specialties whenever you want; no need to start your listing over from scratch.

Xolacers can now tell when someone's in the app; a live dot shows on their profile, on requests, and in your chats list, so waiting doesn't feel like nothing's happening. Open a conversation and you'll see typing, online status, and "active Xm ago" right in the header. You'll also get notified the moment someone sends a request, accepts, declines, or messages you, each with its own sound. Mute chat notifications separately from Xolace's own check-ins in Settings.

Personal memory: Xolace now remembers what's come up for you across sessions, so mirrors can reflect your patterns, not just the moment in front of you. On by default, turn it off anytime in Settings > Data. Introducing Xolace+: five premium themes, four mirror voices, and deeper insights. Xolace+ is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or annual) billed through your Apple account; manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Subscriptions. Also new: pick who speaks to your mirror and vent aloud in Settings > Mirror. Talk to a real person. Xolacers are people who've offered to listen and trained peers, not therapists. Open the new Connect tab to see who's there, what they listen to, and how others rated them, then send a request. Nothing is sent until they accept. Chats are one-to-one and private, and crisis resources are always one tap away. You can offer to listen too. Five short steps, a photo, a name, a line about you, and what you're here for, and you're on the roster. Your real name and contact details are never shown, and you can go away anytime without losing a thing. Someone offered, at the end. When a session ends on something a Xolacer listens to, we'll show you that one person before you close. Tapping only opens their profile. A new way in. The app now opens on a home tab with a daily quote, and Reflect is always one tap away at the bottom of the screen. Plus: your reflections now show how they rank against the pool, faster-loading chats, and fixes to account deletion and sign-in.

Your profile is here. Open it from the reflect screen to see a quiet record of your time in the app; when you started, how many moments you've processed, the emotions that keep showing up, and lines from your own mirror reflections read back to you. As you share more, more unfolds: streaks, your rhythm, early looks at the patterns beneath the surface. We also added a feedback tray. Shake your phone anywhere in the app to float up a small form; report a bug or drop an idea. It never interrupts you mid-session. And "What's New" row in that tray so you always know what changed.

Voice Vent: Say it out loud, then let it go. Some things are too heavy to type. Now you can speak them. Open Voice Vent from the menu, say what you're carrying, and watch it burn away in front of you; the fire moves with your voice. When you're done, you'll hear a few quiet words back, and then it's gone. Your voice is never stored. It's heard in the moment, then released. Nothing is kept. Also new: • Awareness months; every so often, the campfire acknowledges what a month holds (like Men's Mental Health Month). A gentle note when you open the app, never in the way. Some months bring a softer prompt to reflect on. • Small refinements across the app to make every session feel a little more like being heard. Thank you for sitting by the fire with us.

Thank you for using Xolace to support your mental health. Some things are easier to feel than to say. After a session, Xolace can now turn what you felt into a message you can actually send , to a friend, a partner, a parent. The AI drafts it from your reflection; you edit it; you choose to send it or not. Nothing sends itself. Recipient details are never stored. Included is minor bug fixes and performance improvements

Thank you for being here. Every session you've shown up for has shaped what comes next. Your daily quote is here. Each day, Xolace distills a quote from the patterns in your sessions, not your raw words, just the emotional shape of what you've carried. Private by design. React to quotes that land. Share the ones worth keeping. Also in this update: - Mirror tone is now shown as a badge; see the emotional character of what was reflected back to you - "Witnessed" reflections can now be read aloud - Breathing exercises pulse in exact sync with your inhale and exhale

What's new If you've ever needed more than a moment to process, this update is for you. Get Help Now A quiet "Help" button now lives on the main screen. Tap it anytime to reach crisis lines and emergency numbers for Ghana, US, UK, Australia, and Canada. One tap to call. No barriers. Better ways to tell us when something's off We added a few small moments to hear from you, when the reflection didn't quite land, when a session felt heavier than expected, or whenever you just want to share something. Your feedback shapes how the mirror gets better. Smoother, calmer transitions The whole app moves a little more gently now. Screens ease in and out in a way that feels less jarring and more like the experience it's meant to be.

What's New Speak or listen your way. You can now speak your reflection instead of typing; your voice is transcribed automatically. And after the mirror speaks back, you can now hear it read aloud in a voice that matches the tone you're in. A new way in. Onboarding has been rebuilt with smoother animations and a clearer sense of what Xolace is before you ever log in. Refine your mirror. If the reflection doesn't quite land, you can now navigate back to it while clarifying so you're always working from what was said. Bug fixes and polish.