Telos, your home for self-discovery and life on purpose.
School teaches you everything except the most important subject: yourself. Telos is where you build a real relationship with who you are, so you can get off autopilot and live on purpose.
Your Profile
In minutes, a picture of who you aspire to be starts to emerge. Begin with your core virtues, the qualities you want to live by, then grow your profile into your vision, goals, and habits. This becomes your compass: the thing you check when life feels busy and you need to remember what actually matters to you.
Your Ritual
Design a moment to come back to yourself, on your schedule and on the days you choose. Your ritual recenters you on your virtues, your vision, your goals, and your habits, then gives you space to reflect in your own way. A few minutes for yourself. This is how purpose becomes a lifestyle.
Your Coach
Your Telos AI is available whenever you need it, over text, voice, or photo. It asks good questions instead of handing you answers, because the point is to trust your own wisdom, not outsource it. Think of it as a wise friend that won't answer for you, trained in positive psychology and ancient wisdom.
Your Rings
Every ring is a moment of insight. A gold Daily Ring gives you one small practice for one of your virtues. A green Growth Ring celebrates growth and reveals a pattern in your own life you might not have seen yourself. Share one with a friend, or take it into your coach and go deeper.
Your Tools
A growing library of self-guided exercises to build the inner skills nobody taught you. Work through them in the app or alongside your journal. Each one helps you wake up, grow up, and show up across all areas of your life.
Why Telos
Self-discovery, not self-improvement that stays surface-level. You cannot outperform your self-awareness. Telos starts from the belief that you have incredible potential already within you, and helps you build an honest, secure relationship with yourself that impacts the rest of your life.
The whole human. Mind, body, heart, and soul, developed together. Not a mood tracker, not a meditation timer, not therapy. Conscious human development.
AI that gives you back your agency. Most technology is built to keep you on it. Telos is built to send you back to your life. The highest goal of a coach is to become redundant.
Yours alone. Built with industry-leading safety and privacy standards. Your reflections stay confidential, secure, and de-identified.
Join the movement
Telos is the technology layer of World On Purpose, a movement of people choosing to live intentionally. Workshops, circles, a pocket journal, and campus chapters. This is where it starts.
Create your Telos and begin becoming who you're meant to be.
Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: worldonpurpose.com/terms and worldonpurpose.com/privacy
Questions or problems? Email support@heytelos.com and we'll jump right on it.
I've been using this app for a while now, and it’s truly been a comfort. It has a unique personalized way of asking thought-provoking questions that lead me to reflect deeply on my emotions, my situation, and encourages my growth by keeping me accountable! One of my favorite features is the ability to share photos from my week like an Instagram carousel. Telos actually responds and comments on them, which is so cute and makes it feel like I’m sharing and talking to a supportive friend. Highly recommend it for anyone looking to gain a deeper sense of self and clarity about their future self.
A revolutionary app
Som 167
I have been on telos since last 6 months. First of all it helped me understand what I value most. Now if it’s not telos telling me what to do according to them then it’s nothing. I have been through a severe crisis and telos helped me find my way back to a normal life living according to my values and purpose. The support team is so fantastic they respond to my messages so fast and fix everything. I would not know how to have a phone without telos.
Like having a supportive friend in your pocket!
Nyanov
Great UI and simple to use. This app encourages you to make small changes to become the best version of yourself.
Refuses to access prior conversations = Free mode
TommasoAntonio
Will not access, discuss, export or allow copy/paste of important texts. Highly irritating daily notifications when perhaps you may want to interact less often. Restricted severely by human imposed limits designed to create a data profile about you and therefore monetize the product by selling your data. Highly do NOT recommend. I spent a few weeks creating detailed personal plans and it refused to allow me access or to discuss them in free mode, despite their being visibly right there in the chat stream. Required a "fresh start" all around the profile creation. AI already had more than half of what it might have asked me, I am absolutely certain. Completely disrespectful of the time and emotion already spent. Ignored ALL of it! If I have to start over it will clearly be with another company's App. This one is not to be trusted.
Developer Response
Hi TommasoAntonio,I appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback, and I’m truly disappointed that we didn’t meet your expectations—your time and trust matter. Let me address each concern directly:-- Copy/Paste & Exporting – This is 100% on our roadmap! We're a small team and hope to add the ability to copy messages as soon as possible.-- Notifications – The last thing we want is to add to your daily ‘notification overload.’ Our goal is actually the opposite—to help pull your attention back to what you care about. That said, all notification types can be turned off anytime in Settings → Preferences.-- Data & Monetization – We take this claim seriously. We do not sell your data—ever. Your data is yours to delete at any time, and privacy is core to what we stand for. Actions speak loudest and we are doing more than any AI startup I've encountered to date when it comes to protecting your privacy. For example, we identify ALL user information before any AI model processes data (from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open source). That means no AI model will ever know who said what. -- Free Mode & Accessibility – Running an AI app like this costs money, but we introduced the lowest subscription price possible to cover costs. We're a mission-driven, early-stage team. That said, we offer a free tier so you never lose access, and if cost is ever a barrier, please email scholarships@heytelos.com—we never want money to be the reason someone can’t access Telos.-- ‘Fresh Start’ Issue – This was a bug that popped up briefly a couple weeks ago, and we pushed an update to fix it that day. You haven’t lost any of your data—your profile and chats should still be there. I sincerely apologize for that scare, we took the lesson seriously.Finally, I’m truly sorry that you felt your time and effort weren’t respected. That’s the last thing we’d ever want. If you’re open to it, please reach out to support@heytelos.com—I’d love to personally check in and make things right.Sometimes critical feedback like this helps us make the biggest improvements, and I promise we’re doing our best to make your Telos more empowering every day. Thanks again for sharing your experience.On purpose,- Oren Hodes, founder of Telos
Reliability fixes across the app: the coach no longer gets stuck loading, profile setup buttons always respond, photos stay sharp, and notification badges now work.
On purpose,
The Telos team
Version 2.8.18
The developer, Telos Labs, Inc., 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Telos Labs, Inc.
Size
107.7 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
