By dbaydev LLC
حالنامه — دفترِ حالِ روزهای تو
Halname is a private journal with two modes. Mood tracking: tap green for a good moment, coral for a hard one, and watch your year take color. Thought tracking: when a thought weighs on you, work through a CBT thought record — catch it, name the thinking trap, weigh the evidence, and find a kinder, truer way to see it.
What is Halname
Halname (حالنامه, "a chronicle of one's state") started as a simple nightly habit: write down one good thing and one hard thing, and look back at the whole picture at the end of the year. Our memory has a negativity bias — bad days shout, good moments whisper. A ledger keeps both honestly.
Some hard moments come with a thought that won't let go: "They must think I'm useless." "I always mess this up." For those, Halname has a second mode built on cognitive behavioral therapy, the same thought-record worksheet many CBT therapists use between sessions — redesigned to be calm, quick, and genuinely pleasant to fill in.
Two modes, one tap
A single Mood | CBT switch sits at the top of the app. Each mode has its own home, its own history, and its own colors — your data in both stays put.
Mood tracking
Thought tracking New in 1.6 · iPhone
Mood tracking
The screen is split in two: emerald for something good, coral for something hard. Tap the one that matches the moment.
One sentence is enough — "coffee with an old friend", "rough meeting". Save and get on with your day.
Each day blends between coral and emerald based on what you logged. Weeks, months, and the year form a picture.
Thought tracking
Five short steps. Save after any of them and come back to finish later — often the reframe comes easier an hour after the thought.
Write it exactly as it sounds in your head, plus what was happening.
Pick the emotions that fit and rate how intense they are, 0–10.
Name the thinking trap — mind reading, catastrophizing, all-or-nothing and nine more, each with an explanation.
Weigh the evidence for the thought and against it, like a fair judge rather than a prosecutor.
Write a balanced thought, then re-rate the feeling and see how much lighter it got.
Halname AI — optional
Turn on Halname AI and Claude, by Anthropic, joins each step: it labels the thinking traps in your thought and says which words give them away, suggests evidence that doesn't fit, and offers balanced thoughts that are believable rather than forced-positive. Everything is a suggestion you can edit or ignore — and it answers in whatever language you write in.
Why it's paid. Everything else in Halname runs on your phone and costs us nothing to keep running — so it's free, for good. AI is different: every suggestion is a paid request to Anthropic's servers. The subscription covers that cost, and keeps Halname free of ads and free of selling data.
1 week free
$4.99 / month
or $39.99 / year — save 33%
iPhone. Cancel before the trial ends and you won't be charged.
If the price stands between you and the help you need, email halname@dbay.dev and write us one line about why Halname AI would help you. We'll send you a code for a free year — no proof, no questions. (Like any App Store subscription, it renews after the year unless you cancel; you can cancel right after redeeming and still keep the whole free year.)
What is CBT? The TL;DR
Halname is a self-help journal. It isn't therapy, a diagnosis, or a medical device, and it doesn't replace a professional. It works best alongside a CBT therapist. If you're in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or find a helpline near you.
Features
Capture in seconds, reframe when it matters, review across a year — and keep every word private.
Good or hard, one line of text, saved. Designed to take less than ten seconds so you'll actually do it daily.
Every day is tinted along a coral-to-emerald gradient from your entries. Patterns appear at a glance.
Thought, feeling, label, evidence, reframe — one calm question at a time, with intensity before and after.
Optional Halname AI names the thinking traps and suggests evidence and balanced thoughts. Always yours to edit.
Week, month and year summaries of your moods, and the thinking traps that show up most in your thoughts.
Find that dinner, that hard week, that reframe that helped — searched on your device.
Set as many daily reminder times as you like. No guilt — just a quiet nudge to write the day down.
Sign in with Apple or Google to back up and sync. Notes and thought records are end-to-end encrypted before they leave your phone.
Privacy
Halname works without an account: your moods and thought records stay on your phone, protected by your device's own encryption. If you turn on sync, notes and entire thought records are end-to-end encrypted on the device before upload — the key stays in your iCloud Keychain, so not even we can read them.
Halname AI is off unless you subscribe. When it's on, only the thought record you're working on goes to Claude to generate suggestions — never the rest of your journal — and we don't store or log what you wrote.
For full details, see our Privacy Policy.
Download
Halname is free on iPhone and Android. CBT thought records are new in version 1.6 for iPhone, with optional Halname AI from $4.99 a month after a free week.