The questions, answered without padding.

Stillee is an evidence-based mindfulness app for panic, sleep, and the rest of being human at 3 AM. It includes a free panic flow, a dedicated middle-of-the-night sleep mode, non-sleep deep rest tracks, breathing exercises, and multi-week programs. iOS first, Android planned.

Stillee is for adults who want a calm, evidence-grounded companion for sleep, anxiety, and panic, without a thousand-track catalog or a famous-voice celebrity guide. The panic flow is for anyone, paying or not.

No. Stillee is a companion built on evidence-based practices, including MBSR, CBT-I-informed sleep tools, and clinically studied breathing techniques. It supports you. It does not diagnose or treat. If you are working with a therapist, it sits well alongside.

Three things. One: the panic flow is free and opens straight into guided breathing with no payment and no paywall. Two: there is a dedicated 3 AM mode that opens dim and silent, separate from bedtime content. Three: the catalog is small and curated by use case, not a thousand-track library that takes a tour to navigate.

The middle of the night is a different cognitive state from bedtime. Most sleep content is written for someone going to sleep for the first time that night, which is the wrong tone for a brain that is already running. The 3 AM mode opens dim and silent, with content paced for nocturnal wakings.

Cognitive shuffle is a technique developed by sleep researcher Luc Beaudoin. You imagine a series of unconnected, neutral images, one at a time, for a few seconds each. The lack of semantic connection between them prevents the verbal mind from chaining into a narrative, which is what keeps the brain awake.

CBT-I guidance suggests that if you are awake for more than about twenty minutes, getting out of bed and doing something quiet in low light, then returning when you feel sleepy, breaks the association between the bed and being awake. Staying in bed with the mind racing tends to reinforce that association over time.

If you opt in, Stillee can read recent sleep data from Apple Health (and Health Connect on Android, when that ships) to pre-fill your morning check-in. It does not measure your sleep itself. The data is used only to provide the feature; it is not shared and not used for marketing.

Each program is a structured sequence of short sessions, brief readings, and journal prompts that build on each other across the weeks. They are written to go somewhere, not to be a long catalog of unrelated meditations.

Yes. The weeks are a suggested rhythm, not a deadline. Stillee does not surface streak penalties or notifications that pressure you back if you miss a session. If a program asks more than your week has, the right answer is to slow down.

It means each practice is grounded in clinical or experimental evidence that we can name. MBSR for the 8-week course. Stanford 2023 for cyclic sighing. CBT-I for the sleep tools. Yoga Nidra clinical literature for NSDR. Where the evidence is mixed, we say so.

You log how you feel in a few seconds, choosing from a large vocabulary of specific states rather than a five-emoji scale. Entries build into a month calendar and a year-in-pixels grid in the Insights tab, where you can see distributions, trends, and patterns, and tap anything for an explanation of what it means.

One small colored square for every day you log, 365 of them on one screen. It's the fastest honest answer to "how has this year actually been?" Memory keeps the dramatic moments; the pixels keep everything.

Yes. Search reaches through everything you've written, journal entries, reflections, gratitude notes. Type a word and jump straight back to the exact entry, whenever it was.

Two separate protections. First, the journal is excluded from our analytics by design, what you write is never part of how we measure the app. Second, your entries are encrypted at rest on our servers: if our systems were ever breached, your words would be unreadable, and the encryption keys are stored separately from the data. To be precise: this is encryption at rest, not end-to-end encryption, it's what lets you recover your entries if you lose your phone.

No. Scores flatten a complicated month into a number nobody can explain. We show you your own record, moods, patterns, trends, and every stat can be tapped to see exactly how it is computed.

No. Your streak appears in Insights as quiet proof of practice, and that's all it does. It never pushes, never pings you at night, and a missed day doesn't erase anything that mattered.