Somna is designed to help users identify and soften recurring emotional and stress patterns through a calm, private journaling experience. It focuses on understanding what keeps repeating, such as triggers, beliefs, and loops, to turn overwhelm into understanding by allowing individuals to capture their thoughts and gain insights into their patterns.

Key features include the ability to track daily triggers, spot repeating patterns, and use Support Mode for nervous system regulation during stressful moments. The app provides exercises like breathing, grounding, and softening to help users return to a state of safety, and it emphasizes privacy with on-device storage to ensure personal data remains secure.

Additional capabilities include no advertisements, no data selling, and no pressure from streaks or guilt-inducing metrics, creating a safe and supportive environment. The app works by illustrating the Trigger-Belief-Loop cycle, where an event triggers a thought, leading to feelings, bodily reactions, and behaviors that reinforce an underlying belief.

Benefits include the gradual softening of stressful loops over time, reducing their power through gentle acknowledgment and response. Use cases involve applying the app when a loop activates to manage stress or for daily journaling to build awareness and foster change.

Somna is targeted at individuals who experience recurring stress, familiar worries, or bodily sensations related to anxiety, and seek a tool to work with their nervous system in a private, on-device manner.