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Write it. Hear it. Keep it.

Write what you want to be true. Hear it back every morning.

Your affirmations, in your words, read aloud one after another with room to breathe between them. It takes about a minute. Private from the start, and free.

This morning1 min 12 s
  1. I can do hard things slowly.
  2. I keep the promises I make to myself.
  3. I let people help me.
  4. I do not have to earn rest.

An illustration of a session in progress: one line already read, one being read now, two still to come.

Voice: SamanthaPace: SteadyRepeat: once

Private by default. Free to start. No card needed.

How it works

About a minute, once a day.

The whole thing is three steps, and only the first one takes any thought.

  1. 1

    Write a few lines

    Four or five is plenty to start. There is a composer that shows you how long the session will run as you type, so you can feel the length before you commit to it.

  2. 2

    Pick a voice and a pace

    Any voice your device already has, per affirmation if you want different ones. Slow, steady or brisk, which mostly changes the length of the silence between lines.

  3. 3

    Sit with it once a day

    Press play and listen. That is the whole ritual, and it takes about as long as making coffee. The day is recorded when the session finishes.

Why this is not a notes app with a reminder

You hear it, you do not read it

A session reads your affirmations aloud, one after another, and leaves a real pause after each one. Reading a line takes a second and slides past. Hearing it in a voice, then sitting in the silence after it, is a different experience, and the pause is most of what makes it land.

Your words, not a library of ours

You write them. There is guidance on what tends to work, first person, present tense, short enough to say in one breath, but no stock pack of sentences written for everyone and therefore for nobody. A line about your life beats a general truth every time.

Private, and quiet about it

An affirmation collection is public, unlisted or private, and you choose which. Most people keep these private, which is the point. How often you sit with them is never shown to anyone, on any profile, ever.

It counts toward a streak

Finishing a session records the day, and that day feeds the same streak system as everything else you keep up. Miss one and you restart, and the history stays. Nothing scolds you.

What people actually write

Plainer than you might expect, and specific to one life rather than to everyone. Borrow one to start, then make it yours.

Steadiness

  • I can do hard things slowly.
  • I am allowed to take up space in this room.
  • I do not have to earn rest.

Work

  • I finish what I start, one piece at a time.
  • I ask the question instead of guessing.
  • My work is worth what I charge for it.

Recovery and change

  • I choose again today, and today is the only day I have to choose.
  • I keep the promises I make to myself.

People

  • I say the kind thing out loud instead of thinking it.
  • I let people help me.

What tends to work

  • First person, present tense: I am, I choose, I keep.
  • Short enough to say in one breath.
  • Say what you want, not what you are escaping.
  • Specific to your life beats a general truth.

Say it the way you would say it

The pace mostly changes the silence between lines, and the silence is doing most of the work. A line followed immediately by the next one is a list being recited.

Slow

Long pauses, room to breathe

2.6s pause after each line

Steady

The way you would say it

1.5s pause after each line

Brisk

Straight through

0.7s pause after each line

And in the tone you want

Calm
Grounded and unhurried
Powerful
Direct, certain, present tense
Encouraging
Warm, the way a friend would put it
Plain
Short and unadorned

One less app on your home screen

Affirmations sit inside Favist, beside the goals they serve and everything else you keep.

Beside your streaks

A finished session is a day kept, counted by the same system as everything else you are keeping up. One place to see whether you are actually doing the things you said you would.

Beside the goal it serves

An affirmation is usually about something you are trying to become. Point it at the goal and the daily sentence and the yearly aim stop living in separate apps.

Beside everything else you keep

The same place as your music, your books and your lists. Affirmations are an ordinary collection here, which is why they need no separate app, no separate login and no separate subscription.

What we are not claiming

Plenty of apps in this category will tell you that saying a sentence out loud rewires your brain. We are not going to. What Favist does is smaller and we can actually stand behind it: you write down what you want to be true, it reads it back to you every day, and you can see whether you kept it up. Whatever that is worth to you is yours to decide, and the free tier means you can find out without paying us to promise you anything.

Pricing

The whole practice is free.

Writing, the daily session, the voice and the streak cost nothing and always will. Pro is the rest of Favist, and it is one subscription rather than another one.

Free

Everything that makes this work. No card.

$0
  • Write your own affirmations
  • The daily read-aloud session
  • Every voice your device has
  • Slow, steady or brisk pacing
  • Private by default
  • Streak and consistency history
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Pro

All of Favist, affirmations included.

$9.99/mo
  • Unlimited collections and streaks
  • Fave, the AI assistant, live
  • Custom domain for your profile
  • Every profile template
  • Can be earned free through referrals
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Questions

Does saying affirmations actually work?

We are not going to tell you it does. There is research on self-affirmation and there is a great deal of marketing that overstates it, and we are not in a position to settle that for you. What Favist does is narrower and we can stand behind it: you write down what you want to be true, and it reads it back to you every day, and you can see whether you kept it up.

Are my affirmations private?

As private as anything else in Favist. A collection is public, unlisted or private and you decide which. Most people keep these private. How often you sit with them is never shown to anyone.

Can I choose the voice?

You can pick from the voices your device already has, and you can set a different one per affirmation. If a voice is ever missing, that line is read in the default one rather than skipped.

What if my browser will not speak?

Some browsers have no speech at all, and rather than sitting silently on line one the session gives you a Next button and still records the sitting properly. You lose the voice, not the practice.

Does it work offline, and does my text leave my device?

The voice is the one built into your browser, so a session needs no network and starts instantly with nothing to load. On most platforms the text is never sent anywhere to be spoken.

Does it count if I do it twice in a day?

The day counts once. A second sitting is welcome and it will not inflate a streak.

How long does a session take?

Five short lines at a steady pace is a little over a minute. The composer shows the running length as you write, so you can build one that fits the time you actually have.

Do I have to pay?

No. Writing affirmations, the daily session, the voice and the streak are all free. Pro raises the collection limits and adds the rest of Favist, and it is the same subscription, not a separate one.

Write one line. Hear it tomorrow morning.

It takes a minute to set up and a minute a day to keep.

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