About
A quieter kind of mental health app.
Vela started with a simple observation: panic doesn't keep office hours. The hardest moments come at 2am, in stairwells, on trains — when a therapist is weeks away and a hotline feels like too much. We believe steady, caring support shouldn't depend on the hour, the waitlist, or what you can pay.
What Vela is
Vela is a companion for emotional wellbeing — panic, anxiety, stress, and low mood. It grounds you through hard moments with paced breathing and sensory grounding, listens by voice or text any hour, and helps you notice your own patterns over time. The techniques it draws on — like paced breathing and 5-4-3-2-1 grounding — are well-studied approaches drawn from cognitive and behavioral practice.
What Vela is not
Vela is not therapy, and it doesn't pretend to be. It is not a medical device, doesn't diagnose or treat any condition, and is not built for crisis situations involving risk of harm to yourself or others. Many people use Vela alongside a therapist; it never replaces one. If you're in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line right away.
How we build
Privacy is the foundation, not a feature: your journal lives only on your device, anything on our servers is there so Vela can show it back to you — never for ads — and deleting your account removes it. We never share or sell your data. We work with clinical advisors as we design, and we'd rather ship less than overclaim. Where evidence is thin, we say so.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or press — write to [email protected]. We read everything.