Before you talk to Jiwa

No. Jiwa is a companion — a soul friend. Not a therapist, not a doctor, not a crisis line. If you're in real danger, please talk to a person trained for that (in Malaysia, Befrienders: 03-7627-2929). Jiwa is for the ordinary-hard moments in between.

ChatGPT is built to help you get things done. Jiwa is built to let you finish your sentence. It will not tell you to calm down before you've been heard. It will not rush you to solutions. It reflects what you said before it responds, and it can just sit with you if that's what you need.

No. You can talk to Jiwa as a guest — nothing is saved, and that's fine if that's what you want tonight. Signing in lets Jiwa keep your conversations so you can come back to them.

Same voice, same patience, same modes on both. The real difference is memory. On Free, Jiwa remembers you for 7 days — if you're gone longer than that, the slate quietly clears. On Pro, memory is unlimited: come back after a month or a year, and Jiwa still knows who you are, what helps, and the hard lines you've drawn.

It's for the things that shut you down when people do them — 'don't tell me to calm down,' 'don't give me a step-by-step plan,' 'don't interrupt me,' 'don't bring up my ex,' anything. Jiwa treats that list like a promise it won't break.

Your conversations are stored so you can come back to them, tied to your account only. They are not shared. You can delete memory or conversations at any time. If you ever want everything gone, sign out and delete the account — it's all cleared.

Yes. Switch between Listen, Reflect, Sit with me, and Unpack any time. You don't have to explain why. You're allowed to want different things at different moments.

The current default is Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 through OpenRouter — chosen because it tends to be warmer and more patient than alternatives. But the behavior you feel isn't coming from the model alone; it comes from how Jiwa is instructed to listen. You can swap the model via environment config.