Imotara · Honest comparison

Questions worth asking before you pick anything

Every one of these answers the question directly in the first paragraph, and every one says where Imotara is the wrong choice. If that costs us a sign-up, it was not a sign-up worth having.

• Is an AI companion the same as therapy?

  No. Therapy is a clinical relationship with a trained, accountable professional who can assess, diagnose and treat. An AI companion like Imotara is a place to put feelings into words between those conversations, or when none are available. The two are not substitutes, and anything marketed as an AI therapist should be treated with suspicion.

• Should I talk to an AI companion or a real person?

  Talk to a person whenever you can and whenever it matters. An AI companion is for the hours when no person is available, when you cannot afford one yet, or when you want to work out what you think before saying it aloud to someone.

• Do you have to pay for a mental health app?

  No. A genuinely useful free tier is possible, and you should be suspicious of any app that blocks a conversation mid-sentence to sell you something. Imotara's free tier is permanent: twenty cloud replies a day, unlimited on-device replies, and all 22 languages, with no card required.

• How do you choose a mental health app?

  Check six things: whether it claims to be therapy, where your conversations are stored, what happens in a crisis, whether the free tier is usable, whether it works in your language, and what the minimum age is. An app that is vague about any of them has told you something.

• Are there mental health apps in Indian languages?

  Yes, though far fewer than in English. Imotara works in 22 languages, eleven of them Indian — Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia and Urdu — for both chat and voice, on the free tier as well as the paid one.