Two AI Apps for Inner Inquiry

One helps you see what is alive in you. The other helps you see where you are coming from.

I have been working on two small AI-assisted apps for inner inquiry. At first, I thought they were variations of the same idea. I now think they do something importantly different.

That difference matters.

The first app is called Rings True. Its purpose is to help a person notice what feels most alive for them right now. Not in a vague inspirational sense, but in a psychologically meaningful one. It helps surface the questions, tensions, longings, and conflicts that are already moving inside someone, often just below the level of clear articulation.

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The second app is called InnerGPS. Its purpose is not to uncover the same kind of living material. It does something subtler. It helps make visible the stance from which a person approaches inquiry in the first place: open, cautious, skeptical, curious, divided, receptive, or resistant. It shows the posture someone is already in, even when that posture feels invisible from the inside because it is their normal state.

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This distinction has become very important to me.

Rings True gets closer to the psyche. It helps someone discover what is stirring, what hurts, what pulls, what needs attention, what question wants to be asked.

InnerGPS gets closer to orientation. It helps someone see how they relate to their inner life and to AI as a possible companion in inquiry.

One app surfaces content. The other surfaces stance.

One says: What is alive in me? The other says: From where am I looking?

I did not arrive at this distinction theoretically. I arrived at it by building the apps and then using them honestly on myself.

What I found was striking.

Rings True consistently gave me more useful insight into my own psyche. It brought me closer to the actual material: desire, anxiety, restlessness, longing, inner conflict, the ache for a more alive life. It helped me move from vague unease to more honest language.

InnerGPS did something different. It did not take me as deeply into the material itself. But it helped me see something I often miss: the posture I am already bringing to inquiry. Am I open? Guarded? Drawn and doubtful at once? Curious about AI, but cautious? Spiritually receptive, but resistant to technological mediation? That matters. It shapes the entire inquiry, whether I notice it or not.

And that is why I now think both apps may be genuinely useful.

We live at a strange moment. Many people are carrying profound questions beneath the surface of productivity, performance, and information overload. They may sense that something in them is unsettled, or unfinished, or asking for care. At the same time, we are entering a world in which AI is increasingly available as a conversational presence.

Most discussions about AI and inner life are still too crude. They either dismiss AI as spiritually empty or inflate it into something wiser than it is. I am interested in neither mistake.

What if AI is neither a distraction nor an oracle?

What if, used carefully, it can become a reflective companion?

Not a replacement for conscience. Not a substitute for inner knowing. Not an authority over the soul.

But a mirror. A thought partner. A companion that helps a person hear themselves more clearly.

That is the experiment.

Rings True is designed to help a person name what is alive and what needs attention.

InnerGPS is designed to help a person see the lens they are already looking through.

Both are simple. Both are early. Both still need refinement. But I think they point toward something real.

They suggest that AI may support inner inquiry not by giving us answers about who we are, but by helping us become more honest about what is actually happening within us.

That is the hope.

Not artificial wisdom. Not automated enlightenment. Just a more thoughtful way of listening.

And perhaps that is already enough.

If you try the apps, I would love your honest feedback:

· What felt useful?

· What did not land?

· What, if anything, did the app help you see more clearly?

· Which app spoke to you more — Rings True or InnerGPS — and why?