QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Find answers about getting started, your moments, personas, patterns, privacy and how Momentum works over time.
Momentum is a private reflection and self-awareness app designed to help you notice what is true for you in the moment, recognize what keeps returning over time, and make more intentional choices.
It is not about tracking perfection or giving you a score. The aim is to help small moments become useful signals about what may be changing, repeating or becoming important.
A Momentum experience begins with a short Arrival Check-In.
You reflect on structured signals such as your Energy, Focus and Confidence, together with the Context that feels most relevant to you. Momentum then suggests a pathway that may be useful in that moment and offers guidance to help you pause, reflect and decide what you want to carry forward.
You can save a moment when you want it to become part of your personal history.
No.
Momentum is designed to support regular reflection, but there are no streaks to maintain and no penalty for missing a day.
Using Momentum over time can give you more history to reflect on, but you decide when it is useful to check in.
No.
Momentum does not require free-text journaling.
The experience uses structured reflection so you can pause, notice what is relevant and build a private record of moments without having to write a diary.
No.
The current version of Momentum does not require you to create an account and is fully functional without one.
Momentum uses six personas:
Warrior, Survivor, Builder, Guardian, Optimist and Leader.
Each represents a different reflection lens — a way of considering what kind of response may be useful in a particular moment.
They are not permanent personality labels.
No.
Momentum does not classify you as one fixed type.
Different situations may call for different responses, so the pathway that feels relevant today may be different from one that appears another day.
Suggested Pathway reflects a response that may be useful based on the structured signals you shared during Arrival.
It is a suggestion for that moment, not a judgment about who you are.
You remain in control of what feels relevant to you.
Momentum starts with your own view of how things feel in that moment.
During Arrival, you reflect on structured signals such as your Energy, Focus and Confidence, together with the Context that feels most relevant to you. Momentum uses those inputs within a structured reflection model to suggest a pathway that may be useful to consider.
The approach is informed by established ideas from psychology and behavior-change research, including self-monitoring and self-regulation, present-moment awareness, and the idea that different situations may call for different ways of responding.
Momentum turns this into a simple, approachable experience through six persona pathways — Warrior, Survivor, Builder, Guardian, Optimist and Leader.
The persona you see is not a diagnosis, personality type or judgment about who you are. It is a reflection lens for that moment: a way of considering what kind of response may feel relevant given what you have shared.
As you save moments over time, Momentum can then help you notice which pathways keep returning, which become less prominent, and how your patterns may shift as your circumstances change.
Momentum draws on established psychological concepts rather than treating the persona system as a clinical or diagnostic model.
These references support concepts that inform Momentum. They do not represent clinical validation of the Momentum persona system, Suggested Pathway, or Weekly Momentum Summary, or establish that Momentum is clinically effective. Research on mindfulness meditation is included as background on present-moment awareness; it does not establish that Momentum is a mindfulness intervention, therapy, or diagnostic tool.
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Yes.
Your experience, circumstances and needs can change from one moment to another. Different pathways may therefore become relevant at different times.
That change is part of what Momentum is designed to help you notice.
A repeated persona does not automatically mean something is wrong — or that you should try to change it.
It may simply be worth noticing.
Momentum helps make repetition visible so you can consider whether that way of responding continues to serve you or whether you want to approach something differently.
No.
Momentum personas are not personality types, diagnoses or psychological classifications.
They are reflection lenses designed to help you think about what may be useful in a particular situation.
A Saved Moment is a moment you choose to keep as part of your private Momentum history.
Over time, Saved Moments allow you to look back at the pathways, signals and patterns that have appeared across your experience.
A single moment can be useful on its own.
But several moments over time can reveal something more: what keeps returning, what is changing and what may be becoming more or less relevant.
Saving moments gives you history to return to later.
Each time you check in, you are reflecting on how things feel for you in that particular moment. On its own, one moment is simply a snapshot.
When you save moments over time and return weeks or months later, those individual snapshots can begin to show a bigger picture. You may notice that certain pathways keep returning, that something that once appeared often has become less prominent, or that the way you respond to different situations has shifted.
The purpose is not to judge whether a pattern is good or bad. It is to make something that may have been difficult to notice more visible.
And once you can see a pattern, you have more choice about what you want to continue, what you may want to approach differently, and where you may already be changing.
Your Patterns brings together the personas and reflection history that have appeared across your Momentum activity.
Instead of looking at one isolated moment, it helps you notice what has been showing up repeatedly over time.
The percentages describe how the personas are represented within the relevant Momentum activity.
They are not scores.
A higher percentage does not mean that one persona is better, healthier or more desirable than another.
No.
A leading pattern describes what has appeared most often within the relevant period. It does not define your personality or identity.
Think of it as a pattern to notice rather than a label to adopt.
Pattern Trends help you look beyond your current pattern and see how your persona history develops over longer periods.
The purpose is not to tell you whether you are improving or declining. It is to give you another perspective on how your responses may be changing over time.
Longer-term patterns need enough past Momentum activity to be meaningful.
If you have only recently started using Momentum — or have relatively few Saved Moments — the app may wait until more history has accumulated before showing a longer-term trend.
Your Weekly Momentum Summary is a private look back at the pathways that appeared during the previous week.
It helps you see what returned, what shifted and what may be worth noticing before moving into the next week.
Momentum looks at qualifying activity from Monday through Sunday.
After the week closes:
3 or more qualifying days can produce a full Weekly Momentum Summary.
1–2 qualifying days can produce a limited summary.
With no qualifying days, no weekly summary is created.
You do not need to use Momentum every day.
A Weekly Momentum Summary reflects activity from a completed Monday–Sunday period.
If there were no qualifying Momentum days during that completed week, no summary is created.
If there were one or two qualifying days, Momentum can provide a limited summary. With three or more qualifying days, it can provide the full Weekly Momentum Summary.
If you have only recently started using Momentum, your first summary may therefore take some time to appear.
No.
The current Momentum experience does not use runtime AI to generate your Weekly Momentum Summary.
The summary is produced deterministically from your qualifying Momentum activity.
Momentum is designed as a local-first experience.
In the current version, your Momentum reflection data, preferences and related in-app state are stored locally on your device.
Momentum does not require an account to use the app.
The current version does not operate a backend that collects personal Momentum profiles or behavioral reflection data.
In-app pattern analytics are calculated on-device and are not currently sent to a server.
No.
Momentum does not sell personal data.
The current privacy policy also states that locally stored Momentum data is not sold, rented, licensed or shared with advertisers, data brokers or other third parties.
No.
Momentum is designed for reflection, self-awareness and personal growth.
It is not a medical device, therapy service, diagnostic tool, crisis service or substitute for professional care.
If something about your wellbeing concerns you, consider speaking with an appropriate qualified professional. In an emergency or crisis, contact your local emergency or crisis service.
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