Existing is a new application of social well-being that wants to help average age users find a community

A new IOS social well-being application called Exist wants to help consumers of average age to connect and build significant communities with each other as they sail in their lives and the stress that accompanies it.

The application is described as the wider cousin of calm or the head space, and its main characteristic is social journalization. The idea behind the social and community journalization of the application is to help people to cure together, rather than alone. EXIT also offers daily mood tracker, audio exercises, guided meditations, etc.

The application was founded by the developer Ios Jason Jardim, who previously founded a startup called Living roomand Alicia Waldner, who is the founder a marketing agency called Adventure Marketing.

The co-founders did not meet during a networking event, a job or their Alma Maters. They met on a date. The two remained friendly and were able to talk about ideas for a mental health application – a subject that passionate them both, Waldner said in an interview with Techcrunch.

Waldner had attended a series of group well-being experiences from a group and had heard people who were looking to have this kind of community experience at home. Jardim and Waldner decided to create an application that would include this idea of ​​strengthening the community.

While existence was originally intended to target users of the Z generation, the premise ended up resonating with average age users, because the average age of users who signed up for the application was 40 years. The duo then decided to concentrate and center the application around this older group.

Exist has a tiktok type flow which allows users to browse a mixture of videos and text messages featuring people’s public journals and their responses to daily prompts. Users can share comments on these articles to share similar experiences or offer support and advice.

“The greatest functionality that makes us different is the community side,” said Waldner. “The chief of space and calm have proven that there is this audio market, but people always feel very alone in these experiences and in real life, people meditate, then they marry, but it is a solo experience. And what we have done is to have a social experience. So, instead of having all your thoughts and feelings at home and put them under your bed at night, you share it with the world, and people comment. ”

EXIT also offers a question of question fueled by AI which encourages users to develop their magazines and to explore their thoughts and feelings more. Waldner says that functionality is intended to help people go to the bottom of their problems and allow them to think more deeply about something.

The aspects of community and social journalization of existence are free. If users wish to access audios and guided meditations, they must register for the monthly subscription of $ 5.99 of the application.

Regarding the future, the startup wants to continue to look at the aspect of the human connection of existence and to seek a means of improving it. Existing also wants to add additional features concerning the logging of your sleep habits and your emotions, as well as more personalized prompts for newspapers.