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How to Get Relief on Your First Visit

Who this is for: Anyone opening the app for the first time — especially mid-panic, when every extra step is one too many.

Priya found the app the night before a client presentation, mid-spike, on her phone. She had never visited before, had no account, and wasn't in the mood to "create a profile." She didn't have to. The app's core promise is that you are breathing before it ever asks you anything about yourself.

Steps​

  1. Open the app in your browser. No install, no store, no account prompt. A fresh browser with no cookies or cache works exactly the same as any other.

  2. Move through the two onboarding screens. Each screen has one primary action. The first introduces the app; the second is the safety notice (see the next guide). Both are readable in under 15 seconds total. There is no account step anywhere in onboarding.

  3. Land on Home. You'll see the hero line — "You can get through this minute." — and three large relief cards: Breathing, Grounding, and Anchoring.

  4. Tap the Breathing card. The flow is active within two taps and a few seconds of Home loading. A protocol picker appears; pick box breathing, or accept the "just breathe" default and let the pacer set your rhythm.

  5. Follow the pacer. The visual pacer breathes with you, with phase text telling you what to do. Emergency guidance is visible without covering the content.

Expected Outcome​

You are inside a guided breathing flow having never been asked for an account. Your acknowledgment of the safety notice is stored in your browser, and nothing about you is written to a server — relief is completely local to your device.

Notes​

  • This works offline too. Onboarding and the relief flows are pure client-side. If your connection drops mid-onboarding, nothing interrupts you — the breathing flow starts normally with zero network calls.
  • You'll skip all of this next time. Once you've acknowledged the safety notice, future visits open straight to Home. See returning for a second visit.
  • No account needed, ever, for relief. Relief flows, the technique library, and the education page are all fully usable signed out.

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