Our mission
Built for people who want to feel closer
We believe emotional connection is the foundation of every meaningful relationship. BeSeen helps partners share their inner worlds through presence, not surveillance or tracking. BeSeen is made for couples, and it exists because feeling seen by your partner shouldn't require a conversation every time. Sometimes a gentle signal is enough.
What is BeSeen?
BeSeen is a privacy-first mood journal designed for iOS. It helps you track your emotional wellbeing through quick, expressive check-ins without sacrificing privacy or creating pressure.
Every check-in captures your mood across five levels (from Heavy to Great) along with emotion tags, context about what you're doing and who you're with, freeform journal notes, photos, and even voice memos with waveform playback. A daily progress ring fills with mood-colored segments as you reflect throughout the day.
Made for Couples
BeSeen is built for couples: two people in a relationship who want to understand how the other is feeling, whether you live together or far apart. You connect with one partner at a time.
Designed for Two
BeSeen's partner features let you and someone you care about share emotional presence without oversharing. Partner features need an account. Link with your partner using a unique invite code, then choose one of three sharing levels per check-in, from a simple mood indicator to full context including notes and photos.
See your partner's latest mood in real-time on a dedicated partner card. Send a gentle Buzz, a haptic nudge that says "I'm thinking of you" without words. Exchange Replies to each other's check-ins, or leave a love note that lands on their home screen. Auto-share keeps your partner updated without any extra effort.
Insights That Matter
BeSeen automatically generates weekly insight cards showing your mood trends, dominant feelings, and whether things are improving, stable, or declining. Track consecutive-day streaks and celebrate milestones together. A mood calendar gives you a color-coded month-at-a-glance, while detailed stats reveal patterns by time of day, your most frequent feelings, and the contexts that shape your emotional landscape.
Privacy by Design
Your journal lives on your device in a local SQLite database, and there are no mandatory accounts. Entries are shared only when you choose to connect with a partner, and even then, you control exactly what gets shared. Usage analytics, such as mood level but never your notes, can be turned off in Settings.
You can export your data at any time. When you delete your account, everything is wiped: local database, files, server profile, and all partnership data. No traces left behind.
Who We Are
BeSeen is made by a small team at MBOA, Inc., focused on building thoughtful digital tools for emotional wellbeing. We believe technology should support human connection, not replace it. BeSeen is our first product, built on the belief that the people closest to you deserve better tools for understanding each other.
Our team
A small, passionate team building tools for emotional connection.
We're a small team of designers and engineers who care deeply about emotional wellbeing and thoughtful software. We believe the best tools feel invisible. They support your life without getting in the way.
Who writes for BeSeen
Every post on the BeSeen blog is written by the BeSeen team at MBOA, Inc., the company that makes the app.
How we research
We link the source next to each claim about how people or relationships work, and we prefer peer-reviewed research and the published work of licensed therapists and relationship researchers. Our posts are general information, not therapy, and they are not reviewed by a clinician. We make BeSeen and mention it in our posts, including roundups of other apps. Our editorial policy explains how we source, how we check facts about other apps, and how we handle that conflict of interest.
Report a mistake
If something in a post is wrong or out of date, email help@beseen.love with the link and what you found. We check every report, fix the post if we got it wrong, and update the date shown under its title.
The company
MBOA, Inc. is a Delaware corporation. You can reach us at help@beseen.love or by mail:
MBOA, Inc.131 Continental Dr, Suite 305
Newark, DE 19713, United States
BeSeen: Couple Mood Journal is an iPhone app made by MBOA, Inc. and launched in 2026. It's on the App Store and listed on Product Hunt and AlternativeTo, where you can compare it with other couples apps.