For veterans living with combat-related PTSD
A quiet place
to be again.
HearO uses gradual, consent-based sound exposure. Ambient soundscapes layered with sounds you've chosen to encounter, guided by a calm voice and watched over by your Apple Watch pulse. When your body starts to spike, the app responds: voice softens, breathing slows, intensity drops. No popups. No alarms. The app does the work you shouldn't have to.
How a session works.
Choose your scene
Pick a place: a beach at dusk, a forest park, a quiet road, a cafe in the morning. And which sounds you're ready to hear. Motorcycle, helicopter, fireworks, siren. You decide. Nothing arrives you haven't consented to.
A voice stays with you
Headphones on. The ambient soundscape plays. A quiet voice narrates the scene in soft, second-person prose. About a minute in, the sound you chose enters the mix. No countdown. No drama. The voice stays with you the whole time.
Two layers of control, both make things softer
You can drag an always-visible slider to lower the sound at any moment. Independently, the app watches your pulse. If your body crosses a threshold, the voice softens, the breathing circle slows, the trigger sound auto-attenuates. Both control layers only make things softer. Never louder. You always remain in control.
One tap to ERAN
Every screen carries a small i in the corner. Tapping it pauses the session and surfaces a quiet sheet that calls ERAN 1201, Israel's free, 24/7, anonymous emotional first-aid line, directly. Crisis taps are never logged.
What this is, and what it is not.
It is
A between-sessions companion, or a self-directed tool for people not currently in clinical care, designed to lower the daily cost of trigger exposure in safe doses.
It is not
A replacement for clinical therapy. Not approved by any medical regulator. Not for acute crisis. The crisis sheet exists for that. Not diagnostic.