CareOps 마음이 (Maeumi), from Korean developer SafeOps, has grown past the voice-journal app we first listed: it now offers AI conversations by text or voice in Korean and English, structured around recognised counselling methods — CBT thought records, behavioural experiments, ACT- and motivational-interviewing-based exercises — with self-assessments and a history of your earlier sessions and practice records. A separate, optional paid plan adds feedback from a professional counsellor where available.
That last tier is the design choice worth noticing. Most “AI wellbeing” apps stop at the chatbot; wiring an actual human professional into the loop is both the more honest architecture and the harder business to run.
What it costs
The first AI session is free (sign-up, intake and initial self-assessments included); further AI sessions are paid, and the counsellor-feedback plan is a separate paid subscription — current prices on their site.
What we can’t tell you
Where the AI ends and care begins. The app presents itself as an AI counselling programme built on verified techniques, and CBT exercises are genuinely well-suited to software — but an AI session is not a clinician, and the gap matters most for exactly the people most likely to download. The counsellor plan is the trust anchor: check who the professionals are and what “where available” means for your region. And as with anything you confide in: read the privacy policy before you say what you wouldn’t want retained.
The details
| What it is | Korean/English AI counselling by text or voice: CBT/ACT exercises, self-assessments, session history |
| Price | First AI session free · paid AI plans · separate paid counsellor-feedback plan |
| Best for | Structured self-work between (or on the way to) the real thing |
| Think twice if | You need actual clinical care now — software is a bridge, not the destination |
