'This app became my best friend': Mourning is human. New grief apps want to 'optimise' it for you
BBC'This app became my best friend': Mourning is human. Then she came across an Instagram post from the grief app Untangle, which offers "personalised bereavement support" through virtual support groups and moderated forums, boosted with built-in AI features. In soothingly serifed fonts and tasteful colour palettes that are muted but never sombre, Untangle and a number of other new "grief apps", including DayNew and Empathy, seek to remake mourning for the modern era. Getty Images Grief apps don't claim to provide therapeutic support, but some employ techniques backed by clinical research Beyond those concerns, 90% of digital health startups fail within the first five years of operation. When it comes to grief apps, "I would never use this," he says.
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