Denver man creates social app to promote connection and mental wellness

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Pencivis a journaling tool and social app that encourages users to track their feelings and share them with close family and friends. Penciv co-founder Jinhyun Shin said a background in suicide prevention work led him to look for solutions to loneliness.

The Penciv app has two main tools. First, users log their feelings using a digital journal and a feelings wheel that creates a digital representation of their feelings. They can then see how the data changes week to week or month to month. “I think this really helps with the first step and helping people to track for themselves and see, there's a lot of sadness here, there’s a lot of anger here, a lot of confusion, different things that may be coming up in different spaces,” Allsman said.

“It’s more like a newsletter than it is social media because you're choosing everybody, they can't see who else can see it, and in that way it's very personal between the author and the recipient," Shin said.

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