After the reveal, Open Heart suggests four conversation starters built from what you and your partner actually wrote. Generic prompts are filtered out. The AI never sees anything until you both choose to reveal.

The AI layer is optional and grounded. It only sees content you've already chosen to share, and only after the reveal opens.

What the AI does

4 conversation starters on the reveal screen, built from both of your entries
Coaching response under each entry (optional)
Weekly insight — 2-3 sentences on patterns from the week
Monthly reflection — 3-4 sentences on the past month's emotional arc
Partner weekly summary — 2-4 sentences on what your partner's week looked like emotionally

What the AI doesn't do

It doesn't read your entries before the reveal.
It doesn't make things up. Every starter, response, and summary points to something you actually wrote.
It doesn't reach out to you. There are no AI-generated push notifications.
It doesn't keep the entry content after the response is written.

How starters get generated

When you and your partner reveal:

Both weeks of entries are unlocked on your phone.
A short summary of the entries is built locally.
That summary plus your partner's name, attachment style, and love language goes to the AI.
The AI returns four questions, each pointing to a specific moment from your partner's week.
Generic openers ("how was your week," "what are you thinking") are removed.
The questions show up on the reveal screen.

The AI sees the entry content for the time it takes to write the response. We don't keep a log of these conversations.

Why the AI is opt-in

Two reasons:

Some weeks don't need it. A simple, honest reveal is sometimes enough. The AI is a sharpener, not a requirement.
You should be able to write without anyone reading it — even an AI. Solo journaling and shared entries with no AI is a valid way to use the app.

You can turn AI features off in Settings → AI features. The app falls back to a smaller set of pre-written prompts in that case.

Privacy

The AI request is made from your phone, not from our servers.
The request doesn't include any identifying details beyond your first name (which is already in your profile).
The AI provider doesn't keep your content after the response is sent.

We don't lead with the AI

Open Heart isn't an AI app dressed up as a couples tool. The reveal is the value. The AI is a layer on top that helps you find words for what's already there.

Industry research from 2026 shows AI-led couples apps make more money up front but lose users twice as fast as non-AI ones. We chose to lead with the structure and let the AI quietly assist.

AI conversation starters