Purpose: Your AI Mentor

Purpose is incredible and, dare I say, mind-blowingly good. It is an amazing tool to have in lieu of therapeutic sessions and in-between therapeutic sessions. It’s technically more of a coaching app than therapy, though I do find it therapeutic. I really enjoy the coaching angle that I receive from Purpose, as it helping me immensely. I’ve done therapy for many years, but having something that comes from a coaching angle has been an absolute game-changer for me. I enjoy how it gently pushes back and it doesn’t tell me what I want to hear, though the acknowledgment and compassion I receive from the responses are incredible as well. I only wish I were talking to a person in real life with this amount of knowledge. Mark Manson you’ve done a phenomenal job. I’m so grateful I tried this out and committed to it for the year. Well done. Thank you!! ps: There are a couple bugs that I hope get worked out. For instance, sometimes it will erase part of our conversation, or something I have just sent will suddenly disappear. I’ve noticed that more frequently lately and I hope this gets worked out. Still, even with that— I give this five stars! I am sincerely amazed and thank you for creating this app. It’s a huge help.

I started the trial because I like most of the intentions of the things Mark Manson tries. I didn’t have super high expectations but was initially very impressed. I didn’t think twice about paying for it because it appeared to be very promising. Unfortunately as I finished the assessment it was overly generalized and the recommendations didn’t take any of the conversation into account. The further I got into it the more I had to correct the AI over assumptions it was making. I read other reviews saying it was snarky and I wish that was my case. I know I am doing pretty well in life right now but it was hyper focused on things I had done for myself that were tiny and constantly bringing it up even though it had little bearing on the things I am actually working on. It felt saccharine and like it was using Madlibs to pop in responses with personalized information. I am embarrassed that I recommend this to others now. It seems great at first but quickly seems to fizzle out. I could deal with the bugs knowing it’s a new app but the meat of the app seems shallow and lacking beyond the original content. The assessment was so generalized it’s not much better than taking a quiz from a magazine. Short term fun but there’s nothing to keep me interacting for the year I paid for. Maybe I’ll try again in a few months and see if there is any improvement but past the initial week I don’t see much to do other than bad recommendations and hearing my thoughts in an echo chamber.