How it works
From a hard moment to a clear one.
Replay has one job: help two people see the patterns they cannot see from inside. Here is the complete walkthrough, flow by flow, exactly at the level the shipping app works. Every screenshot slot below will hold real app screens as Replay reaches the stores.
Tutorial 1
Capturing a moment
The whole ritual is one gesture. The best time to capture is within minutes of a moment, while what happened and what it felt like are still the same thing.
Press and hold
Open Replay and press and hold the capture button. That is the entire interface for this job; no forms, no tags, no blank page asking you to be a writer.
Say what just happened
Talk like you would to a trusted friend: what happened, what was said, what it felt like it meant. Thirty seconds is plenty. Unedited beats eloquent.
Let go
Release, and the moment is saved: encrypted with your keys, dated, and private to you. Your partner never sees or hears your raw captures.
Capture the good ones too
The moments worth keeping are not only the hard ones. The unprompted kindness, the joke that landed at the right time; patterns of closeness are patterns too, and they belong in your memory.
Tutorial 2
Seeing a pattern
Capture for a couple of weeks and Replay starts doing the thing no one inside a relationship can do: noticing what repeats across moments that felt unrelated.
Open your patterns
The patterns view shows the shapes Replay has noticed across your captures: how certain moments tend to start, what tends to feed them, where they tend to end.
Read the pattern, not a verdict
A pattern is described in neutral language, about the cycle, never a judgment of you or your partner. If it does not ring true, say so; you are the authority on your own relationship.
Check the receipts
Every pattern is grounded in your own captured moments, with real dates. The Receipts view shows you exactly which moments a pattern is built from, so nothing is asserted from thin air.
Watch it lose its costume
The first time you see that the Tuesday fight and the Saturday fight share a skeleton, the loop loses some of its power. Named patterns are visible ones, and visible ones are changeable.
Tutorial 3
After a conflict: the dual-narrative reconstruction
This is the part no other tool does. After a hard moment, you both get to tell your side, privately, and Replay finds the sequence between them.
Each of you records, privately
Separately, in your own time, each partner records their account of what happened. Neither of you sees or hears the other's recording. Ever.
Replay reconstructs the start
From both accounts, Replay reconstructs where the conflict actually began, which is often earlier and smaller than either of you remembers, and maps how it escalated.
You each see your own part
Each partner privately sees only their own side of the reconstruction: what you walked in carrying, where your reaction fed the loop. Your part, for your eyes.
One calm summary, shared
What you both see together is a single, calm summary of the cycle you were caught in. About the pattern, never about a person. No transcript, no verdict, no ammunition.
Tutorial 4
Repair
The hardest sentence in a relationship is the first one after a fight. Repair exists to make that sentence easier to find.
When you are ready, open Repair
After a conflict, Repair offers a place to start: not a script to recite, but a direction shaped by what actually happened, because a good first sentence is specific.
Choose what fits
Suggestions are options, not homework. Take one, adapt it, or ignore them all; the point is to lower the cost of reaching out, not to put words in your mouth.
Reconnect first, resolve second
Repair is about closing the distance, not settling the issue. The issue gets its own conversation later, when you are both calm. Two reconnected people negotiate better than two distant ones.
Tutorial 5
The weekly reflection
Once a week, Replay turns your captured moments into a short, honest look at the week you actually had, not the one memory kept.
Open your week
The reflection gathers your week's moments: the hard ones, the good ones, and what repeated. It takes a few minutes to read, on purpose.
Notice what fed you
The reflection surfaces closeness as deliberately as conflict: what went right this week, and what pattern of connection is worth protecting and feeding.
Bring it to your check-in
If you keep a weekly check-in with your partner, the reflection is the perfect input: accurate, calm, and already sorted into what mattered. If you do not keep one yet, our guide to the twenty-minute check-in is a good place to start.