Medical disclaimer
A companion, not a doctor.
This is a boundary POLARITY holds on principle.
POLARITY helps you notice changes in your own state over time. It is a self-observation tool, not a medical device or a healthcare service. The app does not diagnose, does not prescribe treatment, and does not replace a doctor, a therapist or any other qualified professional.
POLARITY does not treat
No scale, AI Reflection, trend or report in POLARITY is a diagnosis, a prediction or a treatment recommendation. The app does not determine whether you are in an episode, does not decide what to do about medication, and does not tell you when treatment should change.
If your state raises questions or worries you, it is better discussed with a professional who knows your situation as a whole.
What POLARITY does
POLARITY helps you keep a consistent history: mood, depressive thoughts, energy, anxiety, irritability, stress, sleep, medication, daily factors and anything else you choose to add.
The app then shows that data over time — through trends, AI Reflections and reports.
An AI Reflection knows only the data available inside POLARITY. It helps gather your entries into a clearer picture, but it does not turn them into a medical conclusion.
AI Reflection
An AI Reflection may notice that a measure went up, went down, or moved together with another one. That does not mean it knows the cause or the medical significance of those changes.
The reflection is generated locally with Apple Intelligence on a compatible device. Your entries are not sent to an external AI service.
Treat an AI Reflection as an observation over a limited set of data, not as a clinical assessment.
Stability
The Stability reading describes how much the selected measures changed over a given period.
It is a summary of your own entries — not a clinical assessment of your health, and not a prediction of an episode.
High or low stability diagnoses nothing on its own.
Medication
POLARITY can hold a list of medications and a history of the doses you marked.
The app does not decide whether a medication suits you, does not change a dose, and does not advise starting or stopping treatment.
Do not start, stop or change a medication on the basis of POLARITY data, a chart, an AI Reflection or a report alone. Those decisions belong in a conversation with a professional.
Reports
A PDF report helps you look at a whole period, or share your history with a professional. It is your entries, your trends and the available context gathered into one document — with no medical conclusion in it.
Whether to keep it, show it to someone, or neither, is yours to decide.
If you need urgent help
POLARITY is not an emergency service and does not watch over your safety in real time.
If there is immediate danger, a risk of harm to yourself or others, or you need urgent help, contact your local emergency or crisis service.
In the US you can call or text 988. In other countries, use your local emergency or crisis number.
Treatment decisions
Do not make treatment decisions on the basis of POLARITY alone.
A chart can show a change. An AI Reflection can describe a trend. A report can gather a history.
But deciding what that data means for your health and your treatment is for a qualified professional, with the whole situation in view.
This boundary is part of the product
POLARITY should help you see your own history more clearly, not become an authority over your state.
A tool can show a pattern. A professional can help you understand what it means.
A companion, not a doctor. Where your entries live and who can read them is set out in the Privacy Policy; the rest is in the Terms of Use.