Serena: AI Emotional Support
What is Serena?
Serena is a virtual companion for emotional support and self-reflection.
Serena is a generative virtual companion for emotional support, journaling, and working through emotions. Its training is based on person-centered therapy sessions, and it is not intended to diagnose or treat mental illness or medical conditions.
Pricing. Serena is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.
Good for
- Short-form journaling
- Reflecting on emotions between therapy sessions
- Exploring what may be bothering you
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Why this app is in F tier
F tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Serena scores 50 out of 100: rating 63, rating count 50, App Store search rank 39, update recency 47. The four parts are averaged and F tier follows from that score within this list.
Description
Built on cutting edge Natural Language Processing and trained on thousands of hours of real therapy sessions, Serena is a virtual companion for emotional support. With Serena, you will always have a safe space to engage in open ended self reflection - whenever or wherever you might need it.
Our users have used Serena as a
Complement to mental health therapy
Short form journaling
Companionship app
Tool for working through emotions
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Serena’s fully generative architecture avoids canned responses and allows you to truly explore what you feel and why. Extensively tested by our clinical advisor - a licensed psychotherapist - Serena is optimized to avoid harmful responses and to demonstrate emotional intelligence.
We designed Serena to help you work through your issues, not to judge you. Her training data is based on hundreds of actual person centered therapy (PCT) sessions. Also known as Rogerian therapy, PCT therapy is an open-ended, empathetic and non-judgmental approach to counseling that focuses on helping the subject uncover the root causes of what is bothering them.
Serena is not intended to diagnose or treat mental illness or any medical condition. If you are experiencing acute symptoms or suicidal thoughts, please call the emergency services in your location.
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Questions about Serena
Is Serena intended to diagnose or treat mental illness?
No. The listing says Serena is not intended to diagnose or treat mental illness or any medical condition.
What approach is Serena based on?
Its training data is based on person-centered therapy sessions, described as open-ended, empathetic, and non-judgmental.
Does Serena cost anything?
The app is free.
Is Serena free?
Serena is free to download, with in-app purchases.
Is Serena right for me?
Serena is built for short-form journaling, reflecting on emotions between therapy sessions, exploring what may be bothering you. It sits in the self reflection list on AppTierList.
Is Serena worth it?
Serena is F tier, ranked #19 of 23 self reflection apps with a score of 50 out of 100, from a 3.9 App Store rating across 11 ratings. 18 apps rank above it in the same list.
How does Serena compare to Perspective, a mindful journal?
Serena is F tier at 50; Perspective, a mindful journal is D tier at 54. Perspective, a mindful journal ranks higher. Serena is free to download, with in-app purchases, Perspective, a mindful journal is free to download, with in-app purchases.
How often is Serena updated?
Serena was last updated over a year ago, on 2025-10-20, which holds its tier down.
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All the facts
Ranking
- Lists
- Self Reflection (F tier, #19) · AI Therapists (#51, beyond the tiered top) · Therapy (#63, beyond the tiered top)
- Tier
- F (Avoid)
- Score
- 50 / 100
- Rank in list
- #19 of 24
- Ranking certainty
- settled
Ratings
- App Store rating
- 3.9 out of 5, every App Store country
- Ratings
- 11
App
- Price
- Free + IAP
- App Store category
- Health & Fitness
- Current version
- (390 days ago)
- Size
- 53 MB
- Requires
- iOS 14.0 or later
- Age rating
- 17+
- Languages
- 1
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad
Links
- Developer pages
- Support · Privacy policy
- Maker
- not verified
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
App Store data read · ranking