Afraid to go to sleep?
Rescript walks you through an established behavioural practice for recurring nightmares: take the one that keeps coming back, change it into a story you’d rather have, and rehearse the new version while you’re awake. Private by default. Nothing interpreted, ever.
Interpretation is not part of the practice. Neither is analysis, symbolism, or anything you’d find in a dream dictionary.
The whole loop is about ten minutes a day, and none of it happens at bedtime.
People don’t fear nightmares. They fear going to sleep because of what waits for them.
Most apps ask people to analyse their nightmares. We believe people deserve help changing them. Rescript never tells you what a nightmare means — it helps you practise changing it.
You write the rewrite.
That is the therapy.
So trust isn’t a section at the bottom of this page — it’s the product. Four commitments, and the reasoning behind each one.
Most apps in this category want to tell you how clever they are. We would rather tell you what we refuse to do, because in this category the refusals are the product.
The rewrite is yours. That is not a limitation — it is the mechanism.
Imagery Rehearsal Therapy works because the person changes their own nightmare and rehearses their own version. Something else writing it for you would not be a faster route to the same place; it would be a different thing that has never been shown to work. So you write it, on a blank page, in your own words.
IRT treats a recurring nightmare as a learned pattern rather than a message. You pick the one you want to work on, rewrite it any way you wish, and rehearse the new version while awake. It is the intervention with the strongest recommendation in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s 2018 position paper on nightmare disorder.
People rarely stop because they don’t believe it can help. They stop because doing it consistently is hard. That is the only problem this app is trying to solve.
Nightmares are among the most private things a person can record. Honesty depends on that being true, so it is the default rather than a setting.
If you came looking for any of these, we’d rather you knew now.
Logging, one active rewrite, and daily rehearsal are the therapy — and there is nothing to buy. No subscription, no upgrade, no locked features waiting for a card.
No ads, no data sales, and your entries are never used to train models. We looked hard at a paid tier and the honest version kept collapsing: the one feature worth charging for — more rewrites — would have sold people a worse practice, because this therapy works on one nightmare at a time.
iOS beta opens late 2026. One email when it’s ready.
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