About
Why this exists
Nobody decides to drink at the bar. It gets decided about an hour earlier — on a Thursday, on the way home, without really deciding anything at all. By the time an app could helpfully say something, the moment it was meant to help with has already gone.
Almost every drink tracker is built for after. You pour one, you open an app, you tap. It counts. At the end of the month it shows you a chart of something you already knew and could not change.
Clearhead is built for the twenty minutes before. It learns which evenings are yours — first from what you tell it, then from what you actually log — and sends one message ahead of the next one. Not an alert. A message, in a voice you picked, that reads like it came from someone who was paying attention.
What it will not do
It will not tell you to quit. Plenty of people who want to drink less have no intention of stopping, and an app that treats that as failure gets deleted in a fortnight.
It will not shame you. A heavy night is information, not a verdict. Your best run does not reset because of it, and neither does your total — the number of clear mornings you have had is a fact, and it stays a fact.
It will not send you more than one message a day, and it will never use one to sell you anything.
Where your data lives
On your phone. Every drink, every pattern, every reason behind a nudge sits in a database on your device. There is no account and no email needed to use the app. When the server sends you a message, the only thing it has ever been given is the words and the minute — the arithmetic ran on your phone. The privacy page spells this out properly.
Who is building it
Clearhead is made by Shumba Tech, a one-person studio. It is the same care that went into Clarity, pointed at a harder problem.
If you want to say something — a feature, a complaint, a story — hello@useclearhead.com reaches me directly.
One honest caveat
Clearhead is a self-tracking tool, not medical care. Alcohol withdrawal can be genuinely dangerous, and if you think you may be dependent, please talk to a doctor before making changes. The app carries a list of real support services and will always point you toward them rather than away.