We made Sereno free.
Here's why.
Mental wellness apps in India charge ₹3,000–5,000 a year just to access basic tools. Breathing exercises. Mood tracking. Journals. Things that should never have had a paywall in front of them.
So we removed ours.
Yours forever. ₹0. No card.
Everything below is free with no trial period, no expiry date, no credit card.
- ✓Full Studio — Discover, Play, Listen, Breathe, Learn
- ✓Orbit — mood tracking, streaks, journaling
- ✓All 12+ Vibe characters
- ✓All games, all guided audio, all sessions
- ✓10 Buddy AI messages every day
- ✓Unlimited journal entries
- ✓Forever. No card. No trial. No expiry.
₹299/month if you want to go deeper.
- ✓Unlimited Buddy chat — text + voice
- ✓Orbit Intelligence — weekly emotional pattern reports
- ✓Predictive check-ins — Buddy reaches out when you usually need it
- ✓AI Journal Insights — gentle pattern surfacing from your entries
- ✓Personalized daily flow — built around your current Vibe
- ✓Sereno Live — 4+ live sessions a month with coaches & the founder
- ✓Priority access to every new feature
- ✓Ad-free, forever — written into our terms
Where every ₹299 actually goes.
We think you deserve to know.
Per Elite user/month, average
43.5%
Cloudflare + Supabase
13.4%
STT + TTS
8.4%
Resend + Brevo
5.0%
Razorpay processing
4.0%
Hosting + ops
2.7%
How Sereno keeps getting better
23.1%
Numbers are approximate, averaged across all Elite users. We update this page every quarter.
Why does AI cost ₹130? A long Buddy conversation can use 5,000–10,000 tokens. Multiply by daily heavy users and AI rates (~$3 per million input tokens, ~$15 per million output), and the math lands here. We'd rather show you the math than hide it behind "premium AI."
Why publish this at all? Because we couldn't find a single wellness app in India that treated users like adults. So we built one.
What we promise. Out loud.
No ads. Ever.
Not banner. Not native. Not "sponsored content." Your mental space stays your own.
Your data is yours.
Journals are encrypted. We don't sell, share, or train ads on what you tell Sereno.
No streak guilt.
Miss a day. Miss a week. Sereno doesn't shame you back. We'll be here when you return.
Cancel in 2 taps.
No retention popups. No "are you sure" loops. No friction.
Vamo
Solo founder, Sereno With You
Eighteen months ago I started building Sereno because I couldn't find an honest wellness app.
I scrapped a ₹999 tier. I deleted "complimentary therapy sessions." I almost called us an NGO and talked myself out of it.
Here's where I landed: Studio. Orbit. Journals. All 12+ Vibe characters. Every breathing tool. Every guided audio. Every game. 10 Buddy AI messages a day.
All of it. Free. Forever.
₹299/month if you want unlimited AI companion, voice mode, weekly pattern reports, and live sessions with coaches. That's it. Two tiers. No tricks.
The harder part — and the part I almost flinched on — is publishing exactly where the ₹299 goes. AI inference. Servers. Voice. Email. The whole breakdown lives on this page.
Why? Because every wellness app I've tried in India treats users like wallets. Free trial → autocharge → "we hope you don't notice." I built Sereno because I needed something that didn't do that to me.
I work full-time. I'm a solo founder. I don't have a marketing budget that can outshout Calm. The only thing I have is the truth — that mental wellness shouldn't be a luxury, that AI costs real money, and that the gap between those two things is exactly what an honest tier should be.
So that's the bet.
Free where it matters. Paid where it costs us. Never ads.
— Vamo
Solo founder, Sereno With You
Questions
Is the free tier really free forever?
Yes. Studio, Orbit, journaling, all Vibe characters, all guided audio, 10 Buddy messages a day — free with no card, no trial, no expiry. We mean it.
Why charge for Buddy at all?
Because every Buddy message costs us real money in AI inference. The free tier covers gentle daily check-ins. Elite covers the long, deep conversations.
What is Sereno Live?
4+ live online sessions every month — guided breathwork, journaling circles, themed workshops with mental wellness coaches, and monthly AMAs with our founder. All hosted in your Vibe — Shadow Hours for late-night anxiety, Ocean Mode for clarity work, Strawberry Sundays for self-compassion. Replays live in your Elite library forever.
What happens if I cancel?
You drop back to Sereno Core. You keep every journal entry, every mood log, every saved track. Nothing gets locked. Nothing gets deleted. Come back any time.
Will you ever run ads?
No. It's written into our terms of service. If we ever break that promise, you'll have legal grounds to sue us. We mean it that hard.
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Your calm shouldn't be on a payment plan.
The Vibe characters are waiting. So is the rest of you.
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