Most hypnosis apps are a library of recordings. In Altum has no library.
Every session is composed while you listen — the induction, the descent, the change work, the return — assembled in the moment from an Ericksonian toolkit and spoken in a single voice. Open it twice and you will not hear the same session twice. That isn't shuffle. It's the difference between listening to a recording of a hypnotist and sitting with one.
WHY THAT MATTERS
A recording can't notice you. It can't hear the door close, or the road outside, or the moment your breathing changes — so it carries on describing a still meadow while your attention snaps back into the room. In Altum notices, names it, and folds it into what it says next. In hypnosis that move is called utilisation, and it is the one thing no recording can ever do.
It also means the app doesn't wear out. The same staircase every night is how a session stops working — you start predicting instead of descending. Here the arrival, the descent and the change work all rotate, and they shift with the time of day and how long it's been since you last came.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Five intents: fall asleep, settle anxiety, find focus, steady nerves, change a habit.
- Two lengths, measured rather than promised — Short is about twenty minutes, Full about twenty-nine.
- Three descents that rotate, so no staircase becomes furniture.
- Nested loops, indirect suggestion, pacing and leading, ratification — the real toolkit, applied as composition rules rather than as folders of audio.
- Backgrounds that are synthesised and locked to your breathing, not looped files: a drone, ocean, rain, a clock, or silence.
GROUND — NINETY SECONDS, ONE HAND
A count of ten that you advance yourself, one press per out-breath, for the moments when twenty minutes isn't available. It never tells you to relax. It's free, always, with no account — and it lives in Control Centre, on the Lock Screen, on the Action Button and in Siri, so it's one movement away from a locked phone.
WRITTEN, NOT GENERATED
Every line in In Altum was written by hand and heard aloud before it shipped. Nothing is produced by a language model at runtime, and none of it is stock narration. The composer assembles written material according to the rules of a method — which is a different thing from a machine writing you a script, and it sounds different.
PRIVACY, PROPERLY
No account. Nothing to sign up for. No analytics and no advertising identifiers. Sessions are composed on your device. If you switch the microphone on, the audio is processed on the device, never recorded, and never leaves your phone.
WHAT STAYS FREE
Falling asleep and settling anxiety, unlimited. Ground, every time. Nothing you already have stops working if you stop paying.
MEMBERSHIP
In Altum Plus unlocks every intent, every background, and sessions that use what happens in the room around you. Monthly, annual, or one payment for good. Prices are shown in your own currency before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; cancel any time in Settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation.
For relaxation and self-help. In Altum is not a substitute for medical or psychological care, and it does not diagnose or treat any condition. Don't use sessions while driving or doing anything else that needs your attention.