Groundd: Mindfulness Keyboard

When stress spikes mid-text, you shouldn't have to leave the conversation.

Most mental wellness apps ask you to switch screens, close your eyes, and abandon the thread. Groundd is a custom Android keyboard with sensory grounding tools built directly into your typing flow: breathing exercises, focus drills, mindful drawing, and fidgets right above your keys, in any app.

Built for high-stress moments, social anxiety, overthinking, sensory overwhelm, and restless hands. A digital pocket fidget crossed with a mindfulness keyboard. Pause, reset, return. Without ever losing your place.

━━ WHO IT'S FOR ━━
• Texting through anxiety, when your heart is racing but the conversation can't wait
• Social anxiety and phone avoidance: ground yourself before you reply
• ADHD and restless hands: fidget without switching apps
• Sensory processing needs: haptic textures that engage the body
• Anyone who overthinks before hitting send

━━ 4 WELLNESS TOOLS BUILT IN ━━
🎯 FOCUS: Signal Hunt
A 30-second sensory reset for racing thoughts. Hold both thumb pads, feel random haptic pulses layered over a low vibration track, and count every sharp signal. Eyes closed, conversation waiting. Designed to interrupt the overthinking loop before you hit send.

🫁 BREATHE: Guided Breathing Exercises
Follow an animated expanding and shrinking circle through five breathing techniques:
• Steady (4-4): simple, grounding
• Box (4-4-4-4): for anxiety and stress spikes
• Relax (4-7-8): deep nervous system reset
• Coherent (5-5): rhythmic calm
• Triangle (4-4-4): focused release

🎨 ZEN: Mindful Drawing Canvas
When words feel like too much, open the canvas above your keys:
• Draw: freeform glowing strokes with soft haptics
• Path: trace calming follow-the-dot shapes
• Stars: connect constellations of light

🖐 FIDGET: Sensory Tactile Strip
Bubble wrap, zipper, spinner, snapback, clickers, plasma arc, bow & arrow, and more. Channel restless or ADHD energy into satisfying kinetic input while you think through what to say.

━━ WHY GROUNDING BELONGS IN A KEYBOARD ━━
Stressful typing keeps your eyes on screen and your mind tangled in the draft. Groundd uses physical touch, haptics, and short guided breaks to anchor attention in the present while your conversation stays open. No app-switching. Just stress relief tools exactly where your fingers already are.
It is also a fully-fledged premium keyboard. We deliver the exact premium typing suite you expect from major competitors, engineered entirely for high-performance daily use. Keyboard features include:
• Swipe Typing • Voice to text • Predictive Autocorrect
• Custom Themes • Custom Haptics • Resizing • Key Sounds
• Embedded Clipboard • Emojis • Text Styling

Next-Gen Kinetic Haptics: Advanced, tactile haptic feedback modules that make typing physically responsive.

━━ SOLO BUILT & COMMUNITY DRIVEN ━━
Groundd is built independently by a single developer focused on transforming how we interact with our screens. We answer to real users, not corporate ad-networks or external data brokers. New sensory modules, aesthetic themes, and performance optimizations drop constantly based on direct feedback. Shape the future of your default layout by submitting your custom feature ideas in the review section.

━━ PRIVACY FIRST━━
100% Off-Grid. Unlike legacy corporate keyboards that use your data to target ads, Groundd executes everything locally on your device. No cloud dependencies, no background tracking, and absolutely zero data collection.

━━ DISCLAIMER ━━
Groundd is a general wellness tool for sensory stress relief, focus support, and short breaks during everyday typing. It is not a medical device and is not FDA-approved. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, including anxiety disorders, panic disorder, ADHD, autism, or sensory processing disorder. It is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health care. For clinical concerns, please consult a qualified healthcare provider.

Recent changes:
Release 2.2.0!
* Add idle animations for the birds fidget!
* Add optional Number row above qwerty keys. Configurable in app settings
* Refine keyboard resizing. Allow lower handle to drag and remove more spacing near bottom.
* Companion fidgets unique to each theme
* Uppercase accented alternates with shift/caps (É, Á, …)
* Faster, lower-allocation autocorrect dictionary build
* Fixes startup stalls / ANR risk on low-RAM devices
* Polish existing themes