Third post in the how-it-works series (see privacy and Relationships if you missed them). This one’s about the tab that isn’t about anyone you’re texting. It’s about you.
Two tabs, sixteen sections
Profile is split into Who You Are and How You’ve Been, eight sections each.
Who You Are is the stable stuff — your patterns as a communicator, more or less independent of any single week:
- Archetype — a name, a tagline, and a “receipt” — an actual line pulled from your messages that backs it up.
- Messaging Type — a four-letter code, if you’re into that kind of thing (think MBTI, but built from how you actually text instead of a quiz you filled out about yourself).
- Communication Style — six fixed axes: Warm ↔ Reserved, Initiator ↔ Responder, Deep ↔ Surface, Fast ↔ Slow, Asks ↔ Tells, Repairs ↔ Withdraws. You land somewhere on each one, based on your actual messages.
- Relationship DNA — the deeper pattern underneath how you connect with people.
- Linguistic Fingerprint — how you actually write: word choice, rhythm, the stuff you don’t notice about your own texting voice.
- Focus Balance — how much of your energy in a conversation is about you versus about them.
- Relationship Patterns — the shape that tends to repeat across the people you talk to.
- Social Circle Shape — how many people you’re actually close to right now versus how many are fading, read straight from your import history.
How You’ve Been is the part that moves — more about this specific stretch of time:
- Current Period — a headline read on where you are right now.
- Growth Area — one honest, specific thing worth working on.
- Daily Rhythm — when you actually text, hour by hour.
- Time Selves — how you’ve been different across different periods.
- Trend Chart — the shape of your activity over time.
- Superlatives — your extremes: most, least, longest, fastest.
- Highlight Cards — specific standout moments.
- Time Capsule — something worth remembering later.
How it’s actually built
This is the part I think is genuinely different from the other two features: Profile isn’t reading one relationship, it’s reading all of them. Every conversation you’ve fully imported feeds into the same aggregate — so your archetype, your axes, your patterns, all of it is drawn from your texting behavior across everyone, not just whoever you happened to import first. Add another chat later, and Profile recomputes with the bigger picture.
It’s also not a quiz. Nothing here is self-reported. It’s entirely built from patterns in messages you actually sent.
The honest free/paid situation
Here’s the one that surprised even me writing this: Profile is just free. Not “free with limits,” not “free until you hit a wall.” Relationships and Tea are where the paid packages live in this app — Profile isn’t gated behind either of them. The reasoning is pretty simple: this is the part of the app that’s about you, the part people actually want to screenshot and talk about, and I’d rather it spread than sit behind a paywall.
Quick questions, straight answers
Is Profile built from one chat, or all of them?
All of them. It’s an aggregate across every conversation you’ve fully imported, not a single relationship — that’s what makes it about you, not about any one person.
Is Profile really free, or is there a catch?
It’s genuinely free. No package, no quota, no locked sections. Relationships and Tea are where the paid packages live — Profile isn’t.
Do I need to answer a quiz to get my archetype?
No. It’s not a personality quiz you fill out — it’s built from patterns in messages you’ve actually sent, not answers you chose about yourself.
What if I’ve only imported one small chat?
Profile still generates, but with less to work with. It gets sharper and more specific the more conversations you add — that’s genuinely by design, not a limitation being hidden from you.
Does the Profile ever change?
Yes. It recomputes over your cumulative message history, so importing a new conversation, or more history in an existing one, can shift your archetype, your axes, or your patterns over time.
Why I built it this way
Relationships tells you about someone else. Profile turns the same honesty back on you — and I think that’s actually the harder, more useful thing to see clearly. It’s easy to have opinions about how someone else is texting you. It’s much rarer to see your own pattern laid out from the outside, in your own words, with nothing riding on making you feel a particular way about it.
Next up: Tea, the yearly wrap-up. For now, go see your own type.