Clare vs Noa by Anshap

Clare is a conversational self-help service intended to support people through mental health concerns. Users can speak with Clare by phone or send WhatsApp messages, follow a weekly call schedule, or start a call when they choose. It offers reflection exercises and coping tools drawing on self-compassion, stress management, positive psychology, resilience, and meditation. The maker says psychologists curate the content and advisors oversee it. Clare is available on Android, iOS, and web; phone calls, WhatsApp, and SMS are listed access options. The maker also presents a clinical AI for clinic and practice admissions, including automated intake assessment that it says saves practitioners 60 minutes. Clare says it processes health information only with explicit consent, does not sell user data or use it to train its systems, and deletes data on request. It states that it is HIPAA and GDPR compliant. Clare does not provide or replace traditional psychotherapy and recommends professional help for persistent or strong anxiety symptoms. Its terms exclude people under 18 and certain acute or serious conditions.

Noa by Anshap is a mental-wellbeing assistant that uses AI to listen and provide support, built by psychologists and grounded in evidence-based approaches such as CBT. It can connect users with matched, credential-verified specialists; the first consultation is free. The maker says conversations are end-to-end encrypted and personal data is not sold, shared, or used for advertising. Psychologist-hosted Circles are one-hour, audio-only group sessions where participants can listen or type without using their real names. Live channels include WhatsApp, iOS, and Android, while Microsoft Teams is in pilot. For organisations, Noa supports configurable handoffs to EAP providers, internal counselling teams, and Anshap's specialist network, along with region-aware routing to iCALL, Vandrevala, and AASRA crisis hotlines. Live reporting includes a web leadership dashboard, PDF cohort reports, and CSV/API exports of aggregated cohort metrics. Exported reports are cohort-level and anonymised at source. Anshap describes an eight-week organisational pilot with no commitment, designed with the organisation.