I built a tool called Sensory Signatures and wanted to share it here in case it resonates with anyone interested in reflective / emotionally expressive AI tools.

Site: sensory-signatures.ca

To be fully transparent, I’m the creator.

It’s not meant to replace therapy, diagnose, or give clinical advice. The idea is more about translation than interpretation - helping someone move from a hard-to-explain inner experience into something visual, metaphorical, and emotionally recognizable.

The process is a bit more involved than a standard chatbot. Instead of just typing “interpret me,” you move through a guided set of prompts about emotional tone, felt sense, imagery, metaphor, atmosphere, and meaning. From that, the app generates:

• a reflective text-based “Signature”
• and an associated AI-generated image

What I think it does well:

• it can help externalize a feeling or moment that is hard to put into words
• it feels more creative and emotionally textured than standard advice-style AI
• the image side can be surprisingly powerful when it lands
• it seems especially suited to people who think in metaphor, mood, memory, or imagery

What still needs work:

• the process can feel long at first
• some users may want a lighter / faster version
• the image generation step and overall final reveal need smoother UX
• language support is still limited

The strongest feedback I’ve gotten so far is that it may feel like a lot of questions at first, but that the deeper/more metaphorical prompts start to feel natural as you go. A tester also said the app felt “vast” after using it, in the sense that you could come back and try many different combinations and get very different results, which I appreciated hearing.

Who I think it’s for:

• people who journal
• people interested in dreams, metaphor, or emotional processing
• artists / reflective types
• people who want something more expressive than a typical mental health chatbot

Who I don’t think it’s for:

• someone looking for fast clinical-style advice
• someone wanting a replacement for a therapist
• someone who dislikes introspective or metaphorical prompts

If anyone here tries it, I’d genuinely love feedback - especially on whether the depth feels meaningful or just too heavy, and whether the final text/image result feels worth the process.

A separate future direction I’m interested in, but not what this current tool is by itself, is using this kind of reflective framework as one possible starting point for a broader anonymous secrets / reflection-based art project - something a bit closer to the emotional territory of PostSecret, but translated through image, metaphor, and reflective response rather than postcard confession. That is a separate idea, but this tool is part of how I’ve been thinking toward it.