Say the hard thing so it lands.

Iskra is a translator for couples - it reshapes your words through how your partner best receives them: their style, their pace, the language their heart grew up in.

Iskra is the space where two people keep turning toward each other - a home for the relationship.

Become a founding couple
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First 50 founding couples: £79 a year, your rate held while you stay · 7 days free to begin · works on any phone, no install

Iskra home screen - daily check-in and relationship weather
Why Iskra is different

Two layers of translation.

Most fights aren't about what was said - they're about how it landed. Iskra translates on the two layers that decide it.

The product

How you each relate

One of you needs to talk it out now; the other needs space to arrive. Iskra knows both profiles and reshapes your message so it reaches an anxious heart - or an avoidant one - without losing your truth.

The magic

The language of the heart

For couples with two mother tongues, repair lands deepest in the language you grew up feeling in. Iskra can shape the same message for the head - and let the tender line arrive in your partner's soul language.

Two ribbons of light intertwining
Phrasing A · shaped for James
“James, I'm not trying to corner you - I miss you. Could we take twenty minutes tonight, phones away, just us?”
Why this might land: opens with reassurance before the ask - he hears the wish underneath, not a charge.
1

You draft

Type or dictate the messy version - what happened, what you feel, what you need. Gentle NVC scaffolding helps you find it.

2

Iskra reshapes

Three phrasings, each shaped to your partner's profile - with a note on why each might land. Your words, their frequency.

3

It lands

Pick the one that feels true and send it. What used to start a fight starts a conversation.

The translator is how you arrive. The home is why you stay.

Staged example - fictional names, no real messages.
Answer together

Nothing shows until you both reveal.

You each answer privately - then the answers turn over at the same moment, like two cards on a table. Some things are easier to say when you know they'll land together.

Green · amber · red

Red doesn't mean go away.

It means hold me gently tonight. Each of you sets a colour for how much you have - and only if you choose to, your partner sees it. The one who wants to talk stops guessing; the one who needs quiet stops bracing. The whole app softens to meet whoever has the least today.

A signal you choose to share - never a state the app reads or reports.

Staged example - fictional names, no real messages.
A space for the two of you

More than words.

Iskra lives quietly in the background - tools you reach for when you want them. No streaks, no badges, no guilt. Ever.

Understand · Connect · Repair · Private

Help me say this

The translator - for tender things, frustrated things, things you've rewritten five times.

Decode what they said

A message stung? Iskra reads it through your partner's profile and shows the need hiding under the words.

Daily check-ins

Three quiet questions, morning and evening. Answer privately, share what you choose. Skip freely.

Relationship weather

Closeness, heat, repair - today's weather between you. Not a score, a glance.

Conversation cards

Nine moods from curious to spicy - or let Iskra write one fresh, just for the two of you.

Plans & keepsakes

Date wishlists, surprise mode, tiny moments noticed - the texture of a relationship in small notes.

Feelings vocabulary

Name what's actually there - including words one language has and the other doesn't. Тоска. Обида. Longing.

A quote each opening

Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Rumi - and Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Pushkin in the original, with translation.

Grow closer - deepening decks
Grow closer
Daily check-in
Today's check-in
Together hub - cards, plans, pass the phone
Together
Conversation cards by mood
Cards by mood
For the hard moments

Hard conversations, kept safe.

Most couples never learn how to stay inside a hard conversation without harm. Iskra gives you the container most of us were never taught.

  • Find the words - when you can't name what you feel, start from taps, not typing.
  • Repair & reconnect - after a rupture, a gentle path back - apology, understanding, re-connection.
  • 5-5-5 timer - a timed container for one stuck topic: five minutes each, five to land it together.
  • Four-horsemen flags - criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling - gently flagged in your drafts, with kinder reframes.
  • Crisis-aware - if words turn to real crisis, Iskra steps back and points to real human help.
Iskra home in dark mode
In a hard moment - five quiet tools
Two hands reaching toward each other, a golden thread between them
Yours alone

Built private, on purpose.

What lives between two people should stay between them. Everything is encrypted on your device, and your password never leaves it.

  • End-to-end encryptedYour couple's data is encrypted with keys only your two phones hold.
  • Private, recoverable accountsYour encrypted backup opens with your password or your recovery code. Email reset uses a recovery key we hold, so a forgotten password never costs you your history.
  • Raw stays privateIn asymmetric flows your partner sees only shaped guidance - never your raw answers.
  • No demand by designNo streaks, no push-guilt, no gamified pressure. The app waits for you.
  • No ads, no data salesYou are the customer, not the product.
For couples across languages

26 languages. Two hearts.

The interface speaks twenty-six languages; the translator works with any pair a couple brings. Because "I'm sorry", «прости меня», «lo siento» and «ごめんね» don't land in the same place.

Early voices

Built inside a real relationship.

Iskra wasn't invented in a boardroom. It's been in daily use by its founding couple - bilingual, two attachment styles, the works - and tested by early couples like them.

A couple walking close together under warm evening light
“I typed the angry version. What arrived made her put the kettle on instead of shutting the door.”
EN/RU couple, together 4 years
“Hearing him try in my language - even two words - undid a knot I'd carried for months.”
Bilingual couple, married 3 years
“This is fit for market. I'd pay for the translator alone.”
Early tester, engineer, Slavic-bilingual relationship

Composite voices from our design research and founding-couple use, shared to illustrate the experience - verbatim, attributed quotes will come from our founding couples.

Evidence, not vibes

We're measuring it properly.

Relationship apps love big claims. We'd rather earn ours. Iskra runs a structured 8-week study with founding couples who choose to take part, using validated instruments - the Couple Satisfaction Index, attachment short-form measures, weekly felt-understanding pulses - pre-registered before we peek at the data.

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The study is opt-in and never a condition of access or price. Couples who take part get a personal end-of-study reflection - how your relationship grew - and help shape what Iskra becomes. Bilingual couples especially welcome.

What we'll report - once the data is in

Measuring now

Felt understanding: the share of couples who feel more understood by their partner after 4 weeks.

Measuring now

Relationship satisfaction: average 8-week change on the Couple Satisfaction Index (CSI).

Measuring now

The bilingual effect: whether repair messages land deeper in a partner's first language.

Measuring now

Would they recommend it: end-of-study NPS from every completing couple, reported in full.

We won't quote numbers until there are enough couples behind them to be meaningful, with data strong enough to trust - and all of it comes only from couples who choose to take part.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is Iskra therapy?

No. Iskra is a wellness tool for everyday relating - a structure for saying things well and staying connected. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or replace professional help, and if it detects a real crisis it steps back and signposts human support.

Can you read what we write?

No. Couple data is end-to-end encrypted with keys your devices hold, and your password never leaves your device. Your backup opens with your password or your recovery code; if you use email reset, a recovery key we hold unseals your backup to let you back in - that is the one exception, and it exists so a forgotten password never costs you your shared history. AI requests are processed transiently and never used to train models.

Do both partners need the app?

You can start alone - the translator, decoder and check-ins work solo. Linking your partner unlocks the two-phone experiences: shared sessions, sending shaped messages, relationship weather from both sides.

When do the iOS and Android apps arrive?

The store apps are in preparation now. Meanwhile founding couples use the web app on any phone - add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app.

What does founding membership mean?

The first 50 couples to subscribe become Iskra's founding couples: £79 a year instead of £99 - your founding rate, held for as long as your subscription stays active - plus first access to what we build next. (If the subscription lapses, rejoining is at the current price.) The research study is separate and entirely opt-in; membership never depends on it.

What does it cost?

£14.99 a month, or £99 a year. One subscription covers both of you - a gift to your relationship, not two bills. Every plan begins with 7 days free, and the first 50 founding couples keep £79 a year for as long as their subscription stays active. Outside the UK, checkout shows your local currency.

We only speak one language - is it still for us?

Absolutely. The heart of Iskra is translating between two ways of relating - the bilingual layer is a beautiful extra for couples who have it.

A couple on a sofa, a thread of light between their phones
Two teacups, their steam intertwining

Start where you are.

One hard thing, said well, changes the evening. Sometimes the year.

Just two people who love each other.

Become a founding couple

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