Headspace Ebb
A companion in the Headspace app that helps you reflect on how you feel and suggests matching meditations.
By Headspace · launched 2024-10-10 · last checked 2026-11-02
Why 1: it reflects with you and recommends meditations and content from the Headspace library, and you choose what to do; it takes no other actions.
What it does. Ebb is a conversational companion trained in motivational interviewing. It helps members reflect on their thoughts and emotions and then recommends meditation, mindfulness and wellbeing content. Headspace added voice in December 2025 and says it plans longer-term memory.
Where it falls short. Headspace calls Ebb a 'sub-clinical support tool': it is not for clinical use and gives no mental health advice or diagnoses, and the company says AI is not a replacement for human-based care. Ebb watches for language about suicidal ideation, self-harm, abuse, eating disorders and substance abuse and then shows emergency and local resources. It is not a substitute for crisis support. We found no regulator clearance for Ebb as a medical device.
What it can do
Incidents
- None logged.
Closest fiction
Her — A voice that listens and points you somewhere kinder.
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History
- 2026-11-02 Added to the index. Mental-health entry: describes the maker's own framing; no clinical-device status found.
Sources
- Headspace Brings Empathetic AI Companion, Ebb, to UK Members Headspace, 2025-04-03
- Headspace launches AI companion Ebb MedCity News, 2024-10-10
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