Déjà Well

Victoria, British Columbia

Return to the wisdom living inside you.

A cycle-syncing app that tells you what today is for. One practice, one note on food, one question — matched to the day you are actually on.

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Free to start · iPhone & iPad

A woman mid-movement, photographed in black and white Brit Gill

Most cycle apps predict your period. Déjà tells you what the day in front of you is actually good for — one practice, one note on food, one question worth sitting with.

Built in Victoria by a health-education teacher who spent her twenties on hormonal acne and severe PMS, and got out of it through Traditional Chinese Medicine rather than another prescription.

See how the month is divided

The app, in five screens
Today screen of the Déjà Well app: the date, the moon and the day you are on. that is the whole home screen
01

Today

The date, the moon and the day you are on. That is the whole home screen.
Your phase screen of the Déjà Well app: day 8, follicular. the hormone graph, and one paragraph on what it means for the next few hours
02

Your phase

Day 8, follicular. The hormone graph, and one paragraph on what it means for the next few hours.
The method screen of the Déjà Well app: theory, practice, food, self care, meditation, breathwork. six cards, chosen for the day you are on
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The method

Theory, practice, food, self care, meditation, breathwork. Six cards, chosen for the day you are on.
The library screen of the Déjà Well app: bellows breath, 4m 12s. ocean breath, 5m 4s. tension release, 2m 24s. nothing runs longer than it needs to
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The library

Bellows Breath, 4m 12s. Ocean Breath, 5m 4s. Tension Release, 2m 24s. Nothing runs longer than it needs to.
Press play screen of the Déjà Well app: get unstuck is three minutes and forty-seven seconds. headphones, then back to your morning
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Press play

Get Unstuck is three minutes and forty-seven seconds. Headphones, then back to your morning.

01 — The four seasons of a cycle

Day 3 Winter

Menstrual · days 1–5

Estrogen and progesterone are both at their floor. The app stops asking anything of you — shorter practices, warmer food, and a journalling prompt about what you are finished carrying.

Practice
Yin and long exhales, 8–12 minutes
Food
Warm, iron-heavy, cooked rather than raw
Prompt
What am I ready to put down?
Energy
Lowest of the month. Plan around it, not through it.

No period? The app runs the same four seasons off the moon instead. Same practices, same prompts, different clock.

02 — What you get

Open it once a day. That is the whole ask.

Three minutes if you are busy, twenty-five if you are not. There is no streak to keep, no badge, and nothing that goes off at you. The app is there when you open it and quiet when you don't.

A woman holding her phone, playing Bellows Breath from the Déjà Well library
Bellows Breath · 8:39 in the morning
Free
  • Seasonal wisdom and a daily astrology forecast
  • The full meditation, breathwork and wellness library to browse
$12.99 / mo
  • Cycle calendar and the daily hormone graph
  • Daily practice, food and self-care matched to the day
  • Series for focus, healing, manifesting and embodiment
  • Seven days free first. Cancel in Settings, not by email.

What is Déjà Well?

An iPhone app that maps each day of your menstrual cycle to one of four seasons, then gives you one practice, one note on food and one question for that day. It draws on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and the Celtic wheel of the year, alongside the ordinary physiology of the cycle. It was built in Victoria, British Columbia.

Is it free?

The seasonal wisdom, the daily astrology forecast and browsing the practice library are free. The cycle calendar, the daily hormone graph and the day-matched practices are $12.99 a month, with seven days free first. You cancel in iPhone Settings, not by emailing us.

What if I don't have a period?

The app runs the same four seasons off the moon instead. If you are pregnant, post-menopausal, on continuous hormonal birth control or your cycle has stopped for any other reason, you get the same practices and prompts on a lunar clock.

Where does my data go?

Nowhere. What you enter stays on your device and is not shared or sold. Déjà Well was made by women, for women, and cycle data is the last thing anyone should be trading.

Is there an Android version?

No. It is iPhone and iPad only, iOS 15.1 or later. There is no Android build and none is currently in progress.

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Made by women, for women · Nothing leaves your phone · iPhone & iPad, iOS 15.1+

03 — Who made it
Emily Deslaurier standing in a doorway

Emily Deslaurier

Founder · Health educator · Yoga teacher

Emily teaches school and yoga in Victoria. In her twenties she had hormonal acne and PMS bad enough to plan her month around, and found her way out through Traditional Chinese Medicine and cyclical living rather than another prescription. She holds a bachelor's degree in health education.

Déjà Well started as the thing she wished someone had handed her at nineteen. Fifteen years of turning old frameworks into practical instructions later, it is an app.

There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley

Start on whatever day you are on.

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