For hair pulling, skin picking & nail biting

Notice automatic habits.Choose your next moment.

For hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting awareness. Awaira uses your device’s camera to notice a hand moving toward your face or head and offers a gentle cue, without a manual log. Choose Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone or the browser.

Desktop: free 7-day trial · No account required · Camera frames stay on your device

On iPhone, awareness works only while Awaira is open.

Awaira running on a MacBook and iPhone, with private awareness dashboards visible on both devices.
Across your devices
“I love Awaira. It increases my awareness of my hand and arm moving toward my head. I have noticed that I am less aware than I thought I was.”
Andrea Satre

From the maker

How I use the app

Here is a quick video showing how I — the person who built Awaira — use it myself through an ordinary day.

The video is hosted on YouTube and only loads when you press play.

Inside the app

Your own patterns, in plain numbers.

Awaira turns what it notices into views you can act on. All of it is computed and stored on your device.

Touch locations
322 164 353 118 115 130 481 561
Most touched: Chin (16%) and Right cheek (14%).

See where your hand goes

Every moment is placed on a face map, so the zones you return to most stop being a guess.

What happened 40 reflections
1Work23% 2Stress18% 3Boredom10% 4Working10% 5Piano Class8%

Add the why, in your words

Log a short reflection in the moment. Awaira ranks the themes so triggers surface on their own.

GOAL PROGRESS 18/hr under goal
Goal
Under 58/hr
Current
40/hr

Set a goal you can actually hit

Pick a gentle hourly ceiling. Awaira tracks the gap without turning it into a scoreboard.

Privacy by design

Privacy you can understand.

Camera frames are analysed on your device and discarded. Awaira does not receive camera video or frames. Your activity history stays on the device where you use Awaira.

Awaira notices visible hand movement toward your face or head. It cannot tell whether that movement was pulling, picking, biting, or an ordinary touch. Account and licence information are handled separately; see the privacy policy for details.

Read the privacy policy Awaira is a wellness tool, not a medical treatment.

Plans

Choose the plan that fits your devices.

Try Awaira free for 7 daysNo account or card required. Choose a licence only if Awaira fits your routine.

One licence works across Mac, Windows, Linux, web, and Android: use it on 2, 3, or 4 devices at once, depending on your plan. iPhone is not included. It is a separate purchase through the App Store.

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Use on 2 devices at the same time

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  • iPhone
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From the blog

Small reads for the moments you want to understand.

Plain-language, source-linked guides for hair pulling, nail biting, skin picking, and the habits that can be hard to name.

Check out all blogs Compare BFRB apps and trackers

FAQ

What Awaira is—
and what it isn’t.

The practical details, before you decide whether it belongs in your day.

Is Awaira a BFRB app?

Yes. Awaira is a body-focused repetitive behaviors app for noticing hand movement toward the face or head. It can be useful for hair pulling, face and skin picking, and nail biting during activities when the camera can see you. It does not know which behavior, if any, happened after the movement.

How does a hand-to-face reminder app work?

Awaira is a hand-to-face awareness app. It watches for a visible hand moving toward the face or head and offers a cue you choose. The reminder follows the movement rather than a timer. Camera processing stays on your device. On iPhone, camera awareness works while Awaira is open.

What exactly is Awaira?

Awaira is a private awareness app for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone. With your permission, it uses your device’s camera to notice when a hand moves into your face or head area. It can offer a cue you choose—such as a sound, screen border, or blur—so an automatic moment is easier to notice. People use it for hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking (dermatillomania), nail biting and other body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs).

What does Awaira notice—and what does it not know?

Awaira notices a hand entering your face or head area. It cannot know why: a moment may be a scratch, adjusting glasses, resting your chin, touching your hair, or something else. A cue is an invitation to notice, not a judgment or a label.

What happens after Awaira notices a moment?

Awaira can show a subtle screen border, play a sound, or add a timed blur. You choose which cues to use and can set their delay, pause monitoring for a meeting, or turn cues off entirely.

Does Awaira record or upload camera video?

No. Camera frames are analysed live on your device and discarded immediately. They are not recorded, uploaded, or sent to Awaira’s servers. Optional screenshots are off by default; if enabled, they stay saved locally on your computer.

Where do my moments and progress stay?

Your detections, progress history, and any optional screenshots stay on the device where you use Awaira. They are not sent to a cloud account or shared with Awaira.

Is Awaira a medical or diagnostic tool?

No. Awaira is a wellness and awareness tool. It does not diagnose, treat, or make conclusions about any health condition.

Which computers can run Awaira?

Awaira is available for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone. On Mac it supports macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon and Intel computers.

Does Awaira work the same way on iPhone as on desktop?

Not quite. On Mac, Windows and Linux, the camera cue keeps working while you use other apps—so it can watch a study session, a game or a document, not just Awaira itself. On iPhone, awareness only runs while Awaira is open and visible on screen; that is a limit of what iOS allows an app to do with the camera, not a setting you can change. See the full platform comparison for details.

Can I try it before paying?

Yes. The desktop app starts with a 7-day free trial, with no account or credit card required. The browser app has a separate 7-day trial that starts when you sign in with Google. After the trial, a paid licence covers Mac, Windows, Linux, the browser app and Android. iPhone purchases are separate through the App Store.

Does Awaira need an account?

The native Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps do not require an account for awareness features. The browser version requires Google sign-in to start its account-based trial or use a paid licence. Camera frames, activity history and notes stay on the device or in the browser where you use Awaira.

How it works

Notice, pause and reflect.

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