Hello Angel provides daily tending tools, honors continuing bonds, and empowers your support circle—so you can feel supported every step of the way.
Ask a Grief Therapist
Akasha Balkman, LCSW — grief therapist and co-founder of Hello Angel — on what to say, what to do, and how to stay.
What do I say?
Where to start when there are no right words.
What parents wish friends knew
The things that go unsaid on both sides.
What if I make them cry?
Why bringing them up is rarely the thing that hurts.
What parents need over time
How support needs to change as everyone else moves on.
Talking to someone who died
Continuing bonds, and why the relationship doesn't end.
The most helpful things after loss
Small, specific acts that landed.
Supporting someone long-term
Staying present after the casseroles stop.
How do you keep their memory alive?
Ways of carrying someone with you, day to day.
Our Mission
We believe no one should have to navigate grief without support.
Everyone deserves to feel empowered to care for themselves, stay connected to the people they love, and find moments of hope as they carry their grief forward.
We live in a world where most of us are never taught what to say, what to do, or how to support someone after a loss.
Grief is often met with discomfort, silence, or the expectation that, eventually, we should “move on.” And when the people around us don’t know how to help, grief can become even more isolating.
Hello Angel is part of a cultural shift toward greater grief awareness, understanding, and compassion.
We’re helping create a world where:
We’re not here to tell people how to grieve.
We’re here to help create a world that knows how to support people in grief.
Evidence-informed tools to care for yourself through the changing moments of grief.
Meaningful ways to stay connected and honor the love that continues.
Building connection, reducing isolation, and empowering those who walk alongside you.
Continuing Bonds
Meaning Reconstruction
Mindfulness
Nervous System Regulation
Companioning Model of Grief
Free Grief Education
The same library that lives inside the app, free to read here — for the grieving, and for the people walking alongside them.
Yes. Hello Angel is free to download on iPhone and Android, and the parts of it people lean on most — your memorial, the daily check-in, messaging your person, the grief education library, and your support circle — are free to use. Premium adds unlimited memorials, the full meditation library, unlimited guided journaling and Community Angels. It starts with a 14-day free trial and is $99.99 a year, or $159.99 for a Family plan shared with up to 2 adults and 5 children.
Anyone carrying a loss — a partner, a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend — however recent or long ago. It is also built for the people walking alongside them: friends and family can join a support circle, learn what actually helps, and be reminded of the dates that matter without having to ask.
Yes. Your memories, journal entries, messages to your person and check-ins are private to you unless you choose to share them. Sharing is always a deliberate act — with a named friend, with a circle, or with the community — and anything you share can be taken back down.
Three things, every day if you want them. Daily tending: a grief check-in, guided meditations, journaling, breathwork, grief movement, tapping and grounding practices. Continuing bonds: message or call your person, keep a memory box, record the signs you notice, and map the places that hold them. An empowered circle: a private group of people who know what you are carrying, with reminders for the anniversaries and birthdays that the rest of the world forgets.
No. It is a companion between sessions and on the days when there are none. Hello Angel is built on contemporary grief research — continuing bonds, meaning reconstruction, nervous-system regulation and the companioning model — and is designed to sit alongside bereavement programs, hospices, children's hospitals and grief organizations, not to replace professional care.
Downloading and using the core app costs nothing. Premium is $99.99 per year for one person or $159.99 per year for a family, after a 14-day free trial, and can be cancelled any time before the trial ends. You can also gift a year to someone else without them entering a card.
Designed to complement bereavement programs, children’s hospitals, hospices, nonprofits, and grief organizations.