What the morning 10 minutes looks like inside Rainku

The point of Rainku's morning flow is to make the 10 minutes a path you don't have to think through — from the moment you wake up, to closing the app, to a piece of writing you might actually be willing to share, with no decisions in between. Here's what the path looks like and which feature does each step.

Rain entry

The first second after you open the app, Rainku doesn't drop you into a writing surface — it drops you into a full-screen rain scene with looped rain audio. This stretch replaces the "take a slow breath" prompt most morning writing apps lean on. A half-asleep brain doesn't respond well to "now bring your attention back," but it does respond to ambient sound that is already playing.

Rain density and rain volume are both adjustable. Some mornings you only want to sit for a minute or two and write nothing — close the app and that still counts as having opened Rainku once today.

The first session needs no sign-in. There is no signup gate.

The first sentence: typed or spoken

Once the rain is up, the screen shows one default prompt: "How's this morning?" — one line, with an input field and a voice button next to it.

You can type. You can also hold the voice button and just say one sentence — when the brain is half asleep, saying a sentence is much easier than typing one. Eight languages are recognized — English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Indonesian — and transcription streams as you speak.

The prompt line itself is swappable. Settings hold 12 presets organized by morning state (woke up overwhelmed / anxiety already there / want a positive opening / want to see yourself), and you pick the one closest to right now. You can also write your own and keep it fixed — coming back to the same question for a week or two starts to surface patterns you wouldn't see otherwise.

AI turns this into a journal entry

Morning writing has three modes, and you can switch between them at any point:

• Free flow: write whatever comes, no punctuation needed.
• Follow the prompt: pick one question and answer it fully. Depth beats breadth — one honest answer beats five surface ones.
• Talk to AI: you say a sentence, AI follows up with one question, the conversation goes wherever it goes. The AI's job is to ask one more question when you stall — moving you from "I kind of feel anxious" to "the specific thing I'm anxious about is X."

When you're done writing (or done talking), tap Organize. AI turns the whole thing — whether it's a few scattered sticky-note paragraphs or a back-and-forth conversation — into one clean journal entry. Voice segments are auto-transcribed. The original draft isn't lost. The entry and the draft both live on the same timeline.

Polish and poster output

The organized entry, by default, sounds like you. If you're thinking about letting someone else read this one, Rainku has a polish layer on top — it keeps your meaning, keeps the real emotion, doesn't change your stance, just tunes the writing to a level a reader will sit through.

Once polished, you can turn it into a poster in one tap: a real photo from your recent days (camera roll or manually uploaded) plus a line you picked from the entry, laid out in a few real-feeling styles (photo journal, sticky note, Polaroid, retro). It's not template stickers on a stock background — it's an actual scene photo with actual writing.

After four to seven entries pile up over a week, Rainku can string them into a 5-10 second GIF. Posters and GIFs are optional outputs. You don't have to make them every time.

Keep it, or share it

This is where Rainku is most different from most morning journal apps: the last step of every entry is an explicit choice — keep it for yourself, or share it.

Kept entries are visible only to you. Before sign-in, data does not leave your device; sync starts after you sign in, and you trigger that yourself.

If you want to share, posters and GIFs export in one tap to Xiaohongshu, Instagram, X, and WeChat Moments. The system never posts for you — it just stages the content in your clipboard and photo library.

You don't have to share every entry. But once a week, having even one piece you would have been willing to share shifts the morning practice from "writing for yourself" to "making something for one specific person to read."

The five steps are different cuts of the same flow. Wherever you stop this morning is fine — sit with rain for a minute and close the app, or write one sentence and ship a poster. Rainku doesn't require you to run the full path every day.