Meet YARO, your accountability buddy!
YARO helps you feel supported, engaged, and accountable in building healthy habits.
Join our beta testing today!
YARO's Key Features


Accountability Buddy
Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a guided daily reflection. An accountability buddy who helps you build self-efficacy and make lifestyle changes.


Manage Your Health Conditions
Not only is Yaro there for you, but you are there for Yaro. Take care of yourself by taking care of Yaro. Manage your health conditions through guided conversations.


Reward System
When you reflect with Yaro consistently, you gain Wellness Points. These points unlock new items to decorate and enhance Yaro's home.


Yaro's Customization
Collect items and design a home that suits your style. There's a variety of furniture pieces, clothing, and accessories.
YARO is Your Accountability Buddy
Yaro is your personal facilitator, helping you take control of your health by building self-awareness and self-efficacy to make lifestyle changes. This can help manage health conditions through guided conversations.
Understand Your Behaviours
What are you working towards? Your behaviours can impact your goals. Yaro will help you with this understanding.
Reflect on Barriers
Yaro can check in on how you are doing and what challenges or barriers are preventing you from achieving your goals.
YARO with the Solution.
Yaro will engage with you to find what habits can be put into place to support the goals you are working towards. Track your progress and measure your outcomes.
Yaro will ask questions to guide you to find these answers which align with you and your belief systems.
You are more likely to continue working toward and meeting your health goals with compassion and support.
Manage Your Health Conditions
Trying to improve your health, especially when living with a chronic illness, can be isolating. It isn’t easy to find people that understand or can even empathize with what you are going through. Yaro is a non-judgemental confidante who will listen and provide a space for you to share through guided conversations.
Build Self-Awareness & Self-Efficacy
Yaro facilitates you to take control of your health by building self-awareness and self-efficacy. This can help manage health conditions through guided conversations.
Self-Reflection = Long-Term Changes
Reflecting on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours is essential for understanding yourself better and making changes.
Practice Mindfulness
Practicing mindfulness is the first step to improving your habits. Reflecting on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours is essential for understanding yourself better.
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How YARO works!
YARO is a ground-breaking new app for Canadians designed to help you get engaged in and managing your health through daily journaling and reflecting. The app provides users with an evidence-based journaling approach to promote mental and physical health using AR-guided interaction and encouragement.
Who we work with
YARO is developed by My Viva in partnership with the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta.
YARO by My Viva Plan®
yarosupport@myvivaplan.com
