Matria press kit
A sourced archive for the questions women carry
Matria is an iOS app that answers lived questions, why do I feel guilty when I rest, who am I when no one needs me, from a sourced archive of 242 documented women, ideas, myths and traditions. Every answer names the real women behind it and opens their sources. Nothing is invented: no fabricated quotes, no generated voices, and when the archive has nothing, it says so.
The one-liner
While the app stores fill with software that makes things up, Matria is an archive that refuses to: ask a real question, meet the women who carried it before you, and open their sources.
Fast facts
| Name | Matria (the feminine of patria: motherland) |
| Platform | iOS (iPhone and iPad) |
| Price | Free at launch; optional membership arrives later |
| Archive | 242 documented women, ideas, myths and traditions, each entry with named sources and an evidence label |
| Signature feature | The Knowledge Map: women connected across centuries by shared themes and documented relations, with editorial collage portraits |
| Privacy | No account, no analytics, no tracking; the archive lives on the reader's device |
| Founder | Luana Micheau, solo founder, Ireland |
| Contact | feedback@matria.life |
| Website | https://matria.life |
What makes it different
- Sourced, never invented. The archive is the authority. Quotations appear only when rights-cleared; everything else is clearly labelled editorial reading. If nothing in the archive fits a question, Matria says so instead of generating an answer.
- Women are the connectors. Instead of a timeline, the Knowledge Map traces lineage: who read whom, who answered whom, which themes crossed oceans and centuries.
- Evidence labels, honestly applied. Practices and entries carry labels from Strong to Traditional and Cultural; cultural knowledge systems are presented as knowledge, never flattened into prescriptions.
- Private by design. Questions, saves and journal notes never leave the phone. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing tracking the reader.
- A decolonial corpus. From Enheduanna to Audre Lorde, Kartini to Te Puea Herangi: the archive spans every continent, with recent additions focused on under-represented regions.
The story
Matria was built solo, from first commit to App Store submission, by Luana Micheau, a product designer working in femtech. The premise: women's hardest questions already have ancestors, and an app can keep company with a question instead of pretending to resolve it. The corpus is researched and cited entry by entry; unclear quotes are rejected rather than repeated (the famous line attributed to Hypatia, a 1908 fabrication, is not in the archive; her honest entry is).
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Boilerplate
Matria is a sourced archive for the questions women carry. Readers ask a lived question and Matria answers from an archive of 242 documented women, ideas, myths and traditions, with every claim carrying a named source and honest gaps where the record is thin. Private, on-device, no account. Built by Luana Micheau. Available on the App Store.
Press enquiries: feedback@matria.life. We are happy to provide interviews, additional imagery, and background on the archive's sourcing and ethics.