A colleague once promised to make someone smile at least once a day. Grinly keeps that promise in the app, and here, with jokes you won't find there, short reads you can also listen to, and a kind little letter on Sundays.
Researchers followed 93 popular apps for anxiety, depression and wellbeing. A month after installing, a median of just 3.3% of people were still opening them.1 The good intentions are real. The apps just ask for more than a busy day can give.
So Grinly asks for almost nothing, and gives something you'd want anyway: a smile.
It comes to you
One card a day, at the time you choose. Nothing to remember, no streak to keep.
Seconds, not sessions
A joke takes five seconds. A pause takes one or two minutes, and you can stop whenever you like.
Made to enjoy
Jokes, kind notes and little wonders first. Calm comes along for the ride, never as homework.
Never asks how you feel
No mood scores, no check-ins, no account. Nothing leaves your phone.
1 Baumel A, Muench F, Edan S, Kane JM. Objective user engagement with mental health apps: systematic search and panel-based usage analysis. J Med Internet Res 2019;21(9):e14567. doi.org/10.2196/14567. Android apps with 10,000+ installs; 30-day retention, median across apps.
Right now
Got a minute? Take one.
Six slow breaths, about a minute. Follow the circle: in as it grows, out as it settles. Out a little longer than in, never holding. Stop whenever you like.
The app has fifteen of these for different kinds of day, from Under pressure to Big moment ahead.
