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Turn scrolling
into gratitude.

Gratitude First locks the apps that distract you until you write one thing you're grateful for — then it opens them.

First access when it launches. One email, once — nothing else.

Want it before everyone else?

Early testers get the app now, free, and help shape what ships.

Android testing runs through Google Play, so this one has to be a Gmail address.

Coming soon toGoogle Play Coming soon toApp Store
Gratitude First: your phone gets your attention all day. What if it gave something back?

Every time you reach for the apps that pull hardest, one intentional pause.

How it works

Three steps, then it gets out of your way.

No willpower, no shame, no timer counting down while you wait. One small thing asked of you at the exact moment your thumb is already moving.

Choosing which apps to block, with Facebook, Instagram and YouTube selected.
1

Choose the apps that distract you

Instagram, TikTok, Amazon — whatever yours actually is. Common time sinks are grouped at the top; everything else is one search away.

The lock screen: Instagram is locked, with a gratitude prompt to complete before it opens.
2

Write one thing you're grateful for

Type it, photograph it, or say it out loud. The prompt changes with the time of day and the app you reached for, and never repeats within a month.

Instagram is locked for the rest of today, with the option to write a gratitude anyway.
3

Your entry opens one timed session

The app opens for as long as you decided it should. And when the day's sessions are spent, that's the day — no bargaining, no fourth attempt.

The session deal

You set the terms. Then you live with them.

Each gratitude entry opens one timed session. You decide how many you get a day and how long each one lasts — and the app tells you, in plain English, exactly what you just agreed to.

  • Sessions per day, week or month — or unlimited, where every entry simply opens the door
  • Five minutes to the rest of the day, or a custom length
  • A gentle heads-up before your time runs out
  • When the day's sessions are gone, they're gone until tomorrow

Seeing your own numbers written out as a sentence does more than any warning could.

Session settings: ten sessions a day, thirty minutes each, with a heads-up one minute before.
The session deal card reading: ten sessions a day, thirty minutes each. That's five hours of Facebook today. After that it stays locked until tomorrow.
Send it out loud

Some of it shouldn't stay in a journal.

Noticing is one thing. Saying it is another. Any entry can go straight to the person it's about — as plain words, or as a card built from what you wrote.

  • Send as text, or as a card for thank-yous, congratulations, sympathy and more
  • Write your own occasion when none of the ready-made ones fit
  • Goes through your own messages, email or anything else on your phone
  • Nothing leaves your phone until you pick who sees it
Choosing to send a gratitude entry as a card, with several card styles to pick from.
Challenges

Something specific to notice each day.

Short guided journeys — two days, three, a week, a month — each with its own prompt for the day. Run up to three at once, earn a badge for finishing, and bring someone with you.

  • Tiny Things, Seven Days of People, The Quiet Week, Thirty Days of Thanks
  • Leave one and come back later — your progress waits for you
  • Invite a friend to do the same journey alongside you
Two challenges in progress, each with tomorrow's prompt and an invite option.
The payoff

A gratitude habit you can't forget to do.

Every gratitude app has the same problem: you have to remember it exists. It sits on page three of your home screen, quietly losing to Instagram.

This one stands in front of Instagram. That's the whole idea. Your streak builds, your journal fills, and you never once had to find the time.

You still get your apps.
They just stop getting you automatically.

A twelve day streak with forty-seven grateful moments kept and five sessions left today.
Your words stay yours

No account. No server. No one reading over your shoulder.

There's nothing to sign up for and nowhere for your entries to go. Android backs them up to your own Google account, so a new phone doesn't mean starting over — and you can save your own copy any time. Nobody else can read them, including us.

Be first through the door.

Android first, iOS to follow. Leave your email and you'll hear from us once — the day it goes live.

Want it before everyone else?

Early testers get the app now, free, and help shape what ships.

Android testing runs through Google Play, so this one has to be a Gmail address.

Coming soon toGoogle Play Coming soon toApp Store