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joy jar

A gratitude jar for you and the people you love.

Journal with family & friends

JoyJar is a gratitude jar app for iPhone and Android. Drop in a joy: a few words, the day, a photo or two. Pull one out later, whenever you want to remember.

Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play

  • JoyJar’s home screen: a glass jar glowing gold on a dark indigo background, with the number of joys in it and the buttons “Add a joy” and “Pull a joy”.

    The jar fills and glows as you add to it.

  • The screen for adding a joy: a question to start you off, a place to write, the date and a row for photos.

    A few words, a date, up to four photos.

  • A joy pulled from the jar, shown as a handwritten note with its date and a photo of a sunset over the sea.

    Pull one out, or shake your phone.

What you can do with it

Add a joy

In a few seconds. A daily question can start you off, and nothing scolds you for a missed day.

Pull a joy

Out of the jar with a tap or a shake, and see what you wrote on this day in earlier years.

Rainy day

Plays your own joys back to you, one at a time, for as long as you like.

Share a jar

With family or friends: up to 3 shared jars, 6 people each. Everyone you invite adds to it for free.

In coaching, we help leaders notice what is working, not only what is broken. JoyJar is a place to store what is working and what brings you joy, at work or at home. For example: a colleague who had your back, a project finished before the deadline, a vacation that finally happened, an evening with the laptop closed.

“What grows in a glad mind is different from what grows in a problem-solving mind.”

Vimla Gulabani, founder of ReAlign
Read why Vimla made JoyJar →

What it costs

A 30-day free trial, then a one-time payment of $4.99. No subscription and no ads. Everyone you invite to a shared jar adds to it for free.

Visit joyjar.app