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The Grinly icon: a simple grin with two eyes and rosy cheeks on a sun-yellow square Company31 · Grinly

A smile a day, and a pause when you need one.

A colleague once promised to make someone smile at least once a day. Grinly keeps that promise: one small card a day, at a time you choose, and a minute or two to reset when work gets heavy. It never asks how you feel, and nothing ever leaves the device.

Free for iPhone and iPad
  • iPhone and iPad
  • No account · no ads
  • Data not collected
Grinly’s home screen on iPhone: a greeting, Hello, Sam, above today’s card, a tiny dare that reads Tidy one small thing on your desk, with Done it, Keep it and Pass it on, and below it the Right now tiles for Under pressure, Wound up, Big moment ahead and Things are changing.
Fig. 1 · Getting it

For iPhone and iPad

Grinly for iPhone and iPad

One app for iPhone and iPad, free, with a Home Screen widget. There's no account, no ads and nothing to sign up for or buy. It speaks ten languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Version 1.0 · iOS 26 or later · iPadOS 26 or later · free

Fig. 2 · Every day

One small smile, on time

Pick a time that could use a lift. At that time, once a day and never more, Grinly brings one card from a collection written and read by people. It is on your Home Screen widget too. Five kinds, and Grinly learns which ones you keep:

  • A small joke
    Why was the whiteboard so good at its job?

    It was remarkable.

  • A kind note
    Quiet effort still counts. Most of the good stuff at work happens where nobody is clapping.
  • A little wonder
    An octopus has three hearts and blue blood.

    The blue comes from copper.

  • A tiny dare
    Take a sip of water like it’s a fancy tasting. Swirl, sniff, sip.

    A crisp vintage with notes of tap.

  • Another angle
    Rough morning? The afternoon hasn’t heard about it yet.
Fig. 3 · Right now

A minute or two, whatever’s going on

Tap how the day feels and Grinly offers a pause of 60 to 120 seconds: a slow breath with a circle to follow, a small stretch you can do at a desk, a playful question, a fresh way to look at it. Skip any step. Leave any time.

  • Under pressureToo much, too fast
  • Wound upShoulders up to the ears
  • Big moment aheadA pitch, a talk, a hard chat
  • Things are changingNew, unsure, unsettled
  • Feeling flatNeed a small lift

Before something big

Presentation at three? Pick what it is and when, and Grinly nudges you ten minutes before with a quick warm-up. The notification only says how long is left, never what it’s for. Grinly never reads your calendar.

The jar

Keep the smiles that land. On a day that needs one, open the jar and let Grinly pick. Anything that isn’t for you, you can set aside for good.

Pass it on

Send any smile to someone else as a picture and a line of text, from the share sheet. Your own name is never in it.

Fig. 4 · On screen

What it looks like

The home screen: today’s card, a tiny dare, with Keep it and Pass it on, and the Right now tiles below.
Today’s smile
A Wound up pause called Shoulders down: a large blue circle that reads Breathe in, 3 of 4, above the words Breathe in slowly, and let it out, longer than it went in, with a Skip button.
A slow breath
The jar: a Pick one for me button above seven kept smiles, starting with a kind note and a reframe.
The jar
Fig. 5 · Privacy

Nothing leaves the device

  • Data Not Collected
  • No account
  • No network
  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • No mood log

Grinly makes no network requests at all. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, because that is what happens.

It never asks how you feel. There is no journal and nowhere to type about your day. Grinly remembers only which smiles you kept and which pauses you finished, on your iPhone or iPad. On devices with Apple Intelligence it may reword the day’s kind note, on the device, and you can turn that off.

The full detail is in the Grinly privacy policy.

Fig. 6 · One honest thing

A kind colleague, not a health service

Grinly is for everyday pressure: a smile, a pause, a small lift. It isn’t a health service, and it can’t help in a crisis.

If things feel like more than a rough day, please talk to a person. The app has a screen with free, confidential helplines for where you are, one tap away. In Australia that is Lifeline on 13 11 14; elsewhere, Find A Helpline lists services in more than 175 countries. In an emergency, call 000, or your local emergency number.

Fig. 7 · Requirements

What you’ll need

Devices
iPhone and iPadOne app for both, with a Home Screen widget.
System
iOS 26 or lateriPadOS 26 or later on iPad.
Apple Intelligence
OptionalWith it, kind notes can be reworded on the device. Without it, everything else works the same.
Account
NoneNothing to sign up for. A first name is optional.

Before you smile.

Will I get lots of notifications?

No. One a day at most, at the time you pick, and you can skip weekends or turn it off and just open the app. The only others are the nudges you set yourself before something big.

Is it a health app?

It is a smile a day and a pause when you need one, for the ordinary pressure of work and life. It makes no health claims and isn’t a health service. If things feel like more than that, the app points you to free helplines and people who can help.

Who writes the smiles?

People. Every joke, note, fact, dare and pause comes from a collection that has been written and read before it ships. Apple Intelligence, where you have it, may only reword a kind note, on the device, and anything it writes is checked before you see it.

Can I send a smile to someone?

Yes. Tap Pass it on and choose where it goes from the share sheet: Messages, mail, anywhere. Grinly has no social network of its own, so there is nothing to join.

Fig. 8 · Support

If something is wrong, write to a person

Grinly is made by one small practice in Sydney. There is no ticket queue and no bot: mail reaches a person. A card that didn’t land, a pause that felt wrong, an idea for a new smile — all genuinely welcome.

Email
— for support, bug reports and suggestions.
Who makes it
Company31 Pty Ltd, ACN 698 697 166, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Privacy
The Grinly privacy policy covers the app for iPhone and iPad. The website policy covers this site.