JoyJar press kit

JoyJar is a gratitude jar app for iPhone and Android. Everything on this page may be used in writing about it.

Android is coming later.

Download everything as one ZIP (about 3 MB): the icon, the share picture, the screenshots and a text file with the facts below.

The facts

What it is. A gratitude jar on your phone. Drop in a joy: a few words, the day, up to four photos. The jar fills and glows as you add to it. Pull one out later, with a tap or a shake.

What we haven’t seen in another gratitude app. A shared jar that anyone can add a note to from a link, without installing the app. Up to 3 shared jars, 6 people each. Everyone you invite adds for free.

Also. Send a joy to someone as a picture postcard or as a link. Rainy day plays your own joys back to you, one at a time. Your joys live on your phone and work with no connection. Export everything at any time. Made for iPhone Duo, with screens that use both halves.

Price. 30-day free trial, then a one-time payment of $4.99. No subscription, no ads, no tracking.

Launched. On the App Store, 31 October 2026. Android is coming later.

For. People aged 13 and over.

Made by. ReAlign Leadership LLC, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Founder: Vimla Gulabani.

Links. joyjar.app · the App Store page · support@joyjar.app

The story

Most gratitude apps are for one person. JoyJar is for the whole table. One jar, and everyone around it adds to it: the children, the grandparents, the friend who flew in for the weekend. Someone without the app opens a link, writes a note, and it drops into the jar with everyone else’s. On Thanksgiving, the jar can be read out loud.

The other thing is the price. Most apps of this kind ask for a subscription. JoyJar is free for 30 days and then $4.99, once. The people you invite to your jar pay nothing.

Behind it is a meditation practice called gladdening the mind: bringing something good to mind, on purpose, and staying with it for a moment. The founder tells that story on the About page.

Pictures

Each picture is shown here at a smaller size. The link under it is the full-size file. Use them as they are; please don’t crop or recolour them.

The app icon. PNG, 1024 by 1024

For a link or a header. JPEG, 1200 by 630

On iPhone

The jar. PNG, 1206 by 2622
Adding a joy. PNG, 1206 by 2622
A joy pulled out. PNG, 1206 by 2622

On iPhone Duo

JoyJar on the closed iPhone Duo: the jar glowing gold, today’s prompt, “Add a joy” and “Pull a joy”, with Jar, Joys and You stacked down the right edge under the clock.

Closed. WebP, 600 by 873

JoyJar on the open iPhone Duo: the jar on the left half, and on the right a page for a new joy with the date, the jar, a question and room to write.

Open: the jar on one half, today’s page on the other. WebP, 1200 by 844

Rainy day on the open iPhone Duo: two handwritten joys on indigo, one on each half like the pages of a book, one with a photo of a sunset over the sea.

Rainy day as a book. WebP, 1200 by 844

The Joys tab on the open iPhone Duo with Photos chosen: four photos in large square tiles, a sunset, snowy mountains, a creek in a green wood and a bowl of shave ice.

The photo wall. WebP, 1200 by 844

The Joys tab on the open iPhone Duo: the list of joys on the left, and on the right the chosen joy, “Helicopter ride over Denali. Snow on every peak.”, with its photo, Edit and two ways to send it.

The Joys tab beside an open joy. WebP, 1200 by 844

Sending a joy as a postcard on the open iPhone Duo: the card with a sunset photo and “from Vimla” on the left half, and on the right the words on the card, the name to sign it with, three card styles and Send.

Sending a joy as a postcard. WebP, 1200 by 844

Adding a joy on the iPhone Duo held tall and half open: the date, the jar, a question and the words being written fill the upper half, and the keyboard fills the lower half.

Half open on a table. WebP, 600 by 853

JoyJar and Safari side by side in Split View on the open iPhone Duo: JoyJar’s home with the jar on the left half, a web page on the right.

Split View beside Safari. WebP, 1200 by 844

Videos

The app in 27 seconds on YouTube: adding a joy, pulling one out, Rainy day, a shared jar, a postcard. Recorded on Android; the iPhone app looks the same. Also as a file, MP4, 1920 by 1080, about 11 MB.
On iPhone Duo, closed and open on YouTube: 35 seconds, a plain simulator recording, no sound.

Three vertical Shorts of the guest link, 15 seconds each, 1080 by 1920, music only, no voice. The notes on screen are from a cleared family jar.

A guest drops a note into the family jar from a link on YouTube: the guest page on a phone, a note typed and dropped in, the jar catching it, and the note in the family jar’s list. Also as a file, MP4, 1080 by 1920, about 4 MB.
Switching on the guest link on YouTube: the jar’s people, the guest link switched on, and a guest’s note going in. Also as a file, MP4, 1080 by 1920, about 5 MB.
The family jar at Thanksgiving on YouTube: three notes dropping into the jar one after another, the last from the grandparent who could not travel. Also as a file, MP4, 1080 by 1920, about 5 MB.

Contact

Questions, a quote, or a look at the app before you write: support@joyjar.app.

This page was last updated on 1 November 2026.