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Building Happiness
A collection of stories, stumbles, and successes from building an app that attempts to actually make you a happier person.
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Hold On - Apple Vision Pro Timer
Launching a new app built for the Apple Vision Pro designed to help you spend time mindfully with simple timers.
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Throwbacks: iPhone Photo Widget
Bring daily gratitude to your iPhone home screen with the new throwback pic widget with interactive day toggling.
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Weekly Photo Tracker
Keep track of your journaling goals with weekly summaries displaying picture tiles. Zoom out on your life… but just a little.
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Pods 3.0: Private Social Network
Introducing a redesigned group sharing experience and improvements to how you connect with your close friends through memories.
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Product Updates: March 2023
Major updates to the performance and usability of videos on iOS as well as an assortment of little fixes and features on both apps based on your feedback.
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Product Updates: February 2023
February was photos month: Read about significant improvements to photos & video on iOS, Android and even Web. Plus, what’s next for Pods and sharing.
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Monthly Recap Movies
Generate mashup movies from your journal photos and videos at the end of every month, available on iOS only
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Clips: Add Video to Your Memories
Create and share your life movie with by adding videos to your daily journal entries. Clips bring a new dimension to journaling.
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Product Updates: September 2022
Improving cross-platform subscription support, building new promotional options, and adding small enhancements to group sharing in Pods.
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Product Updates: August 2022
Exploring photo-only memories, focusing on improving performance for group sharing, and fixing bugs caused by larger groups with direct followers.
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Product Updates: July 2022
Adding user profiles, following, and major optimizations to Android as well as photo updates and experiments on iOS
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Product Updates: Spring 2022
Moving quickly and releasing all sorts of wonderful journal features including commenting in Pods and Android subscriptions
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Follow Friends & Share Comments
Growing beyond group sharing to provide a meaningful social experience that fits all kinds of relationships and friendships.
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Announcing Android Subscriptions
Try our monthly or annual subscription to access new features like the calendar and get more out of your daily journaling app.
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Product Updates: Winter 2022
We've been busy all January, February, and March building and launching features such as following and broadcasting on Happyfeed for iOS.
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Product Updates: December 2021
Improving our updates to photo storage, intelligent streak repair, and encouraging more activity in your Random Pods.
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Private Instagram Alternative
How a group photo sharing app based on journaling can be used as a private social network
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Product Updates: November 2021
Smarter photo storage, daily goals on Android, an Apple Watch app, and some smarter ways to handle content in Random Pods. November was busy!
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Apple Watch Journal
Explore your happy memories with the new Happyfeed Apple Watch app. Shuffle through your Happiness Jar or tag the current day before reflecting more in-depth.
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Product Updates: October 2021
Focusing on the fundamentals by improving the photo experience in Happyfeed and ensuring the app looks great on any device.
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Product Updates: September 2021
An overview of updates made to our apps over the past month, including new layouts options and a mood picker
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Spread Happiness with Share Links
Create a secret URL for your memories on Happyfeed to make them easier to share with friends and other social platforms like Facebook or Twitter.
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What is Toxic Positivity?
Learn how our never-ending search for happiness and a "good vibes only" culture can be harmful, and explore ways to seek out healthy positivity.
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Monthly Joy Recaps
Introducing a way to create a snapshot of your memories from past months in the Happyfeed app.
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Dark Mode Journaling
Introducing full support for iOS Dark Mode to make it easier to journal in the evening and reduce the strain on your eyes.
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Pods: Shared Gratitude
Reintroducing Pods as a new way to share your journaling progress and happy moments with friends
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Pods: Journaling Together
Small, private groups to share progress and help build your journaling habit.
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Spots & Location Updates
A new way to update and manage the locations of your memories in Happyfeed with unique Spots.
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Journal Exports
Finally, an option to download your journal and truly make it yours.
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Feeling Thankful
A new way to spread gratitude by sending thanks to your friends.
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Offline Mode
Reworking our app so you can use it anywhere, really.
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Happiness Jar
Introducing a novel way to explore your past memories and spark a little joy everyday.
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Introducing Happyfeed 2.0
One of our biggest updates and redesigns since launching in 2013
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Breaking the Streak
Why we stopped counting days in a row and started focusing on the big picture.