One daily reminder that humanity is still good.
A short, true story of kindness or quiet courage — every day. No feeds, no noise, nothing to scroll. Just a few minutes that leave you a little lighter.
Free forever. Plus is optional — the daily story never costs anything.
A few minutes. Once a day.
Open the app
Check in, and say how you're arriving today.
Take your dose
Read or listen. A few minutes, no scrolling.
Carry it with you
Keep the reflection, share the quote, come back tomorrow.
Some lines deserve a second life.
Every story ends with a quote worth keeping. Send it to someone who needs it today — as a card, not a link, so it arrives as a thought rather than an advert.
- A quote and a reflection with every story
- Share as an image, no account needed to read it
A place to put what it stirred.
Each story asks one honest question. Answer it if you want to. What you write is yours — nobody else can read it, and it stays yours whether or not you ever pay us anything.
- Ten reflections a month, free
- Unlimited with Plus — and you keep everything you wrote
A streak that isn't a punishment.
Check in each day and watch it grow. It exists so you can see you've been showing up for yourself — not so you can fail at one more thing.
- A daily check-in that takes one tap
- Seven days earns a week of Plus, free
Your own shelf of good days.
Save the stories that landed and gather them into collections. The ten most recent are always free to everyone; Plus opens the whole archive.
- Save, search and collect
- Download for offline reading and listening
Built to be small in your day.
Everything here exists to be closed. There is no feed to finish, nothing to catch up on, and no reason to stay longer than you meant to.
I Need Hope
Some days you cannot wait until tomorrow. Press the centre button, say how you are feeling, and the app finds a story for that. It will not fix anything — it is one true account of someone being kind, at the moment you most need reminding that it happens.
One story a day
The same true story for everyone that day — so we're all holding the same thing.
Listen instead
Almost every story is narrated. Play it on a walk, or with your eyes closed.
Arrives at your morning
One notification, at your local time, wherever you are. Never more than that.
Works without signal
Download on wifi, then read and listen with no data at all.
The part that matters is the part you never pay for.
Always free
No trial. No countdown.
- Today's story — text, audio, reflection and quote
- The ten most recent stories
- Your daily check-in and streak
- Ten journal reflections a month
- Three “I Need Hope” stories a day
- Share cards
Everything else
And it keeps the daily story free for everyone.
- Every story ever published, searchable
- Unlimited journal writing
- Offline downloads for stories and audio
- Unlimited “I Need Hope”
- Collections and your weekly recap
- A reminder at a time you choose
Give someone a month of it.
Buy one month or three and you receive a code to send however you like — a message, an email, written on paper. Their months start when they redeem it, and stack on top of any Plus they already have.
The daily story is free. Always.
Nobody having a hard day should meet a paywall. Plus adds the full archive, offline listening and unlimited journalling — but the thing that matters most is the part you never pay for.
The things people ask.
Is Planet Positive free?
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Yes. The daily story is free forever — text, audio, reflection and quote — and it is never behind a paywall. Plus is an optional subscription that adds the full archive, unlimited journalling and offline downloads.
What makes it different from a news app?
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It isn't news. There is no feed, no comments, no followers and nothing to scroll. One true story about someone choosing to be good to another person, told properly in about four minutes, and then it ends.
What is “I Need Hope”?
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Some days you cannot wait until tomorrow. Say how you're feeling — sad, lonely, anxious, overwhelmed, discouraged, grieving — and the app finds a story for that. Free accounts get three a day.
Is my journal private?
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Yes. Reflections are private to your account and are never shown to anyone else. If your Plus subscription lapses you keep everything you have written; you simply return to the free allowance for writing new ones.
When will the daily notification arrive?
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At your own local morning, wherever you are in the world — not at whatever hour it happens to be where the story was published. You can also choose your own reminder time.
Can I give Plus to someone else?
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Yes. Buy one or three months and you receive a code to pass on however you like. Gift months are added on top of any Plus the recipient already has.
Tomorrow there will be another one.
That's rather the point.