someone made your day.

grät is where you tell them.

a grät is a message of gratitude: a subject, your words, your name, in text, voice, photo or video. you send it to someone on grät, to someone who has not joined yet, to a place or an idea you are grateful for, or quietly to yourself. they get a message that says they mattered.

first release · a limited number of seats

seats go in the order requests arrive. no spam.

you're in line. we'll write when your seat opens.

our story

grät began in newport beach, california, with one question: what would a social network look like if it carried nothing but gratitude?

no likes to chase. no advertising. no feed of strangers. a message instead of a post: to someone, about something, for a reason. the people you thank are the network, and someone's gratitude has a way of starting your own.

grät is made by a small group of like-minded, like-hearted people: an entrepreneur, a scientist, a systems engineer, and a programmer, with contributions from many others. it is built by the grat network llc, a california company in newport beach, and is in a private friends-and-family release on iphone and android, with the web app and public release to follow.

definition

grät · "graht"

noun: 1a unit of positive human emotion.; 2a message of gratitude: from you, to someone, about something, for a reason.
verb: 1to thank someone by sending them a grät.

"you've been grätted."

there is no one-tap thank-you here. a grät takes a moment of real thought, and that moment is what makes it land.

use case

a teacher who inspired you

the one whose words you still carry, even years later. grät them: it arrives with your name on it, and they can grät you back or pass it on.

a neighbor who is not on grät yet

pick them from your contacts. the invitation goes out in your name, and they can open your grät without the app. it waits for them until they join.

a place, or an idea

thank a city, a trail, a book, a song: anything with a wikipedia page. gräts to the same place gather on its page.

yourself

a grät to yourself is a private journal entry: nobody sees it but you. some gratitude is yours to keep.

when one grät leads to another

grät back, or grät someone else because of the one you received. grät links the two, so one thank-you grows into a chain.

a hero, in uniform or not

a veteran, a firefighter, a police officer, the nurse on the night shift. if you know them, grät them. if you do not, thank them by what they do: gräts to firefighters gather in one place, open to anyone who looks.