Gladly Features
Gladly Re-engineers online connections
Mainstream social platforms are designed to steal your attention. Gladly is built to protect it.
Enjoy staying connected with people while eliminating the endless feed algorithms and AI generated content.
Read our research on Digital Minimalism and Authentic Connection without AI, or explore our intentional feature mechanics below.
Face detection: Only smiles from real people
Face detection within the app ensures that every smile sent is of an actual person. No inanimate objects, No pre-saved media, no stock footage, or simulated filters. Keeping the interaction on-point and the content purposeful.
Live photo: see smiles as they happen
Capture and share facial expressions as they happen. A 1.5 second live photo/video of a person smiling in the moment. See emotions exactly as they unfold in the moment, preserving pure facial expressions and bringing connections closer to being in person. This is a drastic difference to a still photo.
Create Groups: Send to multiple people with one click
Organize your close friends, family, or work buddies into custom circles. Share your smiles to multiple individuals or create groups to stay on track and with less hassle.
Open/Closed system: Receive smiles from new people or control who you see smiles from
The open system allows anyone on Gladly to send you a smile. Make friends near you or get a positive gesture from a stranger to remind you that humanity isn’t always bad. However, to take full charge of your incoming smiles, switch to a closed system. This allows you to curate who you will see smiles from so you can stay in control of your content and connections.
The Smile Queue System: a purposeful shift from attention hijacking
Say goodbye to instant notification anxiety. The structured smile queue system holds incoming smiles so you can check them at deliberate moments of your day. You set your time ranges and you’ll get a notification randomly within that range.
Multi-Smile: Maximize your time when you have many smiles in your queue.
Got a pile of smiles in your queue? Multi-smile is an automatically adjusted feature that displays more than one smile when you have an abundance of smiles in your queue. When you get a multi-smile, seamlessly swipe through multiple smiles in a continuous flow to catch up efficiently, get good use of the app and get back to your day.
Scam deterrence: Robust security for real users only
Gladly employs security features, validation and checkpoints to help ensure users on Gladly are actually real people. The point is to keep Gladly a place for real users and keep it difficult for malicious bots, to ensure your social experience remains completely humanistic.
Safe Vision: Keeping content appropriate before it reaches you
Our backend safety engine detects and filters inappropriate content before it ever lands in your queue, preserving a positive, safe space for everyone, and eliminating the concern of negative surprise content.
No Texting: purposeful removal of comments or texting to stop toxicity and encourage positivity
Gladly removes the ability to text each other for a very specific reason. Keep human connection positive by only sending facial expressions. Respond with a smile, not an emoji. This keeps Gladly relationships light, authentic, and completely free of toxic chats.
Embrace Digital Minimalism
Gladly has stripped away the toxicity of social media to give you back your time and relationships. Take back control of your online social attention by embracing a digital minimalist social app like Gladly. Download the app today.
