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Your personal Hope Companion

A little hope goes a long way.

Keep the small good moments. Write to the person you will be. Watch a garden grow from all of it, with Hope, a smiling sun, beside you.

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Free. All you need is an e-mail address. On the web today. Phone apps are coming soon.

Hope, the smiling sun of Hopeloo

Concept and mascot design: @Hope_6868

What Hopeloo is

A small, warm place to turn to.

Hopeloo turns little moments of hope into something you can carry with you. You collect a moment in a few words. It rests in your journal, grows in your garden, and one day it comes back to you.

It is not a productivity app and not a goal tracker. No streaks, no scores, nothing to keep up with.

From the first day to 300 moments, morning to night.

It starts with one moment

Something small is enough.

A warm coffee. A kind word. The sun on your face. Write a few words, add a feeling or a photo if you like, and keep it. A sprout appears in your garden, and Hope cheers.

  • A few words are enough.
  • A feeling and a photo are optional, always.
  • Every feeling grows its own flower.
A screen recording of the Hopeloo app: a moment is written, the feeling Loved is chosen, and after Keep it the garden gains a sprout.

Recorded in the real app with a made-up person and our own drawings as photos.

Hope Journal

The moments you collect rest here.

Your Hope Journal is a calm column of everything good you kept, newest first, with your photos. Nothing is counted and nothing is ranked. On a grey day it is proof, in your own words, that good days happen.

  • Newest first, with the day and the feeling.
  • Your photos stay with their moments.
  • Delete a moment whenever you want.
A screen recording of the Hope Journal: a column of short moments with their day and feeling, some with a photo, scrolled slowly.

Recorded in the real app with a made-up person and our own drawings as photos.

Future Letters

Write to the person you will be.

Dear future me. Choose when the letter opens: in a month, in a year, on a date, or when you need it. It waits, sealed, until then. Once sealed it cannot be changed. That is what makes it a letter.

  • Sealed until the day you chose.
  • Or kept for a hard day, opened on purpose.
  • A few words on the envelope, if you like.
A screen recording of Future Letters: a letter is written, marked For a hard day, sealed, and later opened on purpose.

Recorded in the real app with a made-up person and our own drawings as photos.

Good things, brought back

A moment that once made you smile can come back.

Hopeloo can bring back a good thing from before: in your garden when you open the app, and as a gentle reminder at the times you choose. Only then, and never more. Reminders are off until you switch them on.

  • Off by default.
  • Only at the times you choose.
  • Never a nudge to do more.
The Hopeloo home screen on a phone: the Hope Garden by day, the button Collect a moment and, under it, the card A good thing from before with a moment from an earlier day.The Hopeloo home screen on a phone: the Hope Garden by day, the button Collect a moment and, under it, the card A good thing from before with a moment from an earlier day.

Hope Garden

It grows with every moment you keep.

Your first moment is a sprout. The next ones let it bloom. After a while there are trees, butterflies and a meadow on the hills. The sky follows your own clock, from morning to night. A garden never wilts because you were away. Nothing here reads a streak.

The Hope Garden with 60 moments: a full bed, two trees and butterflies.
These pictures are drawn by the same code as the garden in the app.

Hopeloo doesn't promise that everything will always be perfect. It reminds you that there is always something worth looking forward to.

A short film of Hope, the smiling sun: she waves, cheers, glows, sends a heart, peeks from behind a cloud, turns shy, opens her arms for a hug and falls asleep.

Meet Hope

Hope is a smiling sun.

She keeps you company in the garden. She cheers when you collect a moment, glows when you open a letter and rests at night.

Hope is warm optimistic kind playful encouraging and never judgmental.

  • Hello
  • Yes!
  • Glowing
  • With love
  • A hug
  • Peekaboo
  • A little shy
  • Good night

Concept and mascot design: @Hope_6868

Why Hopeloo is here

  • Mission

    Making hope accessible to everyone.

  • Vision

    A world where everyone has a little place to turn to when life gets difficult.

Private by design

Your entries are yours.

What you write in Hopeloo is for you. Nobody reads it, nothing is sold, and there is no advertising.

  • Only you

    Your moments, photos and letters belong to your account. Nobody else can see them.

  • Take it with you

    Export everything as one file whenever you want.

  • Delete it

    Delete a moment, a letter or everything at once. Gone is gone.

  • Stored in the EU

    Your journal, photos and letters are stored in the European Union (Ireland).

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Free

Hopeloo is free.

The journal, the letters, the reminders and the garden are free, and they stay free.

Hopeloo

Free

  • Hope Journal
  • Future Letters
  • Good things, brought back
  • Hope Garden
  • Export and delete your data
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Coming later

Premium, with AI

9 dollars a month

Later there will be a Premium plan with AI-powered encouragement. It is not for sale yet, and you cannot be charged for it.

Coming soon

Phone apps

Hopeloo for iPhone and Android is on its way. Until then the web app works well on a phone.

How it began

A fan's idea, an app in a day.

Hopeloo began as a post on X. @Hope_6868 shared an idea: a personal Hope Companion with a Hope Journal, Future Letters, a Hope Garden, and a smiling sun called Hope. She drew the sun herself.

We liked it so much that we built it. One day later the web app was open: her concept, her mascot, her words for what it should be.

It is early, and it is meant to stay small and kind.

Concept and mascot design: @Hope_6868

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Questions

Good to know

What is Hopeloo?

Hopeloo is your personal Hope Companion. You collect small good moments in a Hope Journal, write Future Letters to yourself, and good things are brought back to you. A Hope Garden grows with every moment, and Hope, a smiling sun, keeps you company.

Is it a habit tracker or a goal app?

No. Hopeloo is not a productivity app and not a goal tracker. There are no streaks, no scores and nothing to keep up with. A garden never wilts because you were away.

What does it cost?

Hopeloo is free. The journal, the letters, the reminders and the garden are free, and they stay free.

What is Premium?

Later there will be a Premium plan with AI-powered encouragement, at 9 dollars a month. It is shown as coming later. It is not for sale yet, and you cannot be charged for it.

How do I start?

Open the app and type your e-mail address. We send you a link that signs you in, and it creates your account if you are new. You can also use a passkey.

Who can read what I write?

Only you. Your moments, photos and letters belong to your account, and nobody else can see them. Nobody at Hopeloo reads them, nothing is sold and there is no advertising.

Is Hopeloo a help line or therapy?

No. Hopeloo is a small companion. It is not a crisis service, not therapy and not medical advice. If you might be in danger right now, please call your local emergency number. The app has a page, If you are in crisis, with help lines for where you are.

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If you are in crisis

If you might be in danger right now, please call your local emergency number.

Hopeloo is a small companion. It is not a crisis service, not therapy and not medical advice, and nobody reads what you write here.

You can talk to someone now. This directory lists help lines in many countries: findahelpline.com

In the app, the page If you are in crisis shows the help lines for where you are. It is one tap away under every screen.

Start with one small moment.

Your garden is waiting for its first one.

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