Happy
Feeling good
The body's joys: daylight, sleep, movement, music, laughter, good food. Quick to reach and quick to fade, so you top them up every day.
- Move
- Sleep
- Get outside
- Be present
Happiness, researched and practiced
Climb to the tenth rung.
Gallup asks people in more than 140 countries to picture a ladder. Rung 0 is the worst possible life for you, rung 10 the best. This app gathers what decades of research say moves people up that ladder, and turns it into things you can do in minutes.
Mood of the day
The Cantril ladder
Where do you stand today?
Tap a rung. There are no wrong answers.
Start here Three steps, in this order
Your first climb
- Take the 2-minute check-inFive questions on how your life is going, ten on what feeds it. You get a profile and a plan built for you.Not taken yet
- Do the joy boostThree guided minutes: breathe, look up, count good things, reach out, move. With a spoken guide.Takes 3 minutes
- Rate your day tonightOne tap each evening. After a week, the app shows which habits go with your best days.0 days rated
Map How the app is organized
Three altitudes of happiness
Researchers separate how you feel in the moment from how you rate your life overall. We sort what helps into three altitudes, from quick lifts to the rare moments that take your breath away.
Very happy
Life going well
Warm relationships, kindness, gratitude, purpose, and work that absorbs you so fully that time disappears. These build slowly and last longest.
- Connect
- Eat together
- Give
- Find flow
Extremely happy
Beyond yourself
Awe at something vast, love, and joy shared with others: dancing, singing, laughing together. You can't force these peaks. You can make room for them often.
- Awe walks
- Dance together
- Laugh
- Love out loud
The happiness paradox. In experiments, people nudged to value happiness above everything felt less happy watching a joyful film, because they were let down by their own feelings (Mauss et al., 2011). So don't grade your mood. Aim your effort at small actions and let the feelings arrive on their own.
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Go deeper
Check-in 15 questions · about 2 minutes
How is life going?
Today
Today's climb
Tick your rungs as the day goes, rate the day before bed, and watch what lifts you.
How was today?
Saved on this deviceInsights From your own ratings
What lifts you
Rate your days and tick your rungs. After seven ratings, this compares your days with and without each habit.
Your last 30 days
Days with vs without
Average on days you did itDays you didn't
Keep Your good moments
Your joy jar
Drop in good moments as they happen, and pull one out on a gray day. Writing good things down is the gratitude habit that has held up in trial after trial.
Tap a note in the jar, or pull a memory at random.
3 minutes 5 steps · sound on if you can
The joy boost
Five research-backed lifts in a row: a calming breath, a moment of awe, gratitude, a warm message, and a burst of movement to music. Turn on the voice and you can do it with your eyes closed.
- 1 Breathe
- 2 Look up
- 3 Good things
- 4 Send warmth
- 5 Move
Evidence 24 findings · each with a source
The happiness library
The strongest findings we could find, with the honest caveats. Every one ends with something to try today.
Cultures 8 traditions · checked against research
Wisdom of the world
Ideas about the good life from around the world, each with a practice to try and an honest note on how much research supports it.
Strong evidence
Promising evidence
Little direct research
2026 World Happiness Report · 147 countries
The happiness map
Every country's average ladder rating for 2023 to 2025. Find yours, see how it changed since last year's report, and see which factors explain its score.
Each hexagon is one country, placed roughly where it sits on the globe. Tap one for details. Swipe sideways to see the whole map.
Top ten in 2026
For the second year running, no English-speaking country made the top ten.
The six factors
- GDP per capita
- Social support
- Healthy life expectancy
- Freedom to choose
- Generosity
- Low corruption
Together they explain most of the differences between countries. What's left over goes into the "baseline and unexplained" part of each score.
All 147 countries
Tap a heading to sort, or a row to see that country.
Live Composed in your browser · never the same twice
Sound of joy
Tempo is the strongest cue that music sounds happy, followed by major keys. Each track is generated as you listen and moves through sections like a real song; the upbeat ones lift the key for the last chorus.
Research picks for your own playlist
- "Happy", Pharrell Williams Ranked happiest in a Durham University analysis
- "I Got You (I Feel Good)", James Brown Ranked 2nd in a feel-good song survey
- "Walking on Sunshine", Katrina and the Waves A regional favorite in the same survey
Press play
Play Every note fits
Make your own happy song
Tap squares to add notes. The grid uses a major pentatonic scale, the five notes that never clash, so whatever you draw sounds good. Higher rows are higher notes.
Your song is saved on this device.
Together Happiness is a team sport
Share the joy
The strongest finding in happiness research is that good relationships matter most. So this page is for other people: a wall of good moments, cards to send, and a week-long challenge for two.
Wall Good moments, shared
The joy wall
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Send A card for someone
Send a joy card
Message
Design
Challenge 7 days · 2 people
A week for two
Pick a week-long challenge, invite one person, and tick off each day together.
Give 24 cards
The kindness deck
Kindness lifts the giver as well as the receiver, though most people predict the opposite. Draw a card, do the thing, and it goes in your jar.
Kindness deck01 / 24
Small and specific beats big and vague.
Explore Everything in Get Gladder
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Read more Primary sources first
Sources
Everything in the app traces back to these. Country data: World Happiness Report 2026 rankings; factor breakdowns from the 2025 report, the latest published per country.
When happiness feels far away
Low stretches happen to everyone, and sometimes they are more than a mood. If you've felt down or numb most days for two weeks or more, or you're having thoughts of harming yourself, please reach out today: a doctor, someone you trust, or a helpline.
Free, confidential helplines in most countries are listed at findahelpline.com. This app offers general information, not medical advice.