Low friction
Runs in the browser. No app store, account, password, onboarding sequence, or user setup.
Licensable attention-practice software
Give your audience something they will actually do.
Smiling Faces is a short browser game built around one repeated action: find the smile. It is research-inspired, brandable, privacy-light, and ready to license for courses, communities, practices, programs, and publishers.
The gap
People have enough content. The scarce thing is an experience they will repeat.
Your clients, members, readers, or participants can already be given another PDF, video, worksheet, or advice page. Smiling Faces is different: it is a small piece of behavioral software that asks for a few minutes of attention and gives people a concrete action to practice.
It is not another article about noticing the positive. It is the thing you can offer when you want people to sit down and actually practice noticing it.
The product
One smile, hidden in a crowd of cooler faces.
Each round shows one smiling face among more guarded, skeptical, irritated, or dismissive expressions. The player finds the smile, then does it again.
Find the smile
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Your attention has habits. It can get pulled toward the cold look, the skeptical face, the one person in the room who seems unimpressed. Smiling Faces gives that habit a small, repeatable nudge in the other direction.
It is not about pretending the negative is not there. It is about practicing the ability to notice the positive, too.
Why license it
A finished, brandable game instead of another resource page.
Easy to place
Use it after a quiz, in a course, beside an article, inside a member hub, or as a workshop follow-up.
Brandable
Adapt colors, wording, intro copy, footer language, domain, and selected interface details for your audience.
Privacy-light by default
The current game does not require an account, cookies, ads, social SDKs, or third-party tracking.
Research lineage
Inspired by serious academic work on social attention, while staying clear about what the game does and does not claim.
Custom editions
Commission a white-label version, custom portrait set, embedded edition, or dedicated static deployment.
Who it is for
A small SaaS product for people who already have an audience.
Therapists, coaches, and practitioners
A gentle exercise to offer between sessions, after a reflective conversation, or as part of a broader practice library.
Courses, workshops, and retreats
A memorable activity that gives participants something to do after the insight lands.
Mental health and social-impact organizations
A polished, self-contained digital tool that can sit alongside campaigns, newsletters, resource pages, and community programs.
Publishers and quiz builders
A smart next step after content about stress, self-perception, trust, social confidence, or attention habits.
Licensing paths
Start simple, or make it yours.
Fastest
Hosted link
Point your audience to a hosted Smiling Faces edition with approved framing and your agreed use case.
Most useful
Embedded edition
Place the game inside your site or program experience, with licensing terms for your audience and usage context.
Most custom
White-label deployment
Use your domain, brand treatment, copy, selected settings, and optional commissioned portrait direction.
Research and real life use
Serious roots. Simple experience.
Smiling Faces is an independent attention exercise inspired by academic research and the experiences of our real life users. The research explored whether repeated practice finding positive faces among negative ones could shift patterns of social attention.
People who use Smiling Faces often describe the effect in everyday terms: after enough rounds, they find themselves noticing smiling people in ordinary places before they get pulled toward colder expressions.
Responsible by design
Commercial does not have to mean overclaiming.
Smiling Faces is sold as a licensable attention-practice game, not as a clinical product. It does not diagnose, score mental health, replace professional support, or claim to treat a condition.
That restraint is part of the product. It makes the game easier to recommend, easier to place, and easier to adapt for careful audiences.
Licensing inquiries
Want Smiling Faces for your audience?
Tell us who you serve, how you would like to use it, and whether you are imagining a hosted link, embedded edition, or custom deployment.
Current trial edition: play.getsmilingfaces.com