Oyster is a gratitude journaling service, provided by Grateful Oyster LLC, a Colorado company. We send you one text prompt a day. You reply with something you're grateful for (words, photos, or voice memos) and we keep your entries so they can become your journal. Joining takes about a minute: you pick the hour your daily text arrives, and your first week is free.
Oyster is $59 a year. New members start with a free week: you won't be charged during your trial, and we'll text you the day before it ends so nothing is ever a surprise. Reply CANCEL during your free week and you pay nothing at all. After your first year, your membership renews yearly at $59, and we'll text you before every renewal too. That's our standing promise: no charge ever arrives without a warning text first.
Members who joined during our founding era are free, always. That was the deal, and we keep our deals.
We don't offer refunds: the free week is for deciding, and every charge is announced before it happens. If we ever bill you in error, email us and we'll fix it.
By subscribing, you agree to receive one SMS per day from Oyster. Message and data rates from your carrier may apply. Message frequency is one message per day, plus replies to messages you send us. Reply STOP at any time to unsubscribe, or HELP for assistance. Consent to receive texts is not a condition of buying anything. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. For how we handle your information, see our privacy policy.
You own everything you write. We don't claim any rights over your journal entries beyond what we need to store them and show them back to you. We will never publish, sell, or share your entries. See our privacy policy for the full picture.
Use Oyster only for yourself, only if you're 18 or older, and only with your own phone number. Don't use Oyster to send anything unlawful or to harm anyone. We can suspend or close accounts that abuse the service.
You can stop anytime by replying STOP or asking us to delete your account. Stopping also stops any future charges. And even after you stop, your journal stays yours to read, because memories belong to the people who made them. We can also discontinue Oyster or any part of it; if we ever do, we'll give you notice and a way to get your entries out first. Your journal should never be hostage to our business decisions.
Oyster is a small, young service, provided as-is. We work hard to keep it running and to keep your entries safe, but we can't promise perfection, and we aren't liable for indirect damages or losses beyond what you've paid us in the past twelve months. Nothing in these terms removes rights that your local law guarantees you.
If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll tell you by text or email before the change takes effect. Continuing to use Oyster after that means you accept the new terms.