Text messaging
Texting with Penny.
pennytalk offers an optional SMS program: talk with Penny, our AI companion, over two-way text message and receive occasional check-ins. This page documents how the program and its opt-in work.
The program
What you receive.
Messages are conversational: you text Penny reflections or questions and she replies with supportive messages. If you opt in, Penny also sends check-in texts on the schedule you choose (every few days by default, at the hour you pick). Message frequency varies and is driven primarily by your own texting. Message and data rates may apply. Check-ins and any promotional texts are never a condition of using pennytalk — and if you stop all texts, your account and history remain fully available on this website.
Opt-in
How you opt in.
The primary opt-in happens during signup on this website:
- 1. Tell Penny your name and, if you like, try a short conversation with her at pennytalk.ai/signup, then enter your US mobile number.
- 2. Agree to the consent text shown with the number field. On the conversation-first signup you agree by tapping “Text me a code” directly beneath it; on the question-first signup you check a consent box that is unchecked by default and required to continue. Both are reproduced verbatim below.
- 3. Confirm the 6-digit code Penny texts you. No code, no account — the number is verified before any other message is sent.
- 4. Reply STOP to any message to stop all texts, or remove your number under Settings → Text with Penny (the same place an account without a number can opt in later, with its own unchecked-by-default consent box).
Signup consent, conversation-first signup (verbatim)
By entering your number and tapping Text me a code, you agree to get texts here: Penny’s replies and a check-in every few days. You’re also confirming you’re 18 or older and agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. Message frequency varies; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to cancel, HELP for help. Penny is not a clinician or emergency service.
Visitors who arrive from a daily check-in page see “every day” in place of “every few days”.
Signup consent, question-first signup (verbatim)
I’m 18 or older, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy, and I agree to receive texts from pennytalk at this number — replies and a daily check-in I can change or turn off anytime. Message frequency varies; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to cancel, HELP for help. Penny is not a clinician or emergency service.
The secondary opt-in, for accounts without a number, lives in account settings (login required) and looks like this:
Text with Penny
Add your US mobile number to text with Penny and get occasional check-ins.
I agree to receive conversational text messages and occasional check-ins from Penny at this number. Message frequency varies; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. See our privacy policy.
Preview of the consent step in account settings (login required for the live version). The checkbox is unchecked by default and must be checked to save a number.
Opt-out & help
Stopping texts.
Reply STOP to any message to opt out immediately (reply START to rejoin). Reply HELP for help, or email hello@pennytalk.ai. You can also remove your number under Settings → Text messaging. We never sell your mobile number, and we do not share your mobile number or SMS consent with third parties or affiliates for their marketing.
Full details: privacy policy and terms of service.