LighterMind Planner & Journal

One app instead of five: your planner, journal, meal plans, checklists, and trackers in a single private feed. Free — no ads, no tracking, no account.

One app instead of five.

LighterMind pulls your planner, your journal, your meal plans, your lists, and the things you track into a single private feed - everything in one place, and off your mind.

No account. No cloud lock-in. Just your data, on your devices.

ONE FEED FOR EVERYTHING Time blocks, checklists, meal plans, journal entries, and notes flow through one chronological feed, organized by tags that work the way your mind does. Stop switching between five different apps.

PLANNER & TIME BLOCKING

• Month, week, and day views
• Time blocks with overlap detection
• Calendar integration and Home Screen widgets
• Deep links straight into the entry behind each block

JOURNALING & NOTES

• Freeform Markdown editor with live preview
• Multi-photo entries with rich galleries
• Threaded replies on entries
• Content blur and hidden entries for sensitive moments
• Auto-saved drafts; attach images, videos, and files

GUIDED JOURNALING - ON-DEVICE AI

• Reflections that respond to what you write: process a feeling, untangle the overwhelm, think through a decision
• Runs entirely on your device with Apple Intelligence - your words never leave your hands
• Saves into your journal like any other entry, and actionable flows end with a checklist of next steps (Requires a device with Apple Intelligence.)

MEAL PLANNING & NUTRITION

• Plan every meal for the whole household, person by person
• Import recipes from any website - ingredients, steps, and nutrition included
• Calories and macros on every meal, with daily totals checked against your targets
• USDA FoodData Central & Open Food Facts integration

CHECKLISTS & TASKS

• Multi-level nested checklists with due dates
• Drag-and-drop, quick-add, per-item notes and timestamps

CUSTOM TABLES & DASHBOARDS

• Build your own table schemas with typed fields
• Reports and dashboards: counts, sums, averages, and trends
• Drill into any number to see the entries behind it

POWERFUL ORGANIZATION Four kinds of tags:

• #topics group related entries
• @people track who's involved
• !events show up on your calendar
• plain tags for everything else

Tags are hierarchical, searchable, and visualizable. Search understands meaning, not just keywords - find anything across years of entries in seconds.

CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE

• Share links, photos, videos, and files into LighterMind from any app's share sheet
• Add entries hands-free with Siri
• Build Shortcuts that drop items onto checklists or log values to your tables

TEMPLATES & ROUTINES

• Save entries as reusable templates
• Daily, weekly, or monthly routines that spawn entries automatically
• Visual routine builder

PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST

• No account required - download and start writing
• Your data never leaves your devices unless you turn on iCloud sync
• Face ID, Touch ID, and Optic ID protection
• On-device AI: your reflections are never sent to a server

BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES

• Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Stage Manager, multi-window, keyboard shortcuts throughout
• Light and dark mode

Free - no ads, no tracking, ever.

Everything in one place. Nothing on your mind.