LighterMind Planner & Journal

Organize your life in one feed: journal, planner, meals, routines, checklists, dashboards, and notes. Private, local-first, no account required.

Your life, organized.

LighterMind is a private, local-first app for the whole shape of your life — what you're thinking, what you're planning, what you ate, what you're tracking. It's one feed for all of it, organized by tags that work the way your mind does.

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

Capture your day as it happens, organize it with powerful tags, and turn your data into meaningful insights.

JOURNALING & NOTES

• Freeform markdown editor with live preview
• Multi-photo journal entries with rich galleries
• Optional titles auto-generated from your first line
• Threaded replies on entries
• Hidden or sensitive entries with content blur
• Auto-saved drafts
• Attach images, videos, and files

CHECKLISTS & TASKS

• Multi-level nested checklists
• Due dates and completion tracking
• Drag-and-drop organization
• Quick-add items
• Per-item notes and timestamps

MEAL PLANNING & NUTRITION

• Full recipe support with ingredients and steps
• Import recipes from websites automatically
• Nutrition tracking with calories and macros
• USDA FoodData Central & Open Food Facts integration
• Daily calorie targets
• Multi-person meal planning

PLANNER & TIME BLOCKING

• Month, week, and day planner views
• Time blocks with overlap detection
• Calendar integration
• Home screen widgets for current and upcoming blocks
• Deep links directly into entries

CUSTOM TABLES & DASHBOARDS

• Build reports and dashboards from your own data
• Track KPIs including counts, sums, averages, and trends
• Create your own table schemas with custom fields
• Drill into reports to see the entries behind the numbers

POWERFUL ORGANIZATION Four ways to tag, three of them you've never seen:

• #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. Full-text search with advanced filters lets you find anything across years of entries in seconds.

TEMPLATES & ROUTINES

• Save entries as reusable templates
• Daily, weekly, or monthly recurring routines
• Visual routine builder
• Automatically spawn scheduled entries

PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST

• No account required
• Your data never leaves your devices unless you ask it to
• iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Face ID, Touch ID, and Optic ID protection
• Per-entry content blur for sensitive information
• API keys securely stored in iCloud Keychain

BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES

• Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Stage Manager support on iPad
• Multi-window support on Mac
• Keyboard shortcuts throughout
• Light and dark mode support

Whether you're journaling, planning your week, tracking nutrition, organizing routines, or building a personal knowledge system, LighterMind adapts to the way you think.

No subscription to get started. No ads, ever.

Clear mind. Organized life.