LighterMind Planner & Journal

Plan your day. Lighten your mind. Time blocks, reminders, checklists, backed by your journal, meal plans, and trackers in one private feed. Free to start, no account.

Plan your day. Lighten your mind.

LighterMind is a planner with a memory: time blocks, reminders, and checklists up front, backed by the journal, meal plans, and trackers that give your plan context. Everything flows through one private, chronological feed, organized by tags that work the way your mind does.

No account. Your entries never touch our servers. Just your data, on your devices.

PLAN YOUR DAY

Month, week, and day planner views Time blocks with overlap detection Reminders on any entry or ahead of a time block, with snooze right from the notification Calendar integration and Home Screen widgets

CHECKLISTS & TASKS

Multi-level nested checklists with due dates T-shirt-size your items and see how long what's left will take Drag-and-drop, quick-add, per-item notes and timestamps

TEMPLATES & ROUTINES

Save entries as reusable templates Daily, weekly, or monthly routines that spawn entries automatically

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

SHARE AN ENTRY

Invite someone to any entry: a packing list, a plan, a memory Edits sync on everyone's devices; stop sharing anytime Free for everyone

JOURNALING & NOTES

Freeform Markdown editor with live styling as you type Sketch and handwrite with Apple Pencil. Strokes snap to shapes, and handwriting is searchable Multi-photo galleries, threaded replies, auto-saved drafts Content blur and hidden entries for sensitive moments

GUIDED JOURNALING, ON-DEVICE AI

Reflections that respond to what you write: process a feeling, think through a decision Runs entirely on your device with Apple Intelligence, so your words never leave your hands Actionable flows end with a checklist of next steps (Requires a device with Apple Intelligence.)

CUSTOM TABLES & DASHBOARDS

Build your own tables with typed fields Reports and dashboards: counts, sums, averages, and trends 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 and searchable. 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 On a Mac, opt in to connect AI agents like Claude over a local-only connection

PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST

No account required. Download and start planning Your entries never leave your devices except through your own iCloud sync Shared entries go only to the people you invite, through Apple's iCloud, and we can't read them Face ID and Touch ID protection On-device AI: your reflections are never sent to a server

FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL PRO UPGRADE Notes, checklists, replies, tags, search, reminders, entry sharing, guided reflection, and iCloud sync are free. The app is fully usable without paying.

Pro adds time blocking and the planner widget, templates and routines, attachments, Apple Pencil drawings, nutrition, tag expansions, AI agents, and the structured entry types: data tables, recipes, meal plans, and reports.

LighterMind Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, offered monthly or annually. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.

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BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES

Universal for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Stage Manager, multi-window, and keyboard shortcuts throughout Free to start. No ads, no tracking, ever.

Your plan in one place. Nothing on your mind.