LighterMind Planner & Journal

Your life, organized

Free · In‑App Purchases

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. Terms of Use: https://lightermind.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://lightermind.app/privacy/ 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.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

LighterMind 1.6 helps your plans reach other people, and paper. • Share an entry: invite someone to a packing list, a plan, a memory; it stays in sync on their devices too. Free for everyone. • Apple Pencil drawings: sketch and handwrite on a full-page canvas; strokes snap to clean shapes, and handwriting becomes searchable, transcribed on-device • Reminders: on any entry or ahead of a time block, with snooze right from the notification • T-shirt sizes: size checklist items and see how long what's left will take • AI agents on your Mac: opt in to let agents like Claude read and write your entries over a connection that never leaves your machine • Anonymous usage stats: help decide what we build next; opt-out, and never anything you write Plus sturdier entry saving, tidier checklists, and fixes throughout. Fixed in 1.6.1 • Sharing an entry could leave it empty. If you shared something since 1.6 and its text disappeared, this stops it happening again. • Manage Sharing and Stop Sharing disappeared once an entry was shared. They now stay available for as long as it is shared. • Calendars you had hidden reappeared on Home after visiting the Planner. • The Planner ignored calendar changes made in Settings while it was open. • Setting a reminder while writing an entry now tells you if notifications are switched off, instead of saving one that could never arrive. • Entries edited by an AI agent keep their reminders, and reports keep their fields and tags.

The developer, Matthew Tempinski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Purchases
    • Location
    • Usage Data

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Seller
  • Matthew Tempinski
Size
  • 17.2 MB
Category
  • Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.2 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.2 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 18.2 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.2 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 2.2 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © 2026 Matthew Tempinski