Lani

Getting started with Lani

Welcome. Lani is your holistic life OS, and it’s here to help you plan, reflect, and support your wellbeing. Here’s how to get going in under five minutes.

Install

Download Lani from the App Store. Lani requires iOS 26 or later. The app is universal: it runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

Sign in

There are no accounts to make. Lani uses your iCloud account for sync — make sure iCloud Drive is on in Settings → [your name] → iCloud.

Open Lani once. Your data syncs across your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch through CloudKit’s private database. Nothing leaves Apple’s servers, nothing touches ours.

Onboarding

When you launch Lani the first time, you’ll go through a short setup:

  1. iCloud check — Lani confirms your iCloud account is signed in and available.
  2. Your name — what Lani should call you.
  3. Health permissions — opt in to read/write HealthKit data (sleep, heart rate, workouts, mindful minutes, cycle, etc.). Skippable.
  4. Notifications — opt in to gentle reminders for routines, tasks, and milestones. Skippable.
  5. Welcome — you’re in.

You can change any of these later in Settings.

The four tabs

Lani’s main navigation has four tabs:

  • Timeline — your day, woven from events, tasks, and routines. Three view modes:
    • Timeline — time-blocked view of your day, grouped by Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night.
    • List — a flat list of everything on the schedule for a chosen day.
    • Inbox — where unscheduled tasks live. Jot something down quickly when it comes to mind; come back later and weave it into your Timeline when you’re ready. Set it, don’t forget it.
  • Compass — goals, insights, reflections, and milestones. The reflective layer that connects everything.
  • Toolkit — seven tools you can reach for: Nutrition, Fitness, Health, Journal, Finance, Mindfulness, and Circle.
  • Create — a quick modal for capturing a new task or pulling a routine from the template library.

A typical day

Most days, you’ll spend the most time in Timeline — that’s where your scheduled day lives. Use Create to quickly capture a new task or kick off a routine. Pop into Compass to check progress on a goal or read an insight. Dip into the Toolkit when a specific tool fits the moment — logging a meal, starting a workout, jotting a journal entry, or doing a breathing session.

The idea is that the structure stays out of your way; the tools support you when you need them.

Next steps