One default view: today
Week view on swipe. No All Tasks screen.
Minimalist
A Minimalist Planner App That's Actually Minimal
Not a stripped Notion. Not a Todoist hidden behind a clean theme. A planner that does one thing — your day — and then gets out of the way.
The problem
"Minimalist" is the most lied-about word in productivity software. Most apps that call themselves minimalist hide their complexity behind a cleaner theme — beige instead of blue, more whitespace, a sans-serif that looks like a magazine. You install them, briefly admire the screenshots, and within a week you're back to managing projects, tags, filters, smart lists, recurring templates, and a notification settings screen with thirty toggles. The aesthetic was minimalist; the product underneath was a typical task manager with an expensive design hire.
True minimalism in a planner isn't visual. It's scope. It's the app refusing to do things, not the things it does being made to look prettier. The line between "looks minimal" and "is minimal" is whether the second screen — the one nobody screenshots — still hides folders, custom fields, and integrations that you'll eventually have to maintain.
How Lunelo solves it
Lunelo doesn't have projects. It doesn't have tags. It doesn't have folders, custom fields, smart lists, recurring-template panels, or a settings screen with eighty options. It has tasks, a today view, and a microphone. The settings page has fewer than twenty options total, and most of them are accessibility toggles, not configuration. There is no "advanced" tab.
Capture is one tap. Speak the task. AI handles the structure — title, date, time, priority, subtasks if useful — in roughly one second. No form to fill out. No date picker to roll. No keyboard at all unless you specifically want one. The whole capture flow is "press, talk, release," and the structured task is sitting on today by the time you've put the phone back down.
The today view is the only view by default. Week view exists if you swipe to it. There is no "all tasks" screen because there is no version of your life where seeing two hundred tasks at once is helpful — that screen exists in other planners to drive engagement, not because anyone uses it productively. History is searchable when you actually need to find something, but it's something you go to deliberately, not the wall that greets you on open.
Features built around this
Voice → structured task
One second to title, date, priority, subtasks.
No projects, no tags, no folders
Tasks have priority and a date. That's it.
Soft serif typography
Generous whitespace. Light and dark themes.
Settings under 20 options total
Mostly accessibility, not configuration.
Compared to other tools
Things 3 is the closest competitor on aesthetic — it shares the same typographic restraint, the same quiet motion, the same instinct that whitespace is a feature. Where Lunelo goes further: Things has projects and areas, which is a hierarchy that grows on you and eventually demands maintenance; Lunelo refuses both. Things is a one-time purchase of $9.99 with no AI parsing, which makes the typed capture flow the only capture flow; Lunelo's AI parsing is its core differentiator and is what makes voice-first capture actually work in practice.
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Frequently asked
Doesn't every planner claim to be minimalist?
Yes, and most of them aren't. The test is: does the app have projects? Tags? Folders? Custom fields? If yes — not minimalist, regardless of how the visual design looks.
What if I really do need to manage projects?
Then Lunelo is the wrong tool. Use Notion or ClickUp. Lunelo is built for people who've tried that route and burned out on the overhead.
Can I search across all my tasks?
Yes, search works across today, week, and history. There just isn't a 'browse 500 tasks' experience because we don't think it's useful.
How do I capture an idea I don't want to do today?
Speak it with a future date or no date. It lives in the inbox until you assign it a day, but the inbox isn't the default screen — it's something you go to deliberately.
Is the simplicity hiding a paywall?
No. The simplicity is the product. Premium adds analytics and AI insights, not features that should be free.
One day. One screen. One mic.
Free to start. No account. No tracking SDKs.