closed beta · v0.2.1 · gypsum

one app to track them all.

the nearly-everything app.

habits, mood, sleep, water, workouts, books, medication, and more, together in one calm place on mac and iphone.

no account
no ads or tracking
ai that stays on your device
your own private icloud

join the closed beta about tabula

a blank slate, on purpose

tabula is latin for a writing tablet: the wax kind that could be smoothed clean and written on again. that idea is the heart of the app. every day opens blank, and you decide what goes on it.

it's shaped by stoic philosophy too: pay attention to what's in your control, look back honestly on the day, and let the rest go. the daily log, the mood check-ins, and the annals are all built for that small evening habit of reflection.

the other reason is practical. there are so many apps that track just one thing: one for habits, one for water, one for sleep, one for mood, one for workouts, one for books. i got tired of juggling fifty of them, so i built a single app that does all of it, and does each part properly. you only need one.

private by design

a journal holds your whole life: your moods, your health, your late-night thoughts. so tabula is built to never need them. there's no server on our side to send them to.

no account

nothing to sign up for, no password to lose, and no profile of you anywhere. open it and write.

your own icloud

your journal lives on your device. if you turn on sync, it goes to your private icloud, which only you can read.

ai on your device

the oracles and oratio run on apple's on-device model. what you say and write is never sent to us or anyone else, and you can turn either one off.

no ads, no selling

no ads, no trackers, nothing sold or shared. the only numbers we see are anonymous, and you choose how many.

what does leave your device?

only what a lookup needs, and never your journal.

weather. a rough position, to about a kilometre, goes to apple weather and apple maps.
lookups. a book's title or barcode goes to open library; a show to tvmaze; and so on, only when you use them.
anonymous counts. app version, device type, a few settings. no lasting id at the basic level, nothing you write, ever.

read the full privacy policy. it's written in plain words.

intelligence that stays home

two parts of tabula use ai. both run on apple's on-device model, the one built into your iphone or mac. there's no cloud model, no third-party ai, and no chatbot on a server somewhere. and if you'd rather not see them, oratio and the oracles can each be turned off.

oratio

say your day

talk or type, and as you go, what you said turns into what it will do, line by line. tick or untick, then one button logs it all, with undo. he can log trackers, medication, chores, spending and savings, add events, start projects, make pages and new trackers, log for yesterday, and answer from your tabula ("when did i last do the laundry?").

your voice is heard on the device by apple's speech analyzer, tuned by a small speech model each profile builds on the device from the words in your own tabula. nothing said is kept.
talk the way you talk. the asking, the filler and the shorthand (tmrw, gonna, w sam) are smoothed out first, so "can you add an event noting that im going out at 9pm" becomes going out, tonight at 9.
most of it is read by plain rules, so it works the same every time, even without apple intelligence. only what's left goes to the on-device model, and its answer is checked against your words.
he never logs something you say you didn't do ("didn't take my meds"), or a question ("did i drink enough water?"). you see what he understood before anything goes in.

the oracles

pythia · hestia · diogenes

readers for your tarot and i ching draws, and for the patterns in your journal. a mirror to think with, never advice.

your questions, cards and writing never leave your device, and are never used to train a model.
readings help you name a feeling, sort what's in your control, and end on one small step. they never diagnose, and never tell you to stop a treatment.
if something mentions self-harm, slang included, that's noticed on the device, word by word as a reading comes in. everything stops and tabula shows where to find help instead.
they're part of aurum: 5 questions a day, then a purse of obols for more. they need a device with apple intelligence; without one, everything else works as usual.

built on research

tabula follows what studies of self-tracking and mental health apps have found: small skills after a heavy day, no streaks to break, focus helpers for adhd, and logging that stays light. it's a journal, not a treatment.

read the research

how it works

everything you track lives on the same page, so a whole day takes a few taps.

your whole day on one page

write the log, tick off tasks, fill a glass of water, check off a habit, and log your sleep without leaving the page.

the day's medication and anything you're proud of sit right underneath.

the daily log on mac, with tasks, events, notes and trackers

the trackers page on iphone, with a mood chart and water rings

the same journal, in your pocket

see a month at a glance: mood over time, water rings, energy, and your habits across the month. tap to log from anywhere.

it syncs between your devices through your own private icloud.

say it, and it's sorted

"add that i need to get groceries tonight, spent 12 on lunch, and add a tracker for headaches from 1 to 10." oratio turns it into lines you can tick as you speak, then logs them with one button, and undo if you change your mind.

it understands every kind of tracker, so a new one can be a slider, a rating, a time, or a list of choices. all of it happens on your device.