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, especially for adhd, mood, chronic illness and big feelings. it's a journal, not a treatment.

small skills

tracking alone rarely changes how you feel, but pairing it with a brief skill can help (Astill Wright et al., 2026; Everitt et al., 2021). so after a heavy check-in there's one short thing to try if you'd like: slow breathing, 5-4-3-2-1, one tiny step (Bralee et al., 2025; Fincham et al., 2023). always skippable.

no streaks to break

points and streaks haven't been shown to help mental health apps work better or keep people using them (Cheng & Ebrahimi, 2023; Six et al., 2021), and stepping away for a while is a normal part of tracking (Epstein et al., 2015). so there's no red "missed", the cairn only grows, and you're welcomed back.

focus helpers

adults with adhd describe wanting quiet, flexible support over pressure and deadlines (Chen et al., 2026; Deshmukh, 2025). so there are fewer choices at once, shorter forms and one thing at a time. this research is still early, so treat these as helpers, not a treatment.

easy to keep up

people log less as it gets more effortful, and many stop using mental health apps within months (Astill Wright et al., 2026; Liu et al., 2025). so it's one tap or one sentence, with only the reminders you choose.

references

Astill Wright, L., Shajan, G., Purewal, D., Stone, J., Majid, M., Guo, B.-L., & Morriss, R. (2026). Mood monitoring, mood tracking, and ambulatory assessment interventions in depression and bipolar disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. JMIR Mental Health, 13, Article e84020. https://doi.org/10.2196/84020
Bralee, E., Mostazir, M., Warren, F. C., Newbold, A., Hulme, C., Cranston, T., Aas, B., Bear, H., Botella, C., Burkhardt, F., Ehring, T., Fazel, M., Fontaine, J., Frost, M., García-Palacios, A., Greimel, E., Hößle, C., Hovasapian, A., Huyghe, V. E., . . . Watkins, E. R. (2025). Brief use of behavioral activation features predicts benefits of self-help app on depression symptoms: Secondary analysis of a selective prevention trial in young people. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000917
Chen, J.-R., Meng, Y.-B., & Nie, K.-X. (2026). "Not just me and my to-do list": Understanding challenges of task management for adults with ADHD and the need for AI-augmented social scaffolds. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3816978
Cheng, C., & Ebrahimi, O. V. (2023). Gamification: A novel approach to mental health promotion. Current Psychiatry Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-023-01453-5
Deshmukh, R. (2025). Toward neurodivergent-aware productivity: A systems and AI-based human-in-the-loop framework for ADHD-affected professionals. In Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3750069.3750114
Epstein, D. A., Ping, A., Fogarty, J., & Munson, S. A. (2015). A lived informatics model of personal informatics. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2804250
Everitt, N., Broadbent, J., Richardson, B., Smyth, J., Heron, K. E., Teague, S. J., & Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M. (2021). Exploring the features of an app-based just-in-time intervention for depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.05.021
Fincham, G. W., Strauss, C., Montero-Marín, J., & Cavanagh, K. (2023). Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials. Scientific Reports, 13, Article 432. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-27247-y
Liu, C., Torous, J., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Messer, M., Anderson, C., Soliman, O. I., & Linardon, J. (2025). Uptake, adherence, and attrition in clinical trials of depression and anxiety apps: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3439
Six, S. G., Byrne, K., Tibbett, T. P., & Pericot-Valverde, I. (2021). Examining the effectiveness of gamification in mental health apps for depression: Systematic review and meta-analysis. JMIR Mental Health, 8(11), Article e32199. https://doi.org/10.2196/32199

found with consensus. more in the app, under what's new › 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.

oratio on iphone, turning a sentence into a task, a new slider tracker, and a page to open

pick your stone

every theme in tabula is a stone. system follows your device, limestone by day and basalt by night, and you can swap in any of the others.

tabula on mac in the limestone theme, zoomed in — **limestone**light

tabula on mac in the marble theme, zoomed in — **marble**light

tabula on mac in the sandstone theme, zoomed in — **sandstone**light

tabula on mac in the basalt theme, zoomed in — **basalt**dark

tabula on mac in the slate theme, zoomed in — **slate**dark

tabula on mac in the obsidian theme, zoomed in — **obsidian**dark

shown on mac, zoomed in so you can read them. every stone works the same on iphone.

every tracker you'd otherwise download

everything you need stays free. start with the basics and add only what you use.

daily log

a page for every day. bullets, events, and notes you can tick off, with a badge for the moon and weather.

trackers of every kind

habits, counters and amounts, plus sliders, star ratings, times, durations, and one or several choices. build your own, or just tell oratio.

mood & energy

quick check-ins with the whole feelings wheel (free), in your own words, charted across the month so patterns show up.

health & medication

symptoms and medication on a calendar, with morning, lunch, and dinner slots. a journal, never medical advice.

gym

programs, today's workout, and your progress over time. even a boulder rests, so rest days count too.

work & study

projects, courses, focus sessions, and references, with zotero connected for your reading list.

books

a library with reading progress, ratings, and pages read each day, with a themed cover for every genre.

notes & pages

markdown notes, tables, and todos, plus starting points like project, meal plan, study, and gratitude.

tarot & oracles

draw cards and journal each reading. rider–waite is built in, and i ching too, with readers that think on your device.

chores

a cleaning calendar that remembers what's due and how long it's been.

budget

keep an eye on spending alongside everything else, without opening another app.

make it yours

six stone themes, serif titles, an opendyslexic option, widgets and shortcuts. sharing your own widgets is free for everyone.

aurum

your tabula is a blank slate, and aurum gilds it. everything you need stays free. aurum adds a few extras and helps keep tabula going. monthly, yearly, or once for good.

five profiles: up to 5 separate tabulas (for work, school or someone else), each syncing to your devices. free tabula has one.
a year of backups: every week's automatic backup kept for a year, instead of the last four, in your icloud drive
make it your own: themes of your own, saved and named; fonts you add; your own accent colour; a photo behind the page; a see-through window
community widgets: bring in widgets other people have made and shared, each previewed before it goes on your page
the oracles: pythia, hestia and diogenes read your tarot spreads and i ching hexagrams with your question in mind. 5 obols a day (one per question), and a handful, a pouch, a sack or a chest more if you need them
the annals: your year in one place: every day you wrote, your moods month by month, habits and best runs, books finished and the cards that kept turning up
aurum decks: tarot decks drawn for tabula, only with aurum, as each one arrives. artist decks are separate: anyone can buy those
smart deck upload: turn a folder of card images into a tarot deck of your own
a year in the trash: deleted things wait a year instead of 30 days

monthlyyearlylifetime · a founding pillar

the people behind it

a small, stubborn crew making one calm place for everything you keep track of.

salt

founder · admin

the one who started it all. keeps the vision steady, the lights on, and the coffee warm.

Katherine Lin-Chen

concept artist

drew tabula's look: the logo, the stones and cairns, the obol purses, and most of the art you see in the app. if something feels just right, that's her.

nick

finance · logistics

makes the numbers add up and the moving parts move. keeps everything on track.

pyu

manager

herds the ideas, the deadlines, and the cats. the reason it all ships.

come along

tabula is in a closed beta with friends. tell me a little about you to join, and say hi in the discord.

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