A platform for principles.
A map of manifestos.
Collect, curate, reflect and share the wisdom, values and principles that improve your life.
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart
- It's not about me: In the end, it’s all about the audience, not us. The audience just wants to see a performance.
- Do something physical: Before a performance do something physical, like going for a brisk walk or doing a little dance.
- Accept that there’s fear and enjoy it!:Rather than worrying about making mistakes, or what people might dislike, think about your favourite and most enjoyable parts and what people will truly love
- Thoughts are just words: I am a thought generation machine. It's what we humans excel at. Sometimes I get thoughts like "I can't do that", say. It's a thought, a string of words generated by some aspect of me
- No control: I don't have control over much in life. Pretty much none, if I think hard enough. Roll with it.
- Bias towards action:Do. Or don't do, don't try. Nothing comes of not doing.
A Quick Tour
Lanterns.app is beautifully crafted to help you find, retain and reflect on words that matter.
List of Lanterns
Either subscribe to an existing deck of dates, or easily grow your own over time as you encounter new dates.
As Much Detail As You Want
A Lantern can consist of just a title. If you want, you can tag your lanterns, add them to lists, and add source information.
Rich Lists
Categorise Lanterns into lists, and create lists for each use case, such as business principles, life tenets and so on.
Daily Reflection
Each day, reflect on a number of your Lanterns. During each reflection, you can optionally journal, edit, add a new Lantern, or just move on.
Lanterns.app has loads of useful features to help you connect with ideas that matter, and to make them part of your life.
Wisdom is all around us - but we so often lose a meaningful phrase, forget a useful lesson, or fail to make these lanterns part of our lives. Lanterns.app changes that.
Hold on to Wisdom
Whenever you encounter a piece of advice, or principle, which resonates with you - add it to your existing collection in Lanterns.app.
Daily Reflection
Lanterns.app encourages daily reflection - a few minutes of quiet time when you visit a subset of your Lanterns and think about each item.
Morning Bell
You can wake up each morning to a Lantern randomly selected from one of your lists. Some of our customers use this for morning affirmations.
Insights
You can view your progress towards integrating Lanterns in your life, including statistics on your daily reflection.
Make It Yours
You can curate your Lanterns into lists that make sense to you, across a wide variety of topics: from mental health to business principles.
Shared Wisdom
View lists of Lanterns from Marcus Aurelius to Bill Gates, and create and share your own to help others.
Easy Import
You can type in your lanterns, scan them from photos, or for the technically inclined, import them as Markdown.
Quietly Social
You can follow a user who has wonderful Lanterns that resonate with you, but we won't show you a wall of updates. Lanterns are central, not personalities.
Widgets
Use app widgets to show a streak reminder, encouraging you to reflect each day, or to show a random Lantern of the hour.
Our Pricing Plans
(And a little about why we charge)
Plans
Monthly
$1.99
USD / mo
- Unlimited learning
- Full mobile app access
- Access to public lists
- App updates
Why we charge
No Hidden Pricing
- We are a principled company, very much against hidden costs and hidden ways of taxing users by selling their data. At Lanterns.app, your data is your data, and we don't need to sell it, or you.
Sustainability
- We want to ensure that Lanterns.app continues to evolve to meet your needs, without uncertainty in our future about alternative funding or hidden costs. Minimal, recurring subscription pricing, helps us achieve this.
Team
- We are a small, committed team. We have big plans for the future, and having a secure, sustainable way to achieve them via a subscription model, lets us go out and do the work in helping all of you live better lives.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, email us at feedback@lanterns.app with any questions.
Is Lanterns.app available in all countries?
Yes—Lanterns is available in all countries in the Apple App Store or Google Play. Our USD prices are automatically converted by Google and Apple. Visit Lanterns.app in the App Store or Google Play to see your localised pricing.
Is Lanterns.app available in my language?
Unfortunately probably not yet. We have some base support for it, and are working towards a localised interface, but as of now, Lanterns is only available in English. Of course, you can create Lanterns in your own language. We definitely want to achieve full support for more languages.
Is Lanterns.app available on the web?
Lanterns is primarily an app for iOS and Android devices. However, we are working on making all shared, public lists of lanterns available on the web.
Is Lanterns.app free?
Lanterns is free to begin with (for a few weeks), but after that, no, we do charge. See our pricing section to understand why.