A platform for principles.

A map of manifestos.

Collect, curate, reflect and share the wisdom, values and principles that improve your life.

A Quick Tour

Lanterns.app is beautifully crafted to help you find, retain and reflect on words that matter.

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.

Free to start

Our Pricing Plans

(And a little about why we charge)

Plans

Monthly

$1.99

USD / mo

Buy Monthly
  • 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.