Lantern started with a question that took us a year to phrase right: what would a happiness tracker look like if it was designed for the day you're actually having?
Most "wellbeing apps" are built for the wellbeing app's metric. Streak counts. Open rates. Daily nudges. They want you to come back. We wanted the opposite — something that respects how little time you have, and how much trust you've spent on apps that haven't earned it.
So Lantern is small on purpose. One slider for today's energy. A handful of tags for what you did. A line of text, if you have one. Done. We don't gamify it. We don't summarize your soul with a number. We just keep the light. After two weeks, you start to see how to add more happy on purpose.
The goal is more happy, more often. Mindfulness in the moment turns into design over time.