Now in private beta

A companion for variable days.

Familiar is a planning, habit, and wellbeing companion that adapts to how you’re feeling. You tell it how today is going, and it shapes the day around that: what it suggests, where things land on your calendar, how much it asks of you.

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The four familiars, a cat, a fox, a bunny, and a small dragon, sitting together in warm light.

Some days you can do a lot. Some days one small thing is the whole day.

Energy comes and goes, focus shows up late or not at all, and a plan made on a good morning meets a very different afternoon. Most tools expect you to be the same person every day, and count what didn’t happen when you aren’t.

Familiar starts from a different place. It asks how today is going, and works with the answer. The whole point is to take some of the mental effort out of managing everyday life: remembering, planning, deciding what’s next, and noticing what helps.

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Familiar’s home screen: two concentric dials for energy and mood with a cat familiar in the center, and a short line reading ‘Steady now ⚡ room to spare.’

How it works

It starts with how you’re feeling.

Open Familiar and two dials are waiting: energy and mood. Set them to wherever you are right now, in a second or two. Your familiar shifts to match: sleepy when you’re running on empty, bright-eyed when you’re up, soft and quiet when things feel heavy.

From there, the rest of the app takes its cue. Suggestions fit your capacity, and on an empty day anything draining stays off the list. Flexible things on your calendar move to fit your energy. A small gauge shows whether today’s plan leaves you room to spare or asks a lot of you. Whatever the day, you see the one or two things that would help right now, and the rest stays out of the way.

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What’s inside

Five quiet ideas, doing most of the work.

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Calendar week view with a flexible item moved to 4:30 PM and a small note: moved to match your energy right now.

A schedule that breathes.

Add something with a set time, or hand it to Familiar and say “find me a time.” It places flexible items around your fixed ones, keeps deadlines in view, and leaves room for the travel to get there. When your energy drops, today’s heavier items move to a better time, with a one-tap “Put it back.” Your Google Calendar and Familiar stay in step, so the day you see includes what was already on your calendar.

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A running timer on a phone lock screen: “Morning pages, 18:40 elapsed”.

Time you can feel.

Every activity comes with a timer that shows what you’re doing, how long you’ve been at it, and what’s next. Run it as a simple timer, in focus rounds, or with check-ins that ask now and then whether to keep going, check back in shortly, or wrap up. Running over gets you a grace window rather than an alarm. The timer stays in sight: in the app, in your browser tab, on your lock screen, and on your wrist.

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The Habits screen’s “Parts of you” grid: seven tiles, three with a small flame, one marked paused.

Habits built on who you are.

Familiar’s habits come in seven parts of you: Active, Mindful, Practical, Creative, Kind, Relaxed, and Connected. Log them with a tap, or let a finished calendar item log them for you. Being Connected might be a long dinner with a friend, or a text to say you’re thinking of them. Being Active might be a run, or a walk to the end of the street and back. A quiet day pauses a streak where it is, and it picks up again when you do. The habits you repeat show up as rhythms, and a rhythm can be tied to something that already happens in your day. Tie a stretch to breakfast, and once breakfast is logged, Familiar offers the stretch. Not now is always an answer.

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The Capture screen: a text field reading “What do you want to remember?” above a short queue of captured thoughts.

A place to put a thought.

Capture is always one tap away. Whatever is on your mind, type it or say it. Sort it later, when you have a moment: onto the calendar, into a habit, into your journal, or let it go. Nothing needs a decision the second it arrives.

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The Insights screen: a column of short observation cards, some with a small chart, the first reading “Active and Mindful tend to go together for you.”

Patterns, not scores.

Over time, Familiar notices things, like the walk that tends to leave you with more energy, or the half-hour task that usually takes forty-five minutes. They show up as short observations you can act on or ignore, and a recap puts each week, and each month, in one place.

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A bunny familiar curled up asleep.

When you need to step away, step away.

Tell Familiar you’re taking time off, for a weekend or for as long as you need, and it goes quiet: no suggestions, no wellness check-ins, nothing scheduled on your behalf. The things you’d regret missing, an appointment or a deadline, still reach you. Your streaks wait where they are. When you come back, a short welcome helps you go through whatever is still open, at your own pace, with no pressure to do any of it.

You never lose ground for being human.

Your familiar

A presence, not a mascot.

Choose a cat, fox, bunny, or dragon. It lives on your home screen, reflects how you’re feeling, and checks in with you in its own warm voice. It sleeps when your day ends and is up again when your day begins.

Meet your familiar

Made for days that don’t go to plan.

Familiar is for anyone whose intentions and actions don’t always line up, whatever the reason. Some of the people it’s built for live with ADHD, burnout, chronic illness, anxiety, or brain fog. Some are new parents, or caring for someone, or in a season that’s asking more of them than usual. Some are simply tired of tools that keep score. You don’t need a diagnosis, and you don’t need to use all of it.

When Familiar can help

Use as much or as little as you like.

Every feature in Familiar is optional. The journal, the wellness check-ins, automatic scheduling, the reminders: use what helps and leave the rest. Your familiar shows up either way.

Join the waitlist.

Familiar is in private beta, with people coming in a few at a time. Leave your email and you’ll get a note when there’s an invitation for you. No spam. No more than one email a month while Familiar is in beta.