A new way to make each day happier

Grow your
happiness daily.

You can't change what you don't see. Lantern reveals which activities give you energy, which take it away, and how to design more happy days on purpose.

100% free 2 minutes a day Rooted in Stanford research
9:41
Tue · May 26
Today
warming
EMPTYSTEADYLIT UP
Quick log
What just happened?
ACTIVITY
Dinner w/ friends
Who
Sam, Maya, Jordan
Where
the kitchen
What
what I was doing
Things
the tools
NOTE
|
14 days in
Get to know yourself
6.4
30-DAY AVG
▲ rising
✷ PATTERN
Mornings with a run land +2.4 higher. Do more of those.
Set today’s energy
One slider. The lantern glows with you.
Adding more happy in
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The case for daily

Why track your
happiness daily?

It's hard to remember what makes us happy. By Friday, Monday is a blur. A mindful sentence a day, captured in the moment, turns into the most honest record you'll ever have of how you actually feel.

01 · notice
Notice what you'd otherwise forget.

The walk that lifted you. The meeting that drained you. How you felt, and why. Captured in the moment.

02 · patterns
Find your more-happy patterns.

After two weeks: top givers, top drainers, your best day of the week. After a month: real signal.

03 · design
Design more happy into your days.

When you can see what fills the tank, you can put more of it on the calendar.

How it works

Two minutes. Every evening.

Less time than a podcast intro, more honest than a journal. Fits inside the day you're already living.

TUE · MAY 26
Today
EMPTYSTEADYLIT UP
01

Set today's light.

One slider. The lantern dims or brightens with you, all the way from drained to lit up.

QUICK LOG
What just happened?
ACTIVITY
Dinner w/ friends
WHY DID IT FEEL THIS WAY?
Who
Sam, Maya, Jordan
Where
the kitchen, candles
What
what I was doing
Things
the tools or objects
NOTE

Sam, Maya, Jordan over for pasta. Candles on the table, music low. Two hours of laughing.

02

Tag what made the day.

Mark each activity, then tag four lenses — Who, Where, What, Things — so the patterns can find what really moved you.

14 DAYS IN
Your shape
30-DAY AVG
6.8
✷ PATTERN

Mornings with a run land +2.4 higher.

03

See your more-happy shape.

After two weeks, the patterns appear. After a month, you know what to keep doing, and what to design out.

The patterns view

Your real
happiness tracker.

What gives you energy. What drains it. Which days light up. The patterns that show you how to add more happy on purpose.

Energy heatmap
Last 30 days, at a glance.
Top givers / drainers
Ranked by average impact.
Day-of-week shape
Spot your real best day.
Body check-in
Optional. Sleep, movement, food — one tap each.
Cues, not nudges
Quiet suggestions, never push.
30-day glow · last month
Your energy shape
6.8
✷ TOP GIVER
Morning run · +2.4
⤓ TOP DRAINER
Scrolling feeds · −2.4
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I’d journaled for years. Lantern is the first happiness tracker that actually showed me how to put more good days back into my life.

Begin tonight.

Set up takes one minute. Start a daily happiness practice you'll actually keep.

Start tracking