Welcome to Life OS. You’re early. Very early.
For the next week or two I would like you to use Life OS properly — plan your week, make projects, talk to the assistant, keep notes, write in the diary — and find out whether it actually helps.
Life OS is a personal productivity app that keeps your tasks, your calendar, your diary and your habits in one place.
Before you sign in, three things worth knowing.
Life OS is being built in the open and you are among the first people outside my own screen to use it. Things will break, some corners are unfinished, and a few will look odd on your particular phone.
None of that is your fault, and none of it is a reason to be polite about it.
If something breaks, looks strange, feels confusing, or could simply be better — send it. A half-formed “this felt weird” is more useful than silence, and small irritations are usually the ones that matter most.
There is a Send feedback button in Settings, and it will WhatsApp or email me with the build and the screen you were on already attached.
There is no Life OS subscription during this test. The only cost is the AI the assistant actually uses when you talk to it.
Your account has an allowance. What you have used and what is left are in Settings → AI usage, updated after every request, so there is nothing to discover later. If you reach it the assistant pauses — and the rest of Life OS carries on exactly as normal.
Everything else — tasks, projects, calendar, diary, library — never touches it.
Long enough to use it for real. Use it properly rather than carefully — that is the only way either of us learns anything.
Life OS uses your Google account to sign in. Nothing is posted anywhere, and connecting your calendar is optional and comes later.
Free during the beta · No card · Google Calendar optionalAnd if you have never seen Life OS before — here is what it actually is.
Organising your own life — the work you owe other people, the things you keep meaning to get to, and the few habits you are trying to hold on to.
It is built around one idea: the question worth answering every morning is what does today actually look like, and no single app usually knows. Your meetings are in one place, your tasks in another, and the thing you promised yourself you would do every day is in a third.
So Life OS puts your real calendar next to your real work. It knows Thursday already has three meetings before you promise yourself an afternoon of deep work. It keeps your diary and your notes beside the work they are about, and asks nothing of you beyond writing things down.
It is free. There is no advertising, no analytics, and no third-party tracking. Nothing you write is read, sold, or used to train anything. Life OS is built and run by one person — Zander van der Berg, in South Africa.
Seven surfaces, one workspace. Nothing here is a separate app you have to keep in step.
Optional, reversible, and explained in full before you agree to anything.