Plan like paper.
Finish like a pro.
kata is a weekly planner with the power of a project manager. Your whole week on one page, every task with a home, and a score that tells you what you actually finished.
- Syncs privately with iCloud
- No account needed
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Everything a paper planner does. Then everything it can’t.
Seven ideas, each with its own page. Read the ones you care about, or just download kata and start on Monday.
Week view
Seven days on one scrolling page. Unfinished tasks roll forward. Pin a project to the foot of the week.
How the week works →Projects & deadlines
Every task has a home: the Inbox, a project or an area. Each project has a colour, a timeline and a finish line.
Projects, areas and headings →List or board
Flip any project into a kanban board with one tap. Headings become columns.
See both views →Insights & execution score
One number for the week: planned versus done. Streaks, activity, and where your work went.
How the score works →Widgets
Your score, your next task and today’s list on your home screen, the first two on your lock screen. Tick tasks off without opening the app.
All five widgets →Calendar, reminders & repeats
Your calendar’s events sit on the page beside your tasks. Reminders come only when you ask for them.
Events, times and repeats →iCloud sync & privacy
Your data lives in your own iCloud. No kata account, no kata server, nothing to sell.
Private by design →Natural-language quick add · Inbox and Someday · Dark mode · Search · Multi-select · Trash with undo
Your whole week, one page.
Paper planners work because you can see Monday and Sunday at once. kata keeps that page and adds what paper never could: tasks that roll forward, projects that colour-code themselves, and a Someday list at the bottom of the scroll — or pin a project there instead, so this month’s big thing is always one scroll away.
Just type it. kata does the rest.
Write a task the way you’d say it. kata reads the day, the time and the repeat, shows you what it understood so you can tap away anything it got wrong, and files the task where you were standing: in the project you had open, on the day you had open, or in the Inbox.
Projects with a finish line.
Structure is the database; time is the view. Every task has a home — the Inbox, a project or an area — and a project can sit in an area or on its own. Complete a task on the week page and it is complete in the project too.
- Timeline and progress — a start, a deadline, and “4 of 10 done” at a glance.
- Headings — Design, Build, Launch. Sections in list view, columns in board view.
- Areas — Work, Home, Health. Group projects the way your life is grouped.
See what you actually get done.
The execution score is simple: of everything you planned this week, how much did you finish? It sits under the week’s title, on your widgets, and in Insights next to your streak and the places your work went.
Widgets that answer one question each.
“How am I doing?” “What’s next?” “What does today hold?” Five widgets for your home screen, two of them for the lock screen too, and you can tick tasks off right on the home screen.
All five widgets →
Just as good after dark.
A full dark mode designed with the same care — not an inverted theme.
Private by design.
kata syncs through your own iCloud account. kata has no server of its own and no access to your tasks — and there is no kata account to create.
- Encrypted by iCloud, in transit and at rest
- No account. No email. No password.
- No analytics on your content
Start your week on one page.
Download kata for iPhone. Your week syncs through your own iCloud.
Requires iOS 18 or later. kata is a subscription app; your data stays readable and exportable whatever you decide. Details on the App Store.