Organize your life and work on your own computer.

Free, no cloud — and helping the planet while you're at it.

Projects, tasks, roadmap, calendar and shopping list in a single app — one that runs entirely on your machine, with no account and no charge. And what it raises goes to the people bringing patches of land back to life around the world.

Linux · macOS · Windows — no card, no trial, no catch.

A Trello, Notion, Asana and Todoist alternative.

Your projects stay on your machine
Simple Life Kanban board with To Do, In Progress and Done columns
v1.0 · updates included
Three promises, and that's it

What Simple Life guarantees you

On your own computer

Everything you write stays in a file on your machine — one you can copy, keep or take away whenever you want. Works offline, with no account and no login.

Free, forever

No paid plan, no "trial period", no feature locked behind a paywall. Nothing here depends on you paying later.

And it helps the planet

No server running all day on your behalf — and what the app raises goes to projects bringing land back to life, through oazis.earth.

See how it works →
Projects and boards

From idea to task, without losing yourself in tabs

Each project becomes subprojects, and each subproject gets its own Kanban board. Drag cards between columns, set dates and priorities — all local, all instant.

  • Drag and drop between columns, no stutter
  • Card dates become Roadmap and Calendar on their own
  • Instant search with Ctrl+K, from any screen
Kanban board
Roadmap & calendar

Your whole week, in one place

Every card with a date shows up automatically in the calendar view, pulling all your projects together — without copying anything twice.

  • Views by day, week or month
  • Drag the bar to adjust dates right there
  • Filter by project when you want to focus
Weekly calendar view with activity bars
Shopping list

Buying helps regenerate too

Mark a card or subtask as a shopping item and it shows up grouped by project. Hover to see offers from partner stores — without leaving the app.

  • Grouped by project and subproject
  • Partner store offers, only when you want to see them
  • Most of the commission goes to restoring land
Shopping list with a partner store offer and a note about the commission

Every task the cloud processes has a server running all day long, waiting for you to open the app. Simple Life doesn't ask that of the planet — it's the greenest, most sustainable personal organization and planning app out there.

No constant syncing

Your data lives in a local file. Nothing is sent, checked or replicated on every click.

Local backup, no third party involved

Automatic snapshots stay on your own computer — restorable at any moment, without depending on another company.

Software that isn't asking to grow

No engagement metrics to maximize. The point is for you to close the app and go live the life you organized in it.

oazis.earth

A network of land carers and regenerators

Simple Life is tied to oazis.earth: a way of turning your day-to-day organizing into direct support for the people planting, rebuilding soil and caring for patches of land around the world — families and groups doing it in practice, every day.

Simple Life is non-profit: after covering its own operating costs, any profit goes to restoration projects around the world through the oazis.earth network.
Regenerate page showing m² on their way back to life and places awaiting contribution
Michel Bottan, creator of Simple Life
Who makes it

Michel Bottan

Founder of Desperto, Território de Práticas Regenerativas

Michel spent a good part of his life in tech, he even founded his own company, until, in 2017, he decided to flip the switch and go live off the land.

In 2016 he went to study directly with Ernst Götsch, the creator of syntropic farming. From there, it was almost ten years of hands in the soil, learning firsthand what it means to grow forest and food together.

Today he runs Desperto (desperto.earth), in Caçapava, in the countryside of São Paulo, where he hosts people to learn, plant, and imagine other ways of living, and keeps using programming as a tool for regeneration, just now with his feet and hands on the ground, literally.

I wanted a simple tool for projects, tasks, and a schedule that didn't force me to hand my data over to anyone's cloud or pay a monthly fee for it. I couldn't find one that worked the way I needed, so I built my own. I figured that, besides serving me, it could also serve the planet, by spreading the word about people who, like me, work toward regenerating the land.

Why Simple Life exists

Simple Life is a sibling of another project of mine, Oazis, which brings together ecological restoration projects around the world.

No fine print

How it compares to Trello and Notion

Trello and Notion are great — they just live on their cloud, not on your machine. Here's the difference, no spin.

Simple Life Trello Notion
Requires an account No Yes Yes
Where your data lives On your computer On their cloud On their cloud
Works without internet Yes No No
Has a paid plan Never Yes Yes
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Download for your system

Same version, same features, on any system — free, forever, no account and no cloud. Leave your email if you'd like to hear about updates; if not, that's fine too, just go ahead and download.

Linux

.deb · .AppImage · .rpm

100–148 MB, depending on the format

Windows

.exe installer

116 MB

macOS

.dmg (Apple Silicon)

143 MB

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