Loftie · Henry

Every other AI wants more of your attention.
Henry wants less.

Henry lives in the Loftie app. You type in whatever is on your mind. He keeps it. Then he shows you almost none of it back. The point is to carry less, not to build a bigger pile.

Try all of Henry free for 30 days

After that the basics stay free, and membership is $9.99 a month. Already a Loftie+ member? Henry is included, at the price you pay now.

An oil portrait of Henry: a bearded man in a dark coat and a cream neckerchief, with a dry half-smile

Who Henry is

In 1845, a man named Henry David Thoreau built a cabin by a pond. It was ten feet wide and fifteen feet long. He moved in to find out how little he really needed.

He wrote: “Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” He meant that we lose our lives to small stuff.

He never saw a phone. We named an AI after him anyway.

What he actually does

One

You put it down. He keeps it.

Whatever is stuck in your head. The thing you keep meaning to do. The thing you keep turning over at night. There is no filing. No tags. No title. No folder to pick. You type it and it is out of your head. That was the only job that mattered.

Two

He shows you almost none of it back.

Most notes apps are a pile that only grows. Henry works the other way round. A few things come up this week. The rest goes away. Away does not mean deleted. Ask for any of it and it comes right back. You should be carrying less, not saving more.

Three

He reminds you when you said.

Tell him Thursday at 3 and your phone buzzes Thursday at 3. On iPhone a place works too: "remind me when I get home." You never set an alarm or pick a date from a wheel.

Call the dentist about Thursday.

Everything we make takes something away

People say you cannot sell someone less. That is true, right up until you are carrying too much. Then less is the only thing you want. And almost nobody sells it.

Flip cuts your home screen down to five apps. Rest blocks the apps you pick, on a schedule you set. The Loftie Card blocks them the second you tap it. Henry takes away the pile in your head.

Flip and Rest are free. The Card costs $59.99 once, and there is no subscription. Henry's basics are free too. His membership is the only monthly price we have, because the full Henry costs us money each time you use him. You never need it to use the rest.

Why Henry costs money

Free AI

You are the input.

Their business runs on your attention. Every choice in the design is meant to keep you in the app a little longer. It works.

We are a small, family-owned company. Nobody pays us for your attention. You do. And we do not sell your data.

Thirty days of all of Henry, free.

Then the basics stay free, and membership is $9.99 a month. Or not.

Get the app

On Android? Get it on Google Play.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

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