Cadence is a calm planning workspace for the days that go to plan and the days that don't. Capture a thought before it disappears, give it a place when you're ready, and see your tasks, time, and routines together. Depth is there when you want it; a single line is enough to begin.
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Cadence is free and in beta. The changelog is the source of truth for shipped changes; the Terms explain the limits of the hosted service.
Find your way
Explore the app · Use it your way · Run it locally · How it's built · Contribute
Explore the app
| A place for… | What you can do |
|---|
| Capture | Set down thoughts and tasks with no day yet. Use natural language, keep a thought as a note, or place it on a suggested day later. |
| Today & Upcoming | See what belongs to this day and what is ahead. Carried-over work appears as Still open, without taking over the page. |
| Lists & tags | Give tasks context with lists, sections, subtasks, notes, and tags. Switch between rows and boards when that helps. |
| Schedule & Events | See tasks, routines, fixed time blocks, and events together across day, week, month, and year views. |
| Routines | Check in, skip a day, pause for a while, or add steps. Review your week or month without turning a missed day into a verdict. |
| Weekly Reset | Clear what has accumulated and step into the week with less on your mind. |
“Capture anything. Clarify later. Place when ready.”
Cadence also has Focus views, a searchable notification center, Trash with restore and permanent delete controls, and keyboard search with ⌘/Ctrl + K. On phones, the dock keeps Capture, Schedule, the assistant, Routines, and Browse close at hand.
Ask Emilie
The Cadence Assistant can look across your workspace, help plan a busy week, organize Capture, and work with tasks, lists, routines, events, and more. Send a photo of a whiteboard or syllabus and ask it to turn what it sees into tasks. Its default Ask first mode shows proposed changes for your approval; Auto and Full are available if you choose them.
You can also connect an outside assistant through MCP and choose what it may read or change in Settings › Integrations. Disconnect it there at any time.
Use it your way
- Keep going offline. The web app and desktop app can open with a recent window of your workspace. Everyday edits wait to sync; a cloud mark and sync review show what is pending or needs attention. Some actions, including assistant requests and settings changes, need a connection.
- Make the space yours. Pick a palette or a seasonal loading scene, use daylight mode, or crop your own photo for the background. Adjust blur, brightness, and accent colours in Appearance.
- Stay in control of your data. In Settings › Data & Export, request a JSON copy by email or delete your account with a typed confirmation. Privacy & Data includes a switch for usage diagnostics. Read the Privacy Policy for how storage, diagnostics, and AI providers work.
- Choose your surface. Use Cadence in a browser, add the web app to your phone's Home Screen, or use the Tauri desktop app for native shortcuts, a quick-capture window, and updates.
Recent releases brought offline editing and sync review, connected assistants, routine steps, photo input for Emilie, account export and deletion, and more control over appearance and desktop updates. The full changelog records every release and also powers the in-app Changelog view.
Run it locally
Requirements: Node.js 22.22.0 or newer and Corepack/pnpm. Running the full workspace also needs development credentials and bindings for Neon Auth, Neon Postgres, and Cloudflare Workers; see the backend environment guide and frontend guide.
corepack enable
pnpm install
pnpm dev
pnpm dev starts the frontend at http://localhost:8788 and the API at http://localhost:8787.
pnpm dev:frontend # Web app only
pnpm dev:backend # API only
pnpm dev:desktop:full # API and Tauri desktop app; requires the Rust/Tauri toolchain
pnpm dev:landing # Website
pnpm typecheck # Check workspace types
pnpm lint # Lint the workspace
pnpm test # Run workspace tests
pnpm build # Build workspace apps and packages
How it's built
flowchart LR
Web[Browser and installed web app] --> UI[React workspace]
Desktop[Tauri desktop shell] --> UI
UI --> Auth[Neon Auth]
UI --> API[Hono API on Cloudflare Workers]
API --> DB[Neon Postgres]
API --> Media[Private R2 media]
API --> AI[AI providers via OpenRouter]
The frontend and desktop app share the same UI and product logic. The API uses shared contracts, validates requests, and scopes workspace data to the signed-in account with Postgres row-level security. Assistant content is sent to AI providers when you use the assistant; details are in the Privacy Policy.
Contribute
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Start with the relevant app's AGENTS.md and the repo rules; they describe the current code and conventions. Keep user-facing changes reflected in the changelog. You can open an issue to discuss a bug or idea.
Cadence is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only. The code license does not grant rights to the Cadence name or logo. The hosted app has its own Terms and Privacy Policy.
