dayhelm: Journal, Plan, Budget

Aufbau Labs

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About this app

Your mind. Your day. Your money. One calm app.

Meditation, breathing, focus, tasks, meetings, expenses, journals, health and AI - together in dayhelm.

💚 All features free forever
• Every dayhelm tool is free forever.
• No feature paywalls or required subscriptions.
• Managed AI is included, subject to fair-use limits and provider capacity.
• Optional personal Gemini keys follow Google's quotas and may incur Google charges.

🧘 Meditation and breathing
• Guided meditation and practices for sleep, grounding, focus and self-compassion.
• Download practices for offline listening, with background audio.
• Box breathing, 4-7-8 breathing and custom breathing patterns.
• Optional guided voice and ambient sound.

🎯 Focus and Pomodoro
• Focus sessions with short and long breaks.
• Personalize your timer and session settings.
• Review your focus history and build a rhythm that leaves room to pause.

✅ Tasks, meetings and calendar
• Tasks, subtasks, priorities and manageable next steps.
• Meetings, appointments and events with dates, times, locations and notes.
• Time blocks and AI-assisted task planning.
• Review AI task and event drafts before applying them.

💸 Expense tracking and budgeting
• Organize accounts, expenses and spending categories.
• Review and approve Smart Capture transactions.
• Dismiss unwanted captures individually or together.
• Zero-based and envelope budgets.
• Savings goals, debt snowball progress and financial milestones.

✍️ Journals, mood and reflection
• Guided and custom journals, brain dumps, notes and daily logs.
• Mood and energy check-ins to notice patterns over time.
• Day closure, gratitude and a gentler plan for tomorrow.

🌱 Rituals and self-care
• Daily rituals, habit tracking and streaks.
• Self-care routines that adapt on harder days.
• Small steps without treating every day like a performance.

🩺 Health and sleep
• CBT-I sleep diary and sleep history.
• Medication schedules and reminders.
• Water, food, movement and mindfulness logs.
• Health documents and dated results in one place.
• Consultation notes and therapy briefs using the context you choose.

🤖 Helm, your AI companion
• Chat with Helm and organize your thoughts.
• Turn brain dumps into reviewable next steps.
• Draft task plans and calendar events.
• Help with day closure, insights, nutrition and health-document organization.
• Choose managed AI or optionally connect your own Google Gemini key.
• AI can make mistakes: review its output before saving or acting on it.

📱 Widgets and personalization
• Six Android widgets: Journal, Daily ritual, Today's tasks, Check in, Today and Take a pause.
• Quick access to daily tools, breathing and focus.
• Light, dark and system themes.
• Control widget data visibility; app locking hides personal data.
• Optional mascot icons for time of day, streak milestones and positive mood check-ins.
• Mood-based icon changes have a separate opt-in.

🔒 Privacy and control
• App-lock protection and personal AI preferences.
• Clear recovery guidance when offline data needs attention.
• AI requests process submitted content through dayhelm's API and Google.
• Personal API keys are not saved on dayhelm's server.

dayhelm supports everyday organization and wellbeing. It is not a substitute for qualified care, medical diagnosis or treatment, or personalized professional financial advice.

What’s new

New in 1.10.0:
- Six Android home-screen widgets with light/dark themes and privacy controls.
- Optional expressive mascot icons for time, streak milestones and positive mood check-ins.
- Optional personal Gemini keys with clearer AI and privacy preferences.
- Improved Smart Capture approval and bulk dismissal.
- More reliable startup, offline-data recovery, ritual streaks and AI fallbacks.