Kiyo

A personal planner that keeps schedules, to-dos, and habits apart and manages each one in the way that suits it. Your menstrual cycle is there alongside them only when you switch it on.

What is Kiyo?

Kiyo is a personal planner for laying out the day’s to-dos and schedules and keeping a steady record of your habits. The same records carry over between the web and the iOS app, and you can start using it right away without an account.

What sets Kiyo apart from other planners is that it does not pour schedules, to-dos, and habits into one bucket. The three are different in kind. A schedule takes up time. A to-do has to get done but does not occupy a slot. A habit is a marker of a rhythm that repeats every day. Kiyo shows each of them in the shape that fits it.

Three things, three shapes

Who is it for?

It is for anyone who wants schedules, to-dos, and habits organized in one place. Period tracking is an optional feature that is off by default, so if you never turn it on, it never appears anywhere on screen.

If you do want your cycle in view, the cycle you record is reflected softly on the calendar and Daily screens, so you can keep it in mind while you plan the day. Kiyo does not build a plan around your cycle for you — you make the plan, and Kiyo groups your own completion records by cycle phase to show you when things went well.

Period calculations and your next expected date

Turn the cycle feature on and log the day your period starts, and Kiyo calculates your next expected period and marks it on the calendar in a light tint. Flip ahead to next month and the expected cycle is already drawn in, so you can see where your next period falls while you book a trip or an important appointment.

All you have to log is the start date each month. Once records build up, the estimate switches from the average you entered at setup to the median of your recent cycles, so it moves closer to you over time. If you would rather run a quick calculation first, try the period calculator — your last start date and your average cycle length are all it needs.

Private mode

So that nobody glancing over your shoulder can read the screen, private mode hides every phase name and shows emoji only. Pick faces, weather, moons, or nature, or assign the emoji yourself. Turn it on in Settings > Cycle Syncing.

Google account and data use

Signing in is optional. Signing in with a Google account gives you the following.

• Planner records synced and backed up across your devices
• Google Calendar sync — bring calendar events into the app, and push events you create in the app back to your calendar
• Google Tasks sync — import your tasks, and reflect completions and deletions back

This data is used only to provide the planner features above. We do not use it for advertising and we do not sell it to third parties. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for details.

Also in Kiyo

• Seven themes — Ink, Cream, Sage, Pine, Clay, Indigo, and Midnight for dark screens
• Daily and habit reminders — a notification at the time you set (app only)
• D-Day — the days left until a date that matters, at the top of Daily