Your whole week, calm and in one place.
Mellow pulls your classes, homework and emails into one quiet dashboard, keeps an eye on your money and subscriptions, and has an assistant that helps you start the next thing. It runs on your own computer.
In 4 days$17.99
In 11 days$5.99
In 15 days$20.00
In 2 days$0.00
Built for the way a busy week actually goes.
Made by a student for their own school year, then shared with friends. Everything is in one place, and nothing nags you until something's actually due.
Homework finds you
Connect your school and personal Gmail and calendars. Assignments, exams and deadlines are pulled from course emails and Canvas on their own, and so are emails still waiting on your reply. Drop in a syllabus or a flyer and Mellow suggests the dates to add.
Today, week, month
Every calendar and deadline on one timeline, with what to do next picked out for you.
Grades
Every course's grade now, what you need on the rest to get the grade you want, and your GPA. Drop the syllabus and the weights fill themselves in.
Subscriptions
Receipts and renewals in your email become a list of what you pay, from which card, and when it renews. New ones, price rises and trials about to charge get flagged.
Your money
Accounts, cards, bills, budgets and goals from your bank's exports. No bank logins, ever.
An assistant
Ask it to add things, plan your week, look something up, or even change how Mellow looks. It asks before it changes anything.
ADHD tools
A focus timer, today's three, a brain dump, and one small next step when you're stuck.
Sleep screen
Leave it alone and it turns into a clock over a famous painting, with your day beside it and a morning alarm.
Knows what to import
It tells you which file would fill in what's missing, like a course's syllabus or your latest bank export, and where to find it.
On your phone too
Your computer runs Mellow and your iPad or phone opens it, with Add to Home Screen. Everything stays on your computer; the phone is a window onto it.
Up and running in two minutes.
Download the app for your computer. Everything it needs is inside, and after that it keeps itself up to date. Pick yours:
- Download Mellow for WindowsMellow-Setup.exe, about 35 MB, for Windows 10 or 11. If your browser says it isn't commonly downloaded, choose Keep.
- Open itDouble-click
Mellow-Setup.exe. If Windows says it protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway. - That's itMellow installs in a few seconds, adds itself to your desktop and Start menu, and opens in its own window. You can delete the download. Closing the window keeps Mellow running by the clock: right-click its icon to quit, or to start Mellow when you sign in.
- Connect Google, step by stepOpen Accounts. A checklist takes you to each page in Google Cloud with one button per step, then you choose the file you downloaded and press Connect. The Guide (
9) covers the rest, like your phone.
- Download Mellow for MacMellow-Mac.zip, about 80 MB. Works on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 13.5 or newer.
- Drag Mellow into ApplicationsOpen the zip in Downloads if it didn't open itself, then drag Mellow into your Applications folder.
- Open it, once the long wayDouble-click Mellow. The first time, your Mac says it couldn't verify it: click Done, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. After that it opens like any app, in its own window.
- Connect Google, step by stepOpen Accounts and follow the checklist: a button for each step, then Connect. The Guide (
9) covers the rest.
- Set Mellow up on a computer firstThere's no App Store app: an iPhone or iPad can't run Mellow by itself. Your Windows PC or Mac runs it, and your phone opens it, with your data staying on the computer.
- Let the phone reach itIn Mellow on the computer, open the Guide (
9) → Phone & tablet and press Let my devices in. It shows the address to open and a password for your devices. For away from home, install Tailscale on both first. - Add to Home ScreenOpen that address in Safari, then Share → Add to Home Screen. It gets its own icon and opens full screen, like an app. It's always as up to date as your computer, so it never needs updating itself.
What you'll need
New features show up on their own.
Download the app once. Mellow checks for a new version a few times a day, and when there is one, a link appears in the sidebar with what's new. Update now installs it and restarts Mellow for you, with no new download.
Updates only replace Mellow's code. Your tasks, money, health log, settings and sign-ins stay exactly as they are, and the old version is saved so you can go back.
- Grades: what you need on the rest of the term, and your GPA
- Suggestions for which files to import
- A new heads-up display look across the app
Yours, and on your computer.
There's no Mellow server. Your Mellow account lives on your own computer, and nothing about you is sent anywhere unless you connect it.
Everything stays in one folder
Tasks, finances, health and conversations are plain files in the Mellow folder on your computer. Back it up to keep them, delete it to remove everything.
You choose what the AI sees
Money is private by default. Card, account and Social Security numbers are masked in anything sent, and bank exports are read on your computer.
Your keys, your sign-ins
Google access is read-only and comes from a client you create. The AI uses your own key, with a spending limit. Mellow never asks for bank logins.
Stuck, or have an idea? Come say hi.
The Mellow Discord is the place to ask questions, get help, and tell us what Mellow should do next.
Join the DiscordGood to know.
Do I need an account?
You make one, and it stays on your computer: an email, a name and a password, kept in Mellow's own folder. There's no Mellow server to sign in to. It's what your data belongs to and how your phone or iPad signs in, and it's separate from Google, so you can connect as many Gmail accounts as you like without one of them being your login.
Is it really free?
Yes. Mellow is shared under the PolyForm Noncommercial License: use it, change it, share it with friends. You just can't sell it. The optional AI features use your own Anthropic key, which you pay for as you use them.
Do I need to install anything else?
No. The Windows and Mac apps carry Node.js, the small engine Mellow runs on, inside them. Mellow runs on your computer and shows itself in its own window.
Is there an iPhone or iPad app?
Not in the App Store. Mellow keeps your data on your own computer, so your computer runs it and your iPhone or iPad opens it: add it to your Home Screen and it looks and works like an app. The iPhone & iPad tab under Install shows how.
Windows says it "protected my PC". Is that bad?
That warning shows for any app that isn't from a big publisher. Click More info → Run anyway. On a Mac, your Mac says it couldn't verify Mellow: click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Either way it's only the first time.
How do updates work?
You download the app once. Mellow checks mellow-track.com's releases a few times a day. When a new version is out, you'll see Update to … in the sidebar. Clicking Update now downloads it, keeps all your data, saves the old version under Accounts → Versions, and restarts. Downloading the app again also works: it updates your copy and keeps your data.
How do I quit or uninstall it?
Closing the window leaves Mellow running, so syncing and your phone keep working. To stop it on Windows, right-click its icon by the clock → Quit Mellow; on a Mac, Accounts → Updates → Quit Mellow. To remove it on Windows, go to Settings → Apps → Mellow → Uninstall; it asks whether to keep your data. On a Mac, quit it and delete the app and ~/Library/Application Support/Mellow, which holds all your data, so back it up first if you want to keep it.
My browser or antivirus won't let the Windows installer through
Some block any new app that isn't from a big publisher. Download Mellow-Windows.zip instead: right-click it, Extract All, open the Mellow folder and double-click Mellow. It's the same app.
I use Linux, or I'd rather run it myself
Mellow.zip is the plain code. Install Node.js (LTS), unzip it, and run start-ratchet.cmd on Windows or bash start-ratchet.command anywhere else. It updates itself the same way.
Does it work without Gmail or an AI key?
Yes. The calendar, tasks, finance, sleep screen and ADHD tools all work on their own, and .ics calendars and bank .csv exports are read without any key. Gmail adds homework and emails; the key adds the assistant and file reading.
Can it block distracting apps?
There's an optional blocker that locks games and sites while something is overdue. It ships switched off and only logs what it would do. The SETUP.md file in the folder explains how to turn it on.
Something isn't working
Most things are covered in the Guide inside Mellow (press 9). If the window says Mellow isn't responding, open the Mellow app again. Still stuck? Ask in the Mellow Discord. Its log is engine/app.log in the folder above, if someone asks to see it.
Make this week a calmer one.
Download the app, open it, and you're in. It keeps itself up to date from then on.
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