Mental Load

The mental load is everything you carry without anyone noticing: remembering the shopping list, anticipating the pediatrician appointment, planning meals, keeping track of the forms that are due. Mental Load finally makes that invisible weight visible, so you can understand it and rebalance it together.

What changes for you
• A clear load gauge, from 0 to 100, calculated from your real tasks.
• How the load splits between both partners at a glance, category by category.
• Practical suggestions to rebalance whatever weighs the most.
• A balance you can also read over the last 7 or 30 days.
• Everything stays on your phone: no account, no server.

More than just splitting chores
Most apps simply divide up a to-do list. Mental Load goes further: it also accounts for the thinking work — anticipating, organizing, planning — so you can put words to a feeling and talk it through calmly, without keeping score. Balance doesn't have to be exactly 50/50: the app helps you find what works for you.

Features
• Dashboard: the state of your household's load in real time, by category (home, kids, admin, meals).
• Mental tasks: create them, assign them to one partner, the other or both, set priorities, and give each task its own estimated load.
• Couple balance: a three-way split chart and a balance verdict drawn from your own data.
• Rebalancing suggestions: the app highlights the most lopsided category and opens the conversation. A suggestion you set aside for one of you never comes back.
• History and periods: this week's load, plus a Balance that also reads over the last 7 or 30 days of completed tasks.
• Natural-language adding: type “Take out the bins every Tuesday 7pm” — the due date and repeat are understood, shown before they apply, and dismissed with one tap.
• Checkable steps: break a task into steps and tick them off as you go. Ticking them all doesn't complete the task — you say when it's done.
• Instant search across every task, accent-insensitive.
• Local notifications: a daily reminder, a weekly recap, and an overload alert.
• Light and dark mode, with layouts tuned for both phone and tablet.

Your appointments, if you want them
From Profile › "Import from calendar", events from your device's calendar can become tasks: you choose the period, the events, the category and the person. Reading happens on the device, with no account and no connection, and your calendar is never modified.

Your privacy first
Your data belongs to you. Mental Load works entirely offline: all information is stored locally on your device, with no account, no server and no tracking. Sharing with your partner happens through a local code or a file, never through a cloud. You can export, back up and restore your data whenever you like, and every important action can be undone.

Accessible to everyone
Works with screen readers (TalkBack, VoiceOver), scalable text, stronger contrast and comfortable touch targets, following accessibility best practices.

Mental Load helps couples and families see the invisible and share household life more fairly.

Recent changes:
Tips now live in a “Tip” button: it opens a card, and five tips show their gesture as an animation.

Tab names are no longer cut in the middle of a word, even with a larger font.

Screen reader, very large text, landscape: titles, buttons and the notification bell are announced more clearly, and nothing overlaps anymore.

At midnight, screens and reminders update even if the app stayed open.