Features
What Lanai does
A short tour of the parts of the app that are most worth pointing at — starting with what you see first and ending with what is on the way.
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The glass timeline
A photographic wallpaper that always reads. The picture sits behind your timeline because the timeline knows how to live on top of one.
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Editorial typography
Optical-sized serifs, real vertical rhythm, and a quiet pipeline that fixes small text problems without ever rewriting what you said.
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Posts you can share as images
Save any post as an editorial image. Seven templates, three sizes, smart cropping that keeps faces in frame, and a watermark only you control.
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Accessibility as design language
Large type, real contrast, restrained motion, and a hyperlegible mode — not a settings menu, but the way the app looks before it accommodates anyone.
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Reading mode
Coming in v1.0A single quiet column for long threads — typography at full editorial discipline, the chrome reduced to a margin. Coming in v1.0.
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Postcard mode
Coming in v1.0A slower way of browsing. One card at a time, the way you might leaf through a stack of postcards on a Sunday afternoon. Coming in v1.0.
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On-device intelligence
A small, principled set of on-device helpers. The user chose what to follow; our job is to help them experience their own choices better, never to choose for them.
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Compose
A writing surface that respects what you typed. A thread builder. Alt text where it belongs. And the porch pause — a small, optional delay between hitting post and the post leaving.
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Quiet by design
No tracking. No analytics. No engagement metrics phoning home. The app respects your attention because it doesn't measure it.
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Curation, without an algorithm
Every lever for choosing what shows up in your timeline — custom feeds, lists, mute lists you can subscribe to, temporary mutes — without anyone choosing for you.