How Gather looks, sounds, and behaves: the marks, colours, type, and promises that keep it feeling like a quiet home rather than a service.
Gather started because we were tired. Tired of apps that wanted everything from us: our data, our attention, our money. So we built something different: a digital home. A quiet space that's entirely yours.
A personal dashboard should feel like opening a leather journal, not logging into a service. It should reflect you, your tastes, your pace, your way of living. No one watching. No one optimizing.
Gather keeps your data local because we trust you with your own life. No accounts to manage, no cloud syncing to worry about, no surprise changes. This is a tool built with care. For you. About you. Entirely you.
A four-circle quadrant symbol for the four pillars of the app: Consuming, Checking-in, Working, and Personalizing. Overlaps read as gathering, not stacking.
DM Sans Semi-Bold with custom tracking of −0.04em, for a proprietary, locked logo feel. Never re-space or re-weight it.
Mark left of the wordmark. Used in the sidebar.
Mark centred above the wordmark. Welcome and splash states.
Mark alone on charcoal-sage. App icon and favicon.
Primary brand presence, sidebar in Light Mode.
Primary accent, celebratory moments.
Secondary accent, logo mark.
Core surface, Light Mode.
Typography and Dark Mode background.
Tight tracking gives headings a high-end, editorial feel.
Maximum readability and neutrality. It never competes for attention.
A writerly serif for reflective copy. It should feel personal, handwritten in spirit.
The rejection of the cloud is not a technical limitation. It is a design pillar. Think of opening a notebook on your computer. Nothing syncs behind your back; any alignment between devices is a manual, intentional act by you. Your data moves only when you choose to move it.
Your thoughts, tasks, and interests belong to you. Not a server. Not a company. You. No logins, no profiles, no external services. Your data lives in a single JSON file on your machine, so it's technically difficult to track, share, or leak.
Gather is a digital object you own, not a service you rent. It works completely offline, forever. You decide how it looks, which features to use, and whether reminders exist at all. Every setting exists to make Gather a tool you actually want to open.
Books, shows, games and more, from backlog to curated enjoyment. Track the content that matters to you.
Daily journaling and mood tracking in a low-pressure, reflective zone. Write when you feel like it.
Customizable task lists and Today's Top 3 without corporate bloat. Then flip on OOO mode and Gather turns from work to personal.
20+ palettes and layouts so the dashboard feels genuinely yours. Turn off what you don't need.
Loves the intentionality of paper planners but wants digital utility. They find the same tactile satisfaction of writing something down and crossing it off, with no algorithms, no notifications.
Tired of software-as-a-service, forced AI, and constant data extraction. They've opted out of the subscription economy and find peace of mind in local-first architecture.
Views their life as a collection of moments worth saving. They document without performing for an algorithm, building a personal archive that belongs entirely to them.
Cares deeply about the environment they inhabit. Warm tones create a digital study rather than a corporate interface: a space where every detail was chosen with intention.
Download the complete brand guidelines for the full system, or go explore the app itself.
21 pages · PDF · updated August 2026
“ An analog soul in a digital body. A quiet, digital home that is completely yours. ”