Ten minutes to useful.
The system ships blank on purpose, no sample data, no imaginary persona. Even the home screen starts empty, waiting for you to compose it.
Create your account
Register at app.miya.life. Confirm your email address and your 14 free days begin from that moment: nothing counts down before then.
Do the onboarding
Name first, then a short profile, then pick the systems you want on. Turn on as many or as few as you like, and turn the rest on whenever you need them. You can revisit and edit all of it any time.
Start with all of them, or with three
Seven arrive switched on: Tasks, Calendar, Notes, People, Finance, Health and Habits. The rest are there, off, and wake up the moment something of theirs arrives, a receipt, a birthday, a renewal; the four work systems and News wait until you ask. The chooser in onboarding is where you decide. Keep the lot and explore, or switch off what you know you will never use. Twelve of them have no switch, because they are the screens the rest report into or the plumbing the rest run on: Today and tonight, Reminders, Summary, Files, Insights, Life, Connections, Rules, Miya, Money, Household and Medicines. Nothing is ever hidden from you, and Settings keeps every switch, so any decision here can be undone in a moment.
Install it where you live
Phone, laptop, tablet, in whatever order suits you. The same login means the same data on every one of them. On iPhone, add it to your home screen before you turn on notifications.
Bring what you already have
Settings, Data takes contacts from the phone or a .vcf, tasks from Todoist or any spreadsheet with a Title column, browser bookmarks straight into the Reader, Apple Health’s export for weight, steps and sleep, Evernote notes, Google Keep, and a bank statement as OFX or CSV. Each lands with one Undo, and nothing already there is doubled. A calendar comes in as .ics, or syncs both ways with Google.
Put your real information in
Start wherever you like, bills, the car, the semester. The more you put in, the more the system can do for you: it has more to surface, more to remind you about, and more for Miya to answer from. Everything you add makes the next answer better.
Composing your board
The board is the first thing you see and the only screen you are asked to arrange. It starts with a handful of picture tiles so it never looks like an empty grid, and everything on it is yours to move, resize, replace or remove.
Tiles, and what they can be
- A system tile opens a system and shows a live count: bills due this week, tasks still open, the next appointment.
- A picture tile is exactly that, a photograph you chose. The ones that ship with a new account are placeholders, and swapping them for your own is usually the first thing people do.
- An action tile does one thing in one tap: start the timer, log water, add to the shopping list.
- A number tile carries a single figure you want in front of you: days until a date, this month's spending, the current streak.
Sizes, groups and bands
Tiles come in four sizes, small, wide, tall and large, and the size is remembered per device, so your phone can look nothing like your laptop. Tiles gather into bands by family, and two bands are special: Favorites holds whatever you starred, and Custom holds anything you pinned that belongs to no family. A new account arrives with both bands already in use, so you can see what they are for.
Making it yours
- Hold a tile to pick it up, then drop it where you want it. Hold also opens its menu on a phone, where right-click would on a computer.
- The tile menu carries size, the picture, the color and remove.
- Removing a tile never removes anything real. The system and its records stay exactly where they were.
- Prefer a list to a board? Settings, Appearance, Layout switches the whole shell between the canvas board and the classic side panel.
- Settings, Appearance opens with Theme: fourteen complete looks, each with its own moving wallpaper, four of them following the seasons if you let them. Custom keeps every dial, and a look you like can be sent to somebody as a short code.
- Tile look sets what the tiles are made of and how close together they sit; Zoom out steps back to the families, and Home returns to whichever view you chose.
- A family can have its own colour and order, or be put away entirely. A family whose systems are all switched off still shows, with one tile that turns them on.
- The lock screen is yours too: what appears on it, how big the clock is, up to four live widgets, and one switch deciding whether whoever picks up the device sees the details, the counts only, or nothing at all.
- Keys are rebindable and ? lists them. Rules make the next thing happen without being asked, and every receipt says which rule fired and on what.
Nothing about the board is permanent and nothing about it is load bearing. It is a view. Rearranging it, or ignoring it entirely and working from the side panel, changes nothing about your data.
Safety and your data
This system holds things people do not put in ordinary apps: money, health, a journal, documents, the people you live with. Here is what protects them, in the order it matters.
Getting in
- Your password opens the account, and the email confirmation at signup proves the address is yours before anything begins.
- A PIN can sit in front of the app on a device, so a borrowed laptop or an unlocked phone does not hand someone your life. You choose how quickly it engages after the screen sleeps.
- Individual systems can be locked behind that PIN on their own, which is how people keep a journal or the money systems private on a shared device.
- Signing out clears the copy this device kept, including the offline copy.
Where it lives
- Every record is stored against your account and isolated from every other account.
- Files are held outside the public web root and streamed only through an authenticated request, so there is no address anyone could guess.
- The installed app keeps a copy of the last screen so it opens without a signal. That copy is dropped when you sign out.
Losing nothing
- Undo covers deletions, and a deleted record can be restored rather than mourned.
- Your own change log records what was saved and when, so you can see your own history.
- Export hands you everything as ordinary files, any time, without asking anyone.
What we will never do
No ads, no trackers, no selling anything to anyone, and nothing of yours used to train a model. The privacy page states all of it in detail, including exactly what the assistant sends when you ask it something.
The money side
Start in the main app: bills, spending, the day. When you want the whole position rather than the day, open Miya Money on the same sign in.
1. Type it in, or import
Figures typed by hand, a statement you downloaded yourself, or a bank linked with the optional Bank sync add-on.
2. Import a statement
Download OFX or CSV from your own bank, which most offer in a couple of clicks. Nothing connects to your accounts, so there is nothing to revoke.
3. Link a bank, if you want one
Bank sync is an optional add-on inside Money, priced per connected bank per month and charged the day a bank is linked. Transactions and balances then arrive on their own, read only; unlinking cuts the connection the same day, and every account it holds appears in Finance too, so there is one set of accounts rather than two.
4. Let it answer
Budgets, a payoff date for every debt, cash flow ahead, and net worth as one line moving.
No card · Every device · No ads, ever