Astali

A STudent All LIfe: a planning tool made with students in mind, so that anyone can plan, study and organize their projects without paying for it.

Astali is, and always will be, completely free, open source and ad-free. No subscriptions, no paid tiers, no ads, no tracking. Your data stays in plain files on your computer.

Read how it started and why it exists in The story of Astali.

Download

Get the latest version from Releases. The app updates itself from there.

Step by step, in plain words: Windows · macOS · Linux · Updates · Use it with AI

A local-first desktop app for planning. Everything is stored as plain JSON in a folder you choose (your vault), and a built-in MCP server lets Claude or any other AI agent work in it alongside you.

Related MCP server: vibeops

Features

• Kanban boards: projects → boards → columns → tasks, with drag and drop, tags, priorities, due dates, checklists and WIP limits

• Plans: ordered steps with nested checklists and open questions, for a feature, an issue or a thesis

• Notes boards: post-its on an endless grid you pan and zoom, which you can promote into tasks, plan steps or decisions

• Decisions: short notes on why things are the way they are, searchable by class name or path

• GitHub: read-only issue import, and columns that always show the issues with a given label

• Glossary: the terms, acronyms and names a project uses, with what they mean

• History and undo: every change, yours or an AI agent's, is recorded and can be undone

• Updates: Astali tells you when a new version is out and shows what's in it before installing

• Live reload when the vault changes on disk, dark and light themes, custom colors

Use it with AI (MCP)

The app is also an MCP server. Register it with Claude Code:

claude mcp add astali --scope user "--" "C:\path\to\astali.exe" mcp --vault "D:\path\to\vault"

Keep the quotes around "--": PowerShell drops a bare --. Settings → AI integration has ready-to-copy commands for Claude Code and Claude Desktop, and the install guide has them for macOS and Linux.

Development

Requires Node 20+, Rust (stable, MSVC on Windows) and WebView2. Built with Tauri 2 + React / TypeScript.

npm install
npm run tauri dev      # run with hot reload
npm run tauri build    # exe + installers in src-tauri/target/release/bundle
cd src-tauri && cargo test

VS Code debug configurations (Rust, WebView, MCP server) are in astali.code-workspace.

About this repository

This repository is updated automatically every night with the latest source code, so its history is one commit per day. Releases are built and published from here.

Issues and ideas are welcome: see Contributing.

License

MIT. Free forever: no ads, no paywall, no paid tier. Third-party licenses are credited in Settings → Credits.