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Free, open software that outpaces the horizon.
We make software you can read, run and keep — a rich-text editor for developers and a notes app for everyone. No subscriptions, no data harvesting, no lock-in.
Built in the open by Rahul N. Anand
Shipped
Each has its own site and docs. One is the editor; the other is built on it.
Luthor
For developers
A TypeScript-first rich-text editor for React, built on Meta’s Lexical. Start with a preset, go headless when you need every pixel. MIT, no paid tier.
npm install @lyfie/luthor react react-dom
Papyra
For everyone
As easy as sticky notes, as deep as a wiki. Bring your Google Keep or Obsidian notes and they stay yours. Its editor is Luthor.
See them at work
No manual needed. A few seconds of each, exactly as they run.
No save button, ever. Every version is kept, so you can always go back.
Every word of every note and to-do, in a keystroke — matches highlighted.
Locked notes are encrypted and open only with your PIN — or your fingerprint.
Warm paper by day, soft graphite by night.
Pick the font, size and spacing that suit your product.
Mark what matters, without messy formatting underneath.
Bullets, numbers and checklists in one smooth flow.
At home in either, without fragile hacks.
In development
A private, self-hosted finance app. Your money, on your machine.
Personal finance without handing your bank history to anyone. Like everything Lyfie makes, it will run on your own machine, keep your data there, and be free. Not public yet — it ships when it is ready, not before.
Why open source
Every feature ships to everyone. No pro tier, no seat pricing, no “contact sales”. Free is the product, not the trial.
Plain files, open formats, self-hosting first. If Lyfie disappeared tomorrow, nothing you made with our software would go with it.
Open source has earned a reputation for being grey and fiddly. We sweat the design, the defaults and the docs as much as the code.
Built in public
Every release, fix and experiment happens in the open on GitHub. Here is what landed most recently.
news
lyfie.org, refreshed — Luthor and Papyra, side by side
Who’s behind it
Lyfie was started by Rahul N. Anand, an engineer who values privacy and builds software that respects it. One person keeps the direction coherent; anyone can shape it with an issue, an idea or a pull request.
It is a small operation, and honest about it: projects say how mature they are, and whatever happens, the code stays yours to read, fork and keep.
Help us build
Fix a bug, write a doc, design a screen, or tell us what hurts. Every bug report, idea and pull request counts.
Questions
Yes. Every Lyfie project is open source — Luthor under MIT, Papyra under GPL-3.0 — with no paid tier, no licence key and no account with us. Sponsorship keeps the work going; it never buys features others cannot have.
No. Our apps collect no telemetry, analytics or crash reports, and this site makes no third-party requests — even the fonts are served from lyfie.org.
Yes, that is the point. Papyra is one Docker container with one volume, on amd64 or arm64 — a NAS, a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS. Luthor is an npm package that runs inside your own app.
A private, self-hosted personal finance app, in development now. Like everything Lyfie makes it will run on your own machine, keep your data there and be free. It is not public yet — watch lyfie-org on GitHub to see it the day it is.
Lyfie was founded by Rahul N. Anand and is built in the open on GitHub. One person keeps the direction coherent; anyone can shape it with an issue, an idea or a pull request.
Star a repo, report a bug, pick up a good first issue, improve the docs, or sponsor the work. The contribute page has the details.