Posts you can share as images.
Any post becomes an editorial image — ready for Instagram, a slide, or a printed zine. The typography travels with it, so what you share looks like Lanai everywhere it lands.
Designed to be sat with.
Pull up a chair. Bluesky, at reading speed.”
A social app can lower your nervous system rather than raise it. Lanai is the one that does — the way a porch in late afternoon feels different from a feed. Relaxation, comfort, the occasional small joy. The only thing it refuses to be is urgent.
In which Lanai proposes a social app you might leave running while you read, instead of one you refresh while you wait.
What Lanai does differently
Reading
Editorial typography.
Optical-sized serifs, comfortable line lengths, real vertical rhythm. Reading on Lanai feels closer to a magazine than a feed — even when the text is just somebody's thought from a Tuesday.
Seeing
Accessibility as design.
Hyperlegible mode, generous sizes, restrained motion, high contrast — not a settings menu. The screenshots at the largest type size are as composed as the ones at the default.
Two things mentioned here, rather than promised.
A reading mode that turns a long thread into a single quiet column. And a curation layer that helps the smaller feed of people you actually know find its way back to the top.
Made by Pat Lee, who has been building things at the intersection of design and technology for thirty-plus years.