MacDaddy Three thoughts, three tasks
Most voice-to-task tools give you one item per recording. Speaking three things should produce three tasks — so you can empty your head in one go instead of stopping and starting.
In development
Say it, and it's a task.
Hold the button and talk the way you actually talk — "remind me to call the plumber back Thursday morning and pick up filters" — and get two clean, dated tasks. No typing, no menus, no account.
The problem
Task capture fails at the moment of intent. You're driving, carrying something, mid-conversation, or hands-wet-in-a-sink when the thought arrives. Typing it means unlocking, opening an app, tapping through fields — so the thought gets dropped instead.
Voice memo apps catch the audio but hand you a wall of transcript to re-read later. Task apps capture structure but demand typing. Neither one solves the actual moment.
How it works
- Hold to talk. From the app, the Action button, or Siri — and later, your wrist.
- It transcribes what you said — on your iPhone, offline, however long you rambled.
- It turns that into tasks with titles and due dates. Say three things, get three tasks.
- You review and confirm. Nothing is saved behind your back.
- It syncs to your other devices through your own iCloud.
What makes it different
Genuinely offline
Airplane mode, dead zone, concrete basement. It still works. Anything that leans on cloud dictation fails exactly where you most need to capture something.
No account, ever
Nothing to sign up for. Your tasks live in your iCloud, not on our servers — there's nothing of yours for us to breach.
Free, honestly
The core loop costs us nothing to run, so it isn't metered. Unobtrusive ads, a tip jar, and a one-time purchase to remove the ads. No subscription to talk into your own phone.
Who it's for
- Driving
- Hands and eyes are busy and voice is already how you interact with the car.
- Running a household
- The thought arrives while you're doing something else entirely — mid-errand, mid-dinner.
- On a jobsite
- Gloves, ladders, dirty hands. Typing isn't available.
- Anyone whose
thoughts move fast - If the thought is gone in ten seconds unless it's captured, the capture has to take less than ten seconds.
What's in the first release
- Hold-to-talk capture, plus Siri and the Action button
- On-device transcription and task structuring — title and due date
- A task list you can complete, edit, and delete
- Sync across your devices via iCloud
- iPhone and iPad
The Apple Watch app comes right after. Projects, tags, subtasks and sharing are deliberately not in version one — the first release is about making capture instant and the result trustworthy.