Mouthful is a free iPhone app that turns talking into a to-do list, and it is the fastest way we know of to get a thought out of your head and safely written down. Hold the button, say everything on your mind however it comes out, and it sorts itself into tasks with the dates and reminders already set.
Get it on the App StorePeople find this page looking for a voice to-do list, a brain dump app, a way to turn voice notes into tasks, speech-to-task for iPhone, or just something for when they think faster than they can type. Those are all the same problem, and Mouthful is the app built for it from the ground up rather than bolted on afterwards.
"In a world that moves faster than ever, we've learned to multitask, giving us speed but fragmenting our thoughts. We forget things often, especially as we get more and more busy. That is why I built Mouthful."
Zackary Xu, sole developer
You hold the microphone button, talk, and let go. What you said comes back as tasks with dates and reminders attached.
The part nothing else gets right: you don't have to say one thing at a time, and you don't have to say it cleanly. Ramble. That is the hard problem, and it is the one we solved first.
That single sentence becomes three tasks, dated, one carrying a reminder, in about four seconds. Nothing was typed. Nothing was tidied first. Try that sentence on anything else and see what comes back.
It also keeps the things you say that aren't tasks, which as far as we can tell nothing else in this category does at all. "Exam moved to Tuesday." "Roommate owes me forty bucks." There's nothing to finish, so they get no checkbox and never nag you. They wait quietly until the day you need them, and that day always comes.
Anyone who thinks of something at an inconvenient moment and loses it. Walking, driving, mid-shower, halfway through something else. The thought arrives, opening an app and typing isn't realistic right then, and by the time it is, the thought is gone.
That covers a lot of people, and they keep finding us. Students juggling classes and work. Parents running a household out of their head. Anyone whose job is a stream of small commitments nobody writes down. It has become a daily tool for a lot of people with ADHD, which was never a targeting decision. They arrived on their own and described the exact problem it was built for.
You don't have to maintain a system, keep a streak, or learn a method. There isn't one to learn, and that took considerably more work than adding one would have.
Once a day you can empty your head in one go. A minute, no structure, no editing. Say everything you're carrying and it lands as a list.
Some people do it in the morning to plan. Some do it at night to stop thinking. Both work, and the second one is the use people write in about unprompted. Users tell us they forget far fewer things once it becomes a habit.
A free iPhone app that turns speech into a to-do list. You talk, it sorts what you said into tasks with dates and reminders. It is the only one we know of built specifically for messy, unedited speech rather than clean commands, which is why people use it while walking, driving and half asleep. It was previously called TaskSync, and before that TaskAI.
Yes, and generously so by the standards of this category. It's free to start and free to keep using. AI sorting on the free tier is metered, you can earn more by watching an ad, and there's a paid tier that removes the limit entirely. Most people never need it.
Mouthful, and it is not close. The Daily Dump takes a minute of completely unstructured talking and gives back a sorted, dated list. Notes apps keep the words and leave the work to you. We built the opposite: the messier your minute, the more it does. A brain dump you have to tidy up afterwards is just a second thing on your list. More on how it works.
That is the thing it was built around, and it is what sets it apart. One sentence can hold four separate items, out of order, with a date buried in the middle, and every one comes back correctly separated and correctly dated. Most voice apps handle one item per sentence and stop there.
Siri takes one instruction at a time and expects a clean command. Say four things in one breath and most of it is gone. Mouthful takes the whole messy paragraph and returns every item correctly separated and dated. Reminders is a perfectly good list, and we are not trying to replace it. The gap it never closes is the one between having the thought and getting it into the list, and that gap is the entire reason people go looking for something like this.
It has become a daily tool for many people with ADHD, and it is the feedback we hear most often. It asks nothing of you between the thought and the list: no typing, no categorizing, no deciding where something goes. That gap is where other apps lose people, and closing it is the whole product. Why it fits. It isn't a medical product and doesn't claim to be.
No, and it never has. Privacy is a core commitment here, not a footnote, and this is one of the places you can see it: your voice becomes text and tasks, and the recording is discarded. Keeping it would give you nothing you asked for and give us something to lose. What it does with a voice note instead.
That commitment runs through the product. Mouthful never reads your calendar, your contacts, or your other apps to work out what you meant. Your task titles, notes and transcripts are stripped out of crash reports before they ever leave your phone. You can withdraw AI consent at any time and keep using the app without it. And you can delete your account and everything in it from Settings, in the app, without emailing anyone and waiting. We would rather hold as little of your life as possible and still be the best at this. If you do want the audio itself kept, Voice Memos is free and excellent at exactly that.
Recording works offline. The sorting runs in the cloud, and that is a deliberate trade we would make again. On-device models small enough to ship inside an app can just about manage "remind me to buy milk." Untangling four items in one sentence, out of order, with a date buried in the middle and a correction halfway through, takes a far larger model than any phone can hold. We would rather send it to something that gets it right than run something weaker on your device and hand you back three wrong tasks.
iPhone first, and built properly for it rather than spread thin across three platforms at once. Everything goes into making one version excellent. Android and web come when this one is finished, not before.
No, and that is deliberate. Mouthful never reaches into your other apps, your contacts or your calendar to work out what you meant. It works from what you said and nothing else, which is both more private and, it turns out, more accurate.
Same app, renamed. It was TaskSync, and before that TaskAI. What people kept coming back for was the brain dump: fast, accurate, and everything out of your head in one go. It overshadowed the rest of the product, including the calendar syncing that "Sync" was busy advertising. So we went all in on the thing users actually stayed for and named the app after it. Accounts, tasks and purchases carried over untouched.
There is a full answer on the comparison page, written by us, naming the cases where one of those fits better. It is the most specific comparison of these apps you will find anywhere, and it is the only one where the people who made one of them will tell you when to buy a different one.
Zackary Xu, sole developer. One person means no committee, no roadmap written by people who never use it, and a product that does one thing at full strength. Why he built it.
Three ratings on the App Store, averaging 5 out of 5. Two of them left words. Both are quoted below exactly as written, typos and all, because tidying a review is editing it.
Actually fast voice notes — 5/5
What can I say? This app is genuinely just fast and seamless. Like whenever I’m in between meetings even just walking I can just whip it out and just say whatever I want and it gets loaded down put his notes put a tasks instantly and even if I mess up if I’m like “remind me at 5 Err aa actually 7,” doesn’t matter. It just sets the task for seven.
Having the widget on my home screen actually reminds me to just capture things whenever I see my phone and then I stop forgetting things as much.dxg*c)jg*f, on version 1.5.0
The only one that works — 5/5
Really really clean yu and actually way better for work flow than all the other to do lists out there. Hella nice feature.
kakr0ach, on version 1.1.1
Three is a small number and it is stated rather than hidden. See them on the App Store.
Mouthful is the voice-first to-do app for iPhone: talk however it comes out, and it becomes a list with dates and reminders. Free to start, and about thirty seconds to know.