Brain Dump
Talk your to-do list empty. Say a task the moment it lands and it reads the due date, priority and any repeat out of what you said, then it's a calm, flat list you drag, tick and snooze by hand.
The real, free app opens on its own page and saves beautifully to your home screen, where it works with no signal at all.
On an iPhone: open it, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
What it does
Say it once, and let go of it.
Talk, don't type
Tap the little mic on your phone's own keyboard and just say the task. Apple's dictation types it for you, so there's no new microphone permission to allow and nothing new to learn.
It reads the details
As you talk it pulls out the bits that matter. “Bins out every Monday” becomes a weekly task due the coming Monday. “Reply Friday, urgent” sets the day and flags it high. Each guess is a tappable chip you can nudge.
Wrangle by hand
Each task is a little pill: tap its circle to tick it off, drag its handle to rearrange, or flick it, right to tick off, left to snooze until tonight, tomorrow or the weekend. Your manual order always wins; priority and dates only change how a pill looks.
Repeats that never pile up
Tick a recurring task and it quietly rolls forward to the next time instead of leaving a done copy behind. One bins task, forever, never a stack of fifty-two.
How it works
Four taps from overwhelmed to emptied.
From a head full of half-remembered jobs to a calm list you trust, in about the time it takes to say them.
- 1
Tap +, then talk
A single box opens with the keyboard already up. Tap the mic and say the thing before it slips away.
- 2
Glance at the chips
It shows you the title, date, priority and repeat it heard. If something's off, one tap fixes it. If it's right, you just save.
- 3
Let it settle in the list
New tasks land at the top. Reorder them, tick the easy ones, snooze the ones you can't face. Overdue gets a gentle marker, never a red panic.
- 4
Close it, feel lighter
That's it. No streaks, no scores, no notifications. Open it when your head is full, close it a minute later with it emptied out.
Behind the build
A few things I thought about.
- It came from a real feeling, not a feature list. The head fills up, at the wheel, mid-edit, walking the dog, and the notes app is too slow and too silent. Brain Dump is the fastest possible way to say a task and trust it's caught.
- The parser is deliberately not clever. It reads dates, priority words and repeats with plain rules, and it always keeps the exact words you dictated underneath, so on the rare miss you can see what you actually said and fix it in a tap.
- It never nags. No reminders, no push notifications, no badges counting up. The value of this app is that it never needs maintaining and never demands anything back.
- It works with no signal. Add it to your home screen and it opens in aeroplane mode, because the worst time to lose your list is exactly when you've no bars.
- Nothing is uploaded, ever. The whole list lives in your browser on your device, with a one-tap export so a cleared browser can't take it all with it.
Where it could go
Ideas for a Pro version.
The free app is genuinely useful on its own, and stays that way. Here's where a paid Pro could go, without ever turning it into something that nags.
Sync across devices (Pro)
A light, private sync so a task you dump on your phone in the car is there on your laptop when you sit down, without a single account to manage.
Smarter dictation cleanup (Pro)
Tidy the little stumbles of real speech, the “um”s, the repeats, the “no wait”, into a clean title, while still keeping every word you said underneath.
A weekly glance (Pro)
An optional, opt-in look at what's coming up and what quietly slipped, gentle and never a scoreboard, for those who want it.
Would this quieten the noise for you?
Tell me what you tried to dump and how it read it, what it got wrong, and what would make it the first place you reach when your head's full. It shapes what I build next.