Foley

Foley is a voice-first to-do list that turns spoken thoughts into structured tasks. Instead of typing a task, choosing a project, setting a date and adding a reminder, you say a sentence — or several things at once — and Foley works out the tasks, the dates and the project before anything lands. It is built for people who keep their work and their life in one place and want the admin of task management to disappear. The app is available on Mac, Windows, the web, iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS watches, and the same list follows you across those surfaces. Its promise is simple: out of your head, into your day. Most task apps ask you to do the filing yourself. You have to think of the task, open the app, type it, decide where it belongs, pick a date, and set a reminder — often at the exact moment your hands are full or your attention is elsewhere. That friction is why lists go stale and why thoughts get lost between one meeting and the next. Foley approaches the problem from the other direction. The thought is the input, not the chore. You say what needs doing the way you would say it to a colleague, and the app handles the structure. When two tasks could fit what you said, or when it needs to know where before it goes looking, Foley asks a question rather than making a guess, so you stay in charge of the result. Capture is where everything begins. A desktop shortcut brings Foley to you without pulling you out of what you are doing, and on iPhone, Android and the watches the capture sheet or capture mark listens while you talk. You can say one thing or several — “Add two tasks: buy milk, and call the electrician” — and Foley works out the separate tasks, the dates and the project before anything lands. You review what it understood before the tasks are saved. On the wrist, Foley shows what it is doing: while the microphone is open the wordmark pulses and the clock counts up, so waiting never looks like something is broken, and you stop when you are done. Nothing asks you to confirm. Once tasks exist, Foley gives them a place. Folders keep related projects together and projects hold the work and its context, so work, life and everything in between can live in one system with clear boundaries — “Create a folder called Clients and move work into it.” For the parts of life that are not projects, Lists provide a simple checklist: shopping, packing, the little things to remember. You can add an item to the shopping list and tick things off. Task context goes further than a title. You can connect related work, keep notes and attachments with the task, and see the dependencies that explain what comes next, such as an invoice that is blocked by a board deck. Seeing what is holding things up is part of knowing what to do next. Foley is also a planner. The Daily desk brings tasks from across your projects together in one clear place, where you can open a task, change a detail, or check it off when it is done. Your day shows the shape of the day in a calendar, so when plans change you can move a task or change its time and keep the rest of the day in view — “Change Sam's pull request review to 4 PM.” You can ask Foley to help plan your day around the tasks already there, follow the plan back to the work, and adjust it as you go. On mobile, the Plan tab answers questions like “What should I work on first?” from what is actually on your list. Clarification is a deliberate feature: when two tasks could fit what you said, Foley asks which one you mean. The approach that ties all of this together is voice plus verification. Capture is conversational, and the result is confirmed rather than assumed: after a capture the app shows what it saved, with the project and the time already set, and then it says so out loud — one sentence, by the same rules on every device — while the words stay on the screen whether or not the voice plays. When the voice does not play, the watch says why, in one dim line. History keeps your original words beside what Foley changed, so you can review the result and undo a capture when you need to. And because the phone, the desk and the browser share one list once you are signed in, a change made in one place is a change made everywhere. On the wrist, a short answer is read back before it goes anywhere, because that is where recognition is least reliable. The outcome Foley aims for is a lighter head and a clearer day. Tasks do not need to be remembered, because capture is only a sentence away on whatever device is nearest. Tasks do not need to be re-typed, because the project and the date arrive with them. Plans do not need to be rebuilt from scratch, because Foley plans around the tasks already on the list and you can adjust from there. And because the app asks rather than guesses, the list stays trustworthy — you are not silently filing tasks into the wrong project or accepting a wrong date. The Timeline groups what is late, what is due today and what the week holds across every project, so the day is one glance instead of a search. Concrete scenarios run through the whole product. In the middle of work, you press a shortcut and say “Add two tasks: buy milk, and call the electrician,” review the two tasks Foley produced, and carry on. Walking out of a meeting, you capture on your phone and Foley files it with the project and time already set. When something changes, you say “Change Sam's pull request review to 4 PM” and the day rearranges. When you are not sure where to start, you ask “What should I work on first?” and Foley answers from your list — for example, renewing an overdue parking permit before posting a parcel due at 12:30. On the wrist, a question like “Which area, and how many people?” can be answered with a tap on one of the suggested chips or by voice. And for a household errand, “Add bread to the shopping list” is enough. Foley is aimed at anyone who keeps a personal and professional task list and wants to keep it without doing the filing — knowledge workers at a desk, people who capture thoughts on the move, and anyone who wants their tasks on a watch as well as a screen. It runs on Mac and Windows desktop apps, in the browser at my.foleyapp.com, on iPhone and Android, and on Apple Watch (watchOS 10 or later) and Wear OS watches (Wear OS 3 or later). Setup lets you connect your tools, choose your capture shortcut, and decide which projects AI may use as context — and you can pick Foley-managed AI or bring your own key. Desktop task management is free, with no sign-in needed to get started and a personal AI key for AI features; your AI provider charges for personal-key usage. Foley Pro is $8 per month (currently $4 for the first month), with hosted AI without a personal key and your account across devices on monthly or annual billing. Website pricing may differ from store prices; signing in is required for hosted AI, sync and sharing. Foley's value proposition is that the thought is the work. By starting with voice — on a desktop shortcut, a phone, a browser tab or a watch — and finishing with a task that already has its project, date and reminder attached, it removes the administrative step that makes most task lists fail. It asks when it is unsure instead of guessing, it keeps your original words so changes can be undone, and it keeps one list in sync across Mac, Windows, web, iPhone, Android and the watches. The result is exactly what the product promises: out of your head, into your day.