If you have ADHD, the idea is loudest the second it arrives and gone a moment later. TellDone lets you say it out loud and turns it into tasks, reminders, and calendar events in about 10 to 30 seconds, before your attention moves on.
For a lot of people with ADHD, the problem was never wanting to be organized. It's the gap between having a thought and getting it somewhere safe. Researchers describe this as working-memory and task-initiation difficulty: the thought is real and urgent right now, and then it isn't anywhere at all.
People with ADHD often describe the same fix: get the thought out of your head the instant it lands, before you decide where it goes. Handwriting runs around 25 words a minute; speaking runs closer to 150. When your working-memory buffer is small, that speed is the difference between keeping the thought and losing it.
TellDone is built around one move: you talk, it sorts. No setup ritual, no fields to fill in before a thought is safe. Here's how that maps to the frictions above.
Press record and say whatever's in your head, in any order. In about 10 to 30 seconds it comes back as separate tasks, calendar events, reminders, and notes, already sorted. You can also type if you'd rather. The point is that you don't have to organize the thought before you capture it; the app organizes it after.
Start a recording from your iPhone Lock Screen, the Action Button, Control Center, or the Dynamic Island, without unlocking. When your phone is in another room, talk to your Apple Watch (Series 6 or newer). Recording works offline too and uploads when you reconnect, so a thought never has to wait for signal or for the right moment.
Say "remind me to take my meds every morning" or "water the plants every Tuesday," and TellDone sets the repeat for you: every few days, weeks, months, or years, weekdays only, ending never, on a date, or after a set number of times. You can attach more than one reminder to a single task, so the thing that's out of sight stays on your radar anyway.
If the AI mishears or you change your mind, tap the field and edit it. No edit mode, no Save button, and a quick Undo if you need it. Prefer to keep talking? Record a follow-up ("move the dentist to Thursday") and TellDone updates what already exists. Your original transcript stays read-only, so the app never quietly rewrites your own words.
Smart Context connects a new recording to tasks you already have. Say "finished the report" or "picked up the prescription," and the matching task checks itself off. One less list to go back and tidy.
There's no daily review you have to keep up with for TellDone to stay useful. Connect Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, Todoist, Notion, or Things 3 and your captures land where you already look. Optional AI reports (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) play back what you did and what's coming, and semantic search finds an old note by what you meant, not the exact words you used.
This is an example of how the app fits an ADHD day, not a real person.
7:40 a.m. Still half-awake, you remember the school form is due Friday and you're out of coffee. You tap the Lock Screen and say both. By the time you've put the phone down, "buy coffee" is a task and "return school form" is on Friday with a reminder the night before.
11:15 a.m. Mid-meeting, three action items land at once. You mutter them into your Apple Watch under the table. After the call they're three separate tasks, not a blur you half-remember.
2:00 p.m. An idea for a side project hits while you're doing something else. Instead of derailing, you record a 30-second ramble. It comes back as a note with a couple of next steps you can look at later, when you have the focus.
6:30 p.m. At the pharmacy you say "picked up the prescription." Smart Context checks off the task you made this morning. You didn't open a list. You didn't go hunting for it.
9:00 p.m. The daily report shows what you actually finished. On a day that felt scattered, seeing it written down is its own kind of relief.
TellDone has a free plan, so you can try speaking instead of typing without paying anything. Paid tiers (Basic, Pro, Ultra) add longer recordings and more. It runs on iPhone (iOS 18+), Apple Watch (Series 6+), and the web.
Get TellDone on the App Store →
Or open the web app at app.telldone.app and capture your first thought right now.