Your professor mentions a deadline mid-slide. Say it out loud, and TellDone files it as a task with a due date and a reminder before the lecture even ends.
TellDone is a voice-first planning app built for how a semester actually moves. You speak, and AI turns it into tasks, calendar events, reminders, and notes in about 10 to 30 seconds. iPhone, Apple Watch, and web. There is a free plan, so you can run a whole term without paying.
Free plan: 50 notes a month, 60 transcription minutes, Apple Calendar and Reminders, Siri, search, and export. No card to start.
We read through what students actually say about staying on top of a course load. A few patterns came up again and again.
The deadline that was only spoken. The reading response, the lab swap, the room change for the midterm. It gets said once, out loud, and never makes it onto the syllabus or into your phone. By the time you are out of the building, it is gone.
Five courses, one overloaded brain. Holding every due date for every class in your head is its own form of stress. Miss one and it is a late penalty; spend the term anxious about missing one and you never fully focus.
If it is not written down, it did not happen. The advice every study center gives is the same: stop trusting your memory, capture it the moment you hear it. The problem is that opening an app and typing during a lecture is slow and obvious.
Ideas show up on the walk, not at the desk. The thesis angle, the question for office hours, the thing to add to the group project. It lands while you are crossing campus, hands full, and is forgotten before you sit down.
Studying in a second language is already a lot. For international students, keeping pace with a lecture and taking notes in another language at the same time is exhausting. Planning admin should not add to that load.
Context, not marketing claims: an estimated 70 to 95 percent of college students procrastinate on academic work, according to studies summarized on Wikipedia’s overview of procrastination. University study guides, including the Johns Hopkins time-management guide, repeat the same advice: write tasks down rather than relying on memory, and break work into smaller steps. TellDone is a tool for doing exactly that, faster.
Each frustration above maps to something the app already does. No new habits to learn beyond talking.
Say the deadline the way you heard it and TellDone turns it into a task with a due date and a reminder.
“The discussion post for sociology is due Thursday at 11:59, remind me Wednesday night.”You get a task with the right due date and a reminder set for Wednesday, written to Apple Reminders or your task manager. One sentence, done.
Recurring tasks and reminders mean the routine parts of a term schedule themselves.
“Block two hours of organic chem review every Sunday afternoon for the rest of the semester.”TellDone creates the repeating block so your study time exists on the calendar instead of in good intentions.
Recording works offline, so a campus dead zone is not an excuse to lose a thought. Talk while you walk and it syncs and sorts itself when you reconnect.
“Idea for the history essay: compare the two primary sources from week six. Ask the TA about citation format.”That comes back as a note plus a task to ask the TA. Smart Context can even tick off a related task when you mention it is done.
TellDone handles 60+ languages and follows a switch mid-sentence. International students can think out loud in their first language and still get clean tasks, with course codes and building names in English where they belong.
AI reports pull your tasks, notes, and upcoming events into a daily and weekly summary, so you start the week knowing what is actually due instead of guessing. (Daily on Basic; daily and weekly on Pro and Ultra.)
Semantic search, included on the Free plan, looks across everything you have captured by meaning, not just exact words. Search “that reading the prof recommended” and find it, even if you never wrote those exact words.
One illustrative Tuesday, start to finish.
The Free plan is built to carry a real student through a term. Talk through your week once and see how much you stop carrying in your head.
Works on iPhone (iOS 18+), Apple Watch (Series 6+), and the web.
More ways people use TellDone: browse all use cases or see how TellDone works.