Foley

Foley is a voice-first to-do list that turns spoken thoughts into tasks with the details already in place. You say what needs doing — “I called the dentist,” “Change Sam's pull request review to 4 PM,” “Add bread to the shopping list” — and Foley works out the task, the project, the date and the reminder before anything lands. The product is for people who want to get a thought out of their head quickly, without doing the filing admin that normally comes with it. Foley runs on Mac, Windows, the web, iPhone and Android, with a reduced capture experience on Apple Watch (watchOS 10 or later) and Wear OS watches (Wear OS 3 or later). Most task apps assume you will stop what you are doing, open an app, create a task, choose a project, set a date and pick a reminder. Foley starts from the opposite premise: the thought arrives in a handful of words, and the system should do the work of turning it into something actionable. The site frames this as “Out of your head. Into your day.” Rather than forcing you to translate a half-formed thought into a structured record on the spot, Foley files the task with a project and a time, keeps the original words as part of the record, and only asks a question when it genuinely cannot tell what you meant. When plans change, you say so and it moves the task rather than leaving you to unpick and rebuild the list by hand. Capture is the centre of the product. A shortcut brings Foley to you wherever you are working, and you can say a sentence or several things at once — for example, “Add two tasks: buy milk, and call the electrician.” Foley works out the tasks, the dates and the project from what you said, and you review what it understood before the tasks land in your list. On the phone the capture sheet listens while you talk, then shows what it saved with the project and the time already set, and says so out loud in one sentence, by the same rules on every device. The words stay on the screen whether or not the voice plays, and when voice replies are off the app says why. The watch strips capture back further: tap the mark, say what needs doing, and it goes to the same list as everywhere else. While the microphone is open the wordmark pulses and the clock counts up, so waiting never looks like broken; you stop when you are done and nothing asks you to confirm. When Foley is not certain, it asks rather than guesses. If two tasks could fit what you said, it asks which one you mean, so you stay in charge of the change. On the watch, a question like “Which area, and how many people?” arrives with the likely answers as chips you can tap or say; because a short answer is where recognition is least reliable, what you said is read back before it goes anywhere, and you can send it or say it again. Capture history keeps the original words beside what Foley changed, so you can review the result and undo a capture when you need to. Alongside projects, Foley keeps simple lists for shopping, packing and little things to remember — add another item, tick things off, or say “Add bread to the shopping list.” Day to day, tasks from across your projects come together at your Daily desk, where you can open one, change a detail or check it off. The Timeline groups what is overdue, what is due today and what the week holds across every project, so the day is one glance, and a calendar view shows the shape of the day so that when plans change you can move a task or change its time while keeping the rest of the day in view. Projects give each part of life a home: folders keep related projects together, and projects hold the work and its context. Task context connects related work, keeps notes and attachments with the task, and shows the dependencies that explain what comes next — “The invoice to Acme is blocked by the board deck.” Planning turns the list into a plan: ask Foley to plan your day around the tasks already there, follow the plan back to the work, and adjust it as you go. For shared work, you can share a project through your Foley account so tasks and comments stay with the work, and in Your setup you connect your tools, choose your capture shortcut, and decide which projects AI may use as context, picking either Foley-managed AI or bringing your own key. The approach running through all of this is that Foley asks instead of guessing and shows its work. What it saved appears on the capture sheet with the project and time already set, it speaks a one-sentence result by the same rules on every device, and the original words sit beside the change in history. Signed in, the phone, the desk and the browser share one list, and the watch shows the same day in the order the service sends it. AI sits behind capture and planning rather than in front of it: you can use hosted, Foley-managed AI, or bring a personal key from a provider such as OpenRouter and pay that provider for usage. You also control which projects the AI may use as context. The outcome Foley is built for is a lighter head and a clearer day. Instead of holding a thought until you can write it down properly, you say it and move on, with the project, date and reminder already worked out. Instead of an undifferentiated list, you get a Daily desk and a Timeline that show what is late, what is due today and what the week holds. Instead of being told what to do by a system that guessed wrong, you get a question and you give an answer. And instead of a plan you have to maintain by hand, you can ask for a plan and change it in a sentence when the day shifts. Concrete uses the product describes include emptying your head in one pass — “Add two tasks: buy milk, and call the electrician” — and reviewing what Foley understood before the tasks land. It covers errands and chores with times: “Water the plants on Thursday evening” is filed as a task on Thursday at 18:00 in the Home project, and “Post the parcel” sits in Errands at 12:30. It handles changed plans with “Change Sam's pull request review to 4 PM,” disambiguates with “Complete the report expenses task,” and answers “What should I work on first?” from the list — for example naming an overdue parking permit renewal before a parcel due at 12:30. It keeps small checklists, links blocked work such as an invoice held up by a board deck, and captures from the wrist on an Apple Watch or Wear OS watch, including follow-up questions such as which area and how many people. Foley is for anyone who wants fast capture across the devices they already use. Desktop task management is free: a home for your tasks on your computer, local desktop task management, no sign-in needed to get started, and the option to bring a personal AI key for AI features, with your AI provider charging for personal-key usage. Foley Pro is Foley-managed AI with less to set up: hosted AI without a personal key, one account across devices, and monthly or annual billing, at $8 per month after an introductory $4 for the first month applied at checkout. Signing in is what enables hosted AI, sync and sharing, and the site notes that website pricing may differ from store prices. The desktop app runs on Mac and Windows, the mobile app on iPhone and Android, and the watch apps on watchOS 10 or later and Wear OS 3 or later. Taken together, Foley is a voice-first to-do list that carries a thought the whole way from the moment it is spoken to the moment it is planned and done: tasks filed with project, date and reminder; questions when the intent is unclear; history to undo a wrong call; the same list on Mac, Windows, the web, iPhone, Android and your wrist; and a free desktop tier or Foley Pro for managed AI and sync.