Offhand

Offhand: Voice To Do & Notes

Speak it.
Get a to-do list.

Press the Action Button, say what you have to do, tap Save. A model on your iPhone reads the note and files each task under Morning, Afternoon, Tonight or Anytime. If you named an hour, the task gets it.

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Offhand mid-capture: the panel open over a day carrying Work, Groceries and Workout groups, with the spoken note transcribed and its times picked out

How it works

Three moves, and the day is planned.

  1. 1 · Speak

    Tap the bar at the foot of the day, or press the Action Button, and say it the way you would say it out loud.

    “Call the dentist first thing, pick up the dry cleaning this afternoon”

  2. 2 · Review

    Tasks appear with the timing you mentioned. The receipt shows the words it heard, and says so when it found no task in them.

  3. 3 · Hand off, if you want

    Continue in Shortcuts, or hand the text to another app. Nothing is sent anywhere on its own, and nothing is copied without you.

Key features

What the app does, and where it stops.

On-device transcription

SpeechAnalyzer runs on the iPhone. No upload, no queue, no waiting on a network.

The timing it heard

“Tomorrow at nine” becomes a task on tomorrow at 9:00. A task naming only a day waits quietly on that day.

Four parts of a day

Morning, Afternoon, Tonight, Anytime. Enough structure to plan with, not a calendar to maintain.

Move it to another day

Pick a card up and hold it at the edge of the screen. The day changes underneath it, and the card can be dropped on a different one.

Your own words, kept

Every capture keeps its transcript and its recording. Play it back, or find a task by words you spoke but never typed.

A note stays a note

Not everything you say is a task. A thought with nothing to do stays a note. Notes are kept by day, and search finds them by the words you said.

See it

Three screens, unedited.

A day with Work, Groceries and Workout groups standing, and an offer reading “Make a ‘Health’ group for 5 tasks” above seven tasks across Morning, Afternoon and Tonight
It labels tasks, then offers a groupWhen five tasks carry the same label, it offers to make that group. Only a tap creates anything.
The Notes list: seven notes under Bookmarked, Today and Previous 7 Days, a strip of group chips, and a search field reading “Search your words”
A note with nothing to do stays a noteKept by day, carrying the same groups as tasks. Search covers the whole transcript.
The Lists screen: tiles counting nine open tasks, seventy completed, seven notes and three suggestions, over a month of days
All of it, at a glanceOpen, done, notes and suggestions, over a month of days — and one search across all of them.

Stored: on this iPhone.

Transcription, extraction, history and recordings all stay on the device. Deleting an entry removes the note and its recording from this iPhone, and that cannot be undone. What that means, and how to check it. It needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.

  • Transcription by SpeechAnalyzer, on device
  • Task extraction by Foundation Models, on device
  • No account, and nothing to sign in to
  • No analytics, no server, no third-party SDK
  • Four ways anything can leave, all off until you turn them on: iCloud sync, into your own iCloud account and not ours, with recordings on a second switch; the Calendar mirror; handoff and Shortcuts. Set out in full in the privacy policy.

Say it Offhand.

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