The fastest way to capture your day — and the simplest way to run it. Use your voice in the car, and your keyboard in a meeting. Completely private, no account required.
iPhone & Apple Watch · Free to try
No account. No cloud. No catch.
There's no sign-up, because there's nothing to sign up to. Your memos live on your phone and can be backed up to iCloud, Dropbox or Google Drive — your accounts, your files.
From the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, Jot Minder is always there to help you get the most out of your day and never forget a thing.
6:12AM
Everyone has this one — the class you never went to all semester. Worth keeping the version your brain served up at 6am, before you tidy it into an anecdote.
No unlocking, no hunting for an app. Hold the microphone and talk; the words appear as you say them. Typing that would have taken longer than the dream lasted.
It transcribes on the device and throws the audio away — the recording never existed anywhere you'd have to trust.
6:40AM
Every item is a timer rather than a note: five minutes stretching, four for the coffee, ten to journal, fifteen on the inbox. Set it once and you never plan a morning again.
Then press play. It works down the list on its own, chiming at each step and saying what's next out loud — no deciding, no clock-watching, no picking the phone back up. You just do the thing in front of you, and the morning is done before most people have found their keys.
You
“Hey Siri, record a Jot Minder.”
Siri
“Go ahead.”
You
“Get Mum flowers for her birthday.” — then you stop talking.
“Saved.”
8:05AM
Your mum's birthday is a week on Wednesday, you're doing seventy in the middle lane, and this is exactly the kind of thing that gets remembered twice and done never.
You can't type and you shouldn't be looking at a screen — so you don't. Siri puts it straight into your quick-capture list without the app ever opening, and it's waiting when you get to your desk.
11:20AM
Two taps, type it, tag it, done. Eight seconds, and nobody across the table notices.
The tags are the part that pays off later. #board and #q3 aren't folders — they're threads. When you sit down to build the board pack on Thursday, everything tagged #board comes back together, whether it started here, in Ideas, or as something you said out loud in the car.
And the reminder means you stop carrying the deadline around. Friday at five, nudged an hour before — early enough to actually do the thing, rather than early enough to feel bad about it.
3:10PM
Nearest deadline at the top, overdue in red, finished things sunk out of sight. You never sort it — the list already knows what's urgent.
That's the difference between a list you keep and a list you stop opening.
5:45PM
Mid-task, nothing to do with work, and gone in ten seconds if you don't catch it. Two taps into Groceries — or just say it — and it's out of your head without losing your place.
He's already at the shop, so you send him the list as plain text. What's in the cupboard stays behind: nobody wants a shopping list with half of it crossed out.
6:25PM
Good ideas never wait for a convenient moment. Six kilometres in, phone on the kitchen table, and there it is — the whole thing, fully formed, and already starting to go.
One tap on your wrist, say it, keep running. You don't break stride, and by the time you're home it's written down instead of being the idea you know you had and can't get back.
No phone needed, no signal needed. It waits on the watch and lands in your list the moment you're through the door.
10:15PM
Everything you caught today, in the order it happened: the dream at six, the forecast at eleven, the eggs at quarter to six. A day you'd otherwise only half remember.
And tomorrow sitting right underneath it, already filled in. Each entry wears its list's colour, so you can tell in a second whether tomorrow is mostly work or mostly life — before you've closed your eyes on today.
Bins on Thursday, physio every weekday, your mum's birthday every August. Set them once and stop carrying them around in your head — the list remembers, and tells you before it matters.
Daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, or the same date every year. Tick one off and the next one is already waiting.
Not at the deadline — before it. Ten minutes, an hour, a day ahead, whatever gives you time to actually do the thing.
A notification you missed shouldn't vanish. Anything past its time stays at the top and stays red until you deal with it.
Not just the next one — all of them. Scroll into next month and the weekdays already have physio on them, the Thursdays already have the bins.
Each entry wears its list's colour, so a glance tells you whether a day is full of work, errands, or nothing much at all.
Turn a list into an exercise routine: give each exercise a duration and repeat it three times. It stops being a list of exercises and becomes the workout — counting down, calling each move out loud, keeping count of the rounds so you don't have to.
Pick from eight colours and a deep bench of icons. The colour isn't decoration: it carries through the list, its entries, its calendar dots and its widget, so you always know where you are and where a thing landed.
And every list carries its own microphone and Abc right there on the home screen — so adding to Groceries never means opening Groceries. The same pair sits on the calendar and on every list's own page. For the list you reach for most, put a widget on your Home Screen, or map the Action Button to it and just squeeze.
The rest is quiet housekeeping. Tags cut across lists when a subject refuses to respect them. Sorting is set per list, because a shopping run and a diary don't want the same order. And search reaches every word in every list — including the ones you only ever said out loud.
Staying off our servers doesn't mean going without a safety net. You pick where the copies go, using accounts you already have — and you can pick more than one.
They're plain, open files. You could open one on a laptop years from now without this app — or us — still being around. Change phones, change your mind, delete it tomorrow: the writing is yours, and it outlives whatever we do next.
Say it or type it. It'll be there when you look.
Download on the App StoreRequires iPhone. Apple Watch app included.