Foley Review

What Is Foley and How Does the Voice Task Manager Work?

This is a voice-first task manager from Hanamori Labs, a Delaware-based studio. Where a regular to-do app makes you type the title, project, date, and reminders as separate fields, this one accepts the whole thought as speech and does the structuring for you. That makes it useful for people who capture tasks on the move — walking, or with hands busy in a workshop — where opening a form is the friction that stops the capture from happening.

The capture flow is deliberately explicit about what it understood. The app transcribes the audio, extracts structure, and reads the result back before anything is committed, so a misinterpreted date is caught in the moment rather than discovered later.

Speaking, Parsing, and Reviewing Tasks

The workflow runs on a few clearly documented steps and keeps the human in the loop.

The overhead tradeoff is worth stating plainly: speech capture saves the few seconds a form takes, but only if the extra review step is faster than typing for you. For single quick items most people will stay faster typing; the payoff arrives when you batch several tasks into one spoken message and let the parser split them up.

• Start from a shortcut or the phone capture mark, and speak one or several things
• The app separates tasks, projects, due dates, times, reminders, and priority
• It shows what it understood and reads the result aloud before saving
• A clarifying question is asked when two tasks could fit the same words
• Follow-ups are handled conversationally — no need to re-type the task

Platforms and Integrations

The app covers more surfaces than most voice to-do apps. Desktop users get native macOS and Windows clients, phone users get iOS and Android, and the watches — Apple Watch and Wear OS — capture voice without the phone nearby. The same account keeps the daily desk, calendar, lists, and projects in sync, so a task spoken on the watch is waiting on the desktop screen.

For automation-minded users, an MCP server lets clients like Cursor, Claude, and Grok call into the app, and a ChatGPT plugin is available. On the productivity side, [Taskade](/tools/taskade) and [Motion](/tools/motion) remain the stronger picks if you want built-in project automation rather than voice-first capture.

Pricing: Free, Pro, or Your Own Key

There are three ways to run the app. The free plan starts with a seven-day full Pro trial and then gives 50 AI voice captures a month on a lighter model. Pro costs $8 per month or $72 per year and lifts the limits. The most distinctive option is bring-your-own-key: connect your own AI provider and voice capture keeps working without limit and without paying Hanamori Labs — you pay your provider instead. Store prices through the App Store and Google Play may differ from the website.

Best For

Recommended use cases and scenarios where Foley shines.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Foley, answered.