Ideaflow vs Mindporch

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Everything you're carrying, in one place — then one small thing to start. Mindporch is somewhere to put your head down. Say everything that's rattling around in one go: the things you have to do, the things you're worried about, the half-ideas you don't want to lose. It sorts what's an actual commitment from what's just worth keeping, then shows you one task, full screen, with the rest out of sight. SAY IT ALL OUT LOUD Tap once and talk. No typing, no categories, nothing to file. Mindporch untangles a rambling brain dump into separate items and shows you what it heard before anything is added. Rather type? The same untangling works on typed text. A WORRY IS NOT A TO-DO Neither is "I should learn to swim one day." Mindporch keeps what you've actually committed to apart from what's just worth keeping, so the list stays something you can trust — and nothing you said gets thrown away. ONE THING, FULL SCREEN A long list is a wall. When everything is visible at once, nothing feels startable — so you scroll, reorganise, and do none of it. You get one task and three ways forward: do it, skip it, or make it smaller. Swipe right to finish, left to set it aside. MAKE IT SMALLER Stuck on the one in front of you? Tap Smaller and it becomes a concrete physical action you can do in two minutes — the first motion, not the whole job. Tap again to go smaller still. A TIMER THAT DOESN'T NAG Ten minutes by default. Add five, fifteen or twenty-five if you're going. Nothing beeps at you, and nothing breaks the thing you finally started. PUT THE REST OF YOUR PHONE AWAY Choose the apps you lose yourself in, and Mindporch blocks them while a timer is running. Pause or finish the session and they come straight back — it holds the door shut, it never locks you out. ONE TAP FROM ANYWHERE Put the widget on your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Control Centre. One tap and it's already listening. Two quiet reminders a day, morning and evening, if you want them — and nothing else, ever. BUILT TO STAY CALM No streaks. No badges. No productivity score. No dashboard telling you how far behind you are. One accent colour, a lot of white space, and type large enough to read at a glance. WORKS WHEN THE SIGNAL DOESN'T Your list, the timer and the one-thing view all live on your phone, so they keep working underground. Untangling a dump and shrinking a task are done by AI and need a connection — without one, Mindporch falls back to a simpler rule on the device and carries on rather than stopping. WHERE YOUR LIST LIVES Your phone is the original; a copy is kept on Mindporch's server so a lost phone doesn't mean a lost list. That copy starts the first time you open the app, without an account and without an email address. Signing in with Apple is what makes it recoverable: it attaches the copy to your Apple ID, so a new phone can get it back. Until you do, the copy can only be reached from this install — deleting the app takes the list with it. Settings always says which of the two you're in. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Your tasks and thoughts, to keep that copy. What you said and your recording, so the AI can sort and transcribe it — that goes to AI providers working on Mindporch's behalf, who process it for that and nothing else. Your email address only if you sign in. No ads, no third-party trackers, no tracking across apps, and nothing sold to anyone, ever. We do count which features get used, on our own server and never what you write — the privacy policy says exactly what that means. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. The privacy policy spells all of it out. Mindporch is a focus tool, not a medical device or a treatment. It offers no diagnosis and no therapy.