Comparison

P.Todo vs Talk Memo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

P.Todo

Features
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Writing down tasks and offload thoughts from our brain onto paper or any physical form is supposed to help us clear our mind and focus on the task at hand. However when there is too much in life to juggle with, as it often is, our todo-list could get too long too easy. When there are dozens of todos in our todo list, checking it becomes overwhelming, the very tool meant to liberate us becomes a source of stress. That's why so many to-do list would have folders, tags, priorities, and all kinds of other sorting mechanism to manage tasks. However I find that kind of mechanism to be quite useless and mechanical, how can you quantify a task's importance and urgency? when something is urgent enough, wouldn't you just do it instead of write it down in your todo list? If something is not urgent now, wouldn't it automatically becomes urgent in the future? Wouldn't it be wonderful if instead of the arbitrary folders, manual labels and made-up priorities there were a more organic way to manage tasks? Actually, there is, your tasks could be managed by TIME. Think about it, no matter how many things you got at hand, you can only do one thing at a time, and if something is important and urgent you would want to do it in the near future (or now), if something is not so urgent, then you would arrange it in a more distant future. And there are also things that cannot be done until a certain time, so it need not to be shown in our todo list NOW. Thus, problem solved, when we are presented with a lot of tasks, instead of just do everything (which is honestly not possible) or just leave it there because you couldn't do it which is frustrating, you could just POSTPONE your tasks. If it is something you want to do or relatively urgent, but you don't feel like do it now, or certain conditions are not met so you cannot do it now, then you can postpone it to the near future such as 40min later or even 15 minutes later, and then the task is gone, no longer something you need to do now, if it is something not very urgent or important, but you still want to do when you got time, you can postpone it to maybe 3 or 4 days or even a week later. Thus based on your intuition, you can quickly determine how far in the future you would like to postpone a task. The process in and of itself is stress free, because the task is not gone, it is just rearranged to a later time, you don't have the remember the task's label or tag or which field it belongs to or anything, it will reappear in the future, and if you really do not have anything to do at hand you can look into the calendar to see the tasks you postponed into the future. In P.Todo, this POSTPONE action is made crazy easy and intuitive, you can just swipe a task item to the left to postpone a task to the future and the harder you swipe the more distant the future the task is pushed to, and if you wish to delegate a task to reappear in a certain date you can swipe the task item all the way left to call out a calendar to delegate an exact date. For task that you do want to do now, you can swipe the task item to the right, depending on how much you swipe a timer will show up playing white noise music and helping you to focus, if you swipe a bit further you can also mark the task as complete or swipe even further to delete the task. With this simple app, I find my chaotic and dramatic day become much more manageable. It becomes significantly easier for me to get into the zone, and get things done. On the other hand, it becomes much less likely for me to miss important deadlines, as everything is organized in my todo app's calendar. P.Todo is a project that I build for my own need, as all other todo app couldn't satisfy me, but it turns out other people seems to like it as well. So I decide to pack it up and share it in app store, hope you enjoy!

About

Talk Memo

Capture voice notes on your Apple Watch and have them automatically transcribed to text on your iPhone. Seamlessly send your transcribed memos to popular note-taking apps or anywhere via the Share Sheet. Designed for quick capture of ideas on the go.

Highlights
  • One-tap voice recording on Apple Watch
  • On-device speech recognition to text
  • Direct export to Notion, Bear, Obsidian
  • iOS Share Sheet integration
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Supports over 50 languages
  • Privacy-focused, on-device processing
Features
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Talk Memo is an Apple Watch voice notes app: what you record on your wrist turns into a text note on your iPhone. Tap once, speak, and on-device speech recognition does the rest. Send any memo straight to Notion, Bear or Obsidian, or anywhere through the Share Sheet. A good idea hits while you're out running. You stop, dig out your phone, type it. By the time you start running again, the flow is gone. That's why this exists. Lift your wrist, speak, lower it. No phone, no fuss. Pay once, use forever. No subscriptions. No accounts. Your voice never leaves your device. β€” How it works Tap your Watch screen β€” the red button starts recording. Tap again to stop. The recording slips over to your iPhone, where on-device speech recognition turns it into text. Memos stack up in chronological order. β€” Four ways to launch from your wrist Β· Action Button (Apple Watch Ultra) β€” one press of the orange button Β· Watch face complication β€” works with any face you like Β· Dock favorites β€” side button, tap Β· Siri / Shortcuts β€” voice command or automation β€” Send it where you actually keep your notes I keep mine in Notion. Built this so anyone using any notes app could route their memos cleanly. Β· iOS Share Sheet β€” Messages, Mail, Slack, anywhere Β· Notion API β€” direct page creation in your database Β· Obsidian β€” markdown straight into your vault Β· Bear β€” one tap, note created β€” iPhone and iPad together Memos sync automatically over iCloud. Record on iPhone + Apple Watch, then read or export them on iPad in any app you like. Your Notion and Obsidian setup also follows you across devices on the same Apple ID. β€” Speech recognition in your language The app picks a recognition language that matches your device β€” Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, and 50+ more languages Apple supports out of the box. Override it from Settings any time. β€” Privacy Recording and transcription both happen on-device. Memos sync across your Apple devices through your own iCloud account β€” never through our servers. We collect anonymous usage analytics to improve the app β€” it never includes your voice or memo text. Notion integration runs through your own API key, talking to Notion's servers under your control. β€” Made for Β· Runners, walkers, drivers β€” anyone whose ideas come while moving Β· Notion and Obsidian users curating their note systems Β· Apple Watch wearers who want voice capture straight from the wrist Β· People who'd rather pay once than subscribe forever

Screenshots

P.Todo4 screens
Talk Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: P.Todo at Free against Talk Memo's $3.99. P.Todo also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

P.Todo is free to download; Talk Memo costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
P.Todo versus Talk Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterP.TodoTalk Memo
PriceFree β€” better$3.99
Positive reviewsβ€”80.0% of reviews
Update frequencyβ€”Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationβ€”Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS14.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperεΎ·ζ˜₯ 李SungHyuk Yoon

In-app purchases

None

P.Todo

No in-app purchases

None

Talk Memo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is P.Todo free?
P.Todo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talk Memo free?
Talk Memo costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do P.Todo or Talk Memo have ads?
Neither P.Todo nor Talk Memo shows ads.

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