Afterthought vs Voice Notes

Afterthought turns spoken thoughts into prepared actions for the apps you already use, and longer recordings into Sessions you can review. Capture from iPhone, Apple Watch or Action Button. Afterthought transcribes your voice, understands what you meant and prepares notes, reminders, tasks, calendar events, messages and other actions while keeping you in control of what happens next. YOUR THOUGHTS, WHERE YOU WANT THEM Not every thought needs to become a task or reminder. Set a Default Information Destination and Afterthought can route captured information to your preferred app, such as Notion or Todoist, even when you haven't specified an action. Capture naturally, without deciding where everything belongs before you speak. NEW IN 2.7 — SEARCH, COLLECTIONS & RECORDING Find saved thoughts by voice or text straight from Home. Bring related notes and actions together in collections, with optional summaries to help make sense of them. • Search by voice or text straight from Home • Organise related notes and actions into collections • Pause and resume Quick Capture and Session recordings • Smoother recording visuals on iPhone and Apple Watch, clearer controls and accessibility improvements SESSIONS Sessions are a deliberate workflow for longer recordings. Choose Meeting, Interview, Lecture or Thinking and keep the original audio, final transcript and useful overview together. • Record meetings, interviews, lectures and longer thinking • Follow a provisional on-device transcript while recording • Keep the original audio and final transcript • Review an Apple Intelligence summary on supported devices • Recover interrupted recordings • Share Overview + transcript, Overview only, or Transcript only QUICK CAPTURE • Capture from iPhone, Apple Watch or Action Button • Capture on Apple Watch even when your iPhone is away, then transfer later • Choose Transcribe Only, Classify & Review or Classify & Send • Turn speech into notes, reminders, tasks, calendar events, messages and more • With Pro, split one natural recording into several ordered, reviewable actions • Review and edit content, dates, fields and destinations before sending • Correct prepared actions by typing or speaking YOUR APPS, YOUR WORKFLOW Prepare content for Apple Notes, Reminders, Apple Calendar, Apple Journal, Todoist, Notion, Slack, Things 3, Bear, Obsidian, TickTick, Day One, Evernote, Messages, Email, Shortcuts and other supported workflows. Afterthought does not replace your notes app, task manager, calendar or journal. It makes voice an easier way into them. PRIVATE, CONTROLLED INTELLIGENCE Capture and transcription are local-first. Apple Intelligence, Classic and downloaded Local AI Models process on device. Optional Cloud AI sends transcript text only to the provider you configure. External destinations receive content only when you use them. Free includes unlimited capture and transcription, review, supported Apple workflows and a monthly classification allowance. Pro adds unlimited classification, multi-action splitting, writing actions, third-party destinations, extra Nature Mode options, Local AI Models and optional Cloud AI. Speak once. Make it happen. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Turn your thoughts into tasks, just by talking. Tap the mic, speak naturally, and get clear, structured tasks with due dates and times. No typing, no account, no cloud. CAPTURE THE WAY YOU THINK • Quick Task: say one thing and save it in seconds • Brain Dump: talk through everything on your mind and get a list of separate tasks • Live recording with waveform, timer, and pause/resume • Split a capture into separate tasks or keep it as a single note • Merge related tasks before saving • Review and edit everything first. Nothing is saved until you confirm SMART, ON-DEVICE UNDERSTANDING • On-device AI turns speech into structured tasks on devices that support Apple Intelligence • Works on other iPhones too, with built-in smart extraction • Understands natural dates: "tomorrow", "next Friday", "the 15th", "March 15", "end of the month" • Understands times: "at 10", "2pm", "this evening" • Highlights items it is less sure about so you can double-check them • Catches impossible or past dates before they are saved STAY ON TOP OF YOUR DAY • Today: overdue and due-today tasks in one place • Upcoming: future tasks grouped by month • Inbox: undated tasks, ready to schedule with a tap • Tap to complete, tap to reschedule, overdue tasks highlighted in red • Tasks move into Today automatically when their day arrives REMINDERS THAT WORK FOR YOU • Timed tasks: reminders the day before, 2 hours before, and at the time • Date-only tasks: a reminder the day before • All reminders are scheduled locally on your iPhone PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Speech recognition and task extraction happen on your device • No account and no server: your voice and tasks never leave your phone • Delete recordings after processing, export your data, or delete everything at any time FOR EVERYONE • Available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Arabic. Speak and capture in any of them • Full right-to-left layout for Arabic • Light, dark and system themes • VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type and large touch targets • Core features work offline Speak it. Sort it. Get it done.