Blurt vs Benchpad

Blurt it out, we'll sort it out. Stop losing ideas in voice memos you never listen to. Blurt turns your rambling thoughts into clean, dated, searchable tasks — automatically. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap the big mic button 2. Say anything — one task, or ten tasks in one breath 3. Get clean, structured tasks with dates, people, and tags — instantly WHAT MAKES BLURT DIFFERENT • One-tap capture — no setup, no login wall. The record button is the first thing you see. • AI that shows its work — your transcript stays visible next to extracted tasks. Every chip is editable. • Organized automatically — Blurt pulls out dates ("tomorrow", "Thursday"), people, and project tags from natural speech. • Searchable archive — every memo is saved and searchable. Find what you said weeks ago. GREAT FOR • Founders capturing ideas between meetings • Parents remembering errands while driving • Students prepping for study sessions • Anyone who thinks faster than they type FREE 5 memos per month, full task extraction, in-app task list. BLURT PREMIUM ($3.99/mo or $29/yr) • Unlimited memos • Send tasks to Apple Reminders, Things 3, Todoist, Notion • Smarter extraction • Cloud sync across devices • Full memo archive with search PRIVACY & HOW YOUR VOICE IS PROCESSED Blurt uses the device's built-in speech recognition to turn speech into text. Depending on your device and language, audio may be briefly sent to Apple for transcription — this is handled by the operating system, not by Blurt. Once transcribed, the text (not the audio) is sent to our server to extract tasks. Audio recordings are never stored by Blurt, and transcripts are not sold or used for advertising. See our privacy policy for full details. Built by indie devs. No account required. No dark patterns. Just: tap, talk, done.

Benchpad is a scratchpad, not a second brain. Three pads. You name them — Work / Personal / Scratch, Today / This Week / Someday, whatever fits your head. No folders, no tags, no filing decisions. Open, type, close. WRITE WITHOUT DECIDING Every note app asks "where does this go?" before you've written a word. Benchpad doesn't. Three pads means the decision is already made. WORKS ON A PLANE Offline-first, not offline-tolerant. Every keystroke saves to your device before any network request. Sync happens in the background when you're online — and merges conflict-free if you edited on two devices at once. CONSTRAINT IS THE PRODUCT Benchpad is for people who want to write things down — not maintain a system. A note app that knows when to stop. When you can't create infinite folders, you write instead of organizing. Constraint isn't a compromise. It's the product. A REAL EDITOR Headings, checklists, tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, file attachments all with slash commands and a block editor. NO AI. NO ADS. NO DATA MINING. Nothing reads, summarizes, or trains on your notes. Notes are encrypted at rest. Plain markdown — copy everything out anytime, no lock-in. FREE FOREVER, REALLY One pad, the full editor, offline support, sync, and an archive of 100 notes — free, no credit card, no time limit. Pro ($10/year flat) unlocks all three pads, all six themes, attachments, voice-note audio, and Markdown/PDF export. Benchpad is for people who want to write things down — not maintain a system. A note app that knows when to stop.