To Do Machine vs Ordo

The only productivity app you design yourself. Most to-do apps make you bend to their rules. To Do Machine flips the workshop on its head — open the back panel, swap the parts, paint it your color. Talk to it in plain English and watch your task inbox, your projects, and your entire workflow rebuild themselves in real time. Built natively for Mac and iOS. Perfectly in sync. — WHO IT'S FOR — For the people who've tried every to-do app and bounced off them all. For the ones who keep building systems in Notion, then abandoning them. For anyone whose brain works a specific way and is tired of apps that don't. To Do Machine isn't another opinionated workflow. It's a workshop where you build the one that fits you. — DESIGN IT YOURSELF — Tell To Do Machine what you want and it remakes the app around you. "Make the inbox darker and put due dates on the right" — done. Switch any project to list, kanban, calendar, focus, or blueprint view. Invent your own statuses, fields, and automations, project by project. Every tweak syncs to all your devices instantly. — AI THAT DOES THE TYPING — Just say what's on your mind. To Do Machine writes the tasks, breaks them into projects, sets reminders, and finds time on your calendar — no tapping the + button. "Plan my Q3" → full project with milestones, weekly check-ins, and time blocks. Auto-triage your inbox: priority, due dates, parent project. A daily standup that drafts your day before you've finished your coffee. — CALENDAR IN, DAY OUT — Connect Apple or Google Calendar and your tasks thread themselves between your meetings. Two-way sync with Apple or Google Calendar. Time-blocking that respects your meetings, focus blocks, and breaks. Move a meeting and your tasks move with it. — INSTANTLY SYNCED BETWEEN iOS AND MAC — Tasks, projects, and calendars sync in milliseconds. Custom layouts and themes travel with you. Redesign your inbox on Mac at lunch — it's waiting on your iPhone by the time you stand up. Assembled in Brooklyn, NY. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Your brain has too many tabs open. Ordo is the fastest way to empty your head. Type or speak any thought — a task, an idea, a worry, an appointment — and AI instantly sorts it into three simple buckets: Now, Next, and Someday. No folders. No tags. No setup. No system to maintain. You dump; Ordo organizes. HOW IT WORKS - Open the app and type or talk - AI sorts each thought into Now, Next, or Someday - Related items group automatically by category - Say "dentist Friday at 3pm" and it schedules the reminder for you - Tell it what to do mid-dump — "put this in now" or "star it" — and it listens BUILT FOR BUSY BRAINS Most note apps make you do the organizing — the exact thing that's hard when your head is full. Ordo flips it. Get the thought out in seconds and let the app handle where it goes. FEATURES - Instant capture — one tap to type or speak - AI sorting into Now / Next / Someday - Automatic categories - Natural-language reminders with notifications - Voice capture - Light and dark themes - Capture works offline — always. Your words are saved the moment you dump them. Sorting one dump into separate cards uses AI and needs a connection; until you're back online, it's saved as a single card and sorts itself when you reconnect. - No accounts. No setup. No subscription. Think it. Dump it. Done.