Tofu vs Orb

Tofu is a tiny bunny taskmaster who lives on your screen and chases the todos you've been avoiding. He doesn't accept "tomorrow." He doesn't accept "I'm tired." He nags. He stares. He waits. WHAT TOFU DOES • Captures your tasks into Inbox, Today, and Now buckets • Pulls you into focused work sessions (Pomodoro under the hood, role-play on the surface) • Counts down the day so you can see how much daylight you've actually got left • Reacts to what you do — finishing things makes him smug, dragging your feet makes him impatient WHAT TOFU IS NOT • Not another minimalist planner you'll forget about in a week • Not a study companion (you can study with him, but he doesn't care about your subject) • Not a productivity app that pretends to be your friend — he's your taskmaster, you're his boss THE EXPERIENCE A character-driven todo list where the character actually has opinions. Tofu doesn't celebrate every checkbox. He notices when you've been ignoring something for three days. He'll roast you. (Lovingly.) If you've tried six task apps and bounced off all of them, the problem might be that none of them were rude enough. WHO IT'S FOR • Procrastinators who need an external nag (looking at you, ADHD brain) • Anyone with deadline anxiety who wants a tiny cute thing to stare them down • People who like character-driven apps over sterile productivity tools • Anyone who wants their daily checklist to feel less like work and more like a bit WHO IT'S NOT FOR • People who already love their existing planner • Anyone who wants pure utility with no personality • Productivity purists who'd find Tofu's commentary distracting Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Privacy: https://sparkly-babcat-846.notion.site/Tofu-Privacy-Policy-3678f69c21248166b49bdb3273ee9b0f Terms: https://sparkly-babcat-846.notion.site/Tofu-Terms-of-Service-3678f69c21248174949afdbf79f24cce

7:02 AM. You haven't said a word yet. "Morning. Rain clears by nine. Your ten o'clock moved to ten thirty — and that form you've been dodging is due today, so I put it at the top of your list." Every assistant until now has waited to be asked. Orb doesn't wait. IT KNOWS WHAT'S UP Orb keeps a running sense of your day and reaches out when something actually matters: "You've got four commits sitting unpushed since Tuesday. Worth protecting before the weekend." "NVDA's up four percent since you asked me to watch it." "You've been at this for twenty hours. I moved tomorrow's first ping to ten so you can sleep in." And when nothing matters? Silence. The bar for interrupting you is high. YOUR COMPUTER, IN YOUR POCKET Run the free, open-source Orb server on your own computer and your phone becomes its remote. Ask for real work from anywhere — "clean up my downloads folder" — and carry on with your day until the receipt lands: "Done. 214 files sorted, three gigs freed." Your machine did the work. Your phone just told you. JUST SAY IT Voice-first, human answers. "Remind me at eight" — "Done, eight tonight." No menus, no forms, no robot voice reading bullet points. IT REMEMBERS What you said last week. What you asked it never to let you skip. Where you left off. One continuous assistant across voice and chat — whichever AI engine you plug in, Orb stays Orb. ACTUALLY YOURS No account. No developer cloud — we couldn't read your data if we wanted to, because there's nothing of ours to read it with. Choose which AI powers it, swap anytime, name it what you like. Self-host and nothing ever leaves hardware you own. You've been promised this assistant for fifteen years. Nobody built it, because it can't be built in someone else's cloud — an assistant this close to your life only works if it's yours.