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BeFree - Brain Dump
Say the messy thing. It sorts into tasks, events & notes.
12 followers
Say the messy thing. It sorts into tasks, events & notes.
12 followers
Speak one messy brain-dump and BeFree sorts it into the right place: tasks, reminders, calendar events, grocery, and notes. No forms, no deciding where things go. Capture offline; syncs across iPhone and web. Free forever; Pro is $49.99/yr or $6.99/mo, 7-day trial.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm a solo founder, and I built BeFree's iPhone, and web apps myself.
It started because my head was always full of half-thoughts - "call the dentist," "we're out of coffee," "dinner with Sam Friday at 7," "idea for a walking app" - all tangled together, usually at the worst possible moment. Every to-do app I tried handed the sorting back to me: which list? which date? which folder? That tiny decision, forty times a day, was the actual exhausting part. So I mostly didn't bother, and the thoughts just stayed in my head taking up space.
So I built the opposite. You tap once, say the whole messy pile out loud, and BeFree pulls it apart into tasks, calendar events, reminders, grocery lists, and notes - each in the right place. You drop the noise in and walk out calmer. A calm room. That's the whole feeling I was chasing.
The genuinely hard part has been the sorting. Speech is messy: "remind me Friday" vs "meeting Friday" vs "idea about Friday" all mean completely different things and getting that right without making you confirm every single item (which would defeat the whole point) took far longer than the UI did. Doing it fast, and without ever training on your private dumps, made it harder still. It's not perfect yet, which is exactly why I'm here.
A few honest notes: the core loop is genuinely free forever. Pro ($49.99/yr, or $6.99/mo, with a 7-day trial) is really just a bigger AI budget for heavy weeks not a paywall on the main loop. Your dumps are never used to train AI, and they're encrypted in transit and at rest. It's on iPhone, Mac, and the web today (an Android beta is in the works).
I'd love your honest feedback - especially the moments where the sorting reads your intent wrong, or a kind of thought it fumbles. Tell me what still feels like work; that's the stuff I most want to fix. I'm around all day and reading everything. 🙏
Love the no-friction capture idea, especially offline support. One thing that would help me is letting me set voice shortcuts like "plan my week" to trigger a full review and reorganization of my tasks and calendar instead of only handling one dump at a time.
@engins54145 This is spot on, and it's already half-built. BeFree has the Shelf: a gentle weekly review that resurfaces what you meant to do and didn't ("you said call mum Tuesday, still want to?"), one tap to re-commit. The line I deliberately drew is that it suggests and you decide rather than silently reorganizing your week for you, staying in control is kind of the whole point. Where you're pushing next is exactly right though: calendar-aware slotting, and a custom trigger like "plan my week" to kick a review off on demand. The first one's on the way; the voice-shortcut framing I hadn't thought of and I genuinely love it. Mind if I borrow "plan my week" as the phrase?
Been wanting something like this for ages. Tested it with a rambling voice memo about groceries and a meeting and it actually put everything in the right buckets without me picking anything first. Offline capture is a nice touch too.
@demircinur18625 This genuinely made my day, thank you. That exact moment, groceries and a meeting coming out in the right buckets without you sorting anything, is the whole reason I built it. What's the messiest run-on you'd throw at it next? I'm always hunting for where it still fumbles.
honestly the offline capture that syncs later is a really smart call, especially since ideas always hit me when i'm somewhere with no signal. the whole "speak a mess and it just goes where it belongs" thing sounds way more useful than another rigid form-based app.
@tlinetinvyfs Exactly, the no-signal moment is where I kept losing thoughts, so offline was non-negotiable. And "another rigid form-based app" is the precise thing I was trying not to build, every field is a little tax on a busy brain. Thank you for getting it. If you give it a go, I'd love to hear where it reads you wrong.
Saying one rambling sentence and having it actually land in the right list is kind of wild, honestly. The offline capture is a nice touch too since half my brain dumps happen on the subway with zero signal.
@havvamehel "Kind of wild" is the exact reaction I was chasing, so thank you. And the subway is the perfect case, that no-signal, hands-full, thought-just-landed moment is exactly when other apps fail you, which is why capturing offline and sorting once you resurface was non-negotiable. What's the most tangled thing you've said to it so far?