Voice-first capture for iPhone
A scribe
you can talk to.
Hold the orb. Say what's on your mind. Amanu turns it into the right reminder, the right event, the right note, in the apps you already use.
Voice memos give you audio you'll never replay.
Other apps give you a transcript to file.
Amanu gives you a working reminder, on your Lock Screen, at the right time.
One capture. Routed into Apple Reminders, Apple Calendar, your journal, and the people you mentioned. No sorting. No second app to open.
The flow
Three small things,
so you don't have to do them.
Capture.
Tap the orb on your Lock Screen. Or set the Action Button to Amanu. Or open the app. Speak naturally, the way you'd tell a friend.
Triage.
Amanu listens, transcribes, and pulls out the bits that matter. A todo here, a calendar event there, a person, a mood, a thought worth keeping.
It lands where it belongs.
Reminders go to Reminders. Events go to Calendar. The rest stays in your private timeline. Quietly, in the background, while you carry on with your walk.
What's inside
Not the kitchen sink.
The six things that actually matter.
One — the orb
One gesture, every kind of capture.
Tap-to-talk for a quick line. Hold-to-talk for a longer ramble. Talk-back mode when you want to think out loud with something that listens properly. The orb is the only surface you ever interact with.
How talk-back works →Two
Lock Screen + Action Button.
Capture path is sub-second from intention. No app launch. No fumble. Squeeze the side of your phone, say the thing, carry on.
Three
Reminders that actually work.
Say "remind me to call Jamie when I'm at the office on Thursday" and that's exactly what lands in Apple Reminders. With the time. With the location. With the right person attached.
Four
A people graph that stays quiet.
Names you mention build into a soft little address book of context. Last seen, last spoken about, what's coming up. Yours, and only yours.
Five
Talk-back.
A real conversation, not a recording. Continuous voice, both ways, when you need to think a thing through.
Read more →Six
Friends, with consent.
Share an event or a todo with another Amanu user. Just that one. Not the rest of your life.
Read more →Compare
Doesn't replace
the apps you already use.
Amanu sits in front of Apple Reminders, Calendar, and your journal — feeding them, not competing with them. Honest, side-by-side calls on where each tool wins.
vs Apple Voice Memos
Recordings that go to die, or working reminders that fire on time.
vs Otter
Otter is for meetings. Amanu is for the meeting with yourself.
vs Day One
Sit-down journal vs in-the-moment capture. Use both.
vs the default iOS stack
Voice Memos, Notes, Reminders, Calendar. One orb instead of four apps.
Privacy pledge
Your captures are yours.
We don't train on them. We don't sell them. We don't show ads. We use Anthropic to triage your transcript into items, and OpenAI's Realtime API for talk-back. The voice infrastructure runs on our own servers. We tell you all of this on the consent screen, before you record anything.
The plain-English version →Stop letting good thoughts die in Voice Memos.
Amanu remembers, so you don't have to.
Download for iPhone