Voice capture as default
Text capture available.
Todoist alternative
A Todoist Alternative for People Who'd Rather Speak Than Type
Todoist set the bar for text-based natural language parsing. Lunelo raises it for voice — and shows you only today instead of everything you've ever queued.
The problem
Todoist is a great text-based task manager. It's also accumulated more than twenty years of features: karma scores, productivity charts, filter rules, project hierarchies, label colors, board views, calendar views, recurring task patterns, and a whole vocabulary of filter syntax you have to remember to get the most out of it. Most users use ten percent of the surface and pay for the other ninety percent in monthly fees plus the cognitive overhead of knowing the rest is there.
The bigger structural issue: every screen surfaces some portion of the full backlog. The Inbox shows everything you haven't categorized yet. The Today view shows today plus overdue plus anything scheduled. Each view is an invitation to triage instead of work — a small but real moment where you stop and decide which task deserves your attention before doing any of them.
How Lunelo solves it
Lunelo's input model is voice-first. Tap the mic, speak the task in plain language, release. AI parses the message into a structured task — title, date, time, priority, subtasks if useful — in about one second. Text input is available as a fallback, but voice is the default, and the entire interaction model assumes you'll speak rather than type. The keyboard is something you summon deliberately, not the first thing you reach for.
Lunelo's view model is today-first. The today screen shows today's tasks and nothing else. Yesterday's unfinished work rolled forward overnight without ceremony or notification — no banner, no end-of-day summary, no count of what slipped. The week view exists for the occasional "what's coming up" pass, but the backlog as a screen isn't surfaced in the bottom navigation at all.
There are no productivity scores. No streaks. No karma points. The product opinion is that gamification turns planning into a self-judgment exercise, and self-judgment is exactly why most people abandon planners around week six. Removing the scoring isn't an oversight; it's the entire pitch.
Features built around this
Today is the default screen
Not Inbox.
Natural-language parsing
'Call mom tomorrow at 6 and remind me again in the morning.'
No karma, no score, no streak
Removed features, not missing ones.
Premium adds analytics
Focus patterns, completion rhythm. Not feature gates.
Compared to other tools
Todoist Pro is $4/month and unlocks features that arguably shouldn't be paywalled — reminders, themes, basic filters. Lunelo's free tier is fully usable, and Premium adds analytics and AI insights rather than gating core features behind a subscription wall. TickTick is a closer feature-for-feature match to Todoist than Lunelo is, with its own habit tracker and Pomodoro timer bolted on; Lunelo's positioning against TickTick is identical to its positioning against Todoist: voice in, today only, and no backlog wall to manage.
Related: Lunelo vs Todoist · Best planner app · Full comparison →
Frequently asked
Does Lunelo have natural-language date parsing like Todoist?
Yes, via AI. "Tomorrow at 6," "next Tuesday," "in three weeks" all parse correctly. The model is Claude, which handles tolerant phrasing well.
Can I import from Todoist?
Not via UI in v1. Manual workaround: export Todoist CSV, then re-capture your active list via voice.
Does Lunelo have projects and labels?
No projects, no labels. The product opinion is that 80% of Todoist users misuse projects/labels and would be calmer without them. The other 20% should stay on Todoist.
How much is Lunelo?
Free tier covers voice capture, AI parsing, today/week views, local storage. Premium has weekly/yearly/lifetime tiers; analytics and AI insights live there.
Is Lunelo on Android?
Not yet. iOS-first; web PWA at app.lunelo.app works in any browser. Native Android is on the roadmap.
Speak the task. See only today.
Free to start. No account. No tracking SDKs.