I searched to do list app with voice and opened five apps that matched: TaskTalk, SpeakToDo, Voice Todo, Voice ToDo List AAKA AI, and DoneZo (listed as ToDo List: Daily Task Reminder).
All five do the same basic trick. You speak, and a task appears. None of them do anything interesting once that task is finished.
A to do list app with voice turns speech into a task object, nothing more
A to do list app with voice usually means one thing: you talk, and the app writes it down as a to-do instead of making you type it. TaskTalk’s page puts it plainly: “Just speak, and TaskTalk creates and organizes your tasks automatically.” It auto-prioritizes what you said and sorts it to the top of the list without asking you to tag anything.
SpeakToDo goes a step further and parses the time out of the sentence. Say “Call Mom tomorrow at 5 PM” and the task gets that date and time attached, no confirmation screen required unless you turn one back on. On iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled, the page says the recognition happens on the device and nothing is sent to a server. Voice Todo adds a read-aloud function on top of voice input, built mainly for iPad. Voice ToDo List AAKA AI uses its AI to group related spoken items into one actionable list under the tagline “Speak. Capture. Done.” DoneZo’s built-in AI turns a sentence like “Remind me to call John tomorrow at 5” into a structured task or reminder.
So the job is consistent across all five: speech goes in, a task with a title (and sometimes a time) comes out. That’s where the voice feature’s job ends.
None of the five show you what happened when the task was finished
I looked specifically at each app’s completion behavior, because that’s the part a voice feature doesn’t touch but a to-do app should.
TaskTalk’s page says nothing about completion at all beyond calling the design minimal and distraction-free. Voice Todo’s page doesn’t describe what happens when you check something off either. Voice ToDo List AAKA AI gives a checkmark, moves the task to the bottom of the list, and offers a bulk “Delete Completed Tasks” button, plus a focus timer you can start with a long press. SpeakToDo pops up a score animation on completion and spawns the next occurrence automatically if the task repeats, and it has a “Reflection” screen with AI-written notes on what you got done that day. DoneZo feeds completions into something it calls a “progress tracking” visualization, described only as helping you “stay motivated,” with no further detail on what that visualization actually shows.
None of the five attach a photo or a video to the task you just finished. The best any of them offers is a checkmark, a score popup, or a vague progress graphic, and none of those persist in a way that survives a missed day, since none of the five mention anything like a streak-free growth model. Two of the five, TaskTalk and Voice ToDo List AAKA AI, also gate nearly every feature behind a subscription starting from your very first task.
A voice feature that feeds a planet instead of a checkmark
I built DreamStore, so I will say that plainly before describing it.
DreamStore’s voice-to-task feature works the way the others do on the input side. Say “bank call tomorrow at two, run at seven, twenty pages of the book” and three todos appear with their times attached. If the app cannot parse a time out of what you said, it does not interrogate you about it. It just creates the todo without a time.
The difference is what happens after. Every todo and every routine step you finish makes a small planet at the center of the home screen react and grow, called Dream Planet. Trees, flowers, a pond, and a house appear over time, and you can decorate it yourself. There are no streaks in the app at all. A day you skip is not counted against you, and whatever you did yesterday stays, so a missed day costs nothing and does not reset anything to zero.
Separately from the voice feature, you can attach a photo or a video to a todo once you finish it, turning the record of what you did into more than a checkmark. I wrote more about that part on its own in an earlier post on to do list apps with photos. The app also uses my own voice for the morning affirmation alarm: it wakes you with a recording of your own voice saying your dream, and you have to say the dream again out loud to turn it off.
Where this does not fit: DreamStore’s voice input is built for creating todos with a spoken sentence, not for dictating long notes or reading tasks back to you the way Voice Todo does. It does not do Kanban boards, calendar views, or AI-written daily reflections the way SpeakToDo does. It is free with ads in the free tier. An optional Pro subscription removes ads and adds more planet decoration slots, a full year of stats, extra widget colors, and higher video and AI analysis limits. I have not measured whether a growing planet keeps someone speaking tasks into the app for longer than a score animation or a reflection screen does. I only know what the five apps above describe doing with a finished task, and what this one does differently.
DreamStore - Google Play · DreamStore - App Store
What I checked, and what I did not
As of October 2026, I opened the official App Store pages for TaskTalk: Voice To Do, SpeakToDo: Voice Task Manager, Voice Todo, Voice ToDo List AAKA AI, and ToDo List: Daily Task Reminder (DoneZo), and read what each page says about voice input and completion behavior directly from those pages. I also read DreamStore’s own Google Play listing (English, updated Oct 22, 2026) for the wording quoted above about streaks, the planet, and pricing. Research notes for this search, including which page said what, are saved separately.
I did not install or run any of the five apps myself, so I cannot confirm their current behavior matches their store listings exactly, and pricing may have changed since each page was last updated.
I do not have usage data showing that a planet that grows and never resets keeps people speaking tasks into an app longer than a score popup or an AI reflection screen does. That is a description of what each app’s design does, not a measured outcome.