Mop
Rambling voice notes, mopped up into tidy cards.
Mop reads the voice notes you record with Spill and turns each one into a card: a title, a short summary and the things to do, filed by topic. The original words are always one tap away.
- iPhone
- iOS 26 or later
- Your own server
What it does
People who think out loud: parents juggling school forms and kit bags, and anyone who records notes to self and never listens back.
- Cards
- Each recording becomes a title, a summary and a checklist.
- Filed by topic
- Categories you can edit, such as Kids, School, Home and App ideas.
- What's urgent
- Home shows new notes first, then anything due soon.
- Private categories
- Chosen categories stay hidden until Face ID unlocks them.
- Assistant
- Ask about your notes or ask for changes. It proposes, you approve, and every change can be undone.
- Reads only
- Mop never changes your notes folder.
A look inside
Categories, with a private one locked 
A card: summary, to-dos and people 
The assistant, with a change to approve
What you need
- Spill
- Or any app that saves notes as text files in an iCloud Drive folder.
- A server
- Your own small Mop server (Node and Postgres), and an OpenRouter key for the AI.
- Xcode
- To build it and put it on your phone.
Rough edges
This is a tool I built for myself and use every day, not a polished product.
- Not on the App Store or TestFlight.
- You run your own server, one person per server.
- AI summaries can be wrong, so the original is always there to check.
How it's built
For the technically curious.
- App
- SwiftUI for iPhone and Mac, with on-device dictation and Sign in with Apple.
- Server
- Node and TypeScript with Postgres. Note text is encrypted on the server.
- AI
- Through OpenRouter, with a daily spending cap.
Not available to download. It needs its own server, so for now it's one to build yourself.
I'd like to share it as a free download. If you'd like to try it when it's ready, or have a question about it, get in touch.