Relay: a modern, trusted GTD system that's already built.
Relay is a complete task, project and goal management app built for Getting Things Done®. No complex setup. No folder tinkering. Relay combines built-in GTD architecture with guided reviews, native OS capture and widgets, and ground-to-horizon alignment right out of the box.
Available for
- Web
- Android
- Windows
Coming soon
- iOS
- macOS
What Relay does
Relay is a to-do and project app built on the Getting Things Done method. You capture anything on your mind into an Inbox, turn each item into a concrete next action or a project with a defined outcome, and Relay shows you only the things you can actually do right now. It runs in the browser and on your phone, and can pull in work from the other tools and accounts you already use.
Relay asks for access to your Google account only if you choose to connect it. Google Calendar lets Relay show today's commitments beside today's actions and place your weekly review in a slot that is actually free. Google Tasks lets Relay bring your existing tasks into your Relay Inbox and write back changes you make to them. Both are optional, Relay works fully with neither connected, and you can disconnect either one at any time. See our privacy policy for what is stored and how to remove it.
Guided step-by-step reviews
The weekly review is where most systems quietly fail, because it depends on remembering to check everything. Relay turns it into a wizard: it walks you through clearing your Inbox, updating each project, and checking your higher horizons, one step at a time.
Trigger lists jog loose the things you had forgotten you were carrying, and you can pause a review and pick it up where you left off.
Your lists on the home screen
Put any Relay list on your home screen and work from it without opening the app. Tick something off with one tap, tap the title to switch to a different list, or tap an item to open it. Two one-tap buttons sit alongside: one captures a new task, the other drops you straight into processing your Inbox.
The widget takes its colours from your wallpaper the same way Google's own widgets do, so it sits beside them instead of fighting them. Capture works everywhere else too: share to Relay from any app's share sheet, drop a file onto the window, or forward an email to your own private Relay address. All of it lands in the Inbox and waits there until you deal with it, because nothing is filed for you behind your back.
Horizon alignment
Most task apps stop at the ground floor. Relay models the altitudes above it too: the areas you are responsible for, the goals you are working toward, and the outcomes each project serves.
A next action can be linked upward to the horizon it belongs to, so you can always see what a piece of work is actually for, and notice when a whole area has gone quiet.
The same app on every device
Plenty of systems give you a full review on the desktop and a list on your phone. That is where trust quietly breaks down: if the review only happens at a desk, it stops happening.
Relay's reviews, horizons, processing and capture are the same everywhere. Nothing is desktop-only, and nothing is waiting on a version that does the real work.
How it works
Clarify
A short step-through turns each item into a next action, a project with a defined outcome, something you are waiting on, or something to drop. Nothing is filed for you.
Engage
Engage shows what is genuinely doable now, filtered by where you are, how much time you have and how much of yourself is left.
Everywhere
Relay runs in the browser, on Android and on Windows today, with a home-screen widget for the list you pick. iOS and macOS are on the way.
Connects to what you already use
- Google Calendar
- Google Tasks
Todoist
Notion
Linear- Email to Inbox
You connect services one at a time, and each asks only for what it needs rather than for everything at once. Whatever arrives lands in your Inbox first, the same as anything you type in yourself, because a system you can trust is one that never files things behind your back.
What Relay does with your Google account
Google Calendar
Relay reads your calendar so it can show today's commitments beside today's actions, and so it can place your weekly review in a slot that is actually free. The only thing Relay writes to your calendar is that weekly review block.
Google Tasks
Relay brings tasks from your Google Tasks lists into your Relay Inbox. If you complete or edit one of those tasks in Relay, the change is written back to Google Tasks. Relay never creates new Google tasks.
Both are optional and separate: Relay asks for Calendar and Tasks in two different prompts, works fully with neither connected, and you can disconnect either one at any time in Settings. Beyond signing you in with your name, email address and profile picture, Relay asks for no other Google permissions.
AI that waits to be asked
Relay never reads what you are writing on its own. There is no background analysis, no timer, and nothing is sent anywhere when you type or save.
Press the bulb and it will offer a thought about the thing in front of you. Leave it alone and no text ever leaves the app. You can turn it off completely in Settings.
Resources
Setup guide
A free 38-page guide: the method taught from scratch, and how Relay implements it. Read the guide
Support
A real person reads every message. support@relaygtd.com
Privacy
What Relay stores, what it never sends anywhere, and how to get rid of all of it. Privacy policy
Terms
The agreement, and how billing works. Terms of service · Subscription terms
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