Relay: a complete GTD system that works straight out of the box.
Relay is a complete task, project and goal management app built for Getting Things Done®. Relay includes the GTD lists, guided daily and weekly reviews, and Horizons for your areas, goals, vision and purpose. You can use GTD from your first day, without building the system yourself. Everything you capture, on any device, is saved to one Inbox.
- A guided weekly review, one step at a time
- Shared workspaces for your family or team
- Works with your calendar and six task apps
30 days free, no card needed. Then €8 a month or €60 a year.
Available for
- iPhone and iPad
- Mac
- Web
- Android
- Windows
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. Then you turn each item into a concrete next action, such as "Call the dentist to book a check-up", or into a project with a defined outcome. Relay shows you only the actions you can do right now. Relay runs in the browser and on your phone, tablet and computer. Relay shows your calendar beside your tasks: Google Calendar and Outlook on every device, and Apple Calendar on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Relay asks for access to your Google account only if you choose to connect Google Calendar or Google Tasks, and both are optional. With Google Calendar, Relay shows your events beside your actions and adds the events you ask for. With Google Tasks, Relay shows your Google tasks in your Inbox. What Relay does with your Google account gives the details, and the privacy policy explains what Relay stores and how to remove it.
Share a system with your family or your team
With a shared workspace, you share lists with up to ten people, such as your family, your partner or a small team. You invite people with a link or by email, and each person signs in with their own Relay account. Your own workspaces stay private.
Say Sam is in your Family workspace. When you delegate "Book the vet" to Sam, the task appears in Sam's Inbox, and Sam gets a notification on a phone, tablet or Mac. In your Waiting For, the task is marked Not yet accepted until Sam clarifies it.
Each shared workspace has its own Agenda for things to discuss, comments on any item, and a shared review that Relay offers after your Weekly Review.
Works with the calendars and task apps you already use
Your calendar beside today's actions
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Google Calendar
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Outlook Calendar
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Apple Calendar
Engage shows today's events above today's actions, so you can plan the day around your meetings. Apple Calendar connects in the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps.
Tasks from other apps, synced both ways
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Google Tasks
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Microsoft To Do
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Todoist
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Notion
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Linear
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Apple Reminders
Tasks from these apps arrive in your Inbox first, the same as anything you type yourself, because Relay never files anything for you. When you complete a task in Relay, Relay completes the task in the other app too. Apple Reminders connects in the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. Relay asks each service only for the access it needs.
Bring your system with you
Relay imports your system from these apps. Each page shows what Relay imports and how.
What Relay does with your Google account
Google Calendar
Relay reads your calendar to show today's events beside today's actions. Relay adds events to your calendar only when you ask: a block of time for your weekly review, on the day and at the time you choose, and any event or time to clarify your Inbox that you add during the daily review.
Google Tasks
Relay copies tasks from your Google Tasks lists into your Relay Inbox. When you complete or edit one of those tasks in Relay, Relay makes the same change in Google Tasks: complete "Renew passport" in Relay, and Google Tasks shows the task as done. Relay never creates new Google tasks.
Relay asks for Calendar and Tasks in two separate prompts and works fully with neither connected. You can disconnect either one at any time in Settings. If you sign in with Google, Relay asks Google for your name, email address and profile picture, and for no other Google permissions.
The GTD method, one step at a time
Capture
Capture anything into your Inbox: type it, share it from another app, tap a widget, or forward an email to your own private Relay address. Each item waits in the Inbox until you clarify it.
Clarify
Clarify asks a few short questions about each item. You decide whether the item is a next action, a project with a defined outcome, something you are waiting for, a Someday/Maybe item, reference, or something to drop. Relay never files anything for you.
Engage
Engage shows the actions you can do now. Choose Auto, and Relay shows only the actions that fit the free time before your next calendar event: with a meeting in 20 minutes, you see the actions of 20 minutes or less. Auto uses the time you give each action. You can also filter by context, such as Phone, and by energy.
New to GTD? The free 41-page setup guide teaches the method from scratch.
Reviews that guide you one step at a time
The weekly review is the step most people skip, because checking everything means switching between apps: the calendar, the task list, the notes. During Relay's weekly review, you do not need another app open. Relay takes you through the review one step at a time: you clear your Inbox, see your calendar for this week and next, update each project, then check your Horizons.
Trigger lists prompt you about things you need to do but may have forgotten. A prompt such as "insurance" might remind you that the car insurance renews next month. You can edit the standard lists, create your own lists, or describe the list you need and let the AI draft it. You can pause a review and continue from the same step later, even after you close Relay.
Horizons shows what your work is for
Most task apps stop at tasks and projects. In Relay, Horizons shows the levels above them: the areas you are responsible for, the goals you are working towards, and your vision and purpose.
A next action can be part of a project, and you link each project to the goal or area it serves. Say "Book the plumber" is in your project "Renovate the bathroom", which you linked to your Home area. You can always see what booking the plumber is for, and you will notice when your whole Home area has gone quiet. Horizons of focus explained covers all six levels.
Every device, every language
Relay runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Android and Windows, and in any browser, all with one account. Sign in with your Apple, Google or Microsoft account. The Windows app offers Google and Microsoft sign-in, so if you use an Apple account, open Relay in the browser on Windows. Relay is in English, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese on every device.
The same method on every device
Plenty of apps give you a full review on the computer and only a list on your phone. If you can review only at a desk, you stop reviewing. And then you stop trusting your lists.
In Relay, the reviews, Horizons and Clarify are the same on every device, and everything you capture is saved to the same Inbox. No part of the method is desktop-only, and no device has a cut-down version.
Your lists on the home screen
Put a Relay list on the home screen of your iPhone, iPad or Android device, and work from it without opening Relay. Complete an item with one tap, or tap the item to open it. You can also add two one-tap widgets: one captures a new task, and the other opens your Inbox to clarify it and shows the number of items in your Inbox.
On iPhone and iPad, you choose the list by holding the list widget and choosing Edit Widget. On iPhone, the capture widget also works on the Lock Screen. On Android, tap the list's title to switch to another list, and the widget uses the colours of your wallpaper, as Google's own widgets do.
You can also capture without a widget. On iPhone, iPad and Android, tap Share in any app and choose Relay. On the web, Mac and Windows, drag a file onto the Relay window. On any device, forward an email to your own private Relay address. Relay saves each capture to your Inbox, where the item stays until you clarify it.
Capture without leaving what you are doing
Press Control+Option+N on a Mac, or Ctrl+Alt+N on Windows, and a capture box opens over the app you are working in. Type, press Enter, and the box closes. When you close the main window, Relay keeps running in the menu bar or the system tray, so the shortcut still works.
On a Mac, drag a file onto Relay's Dock icon to add the file to your Inbox. On Windows, choose a watch folder, and Relay adds each new file saved in that folder to your Inbox. On both, you can open any list in a small window of its own and keep the window beside the work it is about.
Made and hosted in Switzerland
Relay stores your data in Zurich. Relay has no ads, no analytics tools and no tracking of how you use the app, and nothing about you is sold or shared for marketing. The privacy policy names every service that receives data.
A real person reads every message to support@relaygtd.com.
AI that waits to be asked
Relay's AI never reads what you are writing on its own. Relay runs no background analysis and no timer, and sends nothing to the AI when you type or save.
Press the lightbulb, and the AI asks a question about the item in front of you. Say you wrote "Sort out the car": the AI might ask what the very next step is. The AI never rewrites your words. If you never press the lightbulb, none of your text reaches the AI. You can disable the AI in Settings on each device.
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