Avyli

Say it once. Let it handle the rest.

Avyli is a voice-first personal assistant for iOS. You describe your day the way you would to a friend ("English class at 3 tomorrow, go for a run in the evening, and pick up a parcel") and Avyli turns it into structured items on your calendar, reminders, and notifications.

The Idea: Friction

Most to-do apps treat every task the same way: a title, a time, and a reminder. But having time for something doesn't mean it will happen.

"Meet my coach in the evening" happens on its own, because someone else is waiting. "Go for a run in the evening" depends entirely on me getting started, so it usually slides to tomorrow. The first only needs a reminder. The second needs to be broken down.

Avyli is built around that difference, which I call friction. Everything it captures falls into one of three kinds:

Kind	Meaning	Examples
event	Happens at a specific time and place, often with others	A class, a doctor's visit
errand	A concrete chore that takes minutes, not hours	Buying lunch, a parcel
task	Needs sustained effort and produces a result	Problem sets, a report

Only high-friction items go through decomposition. Avyli doesn't just remind you to "write the report"; it gives you a first step small enough to start right now.

How It Works

• Voice capture with on-device speech recognition
• Two models for two jobs: parsing needs consistent structured output, conversation needs to understand context, so they are handled separately
• System integration through EventKit, widgets, Control Center, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight
• Sync with SwiftData and CloudKit
• A small backend on Cloudflare Workers, protected end to end with App Attest
• Evaluations for model behaviour, covering capture, decomposition, chat, and memory

Status

Avyli is still in development and the source is private. I'll share more when it is ready.