zen + genug — German for “enough”
Not a task manager.
A loop closer.
Open loops — the unfiled claim, the unanswered message, the payment you meant to check — quietly drain you. ZENUG closes three a day. Then it tells you: enough.
Close a loop and watch the day shrink — three become two, two become one. Close the third and the day is cleared. A live sample you can play with.
A working sample — most of the flow you’ll get in the app, close to the real thing.
Three loops a day, ranked — deadlines first, then what actually matters. Choosing is how you got here.
Done. Later — with a concrete date. Kill — with a confirm. There is no “someday”.
A loop carries its cost in minutes and its first physical move — and that move lands in your morning nudge. Not “do taxes” — “put the folder on your keyboard.”
Close three and the day is cleared — even when the list isn't empty. Want more? The app offers the next loop, ranked — or pick any loop yourself from the pool. Invited, never demanded.
Tap the bar and say the thing you keep not doing. ZENUG transcribes it on the device and files it as a loop. Every open loop lives in one pool on your phone — and each day the app picks the three that matter, each with its real cost and its first move.
ZENUG+ is an optional subscription: it writes and ranks your loops on ZENUG’s own backend. Nothing to set up, no keys to paste. Without it, voice capture and manual entry still work — offline, free, with no account.
An open loop costs a little attention every time you remember it. A closed one costs nothing. Most tools help you hold more open loops, more comfortably. ZENUG nudges you to end three a day — then the pushing stops. Anything beyond three is yours to take: the app offers the next loop by priority, or you choose freely from everything still open. The nudge ends. The option doesn't.
No account. No analytics. No ads. No tracking. Your audio never leaves the device — recordings are transcribed on the phone itself. Without ZENUG+, nothing leaves the phone at all. With ZENUG+, the text of your voice note goes to our backend and on to Anthropic, which turns it into loops and ranks them — the whole transcript, thinking and all, not a tidy list of tasks. We store none of it.
Because a list of thirty open loops is how you got here. Three closed loops beat thirty managed ones — the pool holds the rest, and the app picks again tomorrow. After three, more is always allowed — just never demanded.
Neither. There is no ZENUG account, no password, and no key to paste anywhere. The app is fully functional for free — voice capture, manual entry, the daily board — offline. ZENUG+ is an ordinary Apple subscription that turns the AI on.
No. ZENUG is built for iPhone, iOS 17 and up.
Email support@zenug.app — answered by the person who built the app, usually within a day.