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2025

• 2025-01-21 · You're Not Behind: How to Change Your Life in 90 Days — announcement: Ali and his team are building productivity software: they have released VoicePal and are working on others, including Superfocus and ProgressPal. — 00:08:09
• 2025-01-24 · The 5 Key Components for Financial Freedom — Ali's leverage is media and content, his own work, and code, which his team is now building with apps such as VoicePal, ProgressPal and Superfocus. — 00:19:42
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali's three-step process for writing anything: speak into VoicePal, the app he built with his team; put the result into ChatGPT or Claude; then make the final edits in Notion. — 00:00:58
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali has used VoicePal since 9 December 2023, when his team first started building the app. — 00:01:35
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali starts a piece of writing by rambling into VoicePal whatever is off the top of his head, usually not at his desk but on a walk with his AirPods in; that is how he creates the bulk of his content. — 00:02:34
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: VoicePal asks Ali sensible follow-up questions about what he has dictated, and each answer he records is added to the stream. — 00:02:34
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: VoicePal's export button turns a stream of dictated thoughts into a draft, such as a draft of Ali's LifeNotes newsletter, using Claude 3.5 behind the scenes. — 00:04:40
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — recommendation: Ali: Another approach Ali often tries: copy the original VoicePal transcript, with all its ums and ahs, into Claude. — 00:05:56
• 2025-02-14 · How I use AI to save 10+ hours per week — Ali: Writing his newsletter used to take Ali about two hours of typing; now that he starts by speaking, and sends thoughts into VoicePal through the week, it takes about half an hour. — 00:08:08
• 2025-02-28 · How to Actually Make Money Online in 2026 - Case Study — Ali's main work now is as co-founder of Sparkle Studios, which is building a suite of productivity apps. — 00:01:27
• 2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali's main work in early 2025: with his wife and their team he is building a series of productivity apps they wish existed; he has made videos on his channel since 2017. — 00:00:58
• 2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali thinks linear goals are fine in many circumstances: he has one to grow his team's productivity apps, because building them is what he is actively working towards in this season. — 00:18:28
• 2025-03-04 · How to Find Your Purpose (with Tiny Experiments) — Ali and his wife have formed a small family business around building their productivity apps, working with friends and their team. — 00:18:58
• 2025-03-28 · Honest YouTube Advice for 45 Minutes Straight (2026) — Ali: When creatively blocked, Ali records himself in his app VoicePal speaking what he wants the video to say; the app asks follow-up questions, and he exports the script into Notion as the basis of the video. — 00:21:30
• 2025-04-04 · Watch this if you feel like you’re behind in life — Ali still feels behind when his team compares VoicePal's growth rate with other AI apps that grow faster or have been funded by fancy investors. — 00:06:55
• 2025-04-04 · Watch this if you feel like you’re behind in life — announcement: Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali's team is building, has just released a frameworks feature with guided frameworks, including one for working out thick versus thin desires by speaking. — 00:11:47
• 2025-05-03 · 17 Cheap Purchases That Actually Improved My Life — Ali: VoicePal, which Ali's team has built over about 12 months, has thousands of users worldwide: you speak, it asks follow-up questions, and you export a draft to Notion, Google Docs, Claude or ChatGPT. — 00:15:03
• 2025-05-03 · 17 Cheap Purchases That Actually Improved My Life — Ali has written 203,000 words with VoicePal so far and reckons it has saved him 62 hours compared with typing. — 00:15:32
• 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali recommends the obituary method, a brainstorming framework in VoicePal: following its reflection prompts you write your own obituary, a good way to clarify what you care about and your values. — 00:10:47
• 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — announcement: Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali's team built, is a ghostwriter in your pocket: it transcribes what you say and asks follow-up questions, and has recently added brainstorming frameworks. — 00:10:47
• 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — Ali has written his own obituary by answering VoicePal's obituary questions and asking the AI to write it from the cleaned-up transcript. — 00:11:50
• 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali uses VoicePal's frameworks extensively on what he wants from his life and business, and finds speaking his thoughts and going back and forth with AI far easier than typing. — 00:12:19
• 2025-05-31 · I Tried AI as a Life Coach for 365 Days - Here’s What I Learned — recommendation: Ali starts the Solomon journaling by giving the AI raw material such as his journal entries, call transcripts and VoicePal entries. — 00:15:02
• 2025-06-06 · 30 Minutes with This App = 3 Hours of Writing — Ali says that in the last year of using VoicePal he has written 203,168 words with it, a time saving of over 60 hours. — 00:00:29
• 2025-06-06 · 30 Minutes with This App = 3 Hours of Writing — Ali says VoicePal users often tell his team that the app saves them multiple hours in their creative process every week. — 00:00:29
• 2025-06-06 · 30 Minutes with This App = 3 Hours of Writing — Ali: In VoicePal you hit record and speak your thoughts; the app asks sensible follow-up questions to help you go deeper on your own ideas. — 00:00:29
• 2025-06-06 · 30 Minutes with This App = 3 Hours of Writing — Ali says VoicePal's AI is not trying to write for you: the core of the ideas comes from you speaking, and the AI only cleans up what you said. — 00:00:29
• 2025-06-06 · 30 Minutes with This App = 3 Hours of Writing — Ali finds that about 30 minutes of walking around and speaking ideas into VoicePal gets him as much writing as about three hours of writing at his computer. — 00:00:58
• 2025-06-23 · 5 AI Tools I Use Every Day — recommendation: Ali names five AI tools he uses pretty much every day as of June 2025: Claude, VoicePal, Grain, Gamma and Snipd. — 00:00:00
• 2025-06-23 · 5 AI Tools I Use Every Day — recommendation: Ali uses VoicePal, an app he and his team built, every day for writing: instead of typing he speaks into it, it asks sensible follow-up questions, and with one click he exports a first draft, so he gets much more writing done, enjoys it more and can walk around while writing. — 00:00:00
• 2025-07-22 · What 8 Years on YouTube Taught Me About Life — Ali's new business with his wife, Sparkle Studios, makes apps, including VoicePal and Superfocus, with more coming. — 00:27:26
• 2025-07-31 · We Had a Baby! Life Update + Reflections — Ali: During the baby's playtime Ali talks through video ideas to her while recording into VoicePal, which asks him follow-up questions and helps him script his videos. — 00:33:58
• 2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — announcement: Ali: Momentum, which Ali and Izzy have worked on for about six months, is a habit tracker combined with accountability squads: you add habits and join or create a squad with friends. — 00:00:44
• 2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — Ali: Momentum is the second app of Sparkle Studios, the product design studio Ali and Izzy started about 12 months earlier, soon after marrying, as a little family business building the productivity and personal development apps they wish existed and can use themselves. — 00:01:27
• 2025-09-09 · We’ve got some HUGEEEE news... @IzzySealey link in description 👀 — announcement: Ali and Izzy want to document building Sparkle Studios, sharing behind the scenes how they build their family business on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, and building the apps in public. — 00:01:56
• 2025-09-11 · If you struggle with consistency, try this app — announcement: Ali and his wife Izzy have just launched their new app, Momentum: Energising Habits, available in the App Store. — video description
• 2025-09-12 · How to Change Your Life — recommendation: Ali keeps collections of journaling prompts on his phone, picks the ones that call out to him, thinks hard about each and writes his answers in a notebook or dictates them into VoicePal. — 00:21:54
• 2025-09-17 · My Home Office Setup (2026) — Ali: Sparkle Studios, the family app business Ali started with his wife, has two apps out, VoicePal and Momentum, and is looking for an office. — 00:22:06
• 2025-09-24 · The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lifestyle Business — Ali says he has been super consistent with his energising habits for about three months purely because of the accountability in Momentum, the habit tracker with accountability squads that he and his wife built. — 00:55:48
• 2025-09-26 · Easy, Boring Business Ideas to Start in 2026 - Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali suggests recording customer conversations with permission, for example on VoicePal, the app he and his wife built, and asking ChatGPT or Claude for business ideas from them. — 00:13:58
• 2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Ali's team has launched two apps: VoicePal, launched about 12 months ago, is at $70,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and Momentum, a habit tracker with accountability, has just launched. — 00:13:34
• 2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — recommendation: Ali says a minimum viable product can be just a landing page for a waiting list, or a dinner party, an event or a free trial, as with VoicePal and Momentum at launch. — 00:30:43
• 2025-10-10 · The Proven, Reliable Path to Earn $1M (Step By Step) — Ali: Pablo has a full-time developer for each of Ali's apps; a team member does growth across the apps, and they are now looking for sales roles for each product. — 00:47:03
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali's team built over about 12 months, lets you write anything by speaking into your phone; it asks follow-up questions and exports a raw or cleaned-up transcript to Claude or another tool. — 00:03:19
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali: The third strand is a suite of productivity, personal development and creator apps: VoicePal, made about a year ago, and Momentum, a habit tracker with accountability squads launched a couple of weeks ago. — 00:07:48
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — announcement: Ali's team is planning a challenges feature for Momentum, where users join a challenge to stay consistent with one habit, such as a final 100 days of 2025 challenge. — 00:14:15
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali: Once a Claude mock-up of a feature is roughly right, Ali records a Loom for Pablo, his software co-founder, and Alex, the lead developer of Momentum, who decide how much of it to build and how. — 00:17:05
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali's app team sends users surveys and puts the CSV of results into Claude to parse what people say about the app and decide roadmap priorities. — 00:22:14
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — Ali's team found that VoicePal users who create at least three recordings are far likelier to become paying users and stay, so the app's onboarding aims at those first three recordings. — 00:22:56
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: Whenever Ali starts something new, he begins with a voice transcription to get as much out of his head as possible, often interviewing himself in VoicePal on a walk. — 00:24:32
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali finds that at least about 800 words of spoken transcript is a good amount of material to give Claude to process. — 00:30:07
• 2025-10-16 · How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow) — recommendation: Ali: Donald Miller's brand script framework from Building a StoryBrand is Ali's first port of call when designing a new product; he asks Claude to build one from his VoicePal transcript. — 00:30:50
• 2025-10-27 · The most surprising thing about building apps with your spouse — Ali: One of the most surprising things Ali has learned building apps with his wife is that building an app is not trivial: despite the vibe-coding narratives, it takes months of genuine iteration with an experienced full-stack developer. — 00:00:00
• 2025-11-08 · How I Get My Best Ideas While Showering — Ali: When Ali has an idea for a video, content or a business in the shower, he starts a recording in VoicePal, goes back into the shower wearing waterproof Beats Powerbeats headphones and speaks his thoughts out. — 00:00:00
• 2025-11-08 · How I Get My Best Ideas While Showering — Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali's team builds, records for up to 90 minutes, and its clean transcript can be exported to ChatGPT, Claude, Notion or Google Docs. — 00:00:29

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2024

• 2024-04-30 · How to 10x Your Income - The 4 Ladders of Wealth — Ali is developing VoicePal with his friend Pablo, now in beta: an AI creative tool against writer's block that turns what you speak into your phone into a first draft of a newsletter or YouTube video. — 00:16:08
• 2024-04-30 · How to 10x Your Income - The 4 Ladders of Wealth — announcement: Ali: VoicePal has around 2,000 beta users and will launch publicly; meanwhile there is a waitlist. — 00:16:53
• 2024-04-30 · How to 10x Your Income - The 4 Ladders of Wealth — Ali: Software as a service needs no additional capital expenditure to serve more customers, Ali says, and the marginal cost of onboarding a new customer is basically zero. — 00:16:53
• 2024-08-13 · How I Manage My Time (as an Entrepreneur) — Ali: VoicePal, a new software product Ali's team is working on, is an iOS app that listens as you talk, asks follow-up questions and generates a first draft that sounds like you. — 00:06:35
• 2024-08-15 · VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ — Ali: Because he could not find a decent solution on the market, Ali and some of his friends built VoicePal themselves, an app he calls a ghostwriter in your pocket. — 00:00:00
• 2024-08-15 · VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ — Ali: During the six months Ali used VoicePal daily, his team refined it with more than 1,000 beta testers; the app is free to try on the iOS App Store. — creator comment
• 2024-08-15 · VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ — announcement: Ali Abdaal (channel): The channel says VoicePal's first release is iOS only and that the team is working on an Android version and will share updates as soon as it can. — creator comment
• 2024-08-15 · VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ — Ali describes how VoicePal works: you hit record on your phone and speak as ramblingly as you like, it transcribes everything, and one button turns your thoughts into a draft written exactly like you. — 00:00:29
• 2024-08-15 · VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ — announcement: Ali: VoicePal, which Ali's team has been building for the last eight months, is now available to everyone on the App Store. — 00:00:29
• 2024-08-15 · VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ — Ali says he has used VoicePal every day for the last six months and that it has completely changed his writing workflow. — 00:00:29
• 2024-08-23 · How to Create Your Ideal Life in 7 Minutes — Ali did the ideal end state exercise in the car, recording it on VoicePal, the app he and his business partner are building, which turns spoken stream of consciousness into a rough first draft. — 00:02:22
• 2024-09-09 · The New Productivity App I've Built 😊 — Ali says he and his team created VoicePal because staring at a blank screen and being stuck at his desk all day killed his motivation; they wanted to make writing more fun and less of a grind. — video description
• 2024-09-09 · The New Productivity App I've Built 😊 — Ali now writes by talking through his ideas while walking and letting VoicePal turn them into a draft. — video description
• 2024-09-09 · The New Productivity App I've Built 😊 — Ali wishes he had had VoicePal when he wrote his book Feel-Good Productivity: it would have made writing it quicker and more enjoyable. — video description
• 2024-09-09 · The New Productivity App I've Built 😊 — Ali uses VoicePal for his LifeNotes newsletter and for brainstorming video ideas, and calls it a real game-changer. — video description
• 2024-10-11 · VoicePal - a ghostwriter in your pocket 👻 — Ali says VoicePal has saved him $5,000 a month. — 00:00:00
• 2024-10-11 · VoicePal - a ghostwriter in your pocket 👻 — Ali says he now talks through his ideas while walking and uses VoicePal daily for his videos, his newsletters and even his next book. — video description
• 2024-10-11 · VoicePal - a ghostwriter in your pocket 👻 — announcement: Ali Abdaal (channel): Answering a viewer who asks whether there will be an Android release, the channel says VoicePal can now be found on the Play Store too. — creator comment
• 2024-10-11 · VoicePal - a ghostwriter in your pocket 👻 — Ali: A software-developer friend told Ali he did not need a ghostwriter and proposed building an app that does the job instead: VoicePal, which listens, asks follow-up questions and turns what you say into a first draft that sounds like you. — 00:00:29
• 2024-10-18 · How to Stop Feeling Tired: 4 Easy Tips to Boost Your Energy — Ali does not like high-intensity exercise first thing, so he goes for a low-intensity morning walk, around Regent's Park when he lived in London, listening to a podcast or audiobook, thinking, or using his app VoicePal. — 00:11:55
• 2024-10-27 · A new way of ‘writing’ that feels more like a walk in the park 🌳 — Ali says he used to get writer's block constantly; now he takes his phone on a walk and talks his ideas into VoicePal, and finds that being outdoors makes ideas flow more easily. — video description
• 2024-11-12 · Why You’re Overwhelmed - 5 Ways to Beat Stress — Ali enjoys walking on the track outside his house with AirPods, talking to VoicePal, the app he and his team built, as an AI ghostwriter that asks follow-up questions; that is how he scripts his YouTube videos. — 00:04:31
• 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali's team built recently, has about 2,500 paying users. — 00:13:17
• 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali now plans videos and course modules by walking with AirPods in and talking into VoicePal, which transcribes his thoughts and asks follow-up questions. — 00:13:17
• 2024-11-16 · Your Pocket-Sized Idea Partner 👻 — Ali says VoicePal can be trained on all your previous writing, so it gives a first draft that sounds pretty much like you within minutes rather than hours of typing. — 00:00:58
• 2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — recommendation: Ali: VoicePal, the app Ali and his team built, acts as a ghostwriter, he says: you talk, it asks sensible follow-up questions and turns what you said into a first draft that sounds like you. — 00:32:33
• 2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — Ali planned this video on a walk of about 10,000 steps, talking it through in VoicePal, then pasted it into Notion and fleshed out the script. — 00:32:33
• 2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — Ali: Much business work is writing, such as emails, sales pages and email sequences, which Ali says can be done while walking with an app like VoicePal: one thing with your body, another with your brain. — 00:33:02
• 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — Ali now does this with VoicePal, the app he and his team created, which he calls a ghostwriter in your pocket. — 00:19:24
• 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — Ali plans his videos on walks, speaking his ideas out loud into VoicePal with his AirPods in. — 00:19:53
• 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — Ali: In VoicePal you speak into the app, it asks sensible follow-up questions, and it turns what you said into a first draft that sounds like you. — 00:20:23
• 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — Ali does not read his videos from a script but mostly riffs; he talked through this video's points and used VoicePal to turn them into a rough outline. — 00:20:23
• 2024-12-12 · 6 Habits to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet — recommendation: Ali: Without VoicePal, Ali suggests any speech-to-transcript software, then pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and editing it in Notion, Google Docs or Microsoft Word. — 00:20:52
• 2024-12-20 · How To Actually Achieve Your Goals in 2026 (Evidence-Based) — recommendation: Ali's WOOP example for a goal of writing his next book by mid next year (2025): obstacles are lack of time, running out of ideas and demotivation; the plan is a three-hour calendar block each morning, brainstorms with his team and VoicePal to write by talking. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:11:09
• 2024-12-27 · My honest advice to someone who wants passive income — Ali: With content, capital and code alike, Ali says, you go through a period of making no money; code includes software such as his app VoicePal. — 00:38:58