VoicePal, Ali's AI writing app built with his friend Pablo (2024)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2024-11-29) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: The VoicePal team says it is working on an Android version and will share updates (2024)
About: VoicePal, Pablo
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | milestone | 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. | How to 10x Your Income - The 4 Ladders of Wealth 00:16:08 |
| 2024-08-13 | milestone | 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. | How I Manage My Time (as an Entrepreneur) 00:06:35 |
| 2024-08-15 | launched | VoicePal, which Ali's team has been building for the last eight months, is now available to everyone on the App Store. | VoicePal, a Ghost Writer in Your Pocket 👻✍️ 00:00:29 |
| 2024-10-11 | milestone | 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. | VoicePal - a ghostwriter in your pocket 👻 creator comment |
| 2024-11-15 | milestone | VoicePal, the app Ali's team built recently, has about 2,500 paying users. | I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) 00:13:17 |
| 2024-11-29 | milestone | 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. | How to Build a Business Part-Time 00:32:33 |
What is said about it
16 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2024-08-15 · 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 👻✍️ — 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
- 2024-09-09 · 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 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 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 👻 — 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
- 2024-11-12 · 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
- 2024-11-16 · 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 — 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: 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