Using Hobba without opening it
Most tasks are not born in a task app. They arrive in an email, a photo, a conversation. There is a door for each of those.
From any app
Hobba sits in the share sheet. Text lands in your Inbox; for a photo, a PDF or a longer text, Hobba offers to read tasks out of it — recognised on your device, and only what you tap is kept.
Dictation
“Hey Siri, remind me to buy milk tomorrow.” The route goes through a list in Apple Reminders that Hobba empties — guide here.
Widgets
Thirteen of them, plus a control for Control Center. Today and Quick win are free, and Quick win also comes for the Lock Screen. Hobba Pro includes Tasks, Day, Progress, Today & Calendar, Week, Today large, Upcoming, Projects and the three Lock Screen widgets: Open today, Next task and At a glance.
Wherever a task has a circle, the circle checks it off without opening the app.
Shortcuts
Seven actions for the Shortcuts app: Add task, Capture task, Open list, Count today's tasks, My top 3 for today, Extract Tasks (splits a dictated or copied sentence into several tasks) and Hobba Connector, the action the connector guide builds on.
On top of that, Hide projects works as a Focus filter: in Settings under Focus, you can choose for each Focus which projects and sections Hobba won't show.
A long press on the app icon goes to New task, Today, Upcoming and Search.
Addresses
Every place in Hobba has an address — usable in a note, a calendar entry, a shortcut, a script.
hobba://add | Open the entry sheet |
hobba://add?list=smart:today | … dated today right away |
hobba://add?list=project:<uuid> | … in a specific project |
hobba://add?list=custom:<uuid> | … in one of your smart lists |
hobba://list/today | Today (also inbox, upcoming, someday, log) |
hobba://list/tag/work | The context list of a tag |
hobba://list/custom/<uuid> | One of your smart lists |
hobba://list/place/<uuid> | The list of a saved place |
hobba://project/<uuid> | A project |
hobba://task/<uuid> | A task, highlighted in its list |
hobba://search | Pull up search |
To get a project's identifier, open the project, then choose Copy link in the ••• menu at the top right. (It isn't in the menu that a project row in the overview shows when you swipe it to the left.)
What about email?
There is deliberately no address to mail tasks to: that would need a server accepting your post and an account with us. Two routes without any foreign server exist anyway:
- On the Mac, Apple Mail can run a rule on an
incoming message that calls
hobba://addwith the subject. - As a bridge: a script on your own machine polls a mailbox, the way the Home Assistant bridge does with your smart home. Your machine fetches, nobody knocks.
When a machine writes the list
Two ready-made guides: the Claude connector and the Home Assistant bridge, which turns an empty battery into a task and ticks it off again.
Hobba is a task app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch — no account, no subscription, no tracking. On the App Store since 30 August 2026: one purchase, no monthly bill.
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