MuteClear your mind before you do the work.
Most tools add to your plate. Mute empties it first.
See everything
Talk or type for two minutes. Every loop you're carrying lands on screen, where you can finally see it.
Understand it
What's pressing floats close. What can wait drifts out. Not a list, a map of your mind.
Let your mind breathe
Sort it, park it, let it go, and your load drops to one lighter number.
One calm screen. Everything you're carrying.
No lists. No badges. Just orbs, what matters holds the centre, the rest waits quietly.
Relief isn't a vibe. It's a mechanism.
Fifty years of research says relief comes from putting loops down, not finishing them.
Plan it, don't finish it
A written plan kills the mental noise an open loop makes, no completion required.
Masicampo & Baumeister, JPSP 2011You hold four things, not forty
Working memory caps out around four items. Mute holds the rest, so your head doesn't have to.
Cowan, 2001Half-finished work follows you
Open loops leave “attention residue” on whatever you do next. Putting them down properly clears it.
Leroy 2009; Leroy & Glomb 2018Built because my own head was the bottleneck.
I'm Tim. I run several businesses at once, and for years every one of them lived in my head at the same time. The weight was never the work, it was carrying it.
Mute is the tool I built for myself: two minutes to get everything out, a board that shows me what matters today, and a number that drops when I let go. I open it every morning. It changed how I work. Dramatically.
It doesn't replace ClickUp, Notion or your calendar. It's the step before them. Clear head first. Then execute.
Tim, founder · Sonder
We're building Mute to help the world carry less in its head.
Mute clears your head. Your tools do the rest.
Clear head here. Execute there, in the tools you already love.
Your AI already knows what you're carrying.
Run this prompt in Claude or ChatGPT. Paste the answer into your first mute, every line becomes an orb.
You've watched me work. Build me a brain-dump of everything I have on my plate right now. List every open loop you can find or infer from our conversations: projects, tasks, decisions I'm sitting on, things I promised people, the small nagging stuff too. Format (important): - Plain text, one loop per line - 3 to 8 words per line - No bullets, numbers, headings or commentary - Name the project or person first when obvious, e.g. "Acme: send revised proposal" - 10 to 30 lines, most pressing first
- 1 Run the prompt, your AI lists every open loop
- 2 Copy its answer
- 3 Press mute in your space, type-mode, paste, and sort
Simple, honest pricing.
- Everything unlocked, every theme, every feature
- The full noise-to-calm flow, unlimited
- Your mental-load score, always visible
- No card, no trial clock, just use it
Fair questions, straight answers.
My brain has 47 tabs open. Is this for me?
That's exactly who it's for. Working memory is tiny and modern life isn't. Getting loops out of your head and into a space you can see is one of the best-studied ways to quiet the noise, especially when focus is a fight.
Is this another to-do app?
No, it's the step before one. Mute is where everything gets out and gets sorted. Your task manager is where work gets done.
Why do I feel lighter when nothing actually got done?
Because the weight isn't the work, it's the holding. A specific plan for an open loop removes its mental interference without finishing it (Masicampo & Baumeister, 2011).
What happens to the loops I let go?
Closed, not punished. The decision is what closes a loop, so letting go is the hero move, never a failure.
Is it really free?
Yes. Everything is unlocked and free while we launch, no card, no trial clock, no catch.
Does it work on my phone?
Coming soon. We're still polishing the phone experience. Desktop is the best way to use Mute today.