Town
Personal AI assistant that learns how you work across email, calendar, and Slack, then starts handling the recurring admin itself.
Automates the busywork around your actual work, the general-life version of what FindFetcher automates for shopping.
Town is the newest and most ambitious tool on this list. Where most of the apps here automate one specific job, sorting email, tracking a habit, booking a meeting, Town's pitch is broader: it connects to your email, calendar, and Slack, learns the patterns in how you actually work, and starts handling recurring admin tasks itself rather than just organising them for you to do.
That's a meaningfully different category of tool than a task manager. A to-do app captures what needs doing and leaves the doing to you. Town is trying to close that gap, taking on the repetitive, low-judgement parts of your admin load directly, the kind of task that's tedious precisely because it's predictable and rule-based.
It's backed by a $55 million Series A from a16z and Forerunner, real institutional confidence, and it's just come out of beta with a confirmed Australian App Store listing. Given how new it is, I'd treat this as an early, promising bet rather than a mature, settled tool the way Todoist or 1Password are, worth trying specifically if the idea of an assistant that acts rather than just organises appeals to you.
It runs on a free trial followed by a weekly subscription, worth knowing upfront since a weekly billing cycle is a less common structure than the monthly or annual plans most of the other tools here use.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Town actually do that a task manager doesn't?
A task manager like Todoist organises tasks for you to complete. Town connects to your email, calendar, and Slack, learns your recurring patterns, and starts handling some of that admin itself, closer to a personal assistant taking action than a list you check off yourself.
Is Town a mature, established product or something new and unproven?
It's genuinely new, having just exited beta. It's backed by a real $55 million Series A from a16z and Forerunner Ventures, so there's institutional confidence behind it, but it doesn't have the multi-year track record that a tool like Todoist or Calendly does. Worth trying as a promising early bet rather than assuming it's a fully settled product.
How does Town's pricing actually work?
Town offers a free trial followed by a weekly subscription. That's a less common billing structure than the monthly or annual plans most productivity apps use, worth factoring in when comparing cost against alternatives.
What does Town connect to?
Email, calendar, and Slack are the core connections it uses to learn your working patterns and identify recurring admin it can take on.
Is Town available in Australia?
Yes, it has a confirmed Australian App Store listing.
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