# babel

> Babel makes Pachinko: tasks, notes, feeds, and AI Functions on macOS and iOS.

This site speaks two languages: EN (for people) and MCP (for you).
Toggle: every page has a machine twin under /mcp/.

## Products
- [Pachinko](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/): Pachinko is a macOS and iOS app for tasks, notes, projects, feeds, and automated AI workflows, with import from Things and Bear.
- [Pachinko Powerups](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/powerups/): Ready-made Feeds and Functions that chain with Pachinko. Import a powerup, adapt it to your context.

## Machine resources
- [/mcp/products.json](https://www.babel.so/mcp/products.json): every Babel product as a structured offer
- [/mcp/powerups.json](https://www.babel.so/mcp/powerups.json): powerups with installable .inko download URLs
- [/mcp/support.json](https://www.babel.so/mcp/support.json): support episodes with plain-text bodies for retrieval
- [/llms.txt](https://www.babel.so/llms.txt): the agent-facing site map

## Comparisons
- [Pachinko vs Things](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/vs/things/): You already run your life in a task manager. Pachinko keeps what works - projects, areas, start dates, repeating tasks, a native Mac and iPhone app - and adds what Things doesn't have: Feeds and Functions that do the reading and drafting while you're away.
- [Pachinko vs Bear](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/vs/bear/): You write everything down already. Pachinko puts those notes to work: tasks and projects next to them, your reading brought in on a schedule, and chores you explain once that Pachinko then does to every new note.
- [Pachinko vs Obsidian](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/vs/obsidian/): Pachinko ships what Obsidian leaves to plugins: tasks, notes, calendar, feeds that bring in what you follow, and jobs you explain once. It works the day you install it.
- [Pachinko vs Todoist](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/vs/todoist/): Pachinko is a task manager that does some of the work itself. It reads your feeds, runs the jobs you set up, and files the results in your projects, using your own Claude or ChatGPT account.
- [Pachinko vs Notes + Reminders](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/vs/apple-notes-reminders/): Pachinko is tasks and notes in one app. It brings in the news and sites you read, and does the jobs you give it.
- [Pachinko vs Notion](https://www.babel.so/pachinko/vs/notion/): You built your Notion setup page by page. Pachinko comes built. Give it a job and it keeps doing that job while you're gone.

## Site MCP tools
- list_products: List every Babel product with price, platform, and download URLs.
- get_product: Full record for one product.
- list_powerups: List powerups: curated sets of Pachinko Feeds and Functions.
- get_powerup: One powerup with its Feeds and Functions and .inko download URLs, installable into Pachinko.
- search_support: Search the Pachinko support episodes; returns matching episodes with excerpts.