ADHD August 2026

7 underrated ADHD apps you've probably never heard of

The ADHD apps everyone recommends are to-do lists, which is the thing that already does not work. These seven start from the specific failure instead: the task too big to begin, the list too long to finish, and the routine you know by heart but cannot start alone.

The underrated ADHD apps you've probably never heard of are Goblin Tools, 3Things Pal, Llama Life, Tiimo, dubbii, Routinery and Focus Hero. I built 3Things Pal; the other 6 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published August 2026 · apps and prices last checked 13 October 2026

Four stars is my score for how well an app answers this moment. An app I built gets four and a half — that is a rule, not a comparison. The App Store’s own average is on each card beside it.

1. 

   Goblin Tools

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · $1.99 · Productivity · App Store 4.8 (3,023)

   Goblin Tools is small tools for when a task feels too big: break it into steps, estimate how long it takes, or rewrite a message whose tone you cannot get right.

   Skip it if you need the app rather than the website — it has gone through spells of crashing on launch while the browser version kept working, and support is hard to reach.

   Official site ↗More lists with Goblin Tools

   
2. 

   3Things Pal Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.9 (9)

   3Things Pal gives you three things a day. Not a list to work through, but a list short enough that finishing it is the normal outcome.

   App Store ↗More lists with 3Things Pal

   
3. 

   Llama Life

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.5 (117)

   Llama Life puts a countdown on every single task and runs them one at a time, so a list becomes a sequence instead of a wall.

   Skip it if you want to try it properly first: you cannot add a task without the subscription, and reviewers report cancelling being harder than signing up.

   Official site ↗More lists with Llama Life

   
4. 

   Tiimo

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.6 (20,589)

   Tiimo is a visual planner: the day laid out as blocks you can see, rather than rows of text you have to read.

   Skip it if you want a planner rather than an assistant: recent versions push an AI agent that reviewers say gets the order of their day wrong, and the useful parts sit behind the subscription.

   Official site ↗More lists with Tiimo

   
5. 

   dubbii

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.8 (741)

   dubbii is body doubling: someone works alongside you through chores, admin and routines, so starting is not something you do alone.

   Skip it if you want live body doubling rather than video: reviewers say the sessions are recorded, and the parts that are live sit behind the subscription.

   More lists with dubbii

   
6. 

   Routinery

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.7 (18,018)

   Routinery walks you through a routine step by step with timers and voice prompts, instead of just storing the routine.

   Skip it if the alarm matters to you: it now plays a sound rather than vibrating, and reviewers report the routine running its steps out of order.

   Official site ↗More lists with Routinery

   
7. 

   Focus Hero

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Productivity · App Store 4.5 (3,221)

   Focus Hero is a pomodoro timer wrapped in an RPG: finished sessions level up a character.

   Skip it if you are on a free trial and watching the date — charges arriving before it ends are the most repeated complaint, and low power mode can wipe a session's progress.

   More lists with Focus Hero

   

3Things Pal is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.