Phone Apps for ADHD

Do you fall into your phone and emerge, hours later, frustrated and confused?

Fortunately, there are some apps to help with ADHD symptoms. My top apps are listed below.

1) Routinemeister: This app allows you to create lists of timers. It’s pretty amazing, and it can help you get your rhythms down.

2) Tile: In this high stress time when routines have been lost in the wind, the additional stress of losing your keys or wallet can be eliminated by placing a Tile on the item and calling it a day. These are especially life changing for people with ADHD and other executive functioning issues and can give them back hours in a week.

3) Forest: If you’ve noticed your screen time creep higher and higher during quarantine, you aren’t alone. I recommend folks use the Forest app to help them manage screen time. You set a timer and grow a cute little tree. You also gain points for growing trees and can “buy” different species from those points.

4) Sketchbook: Sketchbook is a free drawing app, and it’s just fun. You can use different brushes and create beautiful, calming pictures on your phone.

5) Calm: Finally, the Calm app is excellent. I especially love their sleep stories. ADHD brains can run a million miles a minute and have a hard time falling asleep. Sleep stories fix that problem by giving your brain something boring and calming.