# Mindporch: Clear your head — Brain dump, then one thing. > Brain dump, then one thing. (iPhone/iPad app by Sagar Mandhani.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mindporch-clear-your-head/id6800447462 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Sagar Mandhani](https://appshunter.io/developer/6799101327) - Category: Productivity, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 48 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-20 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Mindporch? Everything you're carrying, in one place — then one small thing to start. Mindporch is somewhere to put your head down. Say everything that's rattling around in one go: the things you have to do, the things you're worried about, the half-ideas you don't want to lose. It sorts what's an actual commitment from what's just worth keeping, then shows you one task, full screen, with the rest out of sight. SAY IT ALL OUT LOUD Tap once and talk. No typing, no categories, nothing to file. Mindporch untangles a rambling brain dump into separate items and shows you what it heard before anything is added. Rather type? The same untangling works on typed text. A WORRY IS NOT A TO-DO Neither is "I should learn to swim one day." Mindporch keeps what you've actually committed to apart from what's just worth keeping, so the list stays something you can trust — and nothing you said gets thrown away. ONE THING, FULL SCREEN A long list is a wall. When everything is visible at once, nothing feels startable — so you scroll, reorganise, and do none of it. You get one task and three ways forward: do it, skip it, or make it smaller. Swipe right to finish, left to set it aside. MAKE IT SMALLER Stuck on the one in front of you? Tap Smaller and it becomes a concrete physical action you can do in two minutes — the first motion, not the whole job. Tap again to go smaller still. A TIMER THAT DOESN'T NAG Ten minutes by default. Add five, fifteen or twenty-five if you're going. Nothing beeps at you, and nothing breaks the thing you finally started. PUT THE REST OF YOUR PHONE AWAY Choose the apps you lose yourself in, and Mindporch blocks them while a timer is running. Pause or finish the session and they come straight back — it holds the door shut, it never locks you out. ONE TAP FROM ANYWHERE Put the widget on your Home Screen, Lock Screen or Control Centre. One tap and it's already listening. Two quiet reminders a day, morning and evening, if you want them — and nothing else, ever. BUILT TO STAY CALM No streaks. No badges. No productivity score. No dashboard telling you how far behind you are. One accent colour, a lot of white space, and type large enough to read at a glance. WORKS WHEN THE SIGNAL DOESN'T Your list, the timer and the one-thing view all live on your phone, so they keep working underground. Untangling a dump and shrinking a task are done by AI and need a connection — without one, Mindporch falls back to a simpler rule on the device and carries on rather than stopping. WHERE YOUR LIST LIVES Your phone is the original; a copy is kept on Mindporch's server so a lost phone doesn't mean a lost list. That copy starts the first time you open the app, without an account and without an email address. Signing in with Apple is what makes it recoverable: it attaches the copy to your Apple ID, so a new phone can get it back. Until you do, the copy can only be reached from this install — deleting the app takes the list with it. Settings always says which of the two you're in. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Your tasks and thoughts, to keep that copy. What you said and your recording, so the AI can sort and transcribe it — that goes to AI providers working on Mindporch's behalf, who process it for that and nothing else. Your email address only if you sign in. No ads, no third-party trackers, no tracking across apps, and nothing sold to anyone, ever. We do count which features get used, on our own server and never what you write — the privacy policy says exactly what that means. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app. The privacy policy spells all of it out. Mindporch is a focus tool, not a medical device or a treatment. It offers no diagnosis and no therapy. ## Is Mindporch safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Mindporch. ## Is Mindporch legit? Mindporch: Clear your head has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Mindporch is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.6 — 2026-10-26 Tasks and Thoughts now have their own tabs. New: Open Hours, which keeps distracting apps closed outside the times you choose. Fixed: apps could stay blocked after a focus session ended, and finished tasks could come back after a sync. ### 1.2.5 — 2026-10-16 Blocking the apps you lose yourself in. Pick them once, and while a focus timer runs they're behind a shield. Pause or end the session and they come straight back — it holds the door shut rather than locking you out, because being stuck away from a map or a call is not focus. Find it under You. Since the last update you'll also find: • Pull the home card down to delete a task, with Undo and a Deleted today list • You can rate Mindporch from inside the app, and from You if you'd rather • The focus session survives a locked phone, with a Lock Screen countdown and a notification when it ends • A dark screen while a session runs, so a phone on the desk isn't glowing at you • Faster, cheaper untangling behind the scenes And a question for you: there's a screen under You asking whether a paid version would be worth building, and what it should cost. Nothing is charged and nothing is locked — it's there to be told no, if the answer is no. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-28 Focus sessions no longer need you to watch them. Start a timer and the screen stays on. Leave it alone for five seconds and it fades to a dark, quiet face showing only what you are working on and how long is left — easier on your eyes, and easier on the battery. Or put the phone down entirely. The countdown now lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can glance at it without unlocking, and a notification tells you when the time is up. Until now, nothing told you a session had ended unless you happened to be looking at it. Timers also survive the app closing. If iOS shut the app down while you were away, the session used to vanish; now it comes back with the right time still on it. Capture is one box. The separate brain dump section is gone — speak or type into the same place and the app sorts it into tasks and thoughts, which is the thing it was meant to do for you all along. Smaller repairs: editing a line while untangling now keeps the whole line in view and puts the cursor where you tapped; the keyboard no longer covers what you are typing; the undo strip sits above the buttons instead of on top of them; and your growing plants appear as a strip on the focus screen rather than taking over it for a few seconds. Celebrating momentum by interrupting it was a bad trade. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-25 Fixes three bugs that could lose your tasks or lock you out of them. Signing in on a second phone, or after reinstalling, now works. It never did: every copy of the app starts with an unnamed account, and signing in always tried to attach Apple to that one — so if your Apple ID already had an account, there was nothing to attach it to and it simply failed. That was the one thing an account is for. If signing in has failed for you before, it will work now. A brain dump of several things only ever backed up one of them. Everything stayed on your phone and looked right, but the copy on our server was missing the rest. And if the app lost track of that copy, the next launch could mistake your own list for someone else's and clear it — leaving only the one item that had made it. That is why a dump could come back as a single thought with the tasks missing. This version also re-uploads everything already on your phone, once, so a list that was quietly unbacked-up becomes safe. If a list vanished on you: anything that reached our server comes back when you sign in on this version. Anything that never got there is gone, and I'm sorry — that is exactly what these bugs conspired to cause. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-21 Fixed: your list could quietly stop backing up. A brain dump that produced both a task and a thought — the ordinary kind — made a batch our server refused, and once that happened nothing further was ever saved. Nothing was lost from your phone, but the copy on the server stopped being kept up to date. This release repairs it, and everything already on your phone goes up the first time you open it. A calmer way in The first screens and the walkthrough have been rebuilt. The first brain dump now runs on the real thing rather than a demo of it, so what you learn is what you'll use, and what you say in it is already filed when you finish. One finish line Marking a task done — from the card, the timer or a swipe — now lands on the same screen, with what you've finished today growing on it. Smaller things • Your next task opens in place rather than taking over the screen • The card shows you how to swipe it instead of just telling you • Typed brain dumps now get the same untangling as spoken ones • Sign-in reads at a comfortable size, in the middle of the screen • "Inbox" is now "Tasks" ## Apps similar to Mindporch | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [FocusMinny: Productivity Coach](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focusminny-productivity-coach/id6738607046) | 5.0 (5) | Free | Productivity | | [ADHD AI Daily Planner: Doot](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/adhd-ai-daily-planner-doot/id6767823669) | 5.0 (7) | Free | Productivity | | [Adaptive Computer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/adaptive-computer/id6746661991) | 5.0 (33) | Free | Productivity | | [Ideaflow — Notes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ideaflow-notes/id6463830566) | 4.8 (31) | Free | Productivity | | [Habit Tracker: Rovelist](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/habit-tracker-rovelist/id6468539586) | 4.5 (29) | Free | Productivity | | [Duckbill](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/duckbill/id6455085338) | 4.3 (70) | Free | Productivity | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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