# ModernSam: The Self-Care RPG — user reviews > 64 indexed App Store user reviews of ModernSam by ModernSam, LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 70 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/modernsam-the-self-care-rpg/id6469438038/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/modernsam-the-self-care-rpg/id6469438038.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 61 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of ModernSam? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Gamified task management with RPG elements - ✨ Immersive fantasy storyline with voice acting - 🧘 High-quality guided meditations and affirmations - 🎯 AI-powered task breakdown into subtasks - 💚 ADHD-friendly design without penalties - 🎨 Cute graphics and character customization - 🎁 Daily quest system with variety and novelty - 🏆 Rewarding beast card collection mechanic - 💰 No aggressive monetization or pop-ups - 🤝 Compassionate developer team and community - 📱 Accessible and intuitive user interface - 🌟 Dopamine-boosting reward system **Cons** - ⏳ Incomplete features and unfinished storyline - 🪙 Rewards (coins, bone dust) lack purpose - 🔔 No custom day start time for night owls - 🎭 Male voice acting even for female avatars - 📖 Story doesn't integrate with gameplay - 🔄 No recurring/repeating task functionality - 🎲 Fixed daily quests feel random and unclear - 🐛 Permanent white screen bug on startup - 📚 Lacks proper tutorial for new users - 🏠 Limited character customization options - ⏰ No ability to set time-specific reminders - 🌍 No Chinese language support **Commonly reported bugs** - Permanent white screen on app startup - Male voice acting plays for female characters - Skip button visibility issues on intro screen **Most requested features** - Widget for home screen access - Recurring/repeating task functionality - Time-specific task reminders and notifications - More character customization and cosmetics - Purpose for collected cards and currency - Custom day start time settings - Interactive tutorial for new players - Story progression tied to gameplay choices - More meditation and affirmation content - Chinese language translation - Female voice acting options - Explanation of quest purposes ## Newest reviews (16 of 64) ### 5/5 — Amazingly Helpful *2024-10-17, version 0.8.1* As my world gets busier it’s easy to be overwhelmed. But I can break down even the “simplest” task into 100 sub tasks if I need to and that makes it so much more manageable. I love the story, the meditations are wonderful and I enjoy the gaming aspect as well. It really is exactly what I needed to stay focused and on task. I don’t know how to thank Sam but he really has made life that much easier. Coming back weeks later to say I’m still using and enjoying the app. It helps me keep track of specifics, while allowing me to view things as a broader perspective too. I’m always finding new ways to incorporate it and it has helped me start clearing clutter from my home as well as keep it cleaner in general. ### 5/5 — The first planning app to ever help me! *2024-10-11, version 0.8.1* I’ve tried a lot of habit trackers, journaling and reminder apps, and this is the first that’s ever actually worked! Others I gave up on in a day; this one I’ve stuck with for a month now. It’s helped me stay on top of my routines, encourages some healthy spontaneity, and really helps break down my goals into small tasks that feel a lot more manageable and each still rewarding! I told my therapist about it and he loves what it’s doing for me as well, great stuff even in its current early development. I’m excited to see what’s yet to come! ### 5/5 — I’ve never left an app review before! *2024-09-25, version 0.8.0* This app is literally life changing! I’m able to feel almost “normal” as some people who don’t have ADHD would say. I don’t feel pressured to complete tasks or get penalized for not doing them. Doing the little hunts is probably my favorite as I want to unlock all of the cards!! Thank you so much to the team who created this app! 💚 ### 5/5 — Amazingly Helpful *2024-09-20* As my world gets busier it’s easy to be overwhelmed. But I can break down even the “simplest” task into 100 sub tasks if I need to and that makes it so much more manageable. I love the story, the meditations are wonderful and I enjoy the gaming aspect as well. It really is exactly what I needed to stay focused and on task. I don’t know how to thank Sam but he really has made life that much easier. ### 5/5 — Can’t wait for more :) *2024-09-18, version 0.8.0* I feel like this is a fairly new app, since there’s a lot of features that can be built on. This has a TON of potential and I can’t wait to see where it goes, because I already love what’s there! I especially love the spoken aspect of this app; I can tell a lot of work was put into the meditations, affirmations, episodes, and everything in general. I’m not at a place where I can monetarily support the app’s development, but I definitely would if I could. This is a really fantastic app and anyone that ends up reading this should give it a try!! Thanks to the devs for the work that was put into this, and I hope to see more <3 ### 5/5 — Already amazing! *2024-08-29, version 0.8.0* This app is already a masterpiece. I am paying for premium and the 1.0 release hasn’t even happed yet. Take the app for a spin and you’ll be hooked too! ### 5/5 — Encouraging and fun *2024-08-23, version 0.8.0* Great app! Helps you to take small actions, be it for your physial or mental health or towards your to-do list. Cosy vibes and a great story as well. Give it a go and see for yourself! 🥰 ### 5/5 — My ADHD brain is so thankful *2024-08-23, version 0.8.0* I recently got diagnosed, really late in life (I’m 27). I just went out to look for some tools to help me manage my time. I stumbled upon this app and fell in love instantly. The daily quests motivate me to do things I often forget like make my bed or clean the kitchen. But also doing things that help me relax a little bit like playing video games or doing a puzzle. I have a lot of difficulty doing thing to chill out because i get this guilt I am not being productive but hey! That’s my quest for today so I can trick my brain into letting me enjoy my free time! Also the story telling is amazing! The voice actors do such a great job! And the tent features with mindfulness and meditation to give my brain rest! It’s such an amazing idea. You can feel this app is made with love to help people like me and not to scam u out of your money. I cannot recommend it enough. 10/10 ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2024-08-21, version 0.8.0* Fun way to improve productivity and nice self care reminders. Absolutely love the RGP theme! ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2024-08-21, version 0.8.0* This app works in ways that so many others haven’t for me. With my AuDHD, follow through is something I always struggle to do. Keeping track of my daily todo list becomes easier with the AI task breakdown. The illustrations are also really cool. ### 5/5 — Daily Serotonin Rewards *2024-08-20, version 0.8.0* Do I really enjoy doing boring tasks? No. Do they become less abhorrent because there are pretty shiny rewards that allow me to kill monsters? Absolutely. Aside from the regular dopamine hits, I really like how it provides self care ideas for each day and reflections/ meditations that I get to pick based on my capacity that day. The story portion is fun, and they should be adding more which will be great too. In short, it’s been great way to make mundane tasks less obnoxious, supplement my dysfunctioning executive function, fit in some self care, and mostly keep me on track. ### 5/5 — So much potential! *2024-08-10, version 0.8.0* This app is great! It’s not only a good tool for managing your to dos, it’s also focusing on your personal evolution with adding self care-daily tasks and adding tasks for being kind to your surroundings. There are meditation audios, words of affirmation and that whole fantasy world vibe works GREAT. I can’t wait to see what the future brings for this app 🫶 ### 5/5 — This is SUCH A GOOD APP *2024-07-27, version 0.7.2* The little cards are so motivating for me for some reason, like collecting Pokemon cards. And I love the tasks and how they give you energy. And the VOICES ARE SO GOOD!!!! It makes an intriguing story and makes doing tasks fun. ALSO I love the meditation and mindfulness audios. I never had an interest in those things until this app. It’s so nice to do that right before bed. THIS IS SO HELPFUL IN GAMIFYING MY TASKS! PLEASE CONTINUE TO WORK ON IT! ### 5/5 — Cool *2024-07-05, version 0.7.2* The game is good ### 5/5 — Mental Health isn’t just a fantasy *2024-06-08, version 0.7.1* I’ve done a fair share of self-care apps in my time and none have made me feel as engaged as this one. The story is immersive and actively encourages you to be active during listening. Not only do I feel seen and heard, but I feel encouraged. And with a cycling set of tasks every day this app has helped me become way more productive. The app is still in development but I have high hopes! ### 5/5 — I never write reviews, but I had to for this one *2024-06-07, version 0.7.1* As I said in the title, I never write reviews on the App Store, but this one really deserves 5 stars! The app is not even at its peek yet and I still love it! It is made for people with ADHD, and while so don’t have ADHD I still love it so much! This is one of the healthiest apps I have ever had! I got premium not because I wanted the ads to go away, but because I want to support the creators! I am really excited to see where this app goes! I really hope that if you have not downloaded the app, you at least give it a chance. I don’t think you will regret it! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — Still a Work in Progress *2025-03-16, version 0.8.2* It’s a good concept and there are things I really like, but overall there’s just too much still missing. Pros: + Daily side quests are a great way to add new goals and get some easy wins to build momentum. + Short, fantasy themed meditations and affirmations are unique and add immersion. + Feels more like an actual game than many other RPG style productivity apps Cons: - Story doesn’t tie into gameplay in any way - No ability to have a custom day start time, so it’s a struggle to maintain streaks if you’re a night owl who checks in after midnight. - Character are sound effects are always male, even if your avatar is female. - Most importantly, there’s no real point to battling monsters. You collect cards that don’t do anything, and the gold and bone dust that you get has no use. I know more features are planned, but there’s not much motivation if nothing has any sense of purpose. I WANT to love this app. I think the potential is there, and there are already some good features, but there’s still a long way to go before this app will be fully realized. ### 2/5 — I don’t get it *2024-04-01, version 0.0.32* Maybe I am not the right audience for this app, but I don’t get it. I don’t understand what the story has to do with the rest of it, and I don’t understand the reward system. You complete quests and tasks to earn stuff so you can go battle beasts to get cards for…what? I do a bunch of to-dos and my reward is a really lame monster card? I get no dopamine hit from this, so there’s no motivation to do the tasks. Additionally, the quests are fixed each day. I rolled for quests today and got a whole list of stuff I either can’t do or would hate doing. There is also no explanation of the purpose of the quests. One of mine today was “talk to yourself”. Why?? What benefit does that serve? They seem really random and some of are just weird. The app clearly isn’t complete yet, so maybe it will get better, but right now it’s pretty boring, in my opinion. ### 3/5 — Has Potential *2024-06-08* I think this app has potential. For one thing, I love the mini meditations/affirmations, and I think they’re really well done! But the real highlight for me is the daily quests feature. Each day you can roll to choose 4 daily quests, where you are given a random selection of tasks to choose from. Each completed task earns you a chance to hunt a monster and gain rewards. Except there’s nothing to actually DO with the rewards. This is one of my big issues with the app. It feels half finished…like a beta build and not a full release. And perhaps most disappointing, there have been no major changes or additions since it came out at the end of last year. I’ve been holding off writing this review until it felt a bit more complete, but that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen any time soon. As such, I can only give it 3 stars. I’d probably give it 2.5 if I could give half stars, but I rounded up because I DO think the potential is there! This could be a great app down the road! It’s just not there yet. ### 3/5 — Needs widget *2024-03-09, version 0.0.25* Great app, but it needs a widget to actually be useful daily. Please add this feature! ### 4/5 — a beautiful work-in-progress *2025-04-30, version 0.9.1* i adore this app. i find it very helpful! theres a few things that need to be done--the storyline changing with your house/archetype, the storyline's not yet done it would seem, bone chips and coins are useless or nigh useless, and a way to set reminders for tasks at specific times is missing. but all in all, the app is very good and helpful, and i appreciate all it does. ### 4/5 — Great game *2024-08-21, version 0.8.0* This game was a bit interesting at first, but now I can see the hype! Storyline, make your own task goals, meditations, and all role playing game based. It makes my goals more interesting and helps me to keep my thoughts together. I get energy to fight monsters and collect the cards of ones I defeat. The developers are always asking for feedback and willing to work with you when there’s an issue. Totally worth getting, 100%. I’m also really starting to like the update of making my own to do lists. ### 4/5 — Placeholder *2024-01-11, version 0.0.23* There is a bug that causes a permanent blank white screen on starting the game, but if you’re careful you can see a skip button in the top right. I rated this game 1 star thinking the game did not work. Here is an elevated rating placeholder for when I can fully get a feel for the game, since it doesn’t allow me to delete a review. ### 4/5 — This is a productivity app? *2024-01-05, version 0.0.22* After sitting through what was one of the most intense fantasy role-playing introductions, I find myself forgetting that this is an AI powered to-do list. I’ve been using it for a few days and I’m hooked. My only complaint is that it needs a proper tutorial. ### 4/5 — Wow *2024-01-04, version 0.0.22* I like many others have been waiting for this app, now that its here I can say it is more than expected. I find I am getting more of those little jobs done. The only negative is that I can’t do reoccurring tasks, but having thought about it I guess that this app is not made for that purpose. I love everything about this app. ### 4/5 — A Guided Meditation with compassion *2024-01-01, version 0.0.21* As someone with ADHD, I’ve tried meditating and breathing exercises before, but my mind wanders and I feel like a failure and give up. Here, however, the guided meditation specifically calls out this tendency to wander and empathizes with us: it tells us it’s normal and reminds us to just gently bring our thoughts back to the present… Wait? I didn’t completely fail and have to start over because I started thinking about the noise I heard outside which devolved into me thinking about writing a new fantasy language? Score! I gave this app 4 out of 5 stars because I had trouble tracking down the new player guide and then swapping from the guide, back to the app to try the feature I just read about, then back to the guide for the next step. I definitely think that interactively tutorializing the user would benefit the experience. I also downloaded this last night so I have not used it much yet, but I can’t wait to see how this app develops! What new features might the future hold? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Task Reminder *2026-05-03, version 0.9.3* I really like this app, especially because it doesn't have annoying pop ups or demands for your money. It's a gamified task organizer. I do wish we could earn more things to customize our character in some way. But, I really like it. It's cute, and I like being reminded of my Archetype and House. ### 5/5 — Absolutely helpful! *2026-04-19, version 0.9.3* This app has helped me so much after going through anxiety, and just getting older. I think it’s amazing that the modern Sam team is so compassionate about the work they do. Although I would like some more meditations this is great! Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — W *2025-12-04, version 0.9.3* Yo im not capping but this app is genuanely rlly good. I was looking for an app that has xp and rewards or ranks and this app came up. W devs fr🔥 ### 5/5 — need chinese *2025-10-11, version 0.9.3* need Chinese！ ### 5/5 — Simply in love, very motivating and cute *2025-04-25, version 0.9.1* I love this app very much, I fell in love with it on the first try! I’ve been using it pretty much daily for reflection and the daily self care quests. Something I learned just recently is to not be too strict with finishing all four quests daily, and retooling them the next day, it’s a lot more fun and less pressure that way ### 5/5 — Really good *2025-03-12, version 0.8.2* It's fun and helps me be more disciplined. Thanks for this great app. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2025-02-25, version 0.8.2* The sound and images in the app are very appealing. Overall it has a very feel good vibe. I believe this app will make you a better person and also the world a better place! ### 5/5 — Absolute game changer *2025-02-23, version 0.8.2* I love it, truly! It gives me that little dopamine boost when I tick things off my own task list and I looove the town quests - always giving me something a little different or just outside my norm. Collecting the beasts is fun, and it makes me come back each day to find more. Can’t wait to see where this app goes in the future!!!! ### 5/5 — A joy! *2025-02-12, version 0.8.2* I’m terrible at writing reviews, but here we go: I love this app. It has had such a positive impact on my life. The daily quests help me bring some variation in my routines and make me step out of my comfort zone to try new things, or return to old ones I forgot about. The meditations and affirmations are unlike any I had encountered before, they are soothing and empowering. Would recommend! ### 5/5 — Review *2025-02-05, version 0.8.2* Pretty good I guess --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-08.*