# Opora: ADHD Skills & Focus — CBT practices, timer & tasks > CBT practices, timer & tasks (iPhone/iPad app by Daniil Bolotov.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/opora-adhd-skills-and-focus/id6800092761 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Daniil Bolotov](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800092763) - Category: Health & Fitness, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English, Russian, European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-03 - Data updated: 2026-09-10 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/opora-adhd-skills-and-focus/id6800092761/reviews.md ## What is Opora? Opora is a hub for the ADHD brain: a timer, tasks as animals, a grove and CBT and DBT techniques for hard moments in one app. Nobody here rushes or shames you. When starting is hard, it lends a shoulder. YOUR INTERVAL, NOT A RIGID POMODORO Calibration finds your own focus length: 12 minutes or 40. Breaks and work do not start on their own. At each boundary the timer waits for your button. A GROVE THAT GROWS WITH YOU Each finished interval plants something. Awards and a living tamagotchi companion stay with you. Miss a day and nothing wilts or dies. An empty hill is tomorrow's flowerbed. SKILLS FOR HARD MOMENTS Short exercises based on CBT and DBT: 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, TIPP, STOP, paced breathing, a decision timebox and journal, the procrastination equation, a rest plan and weekly needs sliders. Each technique explains what the next step is for. TASKS AS ANIMALS Buffalo is urgent and important, three at most. Elephant is big and needs splitting. Rabbit is quick. Panda can wait. Each week you pick one to three "stones", the big things that move your life. PAPER FOR YOUR HEAD A thought barges in mid-focus? Capture it with one tap and go back to work. Sort it out on the break. A SEED FOR TOMORROW In the evening you pick one task and a first step under two minutes. In the morning one notification arrives in your own words, and the timer opens already loaded. Skip it and the seed does not roll over, and nothing is counted anywhere. FIDGETS FOR YOUR FINGERS A bead on the timer ring, springy grass, a pebble with a slow heartbeat. Hands busy, eyes free. Attention stays where you put it. ALSO INSIDE • Home Screen widgets: today's tasks with checkboxes, timer, grove • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Habits, awards, and a herbarium of species • A garden with flowers and your pet, rotates freely, goes fullscreen in Plus • One-file backup PRIVACY Opora collects no data: everything stays on your device. No account, no ads, no analytics. FREE FOREVER Timer and calibration, tasks and animals, habits, week stones, the grove and its awards, the companion, fidgets, the seed, widgets, backup, and the last 7 days of statistics. All techniques for a hard moment are open in full: grounding, TIPP, STOP, paced breathing, timeboxing, the decision journal, the rest plan, the needs sliders. None of them sits behind a lock. OPORA PLUS A one-time purchase, no subscription and no ads. Statistics over 14 days and 10 weeks, peak hours and the summary. The fullscreen garden. The companion wardrobe: the bow and glasses are free, and you can try everything on. Course notes: the first section of the cheat sheet, the hacks and the mantras is open, the rest is in Plus. The Descartes square for big decisions, the “Look back” decision review and the red-zone breakdown in Week are in Plus too. This app does not replace care from a specialist. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.8.2 — 2026-09-07 RESTORE FROM FILE The “Restore from file” button opens the file picker again. In 1.8.1 it did nothing. A REWARD FOR THE TASK Instead of a system alert, a finished task with a reward now gets a card: your companion jumps, petals fly, and “Taking it!” sits below. When today's list is done, the companion cheers at the top of the list too. TASKS WITHOUT EMOJI The “Break it down”, “Habit”, “Reward” and “Idea paper” headers use icons in the app's own colors. The placeholder in “What just popped up?” sits centered in its row. WHAT MOVED TO PLUS The Descartes square, the “Look back” decision review and the red-zone breakdown in Week are now fully in Plus. The timebox, the decision journal, the 48-hour check, the week sliders and every technique for a hard moment stay free, as before. ### 1.8.1 — 2026-09-05 NAVIGATION IN PRACTICE The rows "Can't start", "Too much of everything" and "Getting distracted" open a screen inside Practice with a back arrow, like every other row in the list. Nothing drops you into another tab anymore. The timer row leads to a short step with a "Go to timer" button; the timer never starts on its own. SHORTER ONBOARDING Four cards instead of six: what this is, your own interval, the grove, the practices. Each one carries a single "Why it works" line grounded in CBT and DBT. TWO NEW WEIRDOS Larpochka: elf by calling, not by passport. 3styn: a white cat in a cardigan who is urgently running somewhere. Both live in the "Who lives in the grove?" picker, wear hats from the chest and join the sticker pack. SMALL THINGS The content inside the timer ring is centered. Scruffy got his English name. On English and Spanish phones the app is called Opora, and Spotlight finds it by that name. PLUS In 1.8.0 we wrote that nothing closes for people who had Opora before. We removed that rule: Plus unlocks by purchase, the same for everyone. Techniques for a hard moment, the timer, tasks, the grove and the first pass of the square, the review and the week stay free. ### 1.8.0 — 2026-09-04 A MEADOW ON THE TIMER The timer screen is redrawn: the sky follows the time of day, and the dark theme brings night with a moon and stars. The grass and the shelf are hand-drawn, and the bead on the ring is now a pebble with notches you want to spin. Nothing moves while work is running. A SEED FOR TOMORROW In the evening you pick one task and a first step shorter than two minutes. In the morning one notification arrives in your own words, the task moves into Today, and the timer opens already loaded. Miss it and the seed lets the morning go. Nothing is counted anywhere. The usual morning reminders stay quiet that day, so you get one notification instead of three. SETTINGS AND THEME Settings are grouped by section, and you can pick a theme: system, light or dark. Onboarding now explains the "Capture a thought" button. WHAT MOVED INTO PLUS Course notes past the first section, the Descartes square past the first one, the decision review past the first one, and the red-zone breakdown in Week a week after your first audit. If you had Opora before this update, nothing closed on you: what was free stays free. Techniques for a hard moment are free for everyone. ### 1.7.2 — 2026-09-03 No release notes. --- *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 2026-09-10.*