Hero Assistant vs ADHD Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hero Assistant
This AI-powered daily assistant consolidates your calendars, to-dos, habits, notes, and grocery ordering into a single app. It offers proactive reminders, a personalized daily briefing, and a focus mode to block social media, helping you stay organized and productive.
- Unified calendar syncing
- Intuitive to-do list management
- Habit tracking and streaks
- AI-powered notes and voice memos
- One-tap grocery ordering
- Personalized AI daily briefings
- Critical alerts for important reminders
- Focus mode to block social media
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RUN YOUR LIFE, WITH HERO ASSISTANT - Hero is the first Daily Assistant, and app that brings your life into 1 place, so you never forget a thing: Your calendars, to dos, habits, grocery ordering, notes, weather, and more - Instead of checking 10 apps, now you only need 1 (perfect for anyone with ADHD!) - Powered by AI ● 1) RUN YOUR LIFE ALL IN ONE APP! - CALENDAR – Sync all calendars (Google, Outlook, and iCloud) together in one place, so you never miss a thing (works with Google, Outlook, and Apple calendars). Hero is the perfect daily planner. - TO-DOS – Stay on top of tasks and reminders with intuitive to do lists that let you create, organize, share, and comment on to-dos and tasks with family and friends. - HABITS – Record and track your habits, see your streaks and progress, and more - NOTES – Record plans using AI notes and voice memos, like grocery lists, shopping lists, vacation plans, or as an AI journal or habit tracker - GROCERY ORDERING – Order your grocery list with one tap from 1000s of stores with Instacart - WEATHER – Plan your schedule with hour by hour Apple Weather forecasts overlaid right on your calendar, including a 10 day weather forecast ● 2) START YOUR DAY RIGHT, WITH A PERSONAL DAILY BRIEFING Hero briefs you daily as your personal AI assistant - Just tell Hero’s AI what you’re interested in: news, sports, local events, and more - Every morning, you’ll get a personalized update of what you care about. Read aloud with voice! ● 3) NEVER FORGET ANYTHING, WITH SUPERALERTS - SUPERALERTS – Hero has the most powerful notifications of any app, usinglive activities to remind you and let you complete or snooze habits and to-dos right on your lock screen. - CRITICAL ALERTS – In addition, Hero is the only app with "Can't Miss" notifications, which use critical alerts to make a sound *even if your phone is on silent*, for important to-dos, habits, and events. So now you will never forget a thing, which is especially useful for people who are neurodivergent or have ADHD ● 4) BLOCK SOCIAL MEDIA, WITH FOCUS MODE - For the first time, an app marries to-dos and screen time, so you can be more productive - If you want to be more productive, just tap “Focus”, and Hero will block social media apps for you ● 5) GET PROACTIVE REMINDERS AND ACTIONS, POWERED BY AI As your personal AI Assistant, Hero proactively reminds you of what's coming up, and takes actions for you - IMPORTANT EVENT REMINDERS – Never forget birthday, anniversaries, graduations, and more! - FOLLOW UPS – Reschedule to-dos and habits, or remind your wife or husband to get something done if they've forgotten - WEATHER ALERTS – Remember to grab your umbrella if it's going to rain, or dress warmer or cooler if there's a significant weather change ● 6) ORDER YOUR GROCERY LIST, GET 5% CASH BACK Hero saves you hours every week with smart shopping lists and grocery lists - AUTO-CATEGORIZE BY AISLE – So you can shop faster, AI auto-sorts your grocery lists and shopping lists by category - TAP TO ORDER – If you don’t have time to shop, you can tap to order your grocery list and shopping lists instantly from any of your favorite local stores with Instacart - GET 5% CASH BACK – At the end of the month, you'll get 5% cash back emailed to you as a Visa gift card ● 7) COORDINATE INSTANTLY WITH YOUR PARTNER, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS Hero Assistant works with others - SEND TODOS = Use shared to-do and task lists to assign accountability and comment on to dos and reminders - FIND TIME = Instantly check availability and share your calendar by pulling from the edge of the screen, to see when others are free or busy - SHARE NOTES = Use shared notes to plan events, organize projects, or see accountability for a grocery list run - COMMENT ON ANYTHING = To discuss to-dos and notes, attach images for more context, and more ● - For Terms of Use, see https://www.tryhero.app/terms - For feedback, contact brad@mail.tryhero.app
ADHD Timer
This app makes time visible with a color-changing screen and vibration pulses as deadlines approach. It helps you accurately estimate task durations by tracking actual time spent versus your guesses, improving future planning.
- Visual countdown timer with color changes
- Task mode for estimating and tracking time
- Planning multiplier for estimate accuracy
- Focus routines for sequential timers
- Home screen widget for quick start
- Colorblind-friendly palette
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You don't have a motivation problem. You have a time problem — you genuinely can't feel it passing, so a "quick" task eats the afternoon and you never see it coming. This app works on that from both ends: making time visible while it passes, and showing you how badly you misjudge it. WATCH TIME PASS The whole screen is the timer. It shifts from calm green to amber to urgent red as your deadline approaches, so you always know where you stand without reading a number. Vibration pulses intensify in the final stretch. No tiny digits, no abstract progress ring — just color you can read from across the room. FIND OUT HOW LONG THINGS REALLY TAKE Switch to Task mode, name what you're doing, and guess the time. When your estimate runs out the timer doesn't quietly stop — it asks whether you actually finished. If you didn't, it keeps counting, and the real duration is what gets recorded. Not the one you hoped for. YOUR PLANNING MULTIPLIER After five tracked tasks, a single number tells you how far off your estimates are. 1.7x means a task you think is 30 minutes usually runs 52. It's broken down task by task, so you learn which work always overruns and which you actually judge well. KNOW BEFORE YOU START Set 25 minutes on something you've done before and the app tells you what it will really take. Plan against your own history instead of your optimism. SCHEDULE IT, AND ACTUALLY ARRIVE Put a task on a day and time with your own estimate, and the app reminds you 25 minutes before, 5 minutes before, and when it's time to start. The reminders don't just say "soon" — they tell you what that task really runs to, so "in 25 minutes" becomes an amount of time you can feel. Tap one and the timer is set up and waiting. Miss one and nothing nags you. ALSO INSIDE • Focus Routines — chain timers into a sequence and just hit start • Insights — this week's focus time, plus sessions, streaks and patterns with Pro • A Home Screen widget to start a session without opening the app • Presets from 5 to 45 minutes, plus custom lengths • A colorblind-friendly palette • No account. Nothing to set up. It works offline. Free to use: the timer, Task mode, the estimate gate, your first three forecasts, your first custom timer and one scheduled task cost nothing. Pro unlocks your full planning multiplier, unlimited forecasts, custom timer lengths, unlimited scheduled tasks, your own routines, full Insights and complete history. Built for ADHD brains that can't feel time passing. Because when time is invisible, focus breaks — and every estimate is a guess. Privacy Policy: https://maciejplaneta.github.io/privacy-policies/time-blindness-timer/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hero Assistant at 5.1K against ADHD Timer's 1. Hero Assistant also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). ADHD Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hero Assistant sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and ADHD Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Hero Assistant against 5.0 for ADHD Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hero Assistant has 5.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hero Assistant ships an update every 6 days, ADHD Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hero Assistant | ADHD Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (5.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MagicX Inc. | Maciej Planeta |
Customer experience
Hero Assistant
ADHD Timer
Bugs and requests
Hero Assistant
Reported bugs
2 issues- Widget option does not work
- Scrolling on main page is jumpy
Requested features
5 requests- Weekday-only option for recurring events
- Reminders for important dates
- Ability to view past to-dos
- Option to copy events
- Themes and customization
ADHD Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hero Assistant
- SuperHero7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- SuperHero$0.997 Days
- SuperHero14 Days trial$0.997 Days
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- SuperHero$1.997 Days
- SuperHero7 Days trial$3.001 Month
- SuperHero$5.991 Month
- SuperHero14 Days trial$36.001 Year
- SuperHero7 Days trial$36.001 Year
- SuperHero$36.001 Year
- SuperHero7 Days trial$53.991 Year
ADHD Timer
- Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Annually3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99









