Comparison

Hypermonkey vs Recordo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hypermonkey

This gamified productivity app is designed to help individuals with ADHD focus, plan, and follow through on tasks. It offers smart task assistance, a Pomodoro timer, habit tracking, and personalized nudges to improve executive function. Earn rewards and track progress with a unique dashboard.

Highlights
  • Gamified productivity for ADHD
  • Smart task breakdown and suggestions
  • Pomodoro timer and Zen Mode
  • Habit tracking and personalized nudges
  • Brain-dumping and task conversion
  • Productivity dashboard and insights
  • Integrations with Reminders, Todoist, TickTick
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Meet Hypermonkey, a gamified productivity app built for ADHD minds. We know your brain doesn’t work like everyone else’s — and that most productivity tools weren't built with you in mind. Hypermonkey is designed to work with your brain, improve your executive dysfunction, and help you focus, plan, and follow through in a way that actually feels doable and fun. Key features we have: - Data Privacy: No sign-ups or sign-ins needed. All your data belongs to you and stays on your phone. - Smart Task Assists: Break down tasks into small, actionable subtasks, prioritize them, or get task suggestions if you don't know where to start. You can even use your voice to update your tasks! - Pomodoro: Stay productive using the Pomodoro technique — either work for custom focus intervals followed by short and long breaks or start a stopwatch. - Yap Zone: Brain-dump your thoughts before they spiral out of control and convert them to tasks. - Habits Tracker: Build routines that actually stick. Small, steady wins — one habit at a time. - Hypermonkey Friends: Invite your friends to shared Pomodoro's and habits so you can keep each other accountable. - Personalized Nudges: Get gentle, personalized reminders to keep you on track. - Reminders, Todoist, & TickTick Integration: Import your existing reminders from your device seamlessly into Hypermonkey. - Dashboard: Track your productivity patterns, task completion rate, etc. and see how much progress you’ve made over time. Understand more about your dominant ADHD productivity monkeys and how they affect you. - Daily Banana: Earn a daily banana by engaging with us! It shows your consistency (; - Sticker Shop: Reward yourself with some stickers of our mascots with your hard-earned bananas! Our ultimate goal is to understand your productivity patterns and turn your to-do lists into done lists. With the features above, we want to make it as intuitive and frictionless as possible for you to capture and execute ideas. Also, we believe that each ADHD mind has 6 monkeys living inside them that show up when they're trying to get things done! If you're interested in learning about your dominant ADHD productivity monkey and want to see how we can help, check out this fun little quiz we've put together: https://hrdzhy5q7gq.typeform.com/to/Ranq1V6n! It's always free to use Hypermonkey, but you can also upgrade to Pro to enjoy all of our powerful features. Upgrade to Pro by subscribing for $4.99/mo or $39.99/year, or pay for lifetime access at $69.99. In the future, Hypermonkey will integrate with more tools to make completing tasks a second nature for you. Also, we're working to make Hypermonkey available on macOS next! Terms & Conditions: https://www.tryhypermonkey.com/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.tryhypermonkey.com/privacy-policy From Hypermonkey with love

About

Recordo

This AI-powered organizer helps individuals with ADHD manage tasks, capture ideas, and build routines through a chat-based interface. It offers personalized AI assistants and features like Momentum Mode to combat decision paralysis and maintain focus.

Highlights
  • Chat-based task and idea input
  • AI-powered organization and search
  • Personalized AI assistant personalities
  • Momentum Mode for single-task focus
  • AI Coach for task breakdown and restarts
  • Customizable task reminders
  • Routine and ritual building
Features
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Your brain runs a hundred tabs. Recordo closes them. Just talk, and AI turns your brain dump into a to do list, reminders and a plan for today. I built Recordo because I have ADHD and every other planner felt like homework. No setup, no forms. If you can text, you can use it. "Has given me so much of my daily capacity back. Amazing!" - Fiona, App Store review JUST TALK. AI DOES THE REST. - Brain dump by voice, text or photo. Hands-free voice mode keeps listening while you think out loud. - AI turns it into tasks with dates, reminders and checklists, or saves it as a note. - "What was that idea I had last Tuesday?" Ask in plain words and AI finds it. - Share text or images from any app straight into Recordo. - Pick a coach personality: The Pilot breaks tasks into tiny steps, The Buddy is a warm, judgment-free friend who gets it, The Hype turns chores into a game. ONE TASK AT A TIME Tired of staring at a 50-item list? Recordo shows you the one next task. - Momentum Mode gives every task a Plan, a Coach and a focus timer. - The AI Coach breaks big tasks into micro-steps and helps you restart after distractions. - Smart prioritization weighs urgency, so you don't have to decide. - Reminders at the time you choose: 5 minutes, 2 hours before, or right on time. Gentle nudges, not shame spirals. - Home Screen widget: see your next task and capture a thought in one tap. PLAN YOUR DAY - Calendar view for Day, 3 days or Week, with your tasks as time blocks. - Connect Google Calendar to see meetings next to your tasks and get a warning when plans overlap. - Show your Recordo tasks in Apple Calendar or any calendar app with a private link. PROJECTS - Group tasks and notes into color-coded projects, each with an optional goal. - Filter your list by project and keep work, home and side projects apart. ROUTINES THAT ACTUALLY STICK - Morning and evening routines designed for low dopamine days. - Recurring tasks that roll forward automatically. - Visual progress that makes every small win feel real. A COACH THAT KNOWS YOU - Tell Recordo what you struggle with and the coach adapts to how your brain works. - Memory: the coach remembers what you tell it and plans around it. You can turn it off any time. - Automations: let the coach plan your day or prepare for tomorrow on a schedule. SWITCHING FROM ANOTHER APP? Import your open tasks from Todoist in a few taps. Your data is yours. No ads, no data selling. Download Recordo and give your brain the second home it deserves. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hypermonkey4 screens
Recordo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Recordo at 5.0 against Hypermonkey's 4.5. Recordo also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). Hypermonkey's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hypermonkey sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Recordo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Recordo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Hypermonkey's written reviews are positive against 50% of Recordo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hypermonkey ships an update every 2 weeks, Recordo every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hypermonkey versus Recordo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHypermonkeyRecordo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (19 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHomely Technologies LLCRecordo, LLC

Customer experience

Hypermonkey

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

Recordo

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Hypermonkey

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • 1-Week Free TrialFree
  • 1-Month Pro Access Pass$2.99
  • Lifetime$69.99
2 purchases

Recordo

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Subscription (Annual)3 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Hypermonkey free?
Hypermonkey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recordo free?
Recordo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hypermonkey or Recordo?
Recordo is rated higher. Hypermonkey averages 4.5 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Recordo averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Hypermonkey or Recordo have ads?
Neither Hypermonkey nor Recordo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hypermonkey or Recordo?
Hypermonkey ships an update every 2 weeks, and Recordo every 6 days. Most recently, Hypermonkey was updated on October 11, 2026 and Recordo on October 7, 2026.

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