Comparison

BrainDrain vs Keel

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

Head to head
About

BrainDrain

This app offers a quick, structured journaling experience designed to help individuals with ADHD and anxiety clear their minds in just one minute. It transforms mental clutter into peace through quick journaling, mindfulness, and task management, promoting focus and calm.

Highlights
  • 1-minute journaling sessions
  • Thought dumping and sorting
  • Task creation and reminders
  • Mindfulness exercises
  • ADHD-friendly structure
  • Anxiety relief tools
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Too many thoughts at once? Give them sixty seconds. BrainDrain is a 60-second brain dump for busy, anxious, or ADHD-wired minds. Type or speak what's on your mind, then sort it by what you can control. Make a plan when it helps, or let a thought go. No blank page, no pressure to turn every thought into a task. Your thoughts stay on your device or in your own iCloud. HOW IT WORKS • Drain: start the timer and pour it all out for 60 seconds. Type it or speak it. No prompts, no blank page staring back. Just a deadline. Let it all out. • Sort: swipe each thought where it belongs. Within my control, need someone's help, outside my control, or just a happy thought. • Act: turn a thought into a reminder or a calendar event, send it to someone who can help, or let it go for good. BUILT FOR BUSY, ANXIOUS, or ADHD-WIRED MINDS • One minute is the feature. Short enough to actually do, bounded enough to feel safe. • Every thought gets a decision. BrainDrain doesn't file your worries away. Each one lands somewhere: an action, a person, or a deliberate letting go. • Sorting by control is the calm. What you can act on becomes action. What you can't, you release. BRAINDRAIN PLUS Sixty seconds a day is always included. Plus is for the days that need more: unlimited drains, sixty more seconds when a thought needs the runway, your patterns read back to you by on-device intelligence, recurrence that spots what keeps coming back, progress by month and year, and your streak on your Watch and widgets. Everything stays on your device or in your own iCloud. Plus is an auto-renewing subscription billed to your Apple Account. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. YOUR THOUGHTS STAY YOURS Everything, including the intelligence behind Insights, runs on your device. AI journals send your thoughts to a server to be understood. BrainDrain never does. Private iCloud sync, no account, no ads. Give it sixty seconds. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://braindrain.app/privacy Support: https://braindrain.app/support

About

Keel

Features
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Keel is an ADHD toolkit for adults who already have the diagnosis. Doses, side effects, hyperfocus, and the hard moments live in one place on your iPhone. See when a medicine is kicking in and wearing off. Log what your body does on that dose. Notice a long hyperfocus stretch. Work through a spike in a private journal. Export a summary when a clinician, HR, or school needs one. Medication Log a dose and Keel draws an estimated curve for the day: rising, peak, and wear-off. The timing starts from the medicine you take. Change it if your body disagrees. The curve is an estimate you can show someone. It is not medical advice. Side effects Check in on appetite, sleep, mood, and whatever else you notice. A few days in, trends sit next to the dose, so the next appointment starts from a record. Hyperfocus Keel can notice a long stretch in one app and ask whether you want a break. It uses Screen Time and motion on this iPhone. It does not read what you typed, watched, or wrote. Hard moments A short journal for the spike. How big it feels, where you feel it, and what else might be true. Keel looks for a pattern with the time of day and your doses after a few entries. Paperwork Build a treatment summary, a workplace accommodation note, or a school support page. You pick the audience and what is included. Medication names stay in the clinician version. On this iPhone Keel has no account. Your doses, check-ins, and journal stay on the phone. Nothing is sent unless you export it. Not medicated right now? Skip the dose log. Hyperfocus, the journal, and your records still work. Keel does not diagnose ADHD, prescribe medicine, or replace your clinician. Terms of Use https://denovate.app/apps/keel/terms Privacy Policy https://denovate.app/apps/keel/privacy Support https://denovate.app/apps/keel/support

Screenshots

BrainDrain4 screens
Keel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BrainDrain at 3 against Keel's 1. Keel's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. BrainDrain sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Keel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BrainDrain versus Keel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainDrainKeel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRDub Studios, LLCDENOVATE LTD

In-app purchases

8 purchases

BrainDrain

Subscriptions6
  • Plus Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Plus Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • BrainDrain Plus Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Plus Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Plus Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Plus Annual Special Offer1 Year trial$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Lifetime$79.99
  • Pro Lifetime$99.99
2 purchases

Keel

Subscriptions2
  • Keel Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Keel Plus Annual$59.991 Year

Questions

Is BrainDrain free?
BrainDrain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keel free?
Keel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BrainDrain or Keel have ads?
Neither BrainDrain nor Keel shows ads.

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