Comparison

Just Start vs ADHD Timer

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

Head to head
About

Just Start

This app helps individuals overcome task initiation challenges with ADHD-friendly focus sessions. It offers customizable timers, AI-powered task breakdown, virtual body doubling, and ambient soundscapes to enhance concentration and productivity.

Highlights
  • Customizable Pomodoro timers
  • AI task breakdown
  • Virtual body doubling
  • Live Activities & Dynamic Island integration
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Ambient soundscapes
  • Evolving focus garden
Features
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The task is big. Your first step doesn’t have to be. Just Start helps you begin the task you keep putting off. Describe what feels hard to start, find one small action, and take it into a short focus session. MAKE THE FIRST STEP SMALLER Ask the app’s AI for a concrete first step for your own task. Still feels like too much? Ask for a smaller action. If AI is unavailable, you can write your own step or use the timer directly. START WITH TWO OR FIVE MINUTES Begin a short session without answering a survey. Pause when you need to. Longer focus and break presets are available when you want more time. SUPPORT WHEN YOU WANT IT Choose visual timers and ambient sounds. Pro adds more sound options, mixing, and optional AI check-ins. These check-ins are automated messages, not a live person working beside you. KEEP A LITTLE MOMENTUM See your focus history and progress. Return to a recent task or use a routine for something you do regularly. Optional account sync is available; an account is not required to start. START FREE The free app includes up to three focus sessions and three AI task requests per day, core progress tools, and three ambient sounds. Pro adds unlimited focus sessions and expanded support. AI requires internet access and is subject to service limits. PRIVACY The timer and local progress work offline. When you request AI help, your task and relevant context are sent through our server to our AI provider. Optional account sync sends account and synced app data to our cloud service. Read the privacy policy before sharing sensitive task information. APP LANGUAGES Choose in Settings: English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Italiano, Nederlands, 日本語, Polski, 한국어, 繁體中文, العربية, Bahasa Indonesia, हिन्दी. PRO OPTIONS Monthly: $4.99 USD. Annual: $29.99 USD billed yearly. Existing lifetime purchases remain valid and can be restored. Local prices and terms are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in your App Store account settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Just Start is a productivity tool, not a diagnosis or treatment for ADHD. Privacy: https://getjuststart.app/privacy Terms: https://getjuststart.app/terms

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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. 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 and your first custom timer cost nothing. Pro unlocks your full planning multiplier, unlimited forecasts, custom timer lengths, 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/

Screenshots

Just Start3 screens
ADHD Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Just Start and ADHD Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Just Start sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Just Start against 5.0 for ADHD Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Just Start ships an update every 11 days, ADHD Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Just Start versus ADHD Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJust StartADHD Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEstus Holdings LLCMaciej Planeta

Customer experience

Just Start

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ADHD Timer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Just Start

Subscriptions2
  • Just Start Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Just Start Pro Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Just Start Pro Lifetime$58.99
3 purchases

ADHD Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Annually3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Just Start free?
Just Start is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ADHD Timer free?
ADHD Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Just Start or ADHD Timer?
Just Start and ADHD Timer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Just Start or ADHD Timer have ads?
Neither Just Start nor ADHD Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Just Start or ADHD Timer?
Just Start ships an update every 11 days, and ADHD Timer weekly. Most recently, Just Start was updated on September 19, 2026 and ADHD Timer on August 22, 2026.

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