Comparison

ADHD Notes vs DopaDo

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

Head to head
About

ADHD Notes

Capture thoughts, tasks, notes, and plans in a calm, organized space. This tool helps you see your day clearly, manage meetings, and keep your projects moving forward across multiple devices.

Highlights
  • Capture thoughts via text, voice, Siri, share extension, or widget
  • Organize tasks, notes, meetings, and plans
  • View due and overdue tasks, priorities, and waiting work
  • Manage meeting agendas, notes, and follow-ups
  • Utilize calendar and agenda views for planning
  • Focus mode with optional timer
  • Cross-device synchronization (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Web, Android)
Features
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Less to hold in your head. ADHD Notes is a calm place to capture thoughts, see what needs you, and follow through. Keep tasks, notes, meetings, and plans together without turning organization into another full-time job. CATCH THE THOUGHT Save a quick thought in Remember. Keep your original words, then decide what belongs in a task, a note, or your plans. Use text, voice input, Siri, the share extension, or a widget when it is convenient. SEE TODAY CLEARLY Find due and overdue tasks in Today. Use Board for the bigger picture, priorities, and waiting work. Due dates, reminders, and recurring nudges help bring open loops back into view. KEEP NOTES USEFUL Write notes, make checklists, pin what matters, and keep a journal. Find your ideas again instead of rebuilding them from memory. MAKE MEETINGS LEAD SOMEWHERE Keep the agenda, notes, people, and follow-ups in context. Carry the next step forward from one conversation to the next. GIVE YOUR PLANS A PLACE Use calendar and agenda views to see time alongside your work. Keep projects moving and separate work, personal, and school life with workspaces. FOCUS YOUR WAY Choose one task and an optional timer. Focus is there when it helps, without requiring another routine to maintain. ON THE DEVICES YOU USE Use ADHD Notes on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Home Screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, the share extension, and Spotlight give you more ways to capture and find things. Your account also connects with the web and Android apps. Features vary by platform. YOUR WORDS, YOUR CHOICE Optional AI workflows explain what will be sent and ask for permission. Review suggestions before saving them. Core organization does not require accepting an AI suggestion. Some features require an account, permissions, a paid plan, or service availability. ADHD Notes is an organizational tool, not medical advice or treatment. Start with one thought. Carry less.

About

DopaDo

Features
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Built for ADHD brains, not against them. When starting feels impossible, tap What Now? — DopaDo picks one thing, shows the tiny first step, and lets you make it even smaller. Streaks forgive, rest days count, and nothing leaves your phone. If every other habit app has made you feel like a failure by day three, you're not the problem. They're built on willpower and perfect streaks. ADHD brains run on something else: a tiny start, an instant reward, and zero shame when life happens. JUST START — BEAT TASK PARALYSIS Every habit shrinks to a 2-minute version. "Go to the gym" becomes "put your shoes on." One big button. Starting is the whole goal — and once you start, momentum does the rest. WHAT NOW? — ONE HABIT, PICKED FOR YOU Some days the list itself is the obstacle. Tap once and DopaDo picks the single habit to start right now, from your own history on your own device: a streak at risk first, then the one you usually do around this hour, then whichever is quickest. It always tells you why it chose that one. STUCK? MAKE IT SMALLER Tell What Now how your energy is and it picks something that fits. Still too much? Rescue Mode breaks a task into tiny steps, or lets you start for just 30 seconds. "Something else" and "Not today" are always there — skipping never costs you a streak. FOCUS WITH DOPA A focus timer from 30 seconds to 25 minutes (or your own length), with pause, a short break, gentle Rain or Café sound, and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen. GOALS THAT FIT THE HABIT — 8 GLASSES, 20 MINUTES, 3 PAGES Not every habit is a single tap. Give one a number and DopaDo counts with you — 3/8 on the habit, on the widget, on your Lock Screen — and the day completes when you get there. THE DAY YOU FORGOT STILL COUNTS Did it but never tapped it? Open the habit, tap that day, done. Your streak counts it, and a Streak Freeze you spent on it comes back. No begging, no penalty. INSTANT DOPAMINE — REWARDS YOUR BRAIN CAN FEEL Finish anything and you get a real hit: a satisfying sound, a happy buzz, confetti, and points that tick up. No waiting weeks for a payoff your brain can't picture. STREAKS THAT FORGIVE YOU Miss a day and a Streak Freeze covers it, automatically. Build a streak and you earn more of them. Life happens; your progress shouldn't evaporate because of one bad Tuesday. YOUR WEEK, YOUR DAYS Not every habit is a daily. Set the weekdays each one runs, and the days it's off simply don't count against you. Rest days are rest, not failure. WIDGETS AND SIRI Check a habit off from the Home Screen or Lock Screen without opening the app. Ask Siri "what now in DopaDo" and it will tell you what to start. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No servers. Every habit, every streak and every insight lives on your device and nowhere else. Want a copy? Export a backup file yourself and bring it back any time. Your patterns are analysed on-device, by your phone, for you. DOPADO PLUS The free app gives you four habits and everything above. DopaDo Plus adds unlimited habits, the Insights screen — your patterns, your best hours, your real completion rate — and a companion that grows with you. DopaDo Plus is an auto-renewing subscription: $6.99/month, or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kaspar.works/dopado/privacy DopaDo is a habit-support app, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or cure ADHD or any condition. Questions? kaspar.works/dopado/support

Screenshots

ADHD Notes4 screens
DopaDo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ADHD Notes at none against DopaDo's 2. ADHD Notes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. DopaDo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. ADHD Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ADHD Notes ships an update every 4 days, DopaDo every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ADHD Notes versus DopaDo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterADHD NotesDopaDo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUseful Tools LLCKaspar Works, LLC

In-app purchases

None

ADHD Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DopaDo

Subscriptions2
  • DopaDo Plus$6.991 Month
  • DopaDo Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is ADHD Notes free?
ADHD Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DopaDo free?
DopaDo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ADHD Notes or DopaDo have ads?
Neither ADHD Notes nor DopaDo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ADHD Notes or DopaDo?
ADHD Notes ships an update every 4 days, and DopaDo every 3 weeks. Most recently, ADHD Notes was updated on November 10, 2026 and DopaDo on November 11, 2026.

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