ADHD Notes vs Perch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ADHD Notes
This app helps manage tasks and reminders for individuals with ADHD. It offers a simple, flat interface to capture thoughts and provides focus tools, gentle reminders, and a daily summary to reduce mental clutter.
- Capture thoughts from anywhere
- Focus mode with quiet timer
- Recurring nudges and daily briefs
- Full context on every task
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Low-stimulation mode
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Your head, but quieter. ADHD Notes is a calmer task and follow-up app built for brains that run many threads at once. Stop holding everything in your head. Capture it, keep it in context, and let the app surface what needs you next. WHY IT IS DIFFERENT Most task apps make you file everything into projects and nested folders. For an ADHD brain, too much structure becomes friction. ADHD Notes keeps work visible on one flat board with a simple promise: get it out of your head, and let the tool carry it. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Type it, paste an email, speak it, use Siri, or tap the Home Screen widget. The assistant can turn messy thoughts into clean tasks with the right dates, people, and context. ONE THING AT A TIME A focus mode with a quiet timer, gentle check-ins, and a live countdown on your Lock Screen. No noise, no nagging. IT REMEMBERS FOR YOU Recurring nudges resurface what slips. Follow-ups can move out of sight until tomorrow. A plain-language Daily Brief tells you where things stand. Reminders bring tasks back exactly when you asked. FULL CONTEXT ON EVERY TASK People, customers, meetings, notes, subtasks, links, and history live on the task card. Nothing scattered, nothing lost. RIGHT FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Apple Watch support. Ask Siri to capture a thought. Find tasks with Spotlight. MADE FOR YOUR BRAIN Flat by design, with no nesting to get lost in. Calm colors, quiet motion, lighter visual noise, and forgiving undo patterns. Deleted items wait in Trash for 30 days, so mistakes are easy to recover. Free to start. You could be carrying less in five minutes.
Perch
Capture your thoughts effortlessly by speaking them aloud. This app organizes your ideas into a visual map, distinguishing between urgent tasks and those that can wait. It intelligently resurfaces saved information when it's most relevant, helping you manage a busy mind.
- Brain dump thoughts out loud
- One-tap capture for voice, photo, text, links
- Visualizes thoughts on a live map
- Sorts tasks by urgency and relevance
- Intelligently resurfaces saved ideas
- No folders or tags required
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Too much in your head? Say it out loud. Open Perch and talk—in any order, half-finished, all over the place. When you’re finished, your thoughts become something you can look at. Brain dumps help make sense of what’s on your mind: recurring themes, things that feel tangled, and a small next move when there’s something worth trying. Some days bring a deeper reflection. Others are simply a moment worth keeping. The rest of life has a place too. Capture a thought, voice recording, photo, screenshot, drawing, or link. Save a video and get the gist. Add your own thoughts whenever something comes to mind. No folders. No tags. No system to set up and immediately abandon. Then, quietly, Perch brings things back. Saved notes resurface over time, and you can choose a date to bring something back yourself. With Perch Pro, related notes find connections, collections form automatically, and weekly recaps help you look back. • Talk it out with brain dumps. • Capture text, voice, photos, drawings, and links. • Keep your original words and recordings. • Find themes and useful next steps with Pro analysis. • Revisit saved thoughts through resurfacing. • Explore automatic collections, connections, and weekly recaps with Pro. Your first onboarding brain dump includes a full analysis. Continue capturing with Free, or choose Perch Pro for ongoing insights. ADHD-friendly by design—useful for anyone whose head runs faster than their notes app. Your notes are yours. Terms of Use: https://yourperch.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://yourperch.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Perch at 5.0 against ADHD Notes's 4.2. ADHD Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Perch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ADHD Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Perch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
ADHD Notes ships an update every 4 days, Perch every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ADHD Notes | Perch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Calvin Churchill | Anthony Dragone |
Customer experience
ADHD Notes
Perch
In-app purchases
ADHD Notes
No in-app purchases
Perch
- Perch Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
- Perch Pro — Yearly$39.991 Year









