Comparison

Dopamine vs Tuck

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

Head to head
About

Dopamine

Features
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Dopamine helps you do one small useful thing when your brain feels loud, stuck, bored, tired, or all over the place. You open the app, answer three quick questions, and Dopamine gives you one next move. No huge task list. No complicated system. No shame. No judgement. Just one thing to try next. Dopamine checks: How loud is your mind? How much energy do you have? How hard does starting feel? Then it picks a task style that fits your state. You might get a tiny first step, a timer, a checklist, a reset card, a choice, or a simple action to help you get moving. The guidance is shaped around real ADHD feedback, real ADHD friction, and the kind of support ADHD people actually ask for when they are trying to get back on track. There is also a playful dopamine boost built in. Sometimes, after a task, you can unlock a surprise mini reward, fidget toy, sound, game, or little moment of fun. It adds novelty and momentum without turning the app into another thing to manage. The loop is simple: Check in Get one next move Do the task Get a little momentum Go back home and reassess Dopamine is built for ADHD brains that need things to feel smaller, clearer, kinder, and more interesting. Features include: Simple ADHD friendly check ins One recommended task at a time Tiny actions for low energy days Timers and checklists when structure helps Reset cards for overwhelm Playful surprise rewards No shame or judgement A clear loop that brings you back home No account required No ads No tracking Dopamine is not here to judge how you work. It is here to use feedback, novelty, and small steps to help you start, reset, and get back on track.

About

Tuck

Features
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Tuck keeps the things you love online, for good. Share a post, article, video or profile to Tuck from Safari or any app, and Tuck saves a clean copy to your own private feed. Scroll it like a social feed, read articles in a calm reader, and tap a video to play it. Posts get deleted, accounts go private and links stop working. What you tuck away stays. ONE PRIVATE FEED • Everything you save lands in Home • Make your own feeds, like Cooking, Hiking or Design, and switch between them from the top of the screen • Show any mix of posts, people, videos, articles or your own posts • Sort by when you saved something or when it was posted • Search across everything you've saved • Lock a feed with Face ID, or keep it out of Home MADE FOR EACH KIND OF CONTENT • Posts show the author, text, images and any quoted post, without the noise • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of font, size and theme, and the original page is saved too so you can read it offline • Videos play right in the feed. Tap one and swipe up to keep watching your saved videos • Save profiles too, and jump straight to them in their own app WHAT TUCK SAVES • X, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon posts, with photos, quoted posts and counts • Reddit, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Telegram posts, with every image and video • Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat captions, photos and covers • YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Bilibili and niconico videos, with their details, playing in the official player • Weibo, RedNote, Douyin, VK and Naver Blog posts • Articles from any website and Substack, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes, and profiles everywhere • Any other link, as a card with its title and preview SAVE IN A TAP • Share from any app, or copy a link and tap the add button • Import a list of links, and export everything you've saved • Choose per save whether to keep photos and videos, or just the text and a thumbnail YOUR OWN POSTS Write notes with photos, videos and links straight into any feed, and keep them alongside everything you've saved. LOCAL FEEDS Turn a folder of your own videos and photos into a feed that scrolls like the rest: pick one in Files on iPhone and iPad, or any folder or external drive on the Mac. Tuck only reads the folder; nothing is copied or uploaded. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Everything is stored on your device and synced through your own iCloud, and you choose whether photos and videos sync • No ads, no analytics, no tracking • Pages are fetched directly from your device, never through our servers Tuck works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and is made for both screens of iPhone Duo.

Screenshots

Dopamine4 screens
Tuck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tuck at 3 against Dopamine's 1. Dopamine's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Dopamine versus Tuck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDopamineTuck
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB12 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJohnathan MawdsleyRogue Superintelligence LLC

In-app purchases

None

Dopamine

No in-app purchases

None

Tuck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dopamine free?
Dopamine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tuck free?
Tuck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dopamine or Tuck have ads?
Neither Dopamine nor Tuck shows ads.

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