An honest, side-by-side look at the main ADHD apps in 2026. They are not even doing the same job. Pricing, privacy, on-device AI, and which gap each one actually solves.
Focus Bear enforces routines and blocks distractions. KickMint takes the opposite approach: non-coercive, no blocking, just a lower cost to starting. Which one fits which brain.
Tiimo is beautiful. Many adults build a perfect week in it and never open it again. KickMint skips pre-built schedules entirely: Pick One reads your energy and time right now and decides the next task for you.
Most ADHD apps charge $10 per month forever. That is $1,200 per decade. KickMint's Lifetime option is $109.99 once, and the on-device AI architecture is why that math is possible when cloud-AI competitors cannot match it.
Goblin Tools sends your task text to OpenAI. KickMint runs Qwen 2.5 on-device. A factual breakdown of the privacy gap, offline capability, cost model, and ADHD-specific features.
ADHD apps regularly collect mood, medication, cycle, and sleep data. What happens to it, how on-device inference avoids the problem entirely, and what the Apache 2.0 Qwen 2.5 license means for you.
Time blindness is not a metaphor: it is a documented deficit in prospective time monitoring. Two RCTs (Wennberg 2018 d=1.0, Wieber 2015 d=0.99) point to specific interventions that work. Here is what they are and how KickMint implements them.