43 digital tools for autistic individuals, ADHDers, and all the neurodivergents
43 digital tools for autistic individuals, ADHDers, and all the neurodivergents
Happy Autism Acceptance Month! Our team has prepared a list of the best apps for neurodivergent individuals. We hope you find it useful.

Contents:

  1. Tools to help with executive functioning
  2. Digital solutions for mental health improvement
  3. Tools to enhance accessibility and create a convenient environment
  4. Special interests management

Tools to help with executive functioning

We often struggle with various executive functions, such as planning, organizing, and recalling information. This toolkit is carefully designed to aid you in navigating and effectively coping with these traits.

Open App Scheduler

Automates app launching to assist in managing scheduled tasks such as payments or mood tracking. It enhances the efficiency of daily app usage, making it perfect for individuals seeking to optimize their routine with minimal manual intervention.

TickTick

Features a minimalist interface with a focus timer for task management, helping to reduce distractions and promote effective time management through a simplified design.

Forest

Motivates focus and time management through an innovative approach where users grow virtual trees by staying focused on their tasks, offering a visually stimulating and rewarding experience.

Habitica

Transforms task management into a gamified experience, making daily tasks engaging challenges. This approach is especially effective for neurodivergent users, leveraging the motivational power of gaming dynamics to enhance focus, organization, and the completion of tasks.

Habitkit

The coolest way to track your habits and streaks. Build new habits by tracking your progress in awesome tile-based grid charts and try to fill the squares everyday.

Goblin Tools

A powerful utility designed to assist with breaking down tasks into manageable steps, enhancing written content, and even generating e-receipts from provided ingredients.

Tiny Decisions 

A decision-making app that introduces fun and spontaneity by allowing users to spin a wheel to make choices, simplifying daily decisions in an engaging way.

Pros & Cons

Facilitates thoughtful decision-making by enabling users to list and weigh the pros and cons of different options, supporting more informed and balanced choices.

StayFocused

Boost your productivity by limiting the amount of time you spend on time-wasting websites.

Cold Turkey

Creates a distraction-free digital space by blocking access to distracting websites and apps, essential for neurodivergent users seeking to minimize sensory overload and maintain focus on important tasks.

Endel

Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.

Multitimer

Beat the clock & manage time like never before. Efficiently tackle your daily tasks with task timers, cook your favorite dish with the help of a kitchen timer, create healthy study habits with a Pomodoro timer, and so many more options to help you throughout the day.

DeepWrk

Get more done solo, not alone. Body doubling platform for adults with ADHD to focus, escape distractions, and do more together

Focusmate

Focusmate is a platform that works like an online coworking space. 50-minute sessions: you greet your partner, state your goal, and then you both start working on your respective tasks. It's free.

Cognassist

Champion neuro-inclusion every day. Take a proactive approach to supporting different thinkers with an adaptive neuro-inclusion platform developed with neuropsychologists.

Tody

Simply a smarter way to manage your home cleaning. The Tody app estimate indicators for tasks, measuring the actual need of doing them. This can revolutionize your cleaning in a number of ways.

Planta

Keep your plants alive. Individual care schedule and reminders for your plants, recommendations, step by step guides, identification, light meter and more. Keep your plants alive with Planta!

Digital solutions for mental health improvement

Neurodivergence is often correlated with mental health issues. We list a batch of tools we use ourselves. Hope you find them useful.

Bearable

Feel more in control of your health. Get a detailed view of your symptoms & treatments – so you can find what works best for you.

Calm Harm

Provides strategies based on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help users manage urges to self-harm. It's designed to offer emotional regulation and coping mechanisms, crucial for neurodivergent individuals seeking concrete tools to navigate intense emotions and develop healthier responses.

Mind Health

Supports mental well-being with mood tracking, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques. It's a valuable resource for neurodivergent users looking to manage stress, anxiety, and depression with structured self-assessment tools and evidence-based strategies for mental health improvement.

How We Feel

Encourages daily emotional tracking to gain insight into emotional patterns, aiding in better understanding and managing mental health. For neurodivergent individuals, this can provide a clear framework for recognizing and addressing emotional fluctuations and triggers in a constructive manner.

Emmo

Enables mood tracking through an intuitive interface, helping users identify their emotional patterns, boosting self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Especially beneficial for neurodivergent users, it offers a simple method to oversee emotional health and enhance mental well-being management.

Calm

Features a wide range of meditation and sleep support tools, ideal for those seeking varied methods of relaxation and stress relief. It's especially beneficial for neurodivergent users needing customizable options for calming and grounding exercises.

Embrace autism

A list of useful tests and information for autistic individuals, the ultimate autism resource.

Autism unmasking test & checklist

A strategy to unmask, based on an AI and a simple questionary, made by Autentik AI team.

InFlow

InFlow is the #1 science-based app to help you manage your ADHD. Created by ADHD clinicians and psychologists, our dedicated support system helps you understand your neurodivergent brain, build lifelong skills, and get things done.

Shimmer

Shimmer is the #1 coaching platform for adults with ADHD. Designed by expert ADHD clinicians and coaching psychologists.

Tools to enhance accessibility and create a convenient environment

Neurodivergent individuals often require support in managing sensory overload, retrieving information, and maintaining predictability in their surroundings.

Audio Equalizer

An equalizer that enables frequency adjustments for any online video is especially useful for individuals with sound sensitivity.

Dark reader

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing. This eye-care extension enables night mode by creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors, making them high contrast and easy to read at night.

Total Launcher

Total Launcher is the best customizable launcher in Android. If you want to see the same environment after switching to a new phone, this app is for you.

Autentik AI: Explain & Reply

Our tool can help with hidden meaning understanding. It works as a free web-extension. Simply highlight the text, click on the plugin icon and get the result.

Helperbird

Offers customizable web page adaptations to make reading on the web easier and more accessible.

tl;dv

tl;dv is the most popular meeting recorder & AI note taker for Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Record, transcribe, summarize, generate & automate meeting insights valuable to you. Get set up in minutes.

Fathom

A note-taking app for Google Meet and Zoom. Fathom records, transcribes, highlights, and summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation. Get setup in minutes.

AI Chatbot: AI Chat Smith 4

Revolutionize daily life with instant answers (math, homework,..) and hands-free voice assistance – your all-in-one built on OpenAI app.

Cool reader

One of the top eBook readers, featuring a synthetic voice ideal for those who prefer less emotional, more consistent narration over the expressive tones of audiobook narrators.

NaturalReader

Designed for individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, and other neurodiverse conditions, this text-to-speech software transforms written content into spoken word with a variety of voice options. It enhances reading comprehension and reduces strain, facilitating easier engagement with text through auditory learning.

Special interests management

For neurodivergent individuals, having the ability to explore and organize information related to their special interests or areas of high focus is incredibly valuable These tools not only help neurodivergent individuals dive deeper into their areas of interest but also provide a sense of structure and organization, which can be incredibly beneficial for information processing and comprehension.

Perplexity

With Perplexity, you can effortlessly explore and uncover in-depth information related to your unique special interests, fueling your passion for this theme.

Omnivore

An open-source bookmark manager that enhances article reading and organization with features for saving, highlighting, and syncing content, aimed at streamlining the reading process and information retention.

Obsidian

Sharpen your thinking. Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.

Raindrop.io

A comprehensive bookmark manager for organizing links with auto-tagging and collections, making it easier to store, access, and annotate digital content across various formats.

ZoteroThis

Free, open-source reference management tool allows you to easily collect, organize, and cite sources from various websites, databases, and libraries. Its tagging and note-taking features make it ideal for categorizing and annotating information on niche topics.

Diigo

A powerful web annotation and bookmarking tool that enables you to highlight and add sticky notes to webpages. Its outlining feature is particularly useful for breaking down complex topics into manageable sections.

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