I don’t think I have diagnosable ADHD, but I have noticed that gamification features like “streaks” often cause more problems in building habits than helping them. My daughter, who is diagnosed with severe ADHD, eventually had to “give up” some of the streak based apps like Duolingo because they are, imho, preying on our desire to complete “streaks” only to increase in-app activity for their own platform.
I’ve been really loving Llamalife -
https://llamalife.co - they don’t do habits but they organize a lot of the schema around people who get overwhelmed easily.
After reading this comment I installed llamalife and immediately abandoned it when it asked me to sign up and accept T&Cs as the first thing after opening. There was no support for sign in with apple either.
I love that the app from this HN submission is usable without creating an account.
Oh interesting, that's why I added the "freeze" feature to help avoid feeling "required" to go on the app every day. But maybe it requires some more customization to account for wider cases
I don’t think I have diagnosable ADHD, but I have noticed that gamification features like “streaks” often cause more problems in building habits than helping them. My daughter, who is diagnosed with severe ADHD, eventually had to “give up” some of the streak based apps like Duolingo because they are, imho, preying on our desire to complete “streaks” only to increase in-app activity for their own platform.
I’ve been really loving Llamalife - https://llamalife.co - they don’t do habits but they organize a lot of the schema around people who get overwhelmed easily.