Numo: Cringe-Free ADHD App 12+

Working well for me

I’m often very reluctant to get involved in a sort your life out kind of app as often they begin to irritate me quickly with demands but this one I don’t feel like that.

The app keeps record of your streak of how many days you’ve logged in in a row which is good although I’m not sure how I will cope if I lose my streak! But it doesn’t nag you if you don’t manage to do something each day!

It is an app still in development so the creators ask questions about how things are working and are very open to suggestions.

5 stars, but the social side still needs work

I honestly didn’t see myself using this app for any real length of time, but it’s turned out to be my favourite place to manage those random to-do items I’m constantly forgetting - like what day the bins go out, or that I need to teach myself how to remove a hard drive so I can bin an old desktop.

I like that reminders can be entered as one-offs or repeating habits. I like the option to share tasks I complete publicly, or not.

I would love it if they had a way you could combine multiple tasks into an overall task, with the original tasks as subtasks - sometimes I don’t realise tasks are linked until I’m several in, and copying those manually is bleh.

I don’t fully understand the social stuff, but I appreciate that the developers are trying new things out. Just give us a forum style place where we can raise topics and ask (and search) for questions and answers people have shared. Keep the global social feed (the ability to like and reply), but give us a “friends” feed and let us connect with people we want to see in it.

Also, as great as this app is I really struggle to see myself paying the £9.99 a month subscription. £4.99? Hell yes. But this shouldn’t cost more than paramount+.

Those are the most constructive thoughts I could share, but this really is a useful and weirdly, wonderfully rewarding way to keep me in touch with my daily and random to-do’s!

Fake Reviews & High Subscription Fees

On the surface this is a great idea and could be an amazing app. The premise of it is simple, easy to set up and fun, however, I agree with a lot of the genuine reviews on here that the execution is pretty basic and lacking a lot of functionality.

The UI is nice and clean but the UX is poor and as a person with ADHD I find it mildly frustrating to use at times which is the opposite of what you want.

eg. You can't reorder your todo list or set priorities so everything is out of order, meaning you have to search your to do list for what you have to do or before you type it out in the morning you've got to plan your day out completely then type in order = Not so great for people with ADHD.

The tools are a nice touch but after you complete things like the emotion map, they disappear off into the ether to be immediately forgotten about...and the tone of voice used in the app can be pretty condescending at times.

This app has a long loooooong way to go but given they charge over £15/month, it's not worth the pain and the developer response essentially saying 'ADHD coaching is $200 so we're doing you a favour' is pretty shocking.

There are far more developed apps designed for ADHD that also aren't perfect but cost around £25/year and clearly put a lot more focus into the user experience.

Test your app better.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for the feedback! There are so many things that we currently working on, so I really hope you can try our upcoming update. Is there any way for you to reach me at help@numo.so to talk more about your experience?