It's all in your head at once. Say it out loud instead.
A private companion for ADHD brains, on iPhone and Android. Talk in any order — Salient turns it into tasks, shopping, ideas and dates, then shows you one thing to do.
How it works
- Say it, don't sort it. Tap the microphone and talk the way it comes: the dentist, the oat milk, the thing you thought of in the shower. No categories, no fields, no order.
- It sorts itself while you talk. A language model runs on the phone and splits what you said into tasks, shopping, ideas, notes and where you put things. You watch it happen.
- One thing on the screen. Not a list of forty. One task, the time it should take, and a ring counting it down. Swipe sideways for a different one.
Dates from your own words
“call the dentist tomorrow at four” becomes a task with a time. “by Friday” works too, and so does “in half an hour”.
Nothing leaves the phone
The speech recognition and the sorting both run on your device. No account, no cloud, works on a plane. The recording itself is never saved.
Stuck? Ask the companion
Tap it and it names the smallest first move for the task you're looking at. It never interrupts on its own.
Time to come up for air
After a long stretch it offers a break and remembers where you were, so coming back isn't starting over.
“Picked up the prescription, paid the internet bill, and the thing about the podcast is written down instead of gone.” — what a Tuesday looks like after the app, not a chart of it.
About the cookie
There's a small orange companion at the bottom of the screen. It blinks, looks around, and goes quiet while you work. It has no streaks, no scores and no opinion about your day. It is there so the app has a face that isn't a checklist.
What's not here
- No trap. Pay yearly if you'd rather spread it, or buy it once and be done — see below.
- No streaks, no scores, no red counters. Nothing in this app keeps track of how you're doing.
- No account and no sign-up. There is nowhere to log in.
- No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Nothing about you is collected, because there is nothing to collect it with.
- No cloud sync between devices. Your phone is the only copy — and you can export everything to a file at any time.
What it costs
Buy it once — $59.99
Yours for good, on both your phones. One price, and it isn't going up later. No renewal to forget about and nothing to cancel.
Or yearly — $19.99
Seven days free first, then $19.99 a year until you cancel. Cancel whenever; nothing you've already captured is taken away.
The yearly plan starts with 7 days free. After that it renews at $19.99 a year unless you cancel, and you cancel in the App Store in two taps — Salient has no account to close. Buying it once has no trial: it's a plain purchase, so the App Store's own refund window applies.
Is this for you?
If your head fills faster than your hands
You think of four things while doing a fifth, and by evening three are gone. Salient takes them at the speed you think them.
If every task app became another task
You've set up the perfect system twice. The problem was never the system — it was the twenty seconds of typing between the thought and the list.
If you want shared lists and a team
This isn't that. Salient has no accounts and no sync by design, and it never will have a shared workspace. Try Todoist or TickTick.
For coaches and therapists
If you work with ADHD clients and want to try it properly, write to me and say so — I'll send you a copy and a code for your clients. No affiliate scheme, no tracking, no portal to sign into. [email protected]
Who made this
I did — one person, in Ukraine. I have ADHD, and I built the app I kept failing to find: one that takes what I say before I lose it, and shows me one thing instead of a backlog. It runs on the phone because the things I say into it are not anyone else's business.
When it's out
Testing on iPhone and Android now. Write and I'll send you the TestFlight link while it's still in testing, and a note the day it ships.