Every feature
Built for the hardest part
Most planners assume you already know how to start. Soft Start assumes starting is the hard part, and builds everything around that.
Three things make it different
We read the reviews of every big ADHD planner and built around what people kept asking for and never got.
It plans by energy, not just time
Every other planner fills a calendar. ADHD days run on battery, not hours, so Soft Start budgets both.
It never punishes you for falling behind
No streaks to break, no red badges, no overdue pile growing in the corner of your eye.
It actually helps you start
Knowing what to do was never the problem. Soft Start hands you a first step small enough to say yes to.
Capture
Getting things out of your head
Thoughts arrive messy and all at once. Soft Start takes them that way.
Brain Dump
Pour everything into one box, typing or talking. Tap the mic and Soft Start writes down what you say live, with a soft waveform. AI turns the mess into clear tasks with friendly names, time estimates, and energy costs. You review it all before anything lands on your day, so AI never surprises you.
Break It Down
Tap any task that feels too big and it splits into tiny steps, each under ten minutes, with the easiest one marked "start here".
Siri capture
"Hey Siri, brain dump to Soft Start." Thoughts get saved without opening the app, and they're waiting, prefilled, next time you do.
Plan
Planning around your real capacity
A plan that ignores how much you have left in the tank is just a list of future disappointments.
Energy check-in
A quick morning question: how's your battery today? Every task costs one to three energy dots, and a gentle bar shows when today is realistically full, before you overcommit rather than after.
Calendar-aware budget
Meetings stay meetings, never tasks, and they quietly shrink today's energy budget so your plan stays honest about the time you actually have.
Routines
Save repeating rhythms like a morning reset or a wind-down. One tap adds them to today, and on low-battery days you automatically get the short version.
Start
Actually starting
The whole app narrows to this moment, because this is where days are won.
Now & Next
The top of Today shows exactly one thing: what's happening now, with a soft countdown. Never a wall of tasks to face first thing in the morning.
Focus mode
A calm full-screen timer with a progress ring, your step checklist, soft haptic ticks, and a warm celebration at the end. A seedling marks the two-minute point on the ring. Pass it and a quiet "stop here, it still counts" door opens and stays open for the rest of the session.
It follows you out
The focus timer lives in the Dynamic Island and on the lock screen, and a Right Now widget shows one task and its tiny first step on your home screen. Never the whole pile.
Recover
When things slip
Every planner works on a good day. This is the part built for the other ones.
Rescue My Day
One tap gently moves what's unfinished to realistic spots later today or tomorrow, and suggests what to let go of. Kind wording all the way through. It is always one tap away, because the day you need it most is not the day to hunt for help.
Welcome back, not guilt
After days away, a warm hello greets you instead of a backlog. One tap keeps the waiting tasks or sweeps them into a fresh start, and letting go counts as a win rather than a failure.
Gentle reminders
A soft heads-up when each part of the day begins, one no-guilt follow-up, and an evening prep note. Never red, never "overdue". Soft Start only asks permission after the day has proven useful, never at launch, and never twice.
Progress
Progress without pressure
Motivation that survives a bad week, because it never depended on a perfect one.
Wins instead of streaks
Finishing something, showing up for two minutes, clearing your head, and letting go all become wins you can look back on. An evening recap says "You did 4 things today. That counts." Quiet days get silence, never guilt.
Days shown up
A lifetime count that only ever grows: you've shown up 14 days. Gaps never erase it, and there is nothing to break. This is the anti-streak.
The feel
Calm is a feature, not a coat of paint
Warm morning light throughout: a cream canvas, sage green, peach highlights, and soft ink-brown text. Rounded cards, gentle shadows, generous spacing, and touch targets you can hit without aiming.
Springy micro-animations and haptics on every meaningful action. Plain language everywhere, with zero productivity jargon. Every empty screen gets a warm message and one clear button. And all motion collapses to calm fades if you prefer less movement.
Getting started takes a few minutes, not a form. Three quick questions about your goal, how you feel, and how you cope shape what the app puts first. Then you turn the thing hanging over you into a tiny first step while you watch, and a little capybara companion joins you for the days ahead.
One plan. Everything included.
Soft Start is one subscription, and the yearly plan starts with three days free. No ceilings, no locked corners.
Your 3 free days
The whole app, on the yearly plan, before anything is charged.
- Every feature from the first minute
- No account, no card details beyond your Apple ID
- Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings
- Everything you make stays on your phone
Soft Start Pro
$49.99 a year with a 3-day free trial for new subscribers, or $9.99 a month. Never a weekly subscription.
- Unlimited brain dumps and breakdowns
- Voice capture with live transcription
- Planning beyond tomorrow
- Right Now widget
- Dynamic Island focus timer
- Routines
- Calendar-aware energy
