You won't check the time. So it tells you.
ADHDTime is an Android app that speaks the time you have left — every ten minutes at the start, every thirty seconds at the end. It runs with the screen off, and it ducks your music instead of stopping it.
“Forty minutes.”
40 minutes out — one mark every 10 zero
Forty seconds
The whole idea, with the sound on.
Every announcement in the video is the phrase the app actually speaks.
Why a voice
A timer tells you when time is up. That is the wrong moment to find out.
You are not looking at the phone
You're in the shower, half dressed, or deep in something. The announcement comes out of the speaker, and it ducks whatever is already playing rather than stopping it.
You will not remember to check
If starting it took planning, it would fail on the days you need it. One tap from the home screen or the Quick Settings tile, on a preset you already made.
The problem isn't running out of time
It's not noticing that time was passing at all. So the voice arrives while you can still do something about it — and gets closer together as the end approaches.
Two profiles
One engine, two jobs.
Getting ready
- Set
- A clock time — leaving at 9:00
- Voice
- Speaker, escalating
- At zero
- A hard alarm
For the five-minute task that eats forty minutes.
Time box
- Set
- A length — 25 minutes
- Voice
- Gentler, flat interval
- At zero
- A soft chime
For working without a clock to check.
The ramp
A fixed interval is wrong at both ends.
Every five minutes is noise at forty minutes out, and far too quiet at three. So the spacing tightens as the time goes — the marks above are the announcements, drawn where they actually fall.
Above 20 minutes
Every 10 minutes
Under 20
Every 5 minutes
Under 5
Every minute
Under 2
Every 30 seconds
“Twenty minutes.” — not “twenty minutes remaining”. At two minutes and under it earns the extra word: “two minutes left.”
Not on Google Play yet.
ADHDTime is in internal testing. This page exists so the app has a home, a privacy policy, and somewhere to write to — the three things a store listing needs before anyone can install it.
It speaks Hebrew and English, follows your system language, and asks for two permissions: exact alarms, so an announcement is not skipped when the phone is dozing, and a notification, so the countdown can keep running with the screen off. It has no account, no analytics, and no network access. The privacy policy is one page long, for that reason.