Beacon is a calm, ADHD-friendly reminders app. It shows one clear next step, never the whole overwhelming list, makes time something you can see, and stays kind on the hard days.
Every other reminders app assumes you'll see the list, feel motivated, and just do it. Beacon is built for how ADHD brains actually plan a day, so starting stops feeling impossible.
Most to-do apps assume the list is enough. If you have ADHD, you know the truth: the list becomes a wall, time quietly disappears, and then the app makes it worse with an angry red overdue. Beacon knows about the parts they ignore.
When starting feels impossible, even for a two-minute thing.
When "later" silently becomes "too late," over and over.
If you can't see it, it stops existing. So it never gets done.
The guilt that makes you avoid the app, then avoid the task.
Beacon's home screen shows a single focal task with the backlog tucked away. Less to look at means far less to freeze against, so you actually start. When it's done, the next one steps forward.
Every task carries a calm countdown and a realistic estimate, quietly padded because things take longer than we think. No red alarms, no panic. Just a gentle sense of where your day is really going.
Type or say a messy thought and Beacon pulls out the task and the time for you, right on your device. Capture it the second it appears, and trust that it won't quietly vanish an hour later.
Any task collapses to a two-minute starting move. Beacon asks only one thing: what counts as started? A built-in focus timer sits with you like a body double while you begin.
Not ready today? Set it aside in the Parking Lot. Beacon holds it and brings it back gently when the time is right. Nothing is lost, and nothing nags at you in the meantime.
No red overdue. No broken streaks. No "you should have." Miss something and Beacon reframes it gently, then celebrates every win, the small ones too.
Beacon builds on Apple Reminders and Calendar, so it doesn't replace anything or ask you to move your life across. Add something with Siri and it shows up in Beacon, sorted and doable. Your next step rides along everywhere you already look.
Beacon has no account and no sign-in. It doesn't track you and it doesn't sell anything about you. Your tasks live in your own Apple Reminders, the way they always have.
Every reminders app I ever tried made me feel like the problem. So I built the one I needed: it shows me the next thing, makes time visible, and never once makes me feel behind. If your brain works like mine, Beacon was built for you.
No account to make. Download it and start today.
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