What is KeptMind?

A voice-first task app for ADHD brains. Talk into your phone, KeptMind sorts your thoughts into next steps, and shows less on bad days. Built for the brains that do not fit forms.

KeptMind is a voice-first task management app designed for ADHD brains, parents in chaos, and anyone whose head is too full for traditional productivity tools. The product premise is simple: most task apps were built for neurotypical workflows that assume you can sit down, organize your thoughts, fill in forms, and maintain a system over time. ADHD brains rarely meet those assumptions on a typical day. KeptMind starts from the inverse premise — it accommodates a tired, distracted, or overwhelmed brain by lowering the cost of capture and shrinking the visible list when capacity is low.

What KeptMind actually does

Three core capabilities make up the product:

Voice capture under 12 seconds. From the lock screen, you can hold the microphone widget, speak your messy half-formed thought, and KeptMind turns it into a structured task. No unlocking, no app launch, no form to fill. The capture path is engineered for the moments where typing fails — in the car, mid-conversation, just after waking, walking somewhere, anytime your hands or attention are not available for a keyboard.

AI parsing into Today list. What you spoke gets parsed automatically: the AI identifies the task, extracts the date if you mentioned one, infers priority from your tone and word choice, and routes it into your Today list or Backlog. You do not need to assign a project, pick a category, or set a deadline manually — the system does the triage step that ADHD executive dysfunction typically stalls on.

Energy-aware Today list. Every morning KeptMind asks how you are feeling — good, meh, or bad. On low-energy days, the visible list shrinks to the smallest viable subset. On high-energy days, it expands. The full backlog never disappears (one tap shows it) but the default view matches the day you are actually living, not the day a productivity coach thinks you should be living.

Who KeptMind is for

The most common KeptMind user has tried 5+ task apps before finding it. The pattern that brings people in: enthusiastic adoption of a complex tool (Notion, Todoist with elaborate setup, Asana for personal use), 2-3 weeks of feeling productive while configuring it, then collapse on a bad week and abandonment. Most users describe the search for "something that just works when I am not at my best."

KeptMind is designed specifically for that user. It also works well for:

Parents with small children — capture happens between school pickups and bedtime; typing is rarely available
Founders and operators — too many open loops, calendar already broken, voice into the void is faster
People in burnout recovery — energy-aware Today reduces the shame of seeing a full list on bad days
Students — voice capture between classes, in transit, mid-conversation about due dates

It is not designed for users who genuinely enjoy maintaining productivity systems — they tend to find it underpowered. Notion, Todoist, or Things 3 are better fits for that user.

What KeptMind deliberately does not do

Three features that most task apps have are deliberately absent:

No streaks or shame counters. Missing a day does not break a counter. Yesterday's undone task does not show with a red badge. The app does not display the cost of bad days.
No team features. KeptMind is single-user by design. Shared task lists with other people produce coordination overhead that ADHD brains rarely benefit from.
No nested project hierarchies. Tasks are flat. The "where does this go?" decision happens automatically (via AI parsing) or not at all.

Pricing summary

KeptMind has a Free plan that is genuinely usable as a permanent setup — 5 voice captures per day, energy-aware Today, basic reminders, JSON export. Pro (€8.99/month) adds unlimited captures, escalating reminders (push → SMS → call), and calendar sync. AI+ (€14.99/month) adds higher-quality AI parsing and weekly planning. See plans overview for the full comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Is KeptMind only for people with ADHD?

No. The design choices benefit anyone whose attention budget is variable: parents, people in burnout recovery, students during exam season, anyone traveling across time zones often. ADHD is the most common reason people find KeptMind, but it is not the only one.

Does KeptMind work on iPhone and Android?

Yes — both platforms have full feature parity. iOS is in the App Store; Android is in Google Play. The web app at keptmind.com handles sign-up, account management, and works as a fallback if you need to access your tasks from a desktop, but the mobile apps are the primary interface.

Where is KeptMind based?

KeptMind is built in Tallinn, Estonia, by HellYes Studio. Servers are in Frankfurt, Germany. Data stays in the EU. The team is small (under 10 people) and self-funded.

How is KeptMind different from Apple Reminders or Google Tasks?

Apple Reminders and Google Tasks are excellent free task tools but were not designed for ADHD-specific patterns. The differences that matter: KeptMind's voice capture is purpose-built for short messy thoughts (faster than Siri / Assistant for the same task), the AI parsing handles triage that those tools require you to do manually, and the energy-aware Today list has no equivalent. For users whose primary failure mode is not capturing at all, KeptMind closes that gap; for users who already capture reliably with a free tool, KeptMind's differentiation is smaller.

For an in-depth comparison with several popular task apps, see the productivity apps comparison on the blog.