DIO: ADHD Brain Dump Planner for iPhone
It's 3:46 am and your brain won't stop. DIO is the trash can for that. Type the loud thought, crumple it, throw it in a bin. Built by one person with an ADHD brain, for brains that run loud, and everyone else is welcome too. DIO is out now on the App Store.
Dump it out. Clear your head.
Type the loud thought, crumple it, throw it in a bin. Sort it later, when you have the room.
Somewhere To Throw The Loud Thought
The email you are pretending not to see. The tab you have kept open for 9 days. The door you may or may not have locked. None of it is written down anywhere, so your head keeps it all awake, including you. DIO is somewhere to throw all of that. Type the thought and it crumples into a paper ball. Throw the ball and it lands in the pile with the others. The throw is not decoration. Watching a thought leave your hands and land somewhere else is the part that makes the quiet come back.
A thought in the pile is out of your head and not yet a commitment. Nothing asks you to categorize it, date it, or explain it. The 3:46 am thought goes in the pile too, and morning-you finds it there. When the whole pile needs to go, Dump All clears it in one burst, Undo included, and DIO says so plainly: 9 thoughts. That was a lot, and you put it down.
Keep It. Sort It. Or Let It Go.
Remembering and deciding at the same time is what makes a busy head seize up, so DIO splits them apart. Dump now. Sort later, when you have the room. Tap any ball and a ring opens with three choices: make it a to-do, sort it into a bin, or dump it. Eight bins take the pile: Quick Wins, Today, Later, Projects, Appointments, Ideas, On Hold, and My Bin. Nothing is ever just gone. Every discard sits in the Trash for 30 days, so you never have to be certain.
Planning A Day When Starting Feels Impossible
Home holds the day: your bins, your counts, and a week strip that slides a whole year in either direction, so next Tuesday is as easy to reach as today. A thought that turns out to be a task can take a due date, a reminder, and a spot on your calendar. Habits repeat on the days you pick, and a habit can start on a day in the future and wait, visibly, until it does.
Every morning DIO quietly resets. Finished things clear. Anything unfinished steps back from Today to Later on its own. Nothing turns red, goes overdue, or follows you around. No shame for disappearing for a week. DIO just waits.
Your Day Has Room In It
Your Apple Calendar events sit next to everything in DIO, in day, week, and month views, with eleven color-coded categories. There is also a free-time view, because your day has room in it: DIO shows you the free space, not just the busy blocks. DIO reads your calendar and never writes to it: no event is ever added, moved, or deleted.
For When Starting Is The Hard Part
Some days the list is fine and the starting is the problem. DIO keeps a small shelf of tools for those days. The five minute start asks for five minutes. That's the deal. When the timer ends, keep rolling or stop, and both count. Focus Sprints split work into short rounds with real breaks built in. Toss Up picks one open thing at random, for the moments when any option would be fine and choosing is the wall. Chance, not AI: nothing reads your pile. Box breathing is there when you need a minute, and four soundscapes are generated live on your device, with controls on the Lock Screen.
Shaped Like You
Reorder or hide the home cards and bins until DIO fits the way you work. Eight themes, each in light and dark. Motion, haptics, and confetti have their own switches inside the app, including DIO's own Reduce Motion setting, and quiet hours keep reminders out of your evening.
A List You Make On A Good Day
Dopamine Dive is a list you fill on a good day with small things you like, so a flat day does not have to think of one. Past you chose. Present you just taps. When even picking is too much, Pick for me grabs one at random.
What DIO Will Never Do
No account. No sign-up. No password. No DIO server anywhere. Your thoughts live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and Elitec keeps no copy. We could not read them if we wanted to. Everything that holds your thoughts works offline. Airplane mode, no signal, a basement. The only things that ever reach the network are the subscription check with Apple and, if you turn it on, anonymous usage counts that never carry a word you wrote. No streaks, no scores, no red badges, no guilt, and no ads. You can export everything as one readable text file whenever you like, and Delete All My Data means exactly that. The details live in the DIO privacy policy and DIO terms of use, written to be read.
One Subscription, Everything In It
DIO is one subscription with everything in it: 7 days free, then $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. US pricing; local prices are shown in the App Store. No second tier, no held-back features. You see the full price before you agree to anything, and you can cancel anytime through Apple. The trial exists so you decide using the real app, not a screenshot. If something is broken or missing, a person reads every message at DIO support.
The subscription is auto-renewing: it renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel, and you can cancel any time in your Apple account. Cancelling keeps your access until the period you already paid for runs out.
Questions People Ask
Does DIO work offline?
Everything that holds your thoughts does. Airplane mode, no signal, a basement. There is no DIO server holding your words, so there is nothing to be down. The only network calls DIO makes are the subscription check with Apple and, if you turn it on, anonymous usage counts. iCloud catches up on its own the next time your phone sees the internet.
Do I need an account to use DIO?
No. There is no account, no sign-up, and no password. Your thoughts live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and Elitec keeps no copy. We could not read them if we wanted to.
What happens to a thought I dump?
It goes to the Trash and sits there, recoverable, for 30 days, so you never have to be certain. Nothing is ever just gone, and there is always an Undo.
How much does DIO cost?
One subscription with everything in it: $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. No ads and no second tier. You see the full price before you agree to anything, and you cancel through Apple.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, 7 days, with the whole app in it. The trial exists so you decide using the real app, not a screenshot.
Does DIO have streaks?
No. No streaks, no scores, no red badges, and no guilt. Coming back after a week away looks exactly like opening the app.
What is a brain dump?
Plain English for emptying your head onto something that is not your head. In DIO the writing has a body: type the thought, watch it crumple, throw it in the bin. Sorting waits for a version of you that has slept.
What happens when I get a new phone?
Sign in with the same Apple ID and your thoughts come along through your own iCloud. Worth knowing: deleting the app does not delete your iCloud data. Delete All My Data lives in Settings, and it means it.
Does DIO change my Apple Calendar?
Never. DIO reads your calendar so your day and your thoughts can sit side by side, and it never adds, edits, or deletes an event.
Is DIO a medical app? No. DIO is a productivity app informed by how ADHD brains work. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose or treat anything, and it is not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, or worried you might hurt yourself or someone else, contact your local emergency number. In the US you can call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, any time.