Stringers

A companion app for people with ADHD / executive dysfunction: snap a photo of a messy room → it breaks the task into small steps → timer → encouragement. Subscription. Works for cooking, laundry, paperwork, moving, and tax filing too.

Watching Worth tracking · a small need in a specific group First spotted 2026-11-01 · last updated 2026-11-02
Status
Watching (single sample)
Why now, and how long the window lasts
"ADHD-friendly" is a strong paywall label in US consumer apps; multimodal models make "photo to steps" cheap; a mascot plus gamified "the room gets dirty" has TikTok material. Only one sample, so the window length is unclear.
Confidence
Low (single sample). Disconfirming condition: Chorefriend drops out of the us H&H Top Grossing top 30 within 20 days. Upgrade condition: another ADHD companion app using "photo to steps" (any scenario) enters the main category Top Grossing top 50.

Evidence

Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.

Google Play4 evidence items · 3 products with curves

Google Play · Launched 2026-06-28 · 11-07 installs 75,310
Global cumulative installs
70k72k74k76k10-2910-3111-0211-0511-0775k
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Ratings (total)
3.8k3.9k4k4.1k10-2910-3111-0211-0511-074.1k
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
Google Play · Launched 2026-10-06 · 11-07 installs 14,977
Global cumulative installs
5k10k15k10-2910-3111-0211-0511-0715k
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Ratings (total)
5001k1.5k10-2910-3111-0211-0511-071.3k
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
App Store · launched 2026-04-28 · Finland rating 2 · charted in 11-02 stores 1
Best category chart rank · by store
5010015020010-3111-0111-02191
Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-02 (3 days, 3 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
ratings · Finland
22.5310-3111-0111-022
Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-02 (3 days, 3 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.
  • Google Play (us, 11-02): Chorefriend: Cleaning Schedule (com.chorefriend.chorefriend, System Two GmbH, Germany, launched 2026-06-28). House & Home Top Grossing #7 (11-01 also #7; the US H&H chart is real). 71,699 installs, 3,976 ratings (reported 3,950); $6.99–69.99, reviews say it's $10.99/week.
  • Google Play (reviews, reported 11-01): us 150 reviews averaging 3.62. Most-liked 5-star review: "I get overwhelmed and freeze, this app made my life so much easier"; another: "My depression is ruining my life." Negative reviews: "Spent ten minutes on the questionnaire only to find out it costs $50", "$10.99 a week!", "ChatGPT makes a better plan than this."
  • Google Play(11-02): System Two GmbH, the same studio behind 10-06, has a new app on the charts: Holy Minutes: Bible Scrolling (com.holyminutes.holyminutes). It has 12,378 installs and 904 ratings, and we track it in the "Faith / Religion" cluster of the crossing list (first crossed 10-30). Our read: this looks like a small studio that mass-produces consumer subscription apps, not something that grew out of the ADHD community.
  • Google Play / App Store (comparables, reported + 11-02): on Play, 180 days produced 12 new chore / cleaning schedule apps, nearly all kids' chore-reward apps; Chorefriend is the only adult ADHD cleaning app. On the App Store, Peachy: ADHD Cleaning Routine (6763260597) has only 2 ratings. Searching chorefriend in the Meta Ad Library returns nothing.

App Store1 evidence items · 1 products with curves

App Store · launched 2026-06-30 · Canada rating 56 · charted in 11-08 of 1 stores
Best category chart rank · by store
14016018020011-0311-08156 New Zealand200 Canada
CanadaNew Zealand
Data 2026-11-03 → 2026-11-08 (6 days, 2 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
Rating count · Canada
Number of ratings 56
Data day 2026-11-03, only 1 days so far. Apple doesn't give download counts, so rating growth is the proxy
  • App Store(11-02): iOS version of Chorefriend Cleaning Schedule (id 6780871586,6-30, debut). Apple's search API shows 417 ratings in the US store; our database has no record of it charting on any list. Its Play rating count is about 9.5× the iOS count, so the users are mostly on Android (see the two-platform rating comparison at [019]).

Already doing it

Chorefriend; Amelia, Chorsee and similar kids' chore apps don't serve the same audience.

The hardest step

Paywall and trust. This audience most fears long questionnaires and paying up front; $10.99/week drew refund complaints; psychology-related wording has to pass review.

Who it's for

An indie dev who has ADHD themselves or in the family; subscription (weekly or monthly); launch on Android first, or both platforms at once.

Should every product builder know this?

No.

Change log

2026-11-02
Backfill check: us H&H Top Grossing #7 unchanged; ratings 3,950→3,976; found iOS id 6780871586 (us 417 ratings, never charted); the same dev's Holy Minutes is on the over-the-line list.
2026-11-01
First record (backfilled from Google Play New Opportunities §1.6 and Stringers §3.8; data as of 2026-11-01).

Original: Scanner opportunity library #025 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.