Reading and memory apps for ADHD: where do you start?

What does this category cover?

• Starting a reading session: timers, body doubling, phone quieting.
• Getting through the pages: audiobooks, text to speech, reading and listening at once.
• Coming back after a gap: page-locked recaps and cast lists.
• External memory beyond books: tasks, reminders, ideas and medication, held in apps instead of your head.

Which page answers which question?

How is this category scored?

On the same eight-criterion rubric as every app here, with reading-specific readings of two criteria: capture becomes how quickly you can tell an app where you are, and forgiveness becomes what happens when you come back after a gap. New reading entries are provisional desk reviews with partial scores, shown as points out of the points available (Magic Bookmark: 55/70). Existing apps that appear here, such as Llama Life and Focusmate, keep the provisional totals they have on our other lists.

What is the one thing to try this week?

Pick one book you want to finish and one tool for the place it stalls. If you are not sure where it stalls, try the free combination: your phone’s read-aloud or a Libby audiobook for one chapter, and a two-line note on your bookmark when you stop. Two weeks later, check whether you went back to the book. The trial log is a printable way to keep track.