An ADHD task manager that shows, not lists

Most task apps are built for brains that read lists top to bottom and feel fine about it. If your brain doesn't work that way, the list itself becomes the problem: everything looks equally urgent, the old stuff guilt-piles at the bottom, and eventually you stop opening the app. SceneTasks was built around a different bet: show the work instead of listing it.

What that looks like

Your tasks float on a canvas as bubbles. Priority is size, so the thing that matters catches your eye before you've read a word. Deadlines ring a bubble red and physically pull it toward you as the day approaches. And the tasks you keep skipping don't accumulate into a wall of shame: they shrink, fade, and eventually pop on their own. The canvas always reflects what matters now, not everything you've ever typed.

Features built for the way ADHD actually feels

• Task paralysis: the "pick one for me" button chooses a single task and centers it, so a full canvas doesn't turn into a frozen stare. There's exactly one thing to look at.
• Getting started: a built-in brain dump turns a racing head into bubbles in seconds: type or paste, one thought per line. Try it without an account.
• Time blindness: tasks carry time estimates (yours, or an AI guess you can adjust), and a focus timer with a spotlight mode dims everything except the one thing you're doing. If your laptop sleeps mid-session, the timer notices and pauses instead of logging phantom hours.
• Out of sight, out of mind, on purpose: "show on" hides a bubble until the day you actually need it, and it drifts in when its time comes. The Later drawer keeps them countable so deferred never becomes lost.
• The boring stuff repeats itself: rent, meds, watering the plants. Set a repeat, including "every 2 weeks on Monday and Thursday", and the next one is waiting when you pop this one.
• Guilt-free by design: the agenda's streak view celebrates your best streak and forgives misses. Nothing in the app shames you for a bad week.

It's still a real task manager

Under the physics is everything you'd expect: due dates, projects, checklists, three views (canvas, board, list), reminders on your phone, calendar feeds, two-way Google Tasks and Microsoft To Do sync, and an MCP connection for your own AI assistant. The free plan has no task limit.

Honest limits

SceneTasks is a web app (it installs to your phone as a PWA); there's no native app today. And if you love a dense, keyboard-driven list, a classic like Todoist may fit you better: here's our honest comparison.