For the ADHD brain
The cruellest joke in medicine: the tablet that helps you remember things is the one you have to remember to take.
“I didn’t decide not to take it. I just… didn’t.”
You’ve heard every suggestion. Put it by the kettle. Set an alarm. Use a pill box with the days on it. They all work for about nine days, and then the alarm becomes furniture and the pill box becomes a thing you walk past.
Reminders fail because nothing follows them
A notification asks for intention at the moment intention is scarce. It arrives, it competes with everything else on the screen, and it loses. Lockade doesn’t ask. It takes away the thing you were about to do instead.
The consequence is immediate
Not next month’s bloods. Thirty minutes past the slot, right now, on the phone in your hand.
Logging is one tap
Straight from the notification, without opening the app. The correct path has to be the lazy one or it doesn’t get taken.
Nothing to out-argue
There’s no PIN to talk yourself past at 8:42. The tablet is the key.
A witness who isn’t your mother
One person you chose, seeing slots and streaks. Never a diagnosis, never a drug name.
Built for the bad Tuesday
The design brief was never the good week. It was the week where everything slides.
- Grace, not a cliff: thirty minutes past the slot before anything closes.
- One key, always free: logging the dose. Unlimited, instant, no cost.
- A way out: your buddy, for the days the tablet genuinely isn’t on you.
- No punishment stacking: one unlock ends the lock. Blocking resumes at the next missed slot, not before.
12-day streak
08:00, 13:00 and 20:00 all logged.
Tue 4 Aug • no medication shown
A normal morning
08:00
The reminder arrives with an 'I took my meds' button on it. Tap it and you're done. Lockade never even opens.
08:30
Didn't tap it. The apps you picked stop opening. Everything else on your phone works exactly as before.
08:34
You take it, because reaching for the packet is now the easiest option you have. One tap and the day resumes.
Stop relying on remembering.
Put the consequence where the distraction already lives: on your phone, at the moment you'd have scrolled past it.
12-day streak
08:00, 13:00 and 20:00 all logged.
Tue 4 Aug • no medication shown