Living with ADHD

An ADHD symptom tracker for the days getting started is the problem

A chronic illness tracker and gentle companion that already knows what ADHD can involve — so you do not have to explain it from scratch.

What ADHD can involve

ADHD is not really about attention so much as regulating it: hours lost to something absorbing, then an afternoon where a two-minute task is immovable. Time behaves strangely, things get forgotten at the worst moment, and emotions arrive at full volume. Most tracking apps make this worse by turning a day into a scoreboard you then fail.

taluvu is deliberately not that. No streaks, no badges, no score out of ten. A check-in is a few taps, and a missed week is just a missed week. The exhaustion that comes from masking all day is in the palette too, because it is real and rarely asked about, especially by people diagnosed late.

How a day can feel

If your days sound anything like this, taluvu was made with you in mind.

  • “I know exactly what to do and I cannot start it.”
  • “I lost four hours and I could not tell you to what.”
  • “I was called lazy for twenty years.”
  • “Masking all day leaves nothing for the evening.”
  • “Reminders only work if I remember the reminder.”

These are the kinds of things taluvu invites you to say in your own words — never a checklist of what anyone “should” have.

What taluvu helps you keep track of

Choose ADHD and it starts you with a palette, not a blank form.

These are things people living with ADHD often want to keep an eye on. Remove any you do not need, add your own, and check in with a few taps on the days you have very little to give.

  • Cannot get started
  • Lost track of time
  • Brain fog
  • Restlessness
  • Overwhelm
  • Forgot something important
  • Emotions hard to regulate
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Hyperfocus
  • Mentally exhausted from masking
  • A journal in your own words, not a score
  • A plain-English week view of what stands out
  • A Doctor Summary you own and can print
  • Your care team’s details in one place

taluvu never claims one thing caused another. It shows what is worth noticing and leaves the medicine to your doctor. See how a check-in works.

A calm, colour-coded week view of someone's health story in taluvu, showing gentle patterns rather than a raw score.

Trusted information and support

Places we point people to for ADHD.

The same sources and communities taluvu links to inside the app. They are independent of us; please check anything important with your own care team.

Information sources

Communities

Questions people ask

ADHD and taluvu, in plain answers.

Short, honest answers about what taluvu does and does not do for ADHD. Nothing here is medical advice.

Is taluvu an ADHD tracker?

Yes. ADHD is built into taluvu with a starting palette that includes not being able to get started, losing track of time, overwhelm, forgetting something important, hyperfocus and being mentally exhausted from masking. You can add your own.

Does taluvu use streaks or reminders that nag?

No. There are no streaks, no badges and no scores. You choose whether to have one reminder at all, and a gap is simply a gap. An app that punishes you for missing days is the last thing this needs to be.

Can taluvu diagnose ADHD or help me get assessed?

No. taluvu does not diagnose anything and cannot refer you. What it can do is hold a record of how things actually are, week by week, which is something concrete to bring to a GP appointment when you are asking to be assessed.

Is it useful if I was diagnosed late?

Many people find the masking and the exhaustion behind it are the hardest parts to put into words, and they are in the palette rather than left out. What you write is yours, and you decide what is ever shared.

Getting taluvu

Carry ADHD with a little more company.

taluvu is an iPhone app. A membership comes with a free trial, and the price and terms are shown in full before you are ever asked to pay.

Download on the App Store See how taluvu helps See a real Doctor Summary

Other conditions

taluvu understands more than one thing at once.

Over a hundred conditions are built in, including living without a diagnosis yet. Choose as many as apply.

taluvu is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Nothing on this page is a substitute for advice from your own doctor or care team. taluvu helps you organise and describe your own experience — see the Medical & AI Disclaimer.

If you are in crisis or need urgent help, contact your local emergency services or a crisis line. In the UK, call 999 in an emergency, NHS 111 for urgent advice, or Samaritans free on 116 123.