I quit every to-do app I tried. So I built this one.
I'm Andrii. I have ADHD, and I built Actto for myself years before it was a product. I still run my whole life in it, on the bad days as well as the good ones.
Why none of them lasted
For years my phone filled up with productivity apps. Each one downloaded on a good day, set up beautifully, and abandoned within two weeks. Not because they were bad. Because every one of them assumed I'd show up already organized.
So I built my own, in Notion. It grew into something enormous: databases, rollups, a page for every part of my life, and it did pay me points for finishing things, toward rewards I had chosen myself. What it could never tell me was what I was actually capable of on a flat afternoon. And once a week slipped past me, getting back into it took longer than the work I had missed.
It was held together with formulas and hope. It also worked longer than anything else ever had.
On my phone, 2019 to 2023
- another to-do app
- a habit tracker
- a bullet journal
- a second brain
- the Notion build
Each one set up on a good day. Each one abandoned inside two weeks.
It was held together with formulas and hope. It also worked longer than anything else ever had.
Why it stopped being a template.
The trouble with a Notion template is that it's a Notion template. Slow. It broke on my phone. Keeping it alive became its own second job, and it still could not do the two things I needed most: match the work to what I had left in the tank, and let me come back after a bad week without a clean-up operation first.
Iryna, my partner, pointed out that I'd spent two years maintaining a workaround for something that should just exist. So we built it properly.
Actto is the same idea with the workarounds taken out. You pick three priorities a day and cannot add a fourth, because a day with ten priorities has none. When you have little left in the tank it offers only the tasks that fit, and finishing them earns points you spend on rewards you chose. I still use it every day. That is not a marketing claim. It is the reason it keeps getting better.
Some things we've decided against
No taking your points back
Miss a day and the streak starts again, but that is the only thing that resets. You keep every point you earned, no habit turns red, and none of your history is deleted. Shame doesn't make anyone productive. It makes them delete the app.
No cartoon pets
We're adults. The rewards are real things you actually want.
No holding the basics hostage
Everything you need to plan a day is free: your three priorities a day, the tasks filtered to your energy and your time, and the hours added up against the ones you have. Plus adds goals and projects, for the work that runs longer than a day.
No claims we can't make
Actto is a productivity app built for ADHD brains. It isn't treatment, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Who reads it when you write in
Andrii builds Actto and tries it on himself first, on the bad days as well as the good ones. That is the whole testing process. It is also why nothing here punishes you for a bad day: those are the days it gets tested on.
When you send feedback from inside the app, or email support, it comes straight to us. There is no ticket system in the way and nobody is paid to deflect you.
