Research-based tools for the moments when life asks too much of your attention, memory, and time.
Better Brainspace builds products that hold the plan, track the clock, and deliver the cue, so following through depends less on perfect attention and more on the support around you.
Most tools are built for someone who doesn't exist.
Steady attention. A reliable internal sense of time. Effortless task initiation. Consistent working memory. That is the user most productivity software assumes. If you had all four, you would not need the software.
We start somewhere more human. Attention fluctuates. Time is hard to feel. Plans break. Follow-through often needs support from outside your own head.
So we don't ask people to remember more, try harder, or maintain a perfect system. We move the work outward: reducing cognitive load, externalizing working memory, countering time blindness, and supporting the hardest part of any task, which is starting it.
Every product we make draws on cognitive science, behavioral research, accessibility practice, and lived ADHD experience.
Our mission
We relentlessly strive to make daily life less dependent on perfect attention, constant self-monitoring, and self-generated urgency, by building products that reduce what people have to remember, manage, initiate, and time on their own.
Flagship product
Your next event is scheduled. Getting ready for it is not.
Your calendar records when the commitment happens. It says nothing about when to stop what you're doing, when to change, when to gather what you need, or when to leave.
LeadTimer takes the time before a commitment and makes it explicit. Tell it when you need to be ready and what has to happen first. It places every step on the clock and sounds an iPhone alarm when each one begins.
Instead of one reminder that says Appointment at 2:00, you get the sequence that makes 2:00 possible:
The alarms are iPhone system alarms, so they can break through Silent Mode and Focus, and they stay scheduled whether or not the app is open.
Seven days free. $7.99/month after. Requires iPhone, iOS 26.5 or later.
If any of this is familiar, LeadTimer was built for what you're describing.
- You intend to be early, stay with the current task, and look up when the window has already closed.
- "Later" and "now" feel like the same thing, until suddenly they don't.
- You know every step involved. Beginning the first one is the hard part.
- One interruption and the whole plan has to be reassembled from memory.
- You've tried timers, lists, and reminder apps, and every one of them waits for you to come to it.
LeadTimer was designed from the lived experience of adult ADHD. You don't need a diagnosis to find the time before a commitment difficult.
LeadTimer is where we started.
Getting ready was the clearest case of a job people are expected to do entirely in their own heads. It won't be the last one we take on.