An ADHD task breakdown app that does the planning for you

Big, vague jobs feel unstartable because the first move is invisible. Unstick turns the task you're avoiding into a short list of small, timed steps, so you can just begin.

Why breaking a task down is the hard part

"Clean the whole house" or "clear out the garage" isn't one action. It's a pile of decisions: what comes first, how long each part takes, what to do when something goes sideways. Working that out is itself a task, and it leans on planning, sequencing and estimating, which many people with ADHD or executive dysfunction find hardest to start. So the job sits there, and the guilt grows.

A task breakdown app moves that planning step off your shoulders. You say what you're avoiding, and it hands back something you can actually do next.

How Unstick breaks a task down

1. Dump it. Type the task or project the way you think of it, in the "Brain Dump to Micro-Steps" box. No formatting, no planning.
2. Pick a size. Gentle gives fewer, broader steps. Standard gives small, concrete steps. Micro-Steps gives steps small enough to start within ten seconds. Thorough covers a whole project from start to finish.
3. Edit if you like. Every step can be edited, reordered or deleted before you save the routine.
4. Start one step. Unstick shows a single step at a time, with its own short timer and a preview of what's next.

Example: "Paint the living room"

That one sentence becomes a short routine of timed steps like these. This is an illustration of the kind of output you get, not a literal result.

What makes a breakdown easy to start

• The first step is a physical action you can picture, not a goal.
• Each step is small enough to finish in one sitting.
• Every step has a time attached, so it has an end as well as a beginning.
• The list is easy to change, because a plan you can't adjust is a plan you'll abandon.
• Skipping or stopping early isn't treated as failure.

Private, on-device AI

With iOS 26 on an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or an iPad with M1 or later (A17 Pro for iPad mini), breakdowns are generated on your device with Apple Intelligence. On other devices Unstick uses built-in templates, so you're never blocked. Your task text is never sent to Unstick or to a third-party AI service. There's no account, no advertising and no analytics.

What it costs

Free to start: unlimited AI breakdowns, 2 saved routines and 4 steps per routine, plus 7 days of full Pro for every new user. Unstick Pro removes the routine and step limits for $4.99 a month, $24.99 a year, or $59.99 once.

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