If you have ADHD, you have probably started a journal more than once. A nice notebook, a new app, a fresh intention to write every night. And then the gap between intention and action does what it usually does. The problem is rarely that you do not have things worth recording. It is that most journaling tools ask for more steps, more structure, and more sustained attention than the moment allows.
tinh takes a different shape. It is a voice-first journal for iPhone and Mac built around a single idea: capturing a thought should take less time than losing it. You tap once, say a sentence, and you are done. On-device machine learning sorts what you said into categories afterward, so you never have to stop and organize anything yourself.
tinh is a journaling app, not a medical tool. It does not diagnose, treat, or manage ADHD. What it does is make the act of keeping a record low enough effort that you can actually keep it.
Why Typing Is the Wrong Default
A lot of journaling friction is invisible until you notice it. With a typed journal, recording a single thought means unlocking your phone, opening the app, finding the right place, and thumbing out a sentence before the thought fades or something else grabs your attention. Each of those steps is small. Stacked together, they are often enough to make the whole thing not happen.
Voice collapses that stack. Speaking is roughly three times faster than typing on a phone, and it sidesteps the blank-page hesitation that can freeze writing before it starts. For a lot of people with ADHD, the difference between a thought captured and a thought lost is just those few seconds.
How tinh Lowers the Friction
One tap to capture. Open tinh, tap, talk. There is no template to fill in, no required fields, no choosing a category first. Say whatever is in your head.
The app does the organizing. After you speak, tinh's on-device ML reads the transcript and sorts it into categories like meals, sleep, activities, mood, and anything custom you track. The tidying-up that usually falls to you, and usually does not get done, happens automatically.
No streaks to break. tinh does not guilt you with a broken streak counter or a scolding notification. Miss three days, miss three weeks, and you can pick up exactly where you left off. A tool you can return to without shame is a tool you keep.
Captures the scattered moments. ADHD days are not tidy. You can leave a note while walking out the door, mid-task, or right after something happens, and it lands in the same place as everything else.
Seeing the Patterns You Suspect Are There
One reason people with ADHD want to track things in the first place is to test a hunch: does my focus actually crater on bad-sleep days, does caffeine after noon really wreck my night, does mood follow exercise. Because tinh structures every note, it can surface statistical relationships across your entries over time without you building a single spreadsheet. How pattern discovery works explains the mechanics.
And if you want to bring something concrete to a conversation with your own doctor or clinician, you can export your record. tinh does not send anything anywhere on its own; export happens only when you choose it.
Private by Design
Notes about your focus, your moods, and your daily struggles are sensitive. tinh keeps all of it on your device. Transcription and analysis run on your iPhone or Mac, there is no account to create, and nothing is uploaded to a server. It works offline because there is no online component to begin with. If keeping this kind of record private matters to you, that is the entire point of how tinh is built. See why an offline journal app matters for the full reasoning.
Try tinh
A journal you can keep up with, even on the scattered days. Free during early access, no account, nothing leaves your device.