Lunatask Review for ADHD: The All-in-One App That Knows Your Tasks and Your Mood

Most of the planners I have covered answer one question. Tiimo and Structured help you see what to do and when. Sunsama helps you notice when a day cannot hold what you have promised it. None of them ask how you are actually doing.

That gap matters more than it sounds. For a lot of neurodivergent brains, a day that falls apart is rarely only a planning problem. Low energy, stress and avoidance sit underneath the task list, and a planner that ignores them is only seeing half the picture.

Lunatask’s pitch is that these belong together. It is a task manager, habit tracker, mood tracker, journal and simple contact list in one app, encrypted end to end, with its own page explaining how it is built with ADHD in mind. I set it up with a realistic task list and habit routine to see whether all-in-one helps or just adds more to manage.

What it costs

The free plan is unusually complete. You get two Areas of Life (separate spaces like Work and Personal), seven daily habits, 30 contacts, four of the six task workflows, the built-in calendar with time blocking, and, most importantly, the mood tracker and journal. Journaling even includes a customisable entry template and PIN protection on the free plan.

Premium at $8 a month, or $6 a month billed yearly, unlocks unlimited areas, habits and contacts. It also adds the Must/Should/Want and Eisenhower Matrix workflows, connections to external calendars, weekly habits, and energy and stress tracking. There is also a one-time lifetime purchase at US$300, available in the desktop builds, and students and teachers get 50% off through Lunatask’s education page.

Getting 20% off with code WHATSTICKS

What Sticks has a discount code for Lunatask: WHATSTICKS gives you 20% off Premium, and the discount carries over to every renewal. At current prices that makes the yearly plan $57.60 instead of $72, and monthly $6.40 instead of $8.

How it works is a little fiddly, so here is the exact path:

1. Download Lunatask directly from lunatask.app, not from the Mac App Store or a phone app store. Apple and Google run their own payment systems, and the code only works through Lunatask’s own checkout.
2. In the desktop app, go to Settings, then Billing, and choose your plan.
3. A checkout page opens in your browser. Find Add discount in the left panel and type the code in by hand. Lunatask’s own help pages say pasting it can cause it to be rejected.

Once you have paid on desktop, Premium unlocks on your phone too.

Tasks: no due dates to turn red

The task list is where Lunatask’s ADHD thinking shows most clearly. When you set up an area, you pick a workflow for it, and the default, Now/Later, is the one I would point most people to.

It works like this. Every new task lands in “later.” When you are ready to work on something, you move it to “now,” which holds only your current focus. There are no due dates unless you choose to add them, so nothing sits in red shouting that you are behind. Lunatask also sorts by how long a task has been waiting, nudging older tasks back toward the top instead of letting them sink out of sight.

If you have ever opened a to-do app, seen a wall of overdue items and closed it again, that difference is the whole point. A task you have avoided for a week is only a task here. You can add a time estimate (the “15M” badge above) so you can see which tasks are small enough for a low-energy moment, and Areas of Life can hold longer-term goals, so “be more social” sits next to the concert tickets that would actually move it forward.

You get six workflows in total: a simple Priority List, Now/Later, Kanban, Plan Your Days, plus Must/Should/Want and Eisenhower Matrix on Premium. Each area can use a different one, so Work could be a Kanban board while Personal stays a plain list. I like that Lunatask is honest about this in its own copy. Plan Your Days is described as being for people who “still prefer to plan and schedule” and “don’t mind the downsides.” That is a rare thing for an app to say about its own feature.

Habits and mood on one screen

This is the screen that makes Lunatask different. Habits sit in routine groups (the app starts you with ones like Healthy lifestyle and Evening routine, and I added a few of my own), and each can have a time attached. Along the top sit cards for your energy, overwhelm and stress, and most common emotions. Along the bottom is a row of mood faces, one per day.

The idea is that over a few weeks you can see patterns you would never spot otherwise. Maybe the days you skip “write tomorrow’s top three” are the same days your stress spikes. Maybe low energy follows the same weekday every week. My screenshot shows empty cards because these fill in over time. Don’t expect insights in the first week.

One thing to keep an eye on: habit trackers can turn into guilt trackers. A row of unticked boxes can feel like a report card. Lunatask lets you pause habits and mark some as bad habits to avoid, which helps, but the best defence is starting with two or three habits, not ten.

Privacy, and leaving if you need to

A journal and a mood log are probably the most private things you will ever put into a productivity app. Lunatask encrypts your data end to end, which means the company cannot read your entries. For this kind of content, that should be the minimum standard, and many apps in this space do not meet it.

Lunatask also lets you take everything with you without a fight. Tasks, notes and journal entries export as spreadsheets plus plain Markdown files. Habits, mood data and contacts export as spreadsheets. Their own words on the export screen: “Having your data vendor-locked would go against our vision for Lunatask.” If you have ever lost a year of notes to an app that shut down or changed its pricing, you will know why I count that as a real feature.

Integrations

Lunatask connects to a long list of services. Calendars from Google, Outlook, iCloud, Proton, Fastmail and others show up next to your tasks, and video call links become one-click join buttons. Calendar connections are Premium and one-way, so Lunatask shows your events but does not edit them. Zapier, Apple Shortcuts and Android’s Tasker let you send tasks in from elsewhere. There is also an email address you can forward messages to, a browser extension, and voice assistant support, so you can tell Siri to add a task or log a habit.

For ADHD purposes, the integration that matters most is the one that captures a thought before it disappears. Forwarding an email or asking Siri gets a task in without opening the app. Pick one capture method and stick with it.

Where it might not suit you

Breadth is a risk as well as a strength. Lunatask can hold your whole life, and that is exactly the trap. Setting up six areas, fifteen habits and a journal template on day one is a classic ADHD start, and it tends to be followed by abandoning the lot two weeks later. Start with one area, Now/Later, three habits and the mood tracker. Add the rest only if you find yourself wanting it.

It does not make time visible. If your main problem is not feeling time pass, Tiimo’s visual timeline does something Lunatask does not try to do. My planner roundup for inattentive ADHD covers that side in more detail.

Big changes are coming. Lunatask has announced a major update, version 3.0, without a date yet. Some screens here may look different by the time you read this.

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The verdict

Lunatask is the first app I have tested that treats how you feel as part of getting things done, and it does so without charging for that part. The free tier includes tasks, habits, mood tracking and journaling, all encrypted, and you can export every piece of it whenever you like.

Its Now/Later workflow is one of the kindest task systems I have used for an ADHD brain, because it does not punish you for falling behind.

The catch is that an app this capable can become a project of its own. Go in small. If you find yourself wanting more areas or the extra workflows, download Lunatask from its own site and use code WHATSTICKS for 20% off Premium.