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iPhone · iOS 17+

ScatteredBrain

ScatteredBrain is a free daily organiser built for people who forget things. It keeps your tasks sorted by time of day so you always know what's due now — and what you missed. The People tab tracks birthdays, anniversaries, and every special date with countdown reminders and one-tap gift shortcuts. Bills and annual renewals get scheduled automatically so you never scramble at the last minute. When you complete a task, the phone plays a short drum roll — a small ritual that makes the day feel like progress. Tap the + button and say what's on your mind; the on-device AI figures out the date, time, and priority for you — or hold the mic and ramble out several things at once, or just tell Siri. Everything lives on your phone: no account, no cloud, no subscription, no nonsense.

Everything you keep forgetting, in one tab bar.

Four tabs. Tasks, people, notes, activity. Nothing buried in menus.

📋 Tasks by time of day

Morning, Afternoon, Evening — plus a Catch Up pane for anything that slipped. Tasks are never silently deleted.

🎂 Birthdays & special dates

Countdown reminders for birthdays, anniversaries, and more. Type just a name and it's saved as today's birthday — correct the occasion or date with a tap if it's not. Tap any contact to see upcoming dates and related tasks in one view.

💸 Bills & renewals — on autopilot

Electricity, insurance, tax filing — the app schedules them for you once a year. Add your own annual, quarterly, or monthly items too, all editable in one list.

🤖 Say it, don't type it

Tap the AI button and say "pay rent tomorrow morning urgent" — the app extracts the task, date, and priority on-device. Add @notes anywhere to stash extra context on the task without it messing up the date.

🎙️ Brain Dump

Ramble out everything on your mind in one go — "call the bank, pick up dry cleaning tomorrow, and today's Anayna's birthday" — and it comes back as a reviewable list of separate to-dos, with any birthday matched to the right contact before anything saves. Say it to Siri instead and ScatteredBrain opens straight to a pre-filled Add Birthday screen.

🏆 Completions that feel like wins

Finish a task and the phone plays a haptic drum roll. A nudge asks if you want to log it as a win. Small, but it adds up.

🔒 Fully offline, fully private

No account, no cloud, no ads. Everything stays on your device. Export a backup JSON from Settings anytime.

📅 Holidays, festivals & market closures

Ten subscribable calendars — Indian & Western public holidays, Indian festivals, NSE/BSE and NYSE market closures, and more — show up as banners right when they're due, refreshed automatically every year.

Today tab

See what needs doing — and what you've already missed.

Tasks are grouped by time of day so you instantly know what's due now. Switch to Catch Up to see anything overdue — it's never buried, never auto-deleted, just waiting.

Quick-access chips at the top jump to Wins, Waiting On, AI Add, and Activity Log without leaving Today.

Morning / Afternoon / Evening Catch Up — overdue Upcoming
Good morning ☀️  Aniket · Mon, 24 Aug 🔍 ⋯
🏆 Wins 🧠 AI Add 📝 Detailed 🕘 History
✦ Today Catch Up 2 Upcoming
🌅 Morning
💳
Pay electricity bill
HIGH 9:00 AM
💳
Call bank — credit card dispute
HIGH 11:00 AM
☀️ Afternoon
🏡
Pick up Rhea from school
HIGH 3:30 PM
🌙 Evening
🛒
Grocery run — milk, eggs, bread
LOW 6:00 PM
⚠ Catch Up — 2 tasks overdue
Renew car insurance 2 days ago
Submit Q2 expense report yesterday
🎉 Never Forget 🔍 ↺ +
🎂 Coming up in 5 days
P
Anayna Shetty
Birthday · 29 Aug · 36 yrs
5 days
🎂 Copy wish + Add task
✦ New Task
Buy a gift for Anayna's birthday 🎁
📅 Thu, 27 Aug 🎉 Social 🙋 Myself
All contacts · by date
R
Rahul Mehra
🎂 Birthday · 10 Sep · 17 days
M
Meera & Vikram Kapoor
💍 Anniversary · 5 Sep · 12 days
A
Arjun Nair
🎂 Birthday · 15 Oct · 52 days
People tab

Wishing someone takes exactly two taps.

Tap + Add task on anyone's birthday card and a task opens with "Buy a gift for Anayna's birthday" already filled in — name, occasion, and a suggested date. No typing, no copy-pasting.

Anniversaries, engagements, pet birthdays — anything worth remembering gets a card and a countdown so nothing sneaks up on you.

Pre-filled gift task Countdown badges Copy birthday wish

Take a look

Today's tasks, the people you care about, notes, activity log, and AI Add.

Today tab showing tasks grouped by time of day
People tab with birthday countdowns and Add task chip
Notes tab with scratch pad, service log, and warranty
Activity Log tab
AI Quick-Add — type naturally and it becomes a task

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The app that started as a sticky note.

I'm a chronic forgetter — not the dramatic kind, the quiet daily kind where you remember to pay the bill on the way to the kitchen and completely forget by the time you sit down. Tasks in Reminders, birthdays in Contacts, everything else on a sticky note stuck to the monitor.

I built ScatteredBrain because I wanted one place — not four apps — for the ordinary stuff life throws at you. It's not a productivity system. There's no "second brain" philosophy here. Just a quiet helper that keeps score so you don't have to.

No account. No subscription. Everything on your phone, yours completely.

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Aniket Shetty