The Tiimo alternative built for women with ADHD.

The short version

Tiimo helps you structure your day visually. Lunar helps you pick the right tasks for the day you're actually having. They solve different problems. If your week-to-week energy is steady, Tiimo is great. If it isn't — especially if you have ADHD and a menstrual cycle — Lunar is built for that specifically. If you want a like-for-like visual timeline instead, Structured is the closest swap.

• AI Co-Planner. Turns messy ideas into structured tasks, breaks them into steps and estimates how long each takes.

Where Tiimo stops

Tiimo assumes your brain runs on the same energy curve every day. For women with ADHD, that's often not how it works. Three specific gaps:

• No cycle awareness. Many women with ADHD find their focus drops in the late luteal phase and during their period. Tiimo can't see where you are in your cycle. The same Tuesday at 10am can mean something very different in week 2 and week 4.
• Energy reshuffles the schedule; it doesn't filter the list. Tiimo's co-planner can rearrange your day when you're low on energy, but you're still working from the whole plan. Lunar starts from your energy level and cycle phase and only shows the tasks that fit.
• Time-based, not capacity-based. Knowing a task takes 30 minutes doesn't help if you don't have 30 minutes of focus in you today.

Why women with ADHD leave Tiimo

Tiimo is a well-made app, and many people love it. When women with ADHD tell us why they switched, it usually comes down to three things.

The schedule works in week 2 and fails in week 4. A beautifully blocked day doesn't help when your brain won't start any of it. Lunar's answer: the list itself gets lighter in low weeks.

Seeing the whole day is overwhelming on low days. Lunar's answer: you only see the tasks that fit your energy right now. The rest stay quiet.

Price and trial terms. Tiimo's Pro trial is 7 days and applies to the yearly plan. Lunar's answer: a 14-day free trial, then $79.99/yr, so you can see how it handles a low-energy day before you pay.

Side by side

Checked October 2026 against tiimoapp.com and the App Store.

Why Lunar exists

Every existing ADHD app treats "Tuesday" as one thing. For a woman with ADHD, Tuesday in week 2 and Tuesday in week 4 are different operating systems. Lunar asks two questions before showing you a task list:

• Where are you in your cycle? Period, follicular, ovulation, or luteal.
• What's your energy right now? Exhausted, low, okay, or high.

Then it filters your list down to only what your brain can plausibly do today. On a luteal-phase exhausted day you might see 2 tiny tasks. On a follicular-phase high-energy morning, you see the heavy lift you've been putting off. No streaks to break. No carryover guilt.

The hormone–ADHD connection Tiimo doesn't see

ADHD is closely linked to how the brain uses dopamine. Estrogen supports dopamine production. When estrogen drops — in the late luteal phase and during your period — dopamine drops with it. For women without ADHD, this is a minor dip. For many women with ADHD, it can feel like their medication stopped working, their motivation disappeared and their brain turned to static. If you notice this, it's worth raising with your prescriber.

This happens on a predictable schedule, every single cycle. But no amount of beautiful visual time-blocking helps you when you're in that dip, looking at your schedule, and simply cannot start any of it. Tiimo gives you structure. Lunar gives you a task list that adapts to the week your brain is actually having.

What a real week looks like

Day 14, ovulation — both apps. You're sharp. You open Tiimo, you look at your beautifully blocked day, and you actually execute it. You open Lunar, it surfaces your three high-energy tasks, and you knock them out. Both tools work here. This is the easy week.

Day 22, late luteal — the difference shows. You open Tiimo. Same schedule, same colours. But your brain looks at it and refuses. You know what you're supposed to do. You just can't start. You close the app and spiral. You open Lunar. It asks your energy level. You tap "exhausted." Your task list collapses from 18 items to 3: reply to one email, take a shower, eat something warm. You do two of them. That's enough for today. No streak to break. No carryover guilt.

The difference isn't which app has better features. It's which app gives you permission to have a different day.

Other Tiimo alternatives worth knowing

Lunar isn't the right swap for everyone. If you're leaving Tiimo for a different reason, one of these may fit better.

Checked October 2026 against each app's own website.

Structured is for people who want Tiimo's visual timeline at a lower price. Noa is for women who want one to three tasks a day and help when stuck. Muna is for women who want cycle tracking and planning together. Lunar is for women with ADHD whose focus changes with their cycle and who want the task list itself to adapt.

Common questions

Can I use Tiimo and Lunar together?

Yes, and some users do. Tiimo handles visual scheduling for steady weeks; Lunar handles energy-based filtering for the weeks when the schedule stops working. If you need both layers, there's no conflict.

Does Lunar replace a planner entirely?

For most users, yes. Lunar handles task capture, priority, energy matching, and cycle-phase context. It doesn't do visual time-blocking (Tiimo's strength) but for ADHD users, the task-selection problem is usually bigger than the scheduling problem. Once you know which 2–3 tasks you can actually do today, you don't need to block them into a timeline.

Does Lunar work if my cycle is irregular?

Yes. You log your phase at check-in — Lunar doesn't require period-tracking precision. If you know you're in a low week, you just select "luteal" or "period" and the filter adjusts. The energy-level filter works completely independently of cycle phase, so even if you skip the cycle input on days you're unsure, the energy matching still works.

What are some alternatives to Tiimo for women with ADHD?

Lunar: ADHD Planner for Women is the Tiimo alternative for women whose focus changes with their cycle: it filters your to-do list by energy and cycle phase. Structured is the closest visual-timeline swap. Noa plans one to three tasks a day, Muna is cycle tracking with planning support, and Goblin Tools breaks tasks into steps.

Is there a Tiimo alternative that uses my menstrual cycle?

Yes. Lunar asks your cycle phase (period, follicular, ovulation or luteal) and your energy level at check-in, then shows only the tasks that fit. It isn't a period tracker and doesn't predict your cycle, so many people pair it with Clue or Flo and simply tell Lunar their phase each day.

Is there a cheaper Tiimo alternative?

Structured has a free version with most of its features, and Goblin Tools is free on the web. Tiimo has a free version with a basic planner and a 7-day Pro trial on its yearly plan. Lunar is free to download with a 14-day free trial, then $79.99 a year. Check current prices before deciding.

Does Lunar have visual timers or a timeline like Tiimo?

No. Lunar doesn't do hour-by-hour visual time-blocking or countdown timers, which are Tiimo's strengths. Lunar focuses on a different question: which tasks fit the energy and cycle phase you're in today. If visual timelines are what your brain responds to, Tiimo or Structured will suit you better.

If you came from Tiimo

You're probably already doing the hard work — visually mapping your day, fighting time-blindness, trying to make the system fit your brain. Lunar isn't a replacement for that kind of discipline. It's the layer underneath: deciding which tasks even belong on the visual map today, given where you are in your cycle and what your brain actually has to give.

Many people who switch from Tiimo say the same thing: they thought the problem was their scheduling. It was actually their task selection. When the list adapts to the day instead of the day adapting to the list, everything gets easier.

Try it free for 14 days. If you don't feel the difference on a low-energy day, you don't need it.

Switching in five minutes: 1. Download Lunar and start your 14-day free trial. 2. Add the tasks you'd normally block out in Tiimo, or say them with voice-to-task. 3. Do your first check-in: your energy, and your cycle phase if you know it.