# DoppiNow

> DoppiNow is a Chrome extension that turns focus into a game for people with ADHD, free for 7 days and then $3.99/month or $29.99/year. Every focused minute earns XP, unbroken focus builds a combo multiplier, coming back after drifting pays a +25 XP bonus (the first 8 times per session), and distracting pages get a gentle nudge (the page ripples like water) instead of being blocked. Its main number is the Comeback ring: the focus minutes reclaimed after coming back from a distraction, a ring that closes once you have reclaimed as much as the distraction took. Users pick one of five worlds: Sea, Space & Engineering, Art Studio, Business or Academic.

Key facts:
- What it is: a Chrome (Chromium) extension plus a web dashboard with focus charts.
- Comeback ring: the focus minutes reclaimed after coming back from a distraction: DoppiNow’s main number. The ring closes once you have reclaimed at least as much focus as the distraction took. It shows live in the popup, as the headline of every session recap, at the top of the Progress page and first on the web dashboard.
- Who it is for: people with ADHD or anyone who struggles with task initiation, time blindness and online distraction.
- How it works: write one goal, pick 10, 25, 50 or 90 minutes (or open-ended); DoppiNow checks whether each tab relates to the goal and nudges you back when it does not.
- It never blocks websites. Watching a calculus video while studying calculus counts as focus.
- Game rules: 10 XP per focused minute times a combo (x1 to x5 after 30 unbroken minutes); a checkpoint every 5 focused minutes that may hold a reward box; daily streaks with streak savers; three daily quests; 12 badges.
- Price: a 7-day free trial with no card, then $3.99/month or $29.99/year (DoppiNow Monthly or DoppiNow Yearly, the same features); cancel anytime; payments through Paddle.
- Account: required, Google sign-in only; it starts the free trial, keeps your progress and powers the web dashboard (the Comeback ring, days focused, minutes per day, best hours).
- Privacy: finished sessions (times, minutes, XP and, if you allow it, the goal) are saved to your account for the dashboard; smarter page checks are off until you allow them, and then, only during a session, the goal and page details (site name, page type, address, title, main heading, short description, channel name, search terms) may be sent to DoppiNow’s server, which checks them with a classification service and doesn’t store them. The full page text is never sent. Card payments go to Paddle, never to DoppiNow. No ads, no selling data.

## Comeback ring: DoppiNow's main number
The Comeback ring shows the focus a user reclaims in a session after coming back from a distraction, as "N min reclaimed". Drifting is expected with ADHD; DoppiNow measures the comeback. You close the ring by winning back the time a distraction took.
- How it counts: time on a page away from the goal starts it (a glance under 2 seconds does not count; choosing "Not now" at a doorway pause does). The first related page after it is the comeback, with or without a reminder. Every focused minute after that counts as reclaimed.
- How the ring fills: the minutes reclaimed divided by the minutes away, up to a full ring. No time away means a full ring ("Clean run"). Time away with nothing reclaimed yet leaves it open ("Come back to close it"). Some minutes reclaimed, but fewer than the time away, fill it part of the way ("Keep going to close it"). Once the minutes reclaimed reach the time away, it closes ("Ring closed!").
- What never counts: breaks, neutral pages and time outside Chrome. Reclaimed minutes are part of the focus minutes, never extra on top of them, and they earn no extra XP.
- Example: 10 minutes of focus, a 3-minute drift, then 15 more minutes of focus: 25 minutes of focus, 15 of them reclaimed. 15 minutes reclaimed is more than the 3 minutes away, so the ring is closed.
- Where it shows: live in the popup during a session, on the page after a comeback, as the headline of every session recap, at the top of the Progress page (today, the last 7 days, in all) and first and biggest on the web dashboard, with the change from the previous range.
- Other focus apps such as Forest, Freedom and Focus Bear measure time focused or blocked; their sites describe no measure of focus regained after a distraction (checked October 2026).
- Learn more: https://doppinow.com/features/comeback-ring/

## Pricing and account
- Free for 7 days, then $3.99/month or $29.99/year. No card to start. Cancel anytime.
- Plans: DoppiNow Monthly ($3.99 a month) or DoppiNow Yearly ($29.99 a year, about 37% less than twelve months). Both include every feature.
- An account is required: sign in with Google (name, email and picture only). The 7-day trial starts at the first sign-in and needs no card.
- After the trial, without a subscription, the extension locks: no new focus sessions. XP, streak, history and settings are kept and continue after subscribing.
- Payments, invoices and taxes are handled by Paddle as merchant of record; DoppiNow never sees card numbers. Cancel anytime: access lasts until the end of the paid period. Refunds follow Paddle’s buyer terms.
- The free web tools (visual timer, task splitter, focus style quiz) need no account and stay free.

## Pages
- [Home](https://doppinow.com/): what DoppiNow is, how it works, worlds, pricing, FAQ
- [Articles](https://doppinow.com/articles/): practical, research-informed guides on ADHD and focus
- [Free tools](https://doppinow.com/tools/): free focus tools that run in the browser, no sign-up
- [Visual timer](https://doppinow.com/timer/): a shrinking-disc countdown for time blindness, with pages for 5 to 60 minutes
- [Task splitter](https://doppinow.com/tools/task-splitter/): turns a big task into a checklist of tiny steps at three sizes; online, DoppiNow's server has an AI service write steps for the exact task (emails and long numbers removed, the task not stored); offline, built-in recipes
- [Focus style quiz](https://doppinow.com/tools/focus-style-quiz/): a 7-question, just-for-fun quiz (not an ADHD test) suggesting a focus style, session length and tips
- [Compare](https://doppinow.com/compare/): honest comparisons with other focus apps, facts checked on each app's own site
- [DoppiNow vs Forest](https://doppinow.com/compare/doppinow-vs-forest/): gentle nudges in the browser vs a growing tree that blocks on phone and browser
- [DoppiNow vs Freedom](https://doppinow.com/compare/doppinow-vs-freedom/): never blocking vs a cross-device blocker with Locked Mode
- [DoppiNow vs Focus Bear](https://doppinow.com/compare/doppinow-vs-focus-bear/): both check sites against your task; DoppiNow adds a game, Focus Bear adds blocking and routines
- [Privacy](https://doppinow.com/privacy/)
- [Terms](https://doppinow.com/terms/)
- [Features](https://doppinow.com/features/): every DoppiNow feature, one page each: what it does, how to use it, and why it helps
- [Welcome tour](https://doppinow.com/features/welcome-tour/): A welcome page that shows the game in motion and starts your first focus session.
- [One-goal focus session](https://doppinow.com/features/focus-session/): Write one goal, pick a length, and DoppiNow keeps you company while you work.
- [Tiny steps](https://doppinow.com/features/tiny-steps/): Turn your goal into four or five small, editable steps, each worth +5 XP when done.
- [Note for future you](https://doppinow.com/features/note-for-future-you/): Leave yourself a "what's next?" note. DoppiNow shows it the next time you start that goal.
- [Recent goals](https://doppinow.com/features/recent-goals/): Your last three goals wait as one-tap chips, each with the length it last ran.
- [Quick start](https://doppinow.com/features/quick-start/): Start a session without opening the popup: Alt+Shift+S, or type "rt 25 your goal" in the address bar.
- [Goal-aware tab check](https://doppinow.com/features/tab-check/): DoppiNow checks whether each tab you open fits your goal, so useful videos still count. (partly available)
- [Reminder sensitivity](https://doppinow.com/features/reminder-sensitivity/): Choose how sure DoppiNow must be, how long a glance may last, and how often it reminds you.
- [Quick page correction](https://doppinow.com/features/quick-page-correction/): Correct DoppiNow in one tap by marking the page you're on as related or not, for this session.
- [Site lists](https://doppinow.com/features/site-lists/): Tell DoppiNow which sites are always part of your work and which always distract you.
- [Short-video rule](https://doppinow.com/features/short-video-rule/): YouTube Shorts, Reels and TikTok always count as distracting during a session, unless you turn it off.
- [Gentle nudge](https://doppinow.com/features/gentle-nudge/): When you drift, a calm card in the corner shows what happened, and one tap brings you back.
- [Page ripple](https://doppinow.com/features/page-ripple/): An unrelated page gently ripples like water, growing with each reminder and calming when you return.
- [Doorway pause](https://doppinow.com/features/doorway-pause/): A few seconds of breathing before a distracting site, with a "Not now" button worth +10 XP.
- [Park it](https://doppinow.com/features/park-it/): Save a stray thought or tab for later in one move, then go straight back to your goal.
- [Comeback ring](https://doppinow.com/features/comeback-ring/): A ring that closes when you win back the time a distraction took: DoppiNow's main number, because coming back is the skill.
- [Back to where you were](https://doppinow.com/features/back-to-where-you-were/): One tap returns you to your last related page, and a YouTube video resumes at the right second.
- [Comeback bonus](https://doppinow.com/features/comeback-bonus/): Get back to your goal within two minutes of a reminder and earn +25 XP.
- [Focus XP](https://doppinow.com/features/focus-xp/): Every minute on a related page earns 10 XP, multiplied by your combo, right away.
- [Combo multiplier](https://doppinow.com/features/combo-multiplier/): Unbroken focus raises your XP multiplier from x1 to x5, and drifting melts it slowly.
- [Checkpoints and reward boxes](https://doppinow.com/features/checkpoints-reward-boxes/): Every 5 focused minutes is a checkpoint that may hide a reward box worth 20–400 XP.
- [Completion bonus](https://doppinow.com/features/completion-bonus/): Finish a timed session for 2 XP per planned minute, plus 50 XP at 90% focus.
- [Levels, ranks and vehicles](https://doppinow.com/features/levels-ranks-vehicles/): XP raises your level, each world has nine ranks, and your vehicle grows as you rank up.
- [Daily quests](https://doppinow.com/features/daily-quests/): Three small quests a day, for focus time, combo and sessions or boxes, plus a bonus box.
- [Badges](https://doppinow.com/features/badges/): Twelve badges for milestones like your first comeback, a x5 combo and a 7-day streak, each +50 XP.
- [On-page celebrations](https://doppinow.com/features/on-page-celebrations/): Small toasts celebrate comebacks, combos, boxes, badges, levels and streaks, but only while you're on track.
- [Time ring](https://doppinow.com/features/toolbar-time-ring/): DoppiNow's icon turns into a time ring, with minutes left and colors for how you're doing.
- [Wrap-up signal and check-ins](https://doppinow.com/features/wrap-up-and-check-ins/): A soft "5 minutes left" heads-up, and gentle check-ins during open-ended sessions.
- [Time guess](https://doppinow.com/features/time-guess/): Guess how long a task will take, and the recap shows the real time and your usual multiplier.
- [5-minute break](https://doppinow.com/features/five-minute-break/): Take a 5-minute break with no reminders and your combo frozen, then come back to a fresh start.
- [Auto-pause](https://doppinow.com/features/auto-pause/): Time spent in another app or behind a locked screen never counts as drifting.
- [Live session view](https://doppinow.com/features/live-session-view/): A small animated scene shows your session as a journey, with an honest trail of how time went.
- [Session recap](https://doppinow.com/features/session-recap/): When a session ends, see your XP count up, where it came from, and what's next.
- [Progress page](https://doppinow.com/features/progress-page/): One page on your DoppiNow home page for your rank, badges, totals, focus patterns and every session.
- [Daily streak](https://doppinow.com/features/daily-streak/): Ten minutes of focus keeps your daily streak alive, and streak savers cover a missed day.
- [Rest days and vacation mode](https://doppinow.com/features/rest-days-vacation/): Plan weekly rest days and vacations, and your streak waits without using a streak saver.
- [Game worlds](https://doppinow.com/features/game-worlds/): Play the same focus game as a sea voyage, a space lift-off, an art studio, a startup from garage to launch or a trip across campus.
- [Privacy by design](https://doppinow.com/features/privacy/): Your game lives in your browser, your account keeps only session summaries, and during a session only a few page details are checked.
- [Calm mode and reduced motion](https://doppinow.com/features/calm-mode/): DoppiNow follows your device's "reduce motion" setting, and the website adds a one-tap Calm mode.
- [Dark mode](https://doppinow.com/features/dark-mode/): DoppiNow follows your system's light or dark theme everywhere, with dark colors for each world.
- [Focus dashboard](https://doppinow.com/features/focus-dashboard/): Charts of your focus on the web: your Comeback ring, days focused, minutes per day, best hours and more.
- [Extension link and sync](https://doppinow.com/features/dashboard-link/): Sign in once from the extension, and each finished session syncs to your dashboard with a private, revocable token.
- [Visual timer](https://doppinow.com/features/visual-timer/): A free online timer where a calm disc shrinks as time passes, with no sign-up.
- [Task splitter](https://doppinow.com/features/task-splitter/): Type a big task, pick how small, and get a checklist of tiny steps written for that exact task.
- [Focus style quiz](https://doppinow.com/features/focus-style-quiz/): Seven playful questions find your focus style, with a world, a session length and three tips.
- [Comparison pages](https://doppinow.com/features/comparisons/): Side-by-side pages compare DoppiNow with Forest, Freedom and Focus Bear, using each app's own site.
- [ADHD focus articles](https://doppinow.com/features/articles/): Ten research-based reads on ADHD focus, easy to skim, with the key ideas highlighted.

## Articles
- [Website blockers vs gentle nudges for ADHD: what the research says](https://doppinow.com/articles/adhd-website-blocker-vs-nudge/): Website blocker or gentle nudge for ADHD? What studies found about lockouts, pauses and reminders, and how to choose the right fit for your worst distraction.
- [Reward the comeback: what a 61,000-person study says about getting back on track](https://doppinow.com/articles/adhd-comeback-rewards-streaks/): Missed a day? In a study of 61,293 gym members, rewarding the return after a slip worked best. How to reward restarts and build a forgiving ADHD streak.
- [ADHD and the endless tab: how to stop scrolling when you should be working](https://doppinow.com/articles/adhd-doomscrolling-browser/): Doomscrolling with ADHD when you should be working? Learn why feeds are so sticky and how to set up your browser so it's easier to stop scrolling.
- [Drifted again? How to get back on track with ADHD (without the shame spiral)](https://doppinow.com/articles/adhd-getting-back-on-track/): Drifted off task again? How to get back on track with ADHD in four gentle steps, and why self-forgiveness, not shame, makes the next restart easier.
- [How to start a task with ADHD: the 2-minute on-ramp](https://doppinow.com/articles/how-to-start-tasks-adhd/): Struggling to start a task with ADHD? Shrink the first step to two minutes, write one goal, set a 10-minute timer, and begin before you feel ready.
- [Why ADHD brains need instant rewards (and how to use that)](https://doppinow.com/articles/adhd-instant-rewards-dopamine/): Why do ADHD brains need instant rewards? What research on delay aversion and dopamine suggests, plus simple ways to make progress feel rewarding now.
- [Body doubling for ADHD: why working next to someone helps](https://doppinow.com/articles/body-doubling-adhd/): Body doubling for ADHD means working alongside another person, in person or online. Learn why it may help you start and stay on task, and how to try it.
- [ADHD time blindness: 9 ways to make time visible](https://doppinow.com/articles/adhd-time-blindness-tools/): ADHD time blindness makes hours vanish and deadlines feel unreal. What research says, and 9 practical tools to make time visible, from timers to done lists.
- [Pomodoro for ADHD: why 25 minutes might be the wrong number](https://doppinow.com/articles/pomodoro-for-adhd/): Does Pomodoro work for ADHD? It can if you adapt it. Pick 10, 25, 50 or 90 minutes by energy, keep breaks feed-free, and let a good streak keep going.
- [Does gamification help ADHD? What the research actually says](https://doppinow.com/articles/gamification-adhd/): Does gamification help ADHD? An honest look at the research on gamified learning, a prescription video game, reward worries and what good design needs.