An AI assistant for brains that carry too much
Most productivity tools fail people with ADHD at the same spot: they only know what you remember to put into them, which taxes the exact executive function that is already overloaded. Littlebird is built the other way around. It captures passively, by paying attention to your screen and transcribing your meetings, so forgetting to use it does not exist as a failure mode.
What this page is not: Littlebird is a productivity tool, not a treatment, a therapy, or medical advice. This page describes a design difference that many people with heavy cognitive load find useful, nothing more.
Why productivity tools backfire for ADHD
The task app works only if you remember to add the task. The notes app works only if you remember to write the note. Every tool of that shape quietly bills its upkeep to working memory, and when the upkeep slips, the tool becomes one more place where things are lost, plus one more thing to feel bad about. The half-remembered follow-up, the meeting you panicked through while trying to also take notes, the promise that surfaced three days late: none of those are character flaws. They are what happens when the system's memory is you.
What changes when capture is passive
The capture is passive by design. Littlebird reads the text of your active window and listens during meetings to transcribe and summarize, so the record builds itself while you just work. There is no habit to maintain and no inbox-zero ritual to fall off of. When the half-remembered thing resurfaces at 9pm, you ask Chat and find it, instead of spiraling through four apps looking for it.
Three parts matter most for heavy cognitive load. Meeting Notes means you can be present in the conversation instead of splitting attention between listening and writing. Routines deliver a morning briefing on your schedule, so the day starts oriented rather than overwhelming. And Chat retrieves what you saw, said, and agreed to, in plain language.
In a Littlebird user survey (2026), 80% of subscribers agree Littlebird reduced their anxiety about forgetting details or dropping the ball. Self-reported, and the mechanism is exactly that: the fear of dropping the ball shrinks when something else is holding the record.
What to watch out for
Two honest cautions. First, storage: the app runs on your computer, and the memory it builds is encrypted and stored in the AWS cloud. You can pause capture, exclude apps (a journal, a health portal), and delete data at any time, and nothing trains on or sells your data. Read what it actually sees before installing. Second, no tool removes executive load entirely. It holds the record; deciding what to do with it is still yours.
Common questions
Do I have to remember to use it for it to work?
No, and that is the point. It works automatically by paying attention to your screen and listening during meetings. Integrations are optional, for deeper access.
Can I keep it out of private things?
Yes. You can pause context collection, exclude specific apps, and delete your data at any time, all of it or just the last hour or day. Nothing is collected without your permission.
What platforms does it run on?
Mac and Windows, plus iOS and Android companion apps. The core product is desktop.
Keep life organized without the mental load.
No setup, no bot in your meetings, and a free Basic plan with full context from day one.
Product facts and survey figures come from our maintained internal fact base (survey: Littlebird, 2026).
