Timo Kids Weekly Routine Timer

A symptom of ADHD is “time blindness” and my kiddo definitely has it. He’d frequently waste his whole day doing nothing, or stretch simple tasks out so they took hours, only to complain later that he “never had any time to play or relax” when in reality he had upwards of 3 hours of “free time” every day that he wasted! Verbal reminders of “this is your play time that you’re wasting right now” didn’t register with him. We’re going on day 3 of using Timo and so far my ADHD/ODD 8 year old LOVES it. It’s so fun for him to try to beat the clock (we tried this same tactic before with kitchen timers, but it didn’t work - it’s much more fun if it’s a game!) and he loves getting points to update his avatar. I love that I haven’t had to remind him 20+ times (I’m not exaggerating) to get in the shower or brush his teeth. It’s saving my sanity AND our relationship as I no longer have to nag constantly (and yell - which I hate doing - when I finally reach my limit.) I know he’ll eventually grow bored with this as most kids probably do, but I hope to tie his “stars” in with some kind of physical reward in the future, maybe a trip or a new toy. I’d love if this app would periodically introduce some new elements so kids don’t get bored, but I’m new to the app so maybe they do!

We have been using Timo for over a year now. My 8 yr old son has ADHD and delayed motor skills. Those two factors were slowing us down big time in the morning. I was so busy managing him in the morning that I often forgot to get myself ready. Then I found myself driving like a race car driver to try to get him to school on time and me to work on time. I needed something that would provide him with a visual timeline of his morning so he knew what step he was supposed to be on and how long he had to complete it. Timo has fit the bill perfectly. I set up a basic timeline to start and tweaked it as needed until it fit our morning. As soon as he wakes up now we turn on Timo and let it run. He gets 5minutes to wake up, 15 minutes to eat breakfast, and so on. We built 15 minutes of free time in there toward the end as an incentive. I was afraid that having a visual countdown for how long he has for each task would give him anxiety, however it’s been the opposite though. He is no longer surprised when his time is up. I am not exaggerating when I say Timo has saved our mornings. There are a few tweaks that would make it better, such as the ability to go back to a task. Sometimes my son hits completed by accident and it jumps to the next task. To solve that problem I made an identical timeline in the evening slot and we use that one if we need to. Overall, Timo is a lifesaver.

I never write reviews but I love this app soooo much. It is perfect and it has completely changed our routines for the better. There was another app that I had found that didn’t have as much stuff and this one is free and so much easier to use. My son is high functioning autistic and really benefits from a visual schedule because he is a visual learner and so I’ve always meant to make one for him and never got around to it but this was already ready to go easy to adjust both the times and the order of the routines and there are so many tasks to choose from. There are a few here or there that I wish I could add but overall we have found something to correlate to our routine. Plus I can set it up on the iPad to run and the kids will check for themselves what they are supposed to be doing and hit it when they are done. In the morning I will oversee it but after school I will have them check it themselves and do what it says. If I had to offer any suggestions I’d say I wish there was a way to make it so that you can put the ending time and it will start the alarm when you have to start. Like if bedtimes 8 you could put that in and it would tell you when to start the tasks so that you finish on time and the alarm goes off then when you have to start by. Also pausing it but it’s not enough to make me not absolutely love it. Thank you all so much!