Prettyfocused

PrettyFocused looked at the $12 billion EdTech market and said "everyone's building for neurotypical brains—what about everyone else?" They built a document formatter specifically for people with ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning differences who stare at walls of text and feel their brain simply shut down. The tool chunks dense documents into digestible sections with clear headings, offers three visual themes—Soft with pastels, Minimal for clean focus, Bold for high contrast—and even includes OpenDyslexic font mode because certain fonts actually help dyslexic readers process text. Add text-to-speech, voice dictation, interactive checkboxes to track progress through sections, and AI-powered summarization called Sum Focus, and you've got something that doesn't just format documents—it makes them actually usable.

The pricing is brutally practical: free tier gives you 3 formats/month to test it, Essentials at $2.99/mo handles 15,000 words, Complete at $4.99/mo bumps you to 30,000 words with 15 minutes of HD text-to-speech, and Pro at $9.99/mo goes unlimited with 60 minutes of HD TTS. That's less than a Netflix subscription to help someone actually finish reading their course materials. The team behind PrettyFocused appears to be operating as an indie build—the contact email points to thearchivista.com, suggesting a small crew who've likely experienced these challenges firsthand. They're solving a problem most productivity tools ignore entirely: some brains don't process text the way Notion and Google Docs expect them to.