Editor's Review
Screening questionnaires have moved onto phones, and ADHD Test is one of the more careful examples. Inquiry Health builds the app around a symptom checklist of the kind a clinician hands you at a first appointment, scores the answers, and returns a result describing how closely your responses match recognised attention and hyperactivity patterns.
What you get is a starting point rather than an answer. A questionnaire cannot rule out the conditions that imitate ADHD, among them anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and thyroid problems, and it has no access to the developmental history a real assessment depends on. The app says so, and that honesty is the reason to prefer it over the quiz-style alternatives that hand out a confident label in ninety seconds. Reading the explanation attached to the score matters more than the number itself.
In practice it is a short session. Answer the items truthfully, read the summary, and take that summary to a doctor if it points somewhere. Keeping it as a written record is genuinely useful, because describing years of symptoms from memory in a ten-minute appointment is hard.
A 4.37 average across a hundred thousand installs sits about where a serious screener lands. People who wanted a diagnosis leave disappointed; people who wanted a prompt to seek help generally do not. Anyone in real distress should go straight to a clinician rather than to any app.
Features
Structured symptom questionnaire built on standard screening items
Scored result with an explanation of what it does and does not indicate
Summary you can keep and bring to a clinical appointment
Guidance on sensible next steps after a positive screen
Pros
Clear about being a screener and not a diagnosis
Short enough to finish properly in one sitting
Produces a written summary that helps in a real appointment
Cons
Cannot separate ADHD from conditions with overlapping symptoms
Self-reported answers are easy to skew, deliberately or not
No clinician review or follow-up is attached to the result
A high score can alarm someone with no professional context to interpret it
Questions people ask
Can this app diagnose ADHD?
No. It scores a self-reported questionnaire. A diagnosis requires a qualified clinician, a developmental history and the exclusion of other explanations.
My score came out high, now what?
Treat it as a reason to book an appointment, and bring the summary so the conversation starts from specifics instead of memory.
Is it suitable for children?
Adult screening items are written for adults describing themselves. Concerns about a child belong with a paediatrician or the school, not a self-report app.
Is the app free?
The listing is free. Check the app's own screens for anything offered beyond the basic screening before agreeing to a charge.
