Dopamine menu · for people who get bored and default to scrolling
Bonbon is a dopamine menu app for people who get bored and end up scrolling by default. It opens with a starter menu already set in three courses: appetizers of a few minutes, longer mains, and small desserts. Tap the big Shuffle button and one card is served with the activity, its course, and roughly how long it takes, and you either mark it done or pass for another. Everything stays on your phone, with no account and no network connection.
Tap the big Shuffle button and dish names roll past for under a second, with a light haptic tick on each, before a single card lands. It shows what to do, the course, and about how long it takes, plus an Open button when the dish has a link. Tap I did it! once you've done it, or Pass and Bonbon shuffles again on the spot.
The first time you open it, Bonbon already holds 18 starter dishes, six per course, from a glass of water and a stretch to a 30-minute walk to one line praising yourself. Edit any of them, pause one to keep it out of the shuffle, delete it, or add your own with a name, a course, the minutes it takes, and an optional app or web link.
The History tab counts the dishes you marked done this week, splits everything you've done by course, and lists your three most-served dishes. Below that are your last 30 servings, each with a Done or Passed badge and the time, so a week of small breaks is easy to see.
A dopamine menu is a list of things you enjoy, grouped like a restaurant menu so you can pick one when you're under-stimulated. Plenty of people keep one in a notes app or on a sticky note. The trouble shows up at the exact moment it's needed: you're bored, the list is three taps away, and reading twenty options feels like a chore of its own. The phone already in your hand needs no decision at all.
Bonbon takes the choosing out of that moment. The menu sits behind one large button on the first screen, and a tap hands you a single option instead of the whole list. When you know you only have five minutes, or you want something bigger, narrow the draw with the course chips at the top: Full course, Appetizer, Main, or Dessert.
Shuffling never jumps straight into another app. The result is always a card first: the activity in large type, a colored course tag, and an estimate such as ~4 min. That pause is the point. You see what you're about to do before you do it, and you decide whether it fits right now.
If a dish has a link, the card adds an Open button. A dish can hold an app link, like the youtube:// example in the form, and a web link. Bonbon tries the app first and falls back to the web address when the app can't be opened. Three starter dishes come with links filled in: one video, a few minutes of reels, and one favorite song.
Only active dishes in the chosen course go into the draw. The dish you were served last is very unlikely to come straight back, and the two before it are held back a little too, so the same idea doesn't keep repeating. Pass on something and its odds drop for the rest of that round while Bonbon draws again.
Marking a dish done records it with the time, and so does passing. Both feed the History tab. Deleting a dish later doesn't erase its past servings, because each record keeps the name the dish had when it was served.
Mid-morning, between two tasks, you filter to Appetizer and get a glass of water and a stretch, about three minutes. After lunch the slump hits and a Main comes up instead: a 30-minute walk. At six you pass on cooking something simple because the fridge is empty, and the shuffle offers something else straight away.
If evenings are when you drift, turn on the daily reminder in Settings. It is off by default, asks for notification permission only when you switch it on, and sends one nudge at the hour you pick, 20:00 unless you change it. If you've already marked something done that day, it waits until tomorrow. On iPhone, a small Home Screen widget shows a Shuffle button and today's done count; tapping it opens Bonbon and shuffles right away.
There is no sign-up, no account, and no server. The menu and history are stored on the phone, and the app makes no network requests, so it behaves the same in airplane mode. There is no analytics SDK. Settings has one Delete all data button that erases the menu and history and sets the starter menu out again.
Bonbon doesn't score your day, rank activities, or count streaks. It uses three courses, Appetizer, Main, and Dessert, and leaves out the sides course some dopamine menus include. Two themes, Cream for day and Plum for night, are the only cosmetic choice.
Bonbon is a tool for picking something to do when you're bored. "Dopamine menu" is a term from ADHD communities, used here as the name of the list. Bonbon does not diagnose, treat, or manage ADHD or any other condition, and it makes no claim about dopamine levels or mood. If attention or mood problems are affecting your life, talk to a qualified health professional.
A personal list of activities you enjoy, grouped like courses on a restaurant menu so you can pick one quickly when you're bored or under-stimulated. Bonbon keeps yours in three courses, Appetizer, Main, and Dessert, and serves one at random.
No. Every shuffle ends on a card that shows the activity and its time estimate. Only when the dish has a link, and only when you tap Open, does Bonbon hand you over to that app or web page.
Yes. Tap Add dish in My Menu and give it a name, a course, estimated minutes from 1 to 480, an optional emoji, and an optional app link and web link. Starter dishes can be edited, paused, or deleted the same way.
No. There is no account and no server, and the app makes no network requests. Everything lives on your phone, and Delete all data in Settings wipes it and restores the starter menu.
Yes. Shuffling, the menu, history, and the daily reminder all run on the device without a connection.
No. It borrows the dopamine menu idea that is popular in ADHD communities, but it is a boredom tool for anyone, and it does not diagnose or treat anything.
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