Thriive is the support app for ADHD and autistic brains — and the whole household behind them. Track your patterns, find strategies that actually fit, and walk into every appointment with evidence. For yourself, or for your child.
Understand your own brain. Build evidence for assessments and workplace adjustments. Stop feeling like you're figuring it out alone.
Spot the patterns behind the hard days. Advocate with confidence at school and with doctors. Strategies matched to your child, not a textbook.
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Most 'ADHD apps for kids' round-ups read like they were written by someone who has never survived a school morning with an ADHD child. Here's a more honest guide, organised by the job each app actually does, from a team that builds one of them.
You don't need another chore chart. You need to understand what's driving the hard moments.
We make Thriive, one of the apps below. We've tried to be fair anyway. Different families need different things, and an app that's brilliant for one child can be a paperweight for another.
Kids' ADHD apps mostly promise routines and rewards. Those help, but they treat the symptom. The families who make real progress are usually the ones who work out the patterns behind the hard moments: what triggers the after-school meltdown, why homework goes sideways at 5pm but not at 4pm, which days are hardest and why. Understanding first, then routines and rewards have something to stand on.
Goally puts visual schedules, timers, and reward systems on a locked-down tablet that your child owns — no YouTube, no games, no fights about screens. For kids who need their own device and heavy visual structure, especially with higher support needs, it's a strong option. The trade-off is cost and commitment: the device runs roughly $199 to $249, plus a subscription for the full feature set. You're buying hardware, so it's a bigger bet than trying an app.
Joon turns daily tasks into quests that feed a virtual pet your child looks after. For game-motivated kids around 6 to 12, it can genuinely shift the morning battle. It's a motivation layer rather than an understanding layer: brilliant when the tasks are clear and the problem is getting them done, less useful when you don't yet know why everything is a battle.
Tiimo's visual timeline and timers work for kids as well as adults, and it's a good pick for older children and teens who want to manage their own day rather than be managed. There's a decent free version, with the paid plan around $12/month or $54/year.
Thriive (that's us) starts one step earlier than the others. You log the tough moments and the wins in about 30 seconds, do a quick daily check-in, and Thriive surfaces the patterns: triggers, hardest times of day, what's actually helping. It then matches strategies to your child's specific profile — their neurotype, their age, their challenges — rather than generic advice, and includes visual routines your child can run themselves, with their own PIN login. The part parents tell us matters most: Thriive turns what you've tracked into evidence you can take to school meetings, GP appointments, and assessments. 'We're really struggling' is easy for a system to dismiss. Three months of tracked patterns is much harder to ignore. Thriive is free to start, with Pro at £9.99/month or £79/year covering the whole household — including a co-parent and, if you're neurodivergent yourself, your own profile too.
If your child needs their own distraction-free device with visual structure: Goally. If tasks are clear but motivation is the wall: Joon. If your older child or teen wants to run their own day: Tiimo. If you want to understand what's driving the hard moments, build routines around the answers, and advocate with evidence: Thriive. Free tiers and trials exist across the board — try before you commit, and let your actual week be the test.
