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.
Feel seen. Understand how your own brain works. Build a profile that's yours.
Parents comparing Thriive and Goally are usually asking the same underlying question: what will actually make our hard days easier? The honest answer depends on your child and where the struggle lives. This comparison is written by the Thriive team — bias declared, fairness attempted.
Goally gives your child a device. Thriive gives your family an understanding.
Goally is a dedicated, locked-down tablet your child owns, running visual schedules, timers, and reward systems — structure delivered through hardware. Thriive is an app for your family's existing phones that tracks the hard moments and wins, surfaces the patterns behind them, matches strategies to your child's profile, and turns it all into evidence for school and doctors. Goally structures your child's day. Thriive helps you understand and advocate.
The device is the point: no YouTube, no games, no negotiating over your own phone. For children who need heavy visual structure — especially younger kids or those with higher support needs — a dedicated device with schedules and rewards can genuinely smooth the day. The trade-off is cost: roughly $199 to $249 for the device, plus a subscription for the full feature set. It's a real investment before you know if it fits your child.
Thriive works one level up from schedules. You log tough moments and wins in about 30 seconds, do a quick daily check-in (your child can do their own with a PIN login), and Thriive surfaces what's driving things: triggers, hardest times of day, what helps. Strategies are matched to your child's neurotype, age, and challenges — 130+ of them, plus Smart Strategies that build a personalised plan for your specific situation. Visual routines cover mornings, homework, and bedtime, with a play mode your child follows themselves. And when it's time to talk to the school, the GP, or an assessment service, Thriive turns your tracked history into shareable evidence. That's the piece hardware can't do. Thriive is free to start; Pro is £9.99/month or £79/year and covers the whole household, co-parent included.
Pick Goally if your child needs their own distraction-free device, thrives on heavy visual structure, and the hardware budget is comfortable. Pick Thriive if you want to understand what's behind the hard moments, build routines around the answers, involve your child without buying hardware, and walk into school and medical conversations with evidence. Some families use both: Goally as the child's structure device, Thriive as the family's understanding and advocacy layer. If you're starting from zero, start free with the app before committing to hardware.
