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.
Thriive and Inflow both support ADHD brains, but they do genuinely different jobs, and picking the wrong one wastes money and motivation. Here's an honest comparison — written by the Thriive team, so read with that in mind.
Inflow is a course about ADHD. Thriive is a record of yours.
Inflow is a structured CBT-based learning programme: daily modules, exercises, and expert-led content that teach you how ADHD works and build coping skills. Thriive is a pattern tracker and strategy engine: you log real moments from your life, it shows you your patterns, matches strategies to your profile, and turns your history into evidence for GPs, assessments, and workplace conversations. One teaches, the other tracks and proves.
Inflow's programme was built by ADHD clinicians and it shows: the modules are short (about five minutes), grounded in CBT, and cover everything from impulsivity to nutrition. There are live events with ADHD experts, and a higher tier adds 1-to-1 coaching calls. If you were recently diagnosed and want to actually understand what's happening in your brain, it's the best structured education you'll find in an app.
Thriive is built around your own data rather than a curriculum. A 30-second daily check-in plus quick logs of tough moments and wins gradually build a picture: your hardest days, your trigger times, what actually helps. Strategies are matched to your neurotype and situation rather than served as generic modules, and Smart Strategies builds a personalised plan when nothing off-the-shelf fits. The advocacy piece is the real differentiator: if you're waiting on an assessment, talking to your GP, or asking for workplace adjustments, Thriive turns months of lived experience into shareable evidence. And one account covers your household, which matters if you're an ADHD parent with an ADHD child.
Inflow: around $22.49/month or $95.99/year for the app alone, and roughly $199.99/year for the coaching tier. 7-day free trial, no ongoing free plan. Thriive: free to start with a genuinely usable free tier (check-ins, tracking, routines, strategy library). Pro is £9.99/month or £79/year, with a 7-day trial and no card needed to start free.
Pick Inflow if you want a guided course that teaches you about ADHD, you'll actually do daily modules, and the price is comfortable. Pick Thriive if you want to understand your own specific patterns, find strategies matched to your profile, build evidence for assessments or work, or cover your whole family in one app. And honestly? They stack well: Inflow to learn the theory, Thriive to track your practice. If budget forces a choice, start with the problem that hurts most — understanding ADHD in general (Inflow) or understanding yours in particular (Thriive).
