Thriive is for ADHD and autistic people of any age. Adults use it to understand their own patterns and advocate for what they need. Parents use it with their children. One account covers the whole household.

What does Thriive actually do?

Thriive helps you track tough moments and wins in 30 seconds, spots the patterns behind them, matches you with strategies that fit how your brain works, and turns it all into evidence you can take to your GP, school, or workplace.

What does Thriive do for my child?

Thriive helps children understand how their brain works, with strategies that fit their specific profile, so they don't grow up believing they're broken.

Yes, Thriive is free to start. You can track tough moments, build routines, browse the strategy library, and check in daily without paying. Pro unlocks deeper Pattern Tracker insights, unlimited profiles and routines, and in-depth strategy guides.

ADHD & Autism Support That Fits How Your Brain Actually Works

Understood, not broken.

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.

What changes with Thriive

Without Thriive

Going through life believing you're broken
Falling behind and never understanding why
Slipping through the cracks of a system not built for you
Trying everything and still feeling stuck

With Thriive

Understanding how your brain actually works
Confidence to advocate for what you need
Strategies that actually fit, not generic advice
Knowing you're not the problem

How Thriive supports ADHD and autistic people

Pattern Tracker: Log a tough moment in 30 seconds. Thriive surfaces the patterns behind it — your triggers, your hardest times of day, what helps.
Strategy Library: 130+ real strategies for ADHD and autism, matched to your neurotype and the time you've got. Not generic advice.
Smart Strategies: Describe what's going on and Thriive builds a strategy around you — or around your child.
Visual Routine Builder: Step-by-step routines for the moments that usually go sideways. Mornings, transitions, winding down.
Daily Check-ins: A 30-second mood check that builds a picture of how you're really doing over time.
Shareable Reports: Take real evidence to your GP, school, workplace, or therapist when it matters.

One app for the whole neurodivergent household

For adults

Understand your own brain. Build evidence for assessments and workplace adjustments. Stop feeling like you're figuring it out alone.

For parents

Spot the patterns behind the hard days. Advocate with confidence at school and with doctors. Strategies matched to your child, not a textbook.

For children

Feel seen. Understand how your own brain works. Build a profile that's yours.

Neurodivergent conditions Thriive supports

Parent Guides

Glossary

Neurodivergent Parenting Glossary: Terms Explained Simply

Daily Challenges

Strategy Categories

Community

Catch the Catastrophe

Your mind jumps straight to the worst-case ending. One unanswered text becomes 'they hate me'; a small mistake becomes 'I'll lose my job'

Steps

Notice the jump. Anxiety skips the middle and lands on the disaster. The tell is a sentence that starts 'What if…' and ends in catastrophe
Name it: 'My brain is doing the catastrophe thing.' You are not the thought; you are the one noticing it
Ask three questions: How likely is this, really? Has it happened the other times I felt certain it would? What is a more boring, likely ending?
Write the boring ending next to the catastrophe: 'They hate me' becomes 'They're busy and haven't looked at their phone'
Don't try to feel calm; just widen the options. Anxiety insists only one terrible thing can happen; you're proving that's not true

What you need

Your own attention; optionally somewhere to write

Why it works

This is cognitive defusion (from ACT) plus gentle CBT reappraisal. Anxious brains treat predictions as facts; labelling a thought as a thought restores the gap between you and it. Naming the pattern also engages the prefrontal cortex, which helps quiet the amygdala's alarm. Neurodivergent brains often catastrophise faster, with rejection sensitivity and pattern-detection running hot, so catching the jump matters more, not less.

Age guidance

Adults and older teens.

Real-world example

An ADHD adult saw an unread message from their manager at 9pm and spent two hours certain they were about to be fired. Learning to say 'my brain's doing the catastrophe thing' and writing the boring ending ('she's probably just sending it before she forgets') didn't make the worry vanish, but it stopped the two-hour spiral. The next morning the message was a thank-you.

Troubleshooting

If a 'more likely ending' feels impossible to find, ask what you'd tell a friend who said the same thing. We're kinder and clearer for other people
If the worry is about something genuinely uncertain, pair this with a plan for the one part you can control
If you can't find the thought at all, start with the body ('my chest is tight'), and the story often surfaces once you name the sensation