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

Shrink the Dread Before It

The days before an appointment, call, or social thing are worse than the event itself. Anticipatory dread hijacks your whole week

Steps

Name it as anticipatory dread: 'The worst part is the waiting, not the event.' That's nearly always true and worth remembering
Get the unknowns out of your head and onto a list: what time, where, who, how long, what happens. Fill in what you can; mark what you'll ask
Reduce real friction in advance: lay out clothes, screenshot the address, plan the journey, prep a sentence for the awkward bit. Dread shrinks as the logistics do
Give yourself a permitted exit: 'I can leave after 30 minutes', 'I can say I need to go.' Knowing you can escape usually means you won't need to
Plan the after: a low-demand recovery slot, a comfort thing, nothing stacked on top. Anticipating relief makes the run-up easier

What you need

A few minutes to plan; the event details

Why it works

Anticipatory anxiety is the brain rehearsing threat to prepare, but neurodivergent brains over-rehearse, especially around uncertain or sensory-demanding events. Converting vague dread into concrete logistics gives the planning brain something to do besides catastrophise, and a known exit removes the trapped feeling that fuels avoidance. Planning recovery directly counters the 'this will wreck me' prediction.

Age guidance

Adults and older teens.

Real-world example

Someone dreaded a dentist appointment for a week, far more than the appointment itself. Writing down the time, the route, and a plan to leave if it got too much, plus booking the afternoon off to recover, shrank the dread from a week-long cloud to a manageable morning of nerves.

Troubleshooting

If you can't stop imagining it going wrong, run it once, fully, including how you'd cope with the bad version, then close it. Rehearsed once beats looped fifty times
For sensory-heavy events, plan your regulation: earplugs, a quiet spot to step out to, your exit line
If the dread is really about the unknown, a quick message ('what should I expect or bring?') buys real information and cuts the guessing