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
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Neurodivergent Sleep Protocol
Your brain won't switch off at night: racing thoughts, doom-scrolling, and a sleep schedule that shifts later and later
Steps
- Set a 'screens down' alarm 45 minutes before your target sleep time
- Create a sensory wind-down: dim lights, specific playlist or podcast, comfortable textures
- Use a 'brain dump' pad by your bed — write down anything circling in your mind so it's captured and can wait until morning
- Keep your wake time consistent (even weekends). Your sleep time will naturally follow
- If you're not asleep after 20 minutes, get up, do something boring in low light, and try again
What you need
A notepad by your bed, a lamp with warm/dim light, comfortable bedding
Why it works
ADHD brains often have delayed circadian rhythms and difficulty transitioning from stimulating activities to rest. Autism can add sensory sensitivities that make sleep environments uncomfortable. A structured wind-down creates the external scaffolding the brain needs to shift into sleep mode.
Real-world example
An adult with ADHD who had averaged 5 hours of sleep for years tried keeping their phone in the kitchen and using a brain dump pad. Within three weeks, they were consistently getting 7 hours. They described it as 'life-changing — I didn't know I could feel this awake during the day'.
Troubleshooting
- If you can't stop doom-scrolling, put your phone in another room and use a physical alarm clock
- Audiobooks or podcasts at low volume can help quiet a racing ADHD mind — choose something familiar, not gripping
- If your mind won't stop racing, try the '5-4-3-2-1' grounding technique: 5 things you can see, 4 you can hear, etc.
