ADHD Thrive vs WaveMind Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ADHD Thrive
This app offers expert-guided, natural strategies for managing ADHD symptoms in children. It provides on-demand lessons, a supportive community, and practical tools for parents seeking holistic approaches to diet, sleep, and behavior.
- On-demand lessons on diet, sleep, and behavior
- Private community for parent support
- Downloadable resources like recipes and guides
- Holistic strategies without medication
- Expert-led and mom-tested content
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The ADHD Thrive Institute app brings expert-guided, natural ADHD support to your fingertips—designed by a mom who’s been there. Whether you’re juggling school runs, therapies, or mealtimes, this app puts clarity, confidence, and community in your pocket—no matter where you live in the world. What Makes It Different: Natural, holistic strategies that work – Discover how food, movement, sleep, and supplementation can reduce ADHD symptoms without medication. Expert-led and mom-tested – Everything is built by a certified holistic practitioner and mom who has walked this journey herself. Support that meets you where you are – No matter your time zone or location, you’ll have full access to expert tools and community encouragement. Real-life tools for real-life families – Practical routines, achievable changes, and flexible lessons make it easy to start and stick with your plan. Features: On-demand lessons – Learn at your pace with structured lessons on diet, gut health, detox, sleep, and behavior strategies Private community access – Ask questions, share wins, and find support from other parents who get it Push notifications – Stay motivated and on track with helpful nudges and content alerts Downloadable resources – Access recipe guides, shopping lists, cheat sheets, and templates Mobile-optimized experience – Intuitive, clean design makes it easy to find what you need fast For Who: This app is for parents and caregivers of children with ADHD who: Want to reduce ADHD symptoms naturally Prefer real-world, flexible strategies that work with family life Value expert guidance grounded in lived experience Are looking for a like-minded community of parents Live anywhere in the world and want tools that meet them there Why There’s Nothing Else Like It: No patchwork programs. No cookie-cutter plans. Just an all-in-one, supportive system that simplifies the science and empowers you with real tools. You’ll never have to ask, “Where do I even start?” again. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
WaveMind Pro
Enhance relaxation, focus, sleep, and mental well-being with science-informed binaural beats and guided sessions. Connect a compatible EEG headband for live neurofeedback training and track your progress.
- Binaural beat frequency library
- Guided focus and relaxation sessions
- Live neurofeedback with BrainBit hardware
- Progress tracking
- Personal preset library
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Train your attention using your own brainwaves. Connect a compatible BrainBit EEG headband and WaveMind turns your live brain activity into feedback you can see and hear. The music swells as you settle into a calm, alert state. The video brightens when you hold it. Drift, and it fades. Nothing to interpret and nothing to score — you just notice, and your attention learns the rest. No headband yet? Start free with the binaural-beat library and guided sessions. LIVE NEUROFEEDBACK • Four-channel EEG from the temples and the back of the head • Sessions for calm-alert focus, easing a mind that is running too hot, and eyes-closed relaxation • Every session opens with a 45-second measurement of your own resting state, so you train against yourself rather than someone else's average • Blinks, movement and jaw tension are filtered out, so noise never counts as progress • Live EEG trace, frequency readout, time-in-target and session history FEEDBACK YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO SIT THROUGH • Video, podcasts organized by show, classic audiobooks, generative fractals and music — the reward is the thing you already wanted to watch or listen to • Brain-training games, including Mind Tree, that grow while you hold your state • Background Mode for eyes-closed practice with the screen off NO HEADBAND REQUIRED • Binaural-beat frequency library • Guided focus and relaxation sessions • Progress tracking and a personal preset library BUILT BY A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST WaveMind is made by BrainFit Studio, a South Carolina wellness practice, and is built on the same session structure its founder uses in his own work — personal baselines, honest signal quality, and feedback that pauses rather than pretends when the signal is not clean. WHAT YOU NEED WaveMind works on its own for binaural beats, guided sessions and games. Live neurofeedback requires a compatible BrainBit or BrainBit 2 EEG headband (Bluetooth LE), sold separately. SUBSCRIPTIONS WaveMind Premium and WaveMind Neurofeedback+ are offered as auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID; subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ AVAILABILITY / JURISDICTION The BrainBit Headband and BrainBit Flex8 are general wellness EEG devices carrying FCC and CE certification. WaveMind is offered as a general wellness product and is not marketed as a medical device in any region. IMPORTANT HEALTH DISCLAIMER WaveMind is a general wellness and relaxation product. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. The BrainBit Headband and Flex8 are wellness/research EEG devices, not medical devices. WaveMind is not a substitute for professional medical advice — always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider, in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: ADHD Thrive at free against WaveMind Pro's freemium. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ADHD Thrive against 5.0 for WaveMind Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ADHD Thrive ships an update every 2 weeks, WaveMind Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ADHD Thrive | WaveMind Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ADHD Thrive | BrainFit Studios |
Customer experience
ADHD Thrive
WaveMind Pro
In-app purchases
ADHD Thrive
No in-app purchases
WaveMind Pro
No in-app purchases









