NeuroHelper
A calmer place to begin.
When someone is overwhelmed, the interface should ask less of them. We built NeuroHelper around accessible daily wellness tools for neurodivergent people, with clear routes into breathing, grounding and routine support.
Explore NeuroHelper- App StoreNative iOS release
Available to download for iPhone.
- 4-7-8Breathing preset
Alongside box breathing and citations.
- 5-4-3-2-1Grounding exercise
A guided grounding tool within the app.
- VoiceOverScreen-reader support
Alongside larger text and reduced-motion support.
- ChooseFind a breathing, calming or routine tool.
- PracticeFollow a focused exercise on the phone.
- RememberUse local reminders for recurring routines.
- ReviewSee recorded activity and progress.
The problem
A daily wellness app has to work in moments when concentration and patience are already stretched. An exercise that is difficult to find, text that will not grow or an inaccessible control can put the useful part of the product out of reach.
The product also spans very different needs. A short breathing session, a medication reminder and a conversation are not the same interaction. We needed a coherent home for those tools without treating an AI conversation as medical care or making an exercise depend on a complicated setup.
Who it’s for
People with ADHD or autism looking for everyday wellness support, and anyone who benefits from a calm, accessible routine.
What we built
We built a native iOS app with breathing presets, grounding exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, guided visualisation and ambient sounds. Breathing choices include box breathing and the 4-7-8 pattern, with citations alongside the presets.
Medication tracking and gentle reminders support recurring routines. Brain Gym provides cognitive exercises. Progress tracking, achievements and streaks give people a record of their activity. An AI chat companion offers wellness support within the same application.
The app includes VoiceOver and larger-text support, light and dark themes and reduced-motion alternatives. These shape the experience of finding and following an exercise, from a spoken control label to a screen that remains usable at a larger text size.
How it works
The native app handles the experience on the phone, with distinct services for storage, notifications, audio and progress. Local reminders use the device notification system. Sensitive credentials use secure device storage, while structured activity data has its own persistence layer.
Apple Health integration can read steps, sleep and active calories and write mindful minutes. The application requests access through the platform rather than creating a separate copy of the entire health experience. A web backend serves the chat connection and keeps the external model service behind a server-side boundary.
The native iOS application brings these capabilities into the App Store release. Notifications, accessible controls and secure storage use the phone’s own systems, so the experience fits the device people already carry.
What was hard
The difficult part is making a broad set of tools feel usable when someone needs only one of them. Text size, spoken labels, motion sensitivity and notification behaviour change the experience directly. We built around those platform capabilities instead of asking every user to adapt to a single visual presentation.
We also keep the promise precise. NeuroHelper is a wellness tool. Its chat and exercises do not provide diagnosis or treatment, and its reminders do not make medication decisions. That boundary shapes both the language in the product and what the assistant is there to do.