Niyora for ADHD
Help for the minute your ADHD feelings flare
A short reply can hurt for hours. Anger arrives before you can think. Niyora is for that minute. Write what happened, name the feeling, calm your body, and wait 20 minutes before you answer.
Free, with 5 Moon moments a month No account needed
What you notice
What ADHD emotional dysregulation can feel like
When you choose ADHD in Niyora, these are the moments it asks you about.
- Rejection hurts for hours
- Anger flares fast
- Overwhelmed
- Replaying it over and over
- Shutting down or freezing
- Tearful
- Saying something you regret
- Feeling low after
- Hard to focus after
- Can’t sleep after
- Restless
Where Niyora fits with what you use now
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A planner or focus app
Keeps your tasks and reminders in one place. It has nothing for the minute a short reply makes your chest go tight.
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Therapy or coaching
Builds skills week by week. The flare can come at 11pm on a Tuesday, days before your next session.
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Niyora
Open it in that minute. Moon helps you name the feeling, calm your body and choose what to say. Keep your medication, therapy and planner as they are.
How it works
How Niyora helps in the moment
Moon offers three kinds of help, one card at a time, and brings more of what you like.
- 01 Reflect
Name the feeling
Write what happened to Moon, Niyora’s AI, in a sentence or two. Moon helps you find the word for it, like rejected, hurt or overwhelmed. Naming it takes some of the edge off.
- 02 Regulate
Calm your body
Breathe with Moon, in for four and out for six, or settle into a short calming scene. You can also color a picture, read a short true story, or step away for 20 minutes with your hands busy.
- 03 Respond
Wait, then choose what to say
Hold the reply for 20 minutes, or let Moon help you write it. Make it shorter, softer or more direct, or save it for later. You decide if it goes anywhere.
Your patterns
See what time of day your feelings build
Home places each feeling you name with Moon on a line from morning to night. Once a feeling has come up three times over two days, Home tells you something like “Mostly in the evening”, so you know which part of the day to plan around.
Logging your period is optional, and Niyora makes no period predictions when you choose ADHD. If you do log, Niyora shows you over time whether your feelings get stronger before your period.
Overwhelmed
The research
What studies have found
13 studies
Across 2,535 adults, those with ADHD had far more trouble regulating emotions than those without.
BMC Psychiatry, 202034 to 70%
of adults with ADHD in clinic studies had emotion regulation problems that got in the way of daily life.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 201431% vs 10%
of women with and without an ADHD diagnosis met screening criteria for PMDD, in a survey of 715 women aged 18 to 34.
British Journal of Psychiatry, 2025154 studies
In sleep loss experiments with 5,717 people, less sleep meant fewer good feelings and more anxiety.
Psychological Bulletin, 2024Sources
- Beheshti, Chavanon and Christiansen. Emotion dysregulation in adults with ADHD: a meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 2020.
- Shaw, Stringaris, Nigg and Leibenluft. Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2014.
- Broughton, Lambert, Wertz and Agnew-Blais. Increased risk of provisional premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) among females with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). British Journal of Psychiatry, 2025.
- Soler-Gutiérrez, Pérez-González and Mayas. Evidence of emotion dysregulation as a core symptom of adult ADHD: a systematic review. PLOS One, 2023.
- Palmer and others. Sleep loss and emotion: a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 50 years of experimental research. Psychological Bulletin, 2024.
If your feelings get much stronger in the week before your period, or you have thoughts of hurting yourself, see your doctor and bring two months of daily notes. Feelings that come only before your period and ease once it starts can fit PMDD. ADHD symptoms that are there all month and get worse before your period are called premenstrual exacerbation.
Privacy
What happens to your words
There is no account and no email sign-up. Your entries are encrypted on your phone. Names and places are swapped for placeholders on your phone before anything reaches the AI, and put back when the reply arrives. Nothing you write is used to train AI.
On your phone
I snapped at Priya in front of the whole team at Northwind, then cried in the car outside Oak Street.
What the AI sees
I snapped at [person] in front of the whole team at [workplace], then cried in the car outside [place].
Questions
Is Niyora an app for ADHD emotions?+
Niyora helps adults with ADHD in the minute a feeling takes over, like rejection, anger or overwhelm. Choose ADHD when you open the app, and its questions and Home are set up for ADHD. Niyora does not diagnose or treat ADHD, and it works alongside your doctor, therapist or medication.
What helps with ADHD emotional dysregulation in the moment?+
Three things can help with ADHD emotional dysregulation in the moment: put a name to the feeling, slow your breathing with a longer out-breath, and wait 20 minutes before you reply. For the longer term, therapy skills such as DBT have been studied in adults with ADHD, and your doctor can talk through medication.
Is there a link between PMDD and ADHD?+
PMDD appears to be more common in women with ADHD. In a 2025 UK survey of 715 women aged 18 to 34, 31% of those with an ADHD diagnosis met screening criteria for PMDD, against 10% of those without. ADHD symptoms that are there all month and worsen before a period are called premenstrual exacerbation, which is different from PMDD.
Do I need to track my period?+
No. Period logging is optional when you choose ADHD in Niyora, and the app makes no period predictions. If you log periods, or bring them in from Apple Health, you can see over time whether your moods follow your cycle, and show your doctor.
Is what I write in Niyora private?+
Niyora has no account and no email sign-up. Your entries are encrypted on your phone. Names and places are swapped for placeholders on your phone before anything reaches the AI, and nothing you write is used to train AI.
Is Niyora free?+
Niyora is free to download, with 5 Moon moments a month. Home, your feelings chart, breathing and period logging stay free. Premium removes the monthly limit on Moon, at $8.99 a month or $29.99 a year.