Answers to the questions we hear most.

DaySteps is a visual schedule and daily routine app for children with ADHD, autism, and executive function challenges — and for the adults supporting them. It helps people start tasks, move through routines, manage transitions, and follow through with less prompting from the people around them.

It works across the full support picture: parents guiding children through morning and bedtime routines, clinicians reinforcing strategies between sessions, educators managing classroom transitions, and adults structuring their own day.

The goal is not app dependency. It is the right support now, adjusted as skills and independence grow.

Anyone who struggles with initiation, transitions, time awareness, or follow-through — and the people supporting them.

That includes children with ADHD, autism, or executive function challenges; adults managing their own EF needs; and families, clinicians, and educators who need a shared system that works across home, clinic, and school.

Yes, and how much of the routine is visible is a setting. On Guided, the person sees one step at a time with a picture and a label. Guided with Preview adds the name of the step that comes next. A parent can also let the child choose between Guided and a Checklist view of the same routine.

Unlike a printed chart or a wall poster, the schedule paces the child, travels between home and school, and shows the adult where the routine actually stalled.

It is used most often by families of children with ADHD, autism, or other executive function challenges, and by the occupational therapists, ABA therapists, and teachers who work with them.

Most routine apps fall into two groups. Habit trackers are single-user and self-directed — one person builds their own routine and keeps a streak going, usually with points, badges, or rewards. Focus and productivity tools are built for adults and students, and centre on blocking distractions to protect deep work.

DaySteps works differently. A parent can configure it for a child, who then gets a view pared back to the support they need, and a co-parent, teacher, or clinician can be connected to the same child with the parent's permission. Adults also use DaySteps for their own routines, to-do lists, focus sessions, and optional mood check-ins.

There is no gamification — no streaks, no scores, no comparisons — because the design follows clinical executive function principles rather than engagement loops.

DaySteps is designed to flex by support need, not age. Young children use it with a parent nearby and a highly guided view. Older children and teens build toward independence gradually. Adults use it for their own routines, focus, and daily planning, with no child on the account at all.

No. DaySteps does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition. It is a structured support tool that works alongside therapy, education plans, and family support — not in place of them.

No. DaySteps currently requires iOS 17 or later on iPhone or iPad. There is no Android version today.

Free: $0. Family: $6.99/month or $49.99/year. Practice: $49.99/month or $499.99/year. Schools: custom annual pricing. New members can also become Founding Members for lifetime Family access with a one-time $149.99 payment — one payment, with no subscription or renewals.

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That depends on the support level you configure.

At the most structured level, your child sees one step at a time with a visual and label. This helps reduce overwhelm and keeps the focus on the next action.

As your child builds consistency, parents can adjust the experience over time. That may mean showing more of the routine, adding calendar visibility, introducing focus tools, enabling mood tracking, or giving the child more control over parts of their day.

These changes are configured by the parent, sometimes with input from a clinician or educator. Nothing unlocks automatically.

That is the specific problem DaySteps was built for. A parent sets up the morning routine once — wake up, bathroom, get dressed, breakfast, teeth, shoes, bag.

The child then works through it one step at a time, with an optional timer on any step, instead of waiting for a parent to say what comes next. The parent can see how far the routine got and where it stalled without standing over it.

Most families start with the morning routine and add bedtime, after-school, and homework once the pattern is working.

That is the opposite of the goal.

DaySteps is designed around adjusting support over time. A child may start with highly guided, step-by-step routines. As routines become more familiar, parents can reduce the amount of guidance while keeping support in the areas where it is still needed.

Independence does not usually happen by removing support all at once. It happens by changing the support gradually and intentionally.

It can if the support is designed to come down.

DaySteps has five adjustable support settings, each set separately by a caregiver: Feature Access, which decides whether My Routines, Focus, Mood, and To-Do are available; Presentation Level, from One Step at a Time to Preview Next Step to Choose Guided or Checklist; Calendar Level, from Anchor View through Full Day and 3-Day View to Full; Insights Level, from Hidden through Daily Insights and Summaries to Trends; and Account Control, from Receives Support to Requests Changes to Co-Manages.

A child might keep step-by-step guidance for the morning routine while managing bedtime on their own. Independence usually comes from changing support gradually, not removing it all at once. Nothing advances automatically — a caregiver makes each change.

No.

Parents create and manage the child's profile from the parent account. The child can access their own simplified experience on a device once it is set up.

The child does not need to manage login details or account settings.

Yes.

Two adults can connect around the same child profile, routines, and progress. This is useful for co-parents, two-parent households, grandparents, or other adults helping with daily routines.

Shared structure matters most when more than one person is supporting the child.

Yes.

Parents control the child's level of access across the system. That includes how much routine guidance they receive, whether they can see their calendar, whether they can access insights, and how much autonomy they have over tools like focus, mood, to-dos, and routines.

DaySteps is not one-size-fits-all. The child's experience can grow as they do.

Connections are parent-approved.

A clinician may refer a family to DaySteps and invite them to connect. A teacher may share a class code with a parent. In both cases, the parent controls whether the connection is approved and what information is shared.

No clinician or teacher receives child information unless the parent connects and grants access.

Only what the parent approves.

For example, a parent may choose to share routine progress with a clinician, classroom-related participation with a teacher, or mood information with a care provider. Access is permission-based and can be changed or removed at any time.

DaySteps is built around parent control.

No. Families connected to an active DaySteps Practice subscriber receive full Family-tier access at no cost while the clinical connection remains active. The family keeps control of its account, data, and permissions.

The family keeps its DaySteps account and all of its data. They can continue with a paid Family plan, or their account returns to the Free plan.

No.

DaySteps is designed to support what happens between sessions. It helps families practice structure, routines, prompting, emotional awareness, and follow-through in the moments where executive function challenges actually show up.

The data from DaySteps can help inform clinical conversations, but it is not a substitute for professional judgment, assessment, or treatment.

Clinicians can recommend DaySteps to families who need more structure between sessions.

Clinicians can also build and run their own routines during a session from their own library, without connecting a family at all.

With parent permission, a connected clinician can review permitted routine, focus, and mood context for that child, and can send a structured suggestion for a specific parent-created routine. The parent reviews every suggestion before anything changes.

Instead of relying only on memory or parent recap, clinicians can see patterns over time and reinforce strategies with better context.

With parent permission, a connected Care Team member can review permitted context for that child, including:

• Routine completion over time
• How a scheduled start time compares with when the routine actually began
• Step-level completion patterns within a routine
• Focus session activity and focus minutes
• Optional, self-reported mood entries

Insights stay inside the app. There is no PDF, report, export, or share sheet, and the purpose is not to generate a diagnosis — it is to make daily functioning easier to understand and support.

Download DaySteps from the App Store and choose the clinician option during setup, or reach out to us directly.

Early clinician feedback is especially important as we continue refining DaySteps for real-world care. We want to work closely with clinicians who understand where families need more support between sessions.

Yes. That is the core clinician experience.

Clinicians can refer families to DaySteps, connect with parent approval, and manage connected families from one place. Each family controls whether they connect and what information they share.

The goal is a simple loop: recommend support, stay aligned with the family, review real-world progress, and adjust strategies with better context.

No. Every family connected to your Practice account receives full DaySteps Family access at no cost while the clinical connection remains active.

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Today, a teacher can create a DaySteps account and build reusable classroom routines — the steps in order, an icon and short label for each, and an optional duration where timing helps.

Live classroom sessions are the next part and are still in development. The planned experience will let a teacher run one routine for the room, with students joining through DaySteps or a browser.

Building the routine now is what makes that session useful later. It is not available yet.

A teacher can create an account and build classroom routines, and keep them ready for the parts of the school day that repeat.

What is still in development: running a live session for the room, students joining by short code, the Guided and Self-Paced session modes, the browser experience for students, and the teacher's live view of session progress.

None of those are available yet, and DaySteps does not present them as though they were.

The planned model is that a teacher shares a class code with the parent, and the parent enters it in DaySteps to connect their child to the class. The parent controls whether that connection happens.

If the parent does not connect, no child data flows to the teacher.

This is the intended workflow for live classroom sessions, which are still in development.

Not yet. DaySteps today is sold as individual family and practice plans. There is no school or district plan, and we are not currently set up to contract with schools or districts.

Our starting point is the individual teacher using DaySteps in their own classroom, at an individual price point. An institutional tier is something we expect to grow into, not something you can buy today.

If you are exploring DaySteps for a school or district, tell us about your setting and we will keep you posted as that work develops.

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We do not make a FERPA compliance claim, and DaySteps is not currently offered to schools or districts.

Live classroom sessions are still in development. Today a teacher can only build routines for their own use. When sessions do launch, no student data will reach a teacher unless that student's parent connects the child and approves it. No student information is sold or shared with third parties.

Before any education launch we will publish our position on FERPA and student privacy law. If you have specific requirements, contact us directly.

DaySteps is designed around parent control, role-based access, and limited sharing.

Parents decide who connects to their family and what each connected person can see. Child information is not sold. Access can be changed or revoked at any time.

DaySteps is built to support sensitive family, clinical, and educational contexts, so privacy is not treated as an afterthought.

Application data is stored in Canada with strict access controls. Sign-in data (email address, sign-in identifiers, session tokens and, for email/password accounts, password hashes) is held by Google Identity Platform in the United States.

More detailed privacy, retention, and data handling information is available in the privacy and data retention policies linked in the footer.

Yes, from inside the app today.

Go to Settings > Delete Account, or email privacy@daysteps.app. Deleting starts a 30-day grace period during which you can cancel; after that a nightly job permanently deletes the account, no later than 31 days from the request.

If you are the only guardian of a child profile, deletion is refused until that child's profile is handled first, so a child's records are never left orphaned.

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No.

Data does not flow automatically to clinicians or teachers. A parent must approve the connection and the scope of access.

Educators are also scoped more narrowly than other connections: they can see permitted schedule and completion information for a connected child, and they do not receive DaySteps Insights.