Looking for a Shimmer alternative? Here is the honest comparison.
Shimmer is subscription ADHD coaching: a 30-minute video session with your coach once a week, text access between sessions, a personalized plan, learning content and community body-doubling, at $45 a week for the first four weeks and $60 a week after that, billed every four weeks.1 It is a fair price for a real coach. The question is whether one session a week reaches the part of ADHD that is costing you: the Tuesday morning when you know what to do and still cannot start.
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What Shimmer does well
Shimmer solves the price problem of traditional ADHD coaching, which runs $75–$250 an hour for one session a week.3 For roughly $240 per four weeks you get a trained coach, a weekly session to set direction, texting between sessions and a library of ADHD content.1 If you mostly follow through once you have a plan, and what you need is strategy, reflection and someone who asks how the week went, a weekly subscription like Shimmer may be all you need.
Where a weekly session runs out
Most of the damage ADHD does at work happens between sessions: the report that never gets started, the switch from one task to the next, the afternoon that disappears into something that was not the plan. A weekly session meets you after the fact. Texting your coach helps, but a text is something you have to remember to send at the moment you are least able to act. Weekly coaching gives you a plan. It cannot stand next to you while you execute it.
What a daily coach changes
Get Up and Flow Full Support puts one coach, the same person every workday, inside your day: a 30-minute Jump Start call each morning to plan and prioritize, reminders before each commitment with the context you need, up to two 15-minute Bonus Time calls a day when you stall, and a short Retro to close the day. Coaches are on call 8am–5pm Eastern, Monday to Friday. It is $200 a week, with a full money-back guarantee on your first week, or $750 a month, with no contract.
Side by side
| Feature | Shimmer | Get Up and Flow Full Support |
|---|---|---|
| Live time with your coach | 30 minutes a week | Up to 75 minutes every workday |
| Help while you work | Text your coach between sessions | Coach reaches out before each commitment; live call within the day when you stall |
| Same coach | Yes | Yes, every weekday |
| Body doubling | Community sessions | Your coach, one on one |
| Price | $45/week first 4 weeks, then $60/week (billed every 4 weeks) | $200/week or $750/month |
| Try it | 25% off the first 4 weeks | 7-day full refund |
How to choose
- Shimmer fits if you want a coach for strategy and accountability once a week, at a subscription price, and you can run your own days in between.
- Get Up and Flow fits if the plan is not the problem and starting, switching and finishing during the day is (why starting is the hard part), or if you have tried weekly coaching and it did not stick (daily vs. weekly, in detail).
- Something lighter: Focus Lite is a weekly planning call plus daily reminders for $300 a month, or $95 a week.
Neither is a substitute for diagnosis or treatment; if you are undiagnosed or in crisis, start with a clinician (coach vs. therapist). For the wider field, see every ADHD coaching option compared.
Sources
- Shimmer, homepage and plan details, shimmer.care, read October 22, 2026: “30 min weekly sessions with your ADHD coach,” “$45/week for your first 4 weeks, then $60/week billed every 4 weeks.”
- Get Up and Flow pricing and schedule: getupandflow.co/#pricing and FAQ.
- Sibley and colleagues, national survey of 481 ADHD coaches, JAMA Network Open, 2026; see our ADHD coach cost guide.