Recommended Apps

Self-Care
Mood Tracking
Specific Focus
Addiction Recovery
Meditation & Mindfulness

Self-Care Apps

Finch

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Meet your new self care best friend! Finch is a self care pet app that helps you feel prepared and positive, one day at a time. Take care of your pet by taking care of yourself! Choose from a wide variety of self care exercises personalized for you.

Struggling with stress, mental health, or need motivation? Is self care a chore? Finch makes self care finally feel rewarding, lightweight, and fun. Complete quick self care exercises to grow your pet, earn rewards, and improve mental health! People who struggle with mental health, goals, meditation, and journaling found it easier to be mindful with their self care pet in the Finch app!”

(From Google Play Store description)

Finch Website

Voidpet Garden

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Enter Voidpet Garden: your mental health journal brought to life, where your emotions live as magical creatures!

Whether it is anxiety, depression, anger, or simply curiosity you experience, you will discover, befriend, and grow new parts of yourself as you fill your journal, embarking on your mental health adventure.

We’ve designed cute, digestible, and free journal prompts inspired by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and personalized recommendations from practicing therapists. Your journal can be your support through times of anxiety, depression, anger, and stress, or cheerleader that celebrates your good days, keeping your mental health going strong.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Voidpet Garden Website

A Kinder World

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Kinder World is a game about finding peace in everyday life.

It's a cozy wellbeing game with a relaxing atmosphere, designed for quick stress release in just two minutes a session, with gentle evidence-based activities as you raise unique houseplants.”

(From Google Play Store description)

A Kinder World Website

Self

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Healthy self-worth is the greatest and strongest gift you can give yourself.

SELF will be your daily, helpful companion. It is your personal guide that will give you concrete reflections and exercises to a stronger and better you.”

(From mytruevalueapp.com description)

Self Website

Mood Tracking Apps

Moodlight

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Everybody gets moody. Moods are a natural part of your emotional rhythm. Tracking them can help you find patterns in how your moods vary both over time and how they’re influenced by different situations and circumstances.

You probably already know that you feel good when you are in a positive mood, such as when you feel powerful, loving, or optimistic. And, you probably already know you feel bad when you are in a negative mood, such as when you feel anxious, scared, or sad. Other times, you might not really understand how you feel.

With this app you can record your mood and associate it with a wide range of emotions and triggers. This will help you track your thoughts as a daily journal, providing you with a visual representation so you can understand your moods and help you manage them so you can feel better.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Moodlight Website

eMoods

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

eMoods is a user-friendly app for patients to track symptom data relating to Bipolar I and II disorders, Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders.

Identify triggers and patterns to help prevent relapses, and enhance doctor's visits with detailed data exports.

(From emoodtracker.com description)

eMoods Website

Moodfit

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Everyone can benefit from reducing stress and improving the fitness of their mental health. If you're struggling, Moodfit can help you move toward thriving. If you're thriving, Moodfit can help you build the resilience to keep you there in the face of life's adversities.

Moodfit provides the most comprehensive set of tools for good mental health, and helps you understand what brings your mood up and down.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Moodfit Website

Specific Focus Apps

Anxiety

MindShift CBT

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Is anxiety getting in the way of your life?

MindShift® CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.

A new feature, the Community forum, now enables you to find and offer peer-to-peer support.”

(From anxietycanada.com description)

MindShift CBT Website

PTSD

PTSD Coach

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“PTSD Coach was designed for Veterans and military Servicemembers who have, or may have, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

This app provides users with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help users manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD.

Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. Users can customize tools based on their preferences and can integrate their own contacts, photos, and music.

This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not.”

(From Google Play Store description)

PTSD Coach Website

Medication Reminders

Medisafe

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“See the power of personalized engagement at the precise moments that matter.

Our digital solutions deliver personalized and immediate support directly into patients' hands, breaking through barriers with complete treatment journey design, behavior-based interventions, simplified patient enrollment and more.”

(From medisafe.com description)

Medisafe Website

Eating & Feeding Disorders

Recovery Record

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Recovery Record is the smart companion for managing your journey to recovery from eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obsessive eating disorder, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and compulsive eating disorder.

Our team are on a mission to re-invent boring and punishing pen-and-paper mood and meal monitoring homework by converting it into a rewarding App that you can count on.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Recovery Record Website

Self Harm

Calm Harm

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Calm Harm is an award-winning app funded by teenage mental health charity stem4, to help manage the urge to self-harm. It was developed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause MBE, in collaboration with young people and uses principles from an evidence-based psychological treatment called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).

The urge to self-harm is like a wave. It feels the most powerful when you start wanting to do it.

Learn to ride the wave with the Calm Harm app by choosing activities from these categories:
Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, and Random.

There is also a breathing exercise to help you be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions, and reduce tension.

When you ride the wave, the urge to self-harm will fade.

The Calm Harm app provides some immediate activities and techniques to help you break the cycle of self-harm behaviour and explore underlying trigger factors; the app supports you in building a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours, and access to supportive people, as well as providing the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. The Calm Harm app also signposts to help.”

(From calmharm.stem4.org.uk description)

Calm Harm Website

ADHD

Clarify

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Clarify was created for people with ADHD.

Our mission is to help you:
- Improve focus
- Boost productivity
- Curb procrastination
- Live a more balanced, stress-free life

You don’t have to be diagnosed with ADHD to use Clarify. It’s suitable for anyone who wants to master time management and create a space for deep focus.”

(From thefabulous.co/clarify/ description)

Clarify Website

Habits

Habitica

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that uses retro RPG elements to gamify your tasks and goals.

Use Habitica to help with ADHD, self care, New Year’s resolutions, household chores, work tasks, creative projects, fitness goals, back-to-school routines, and more!

How it works:
Create an avatar then add tasks, chores, or goals you’d like to work on. When you do something in real life, check it off in the app and receive gold, experience, and items that can be used in-game!”

(From Google Play Store description)

Habitica Website

Insomnia

CBT-i Coach

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“CBT-i Coach is for people who are engaged in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with a health provider.

The app will guide users through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, and improving their sleep environments.

It provides a structured program that teaches strategies proven to improve sleep and help alleviate symptoms of insomnia.”

(From mobile.va.gov/app/cbt-i-coach description)

CBT-i Coach Website

Addiction Recovery Apps

Recovery Path

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free

“Your personalized recovery journey companion. Suitable for people struggling with or recovering from substance or alcohol addiction.

Built on research. Made with love and compassion.

Recovery Path incorporates aspects of Motivational Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Community Reinforcement to boost your treatment and recovery plan.Use for self-help or link with your treatment team’s Recovery Path Clinician App, Sponsor/Mentor App and/or Friends/Family App.

Easy to use:
Launch the app and get started in minutes

Secure and reliable:
All industry-standard security practices are met

Overcoming addiction is tough and, to get results, you need to put in the work, but it can be the most rewarding thing you ever do in your life.

Recovery Path makes the journey a little bit easier.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Recovery Path Website

I Am Sober

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Break bad habits, build new ones, and connect with others who understand what you're going through.

I Am Sober is more than just a free sobriety counter app.

Along with tracking your sober days, it helps you build new habits and provides ongoing motivation by connecting you to a wide network of people all striving for the same goal: staying sober one day at a time.

Through our growing sober community you can learn from others and contribute by sharing insights and tactics that have helped you quit your addiction.”

(From Google Play Store and iamsober.com descriptions)

I Am Sober Website

Meditation & Mindfulness Apps

Calm

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“Feel better by reducing anxiety, prioritizing your self-care and choosing a guided meditation session that fits within your busy schedule. Introduce mindfulness and breathing exercises into your daily routine and experience their life-changing benefits. Meditation novice or seasoned expert, Calm is for anyone who is looking to improve their sleep and address everyday stress.

Sleep better with Sleep Stories, bedtime stories that lull you into a restful slumber. Relaxing sounds and calming music also help you meditate, focus and sleep soundly. Balance your mood and improve your sleep cycle by picking from 100+ exclusive Sleep Stories, narrated by well-known talent like Cillian Murphy, Rosé, and Jerome Flynn. Meditate daily to relieve anxiety and learn to put your personal health first.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Calm Website

Insight Timer

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“The number 1 free meditation app.

Guided meditations, sleep music tracks and talks led by the top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Join millions learning to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, and sleep deeply.

With 100+ new free guided meditations and sleep tracks added daily, more meditation is practiced on Insight Timer than anywhere else. Great for both beginners and experienced practitioners.”

(From Google Play Store description)

Insight Timer Website

Healthy Minds

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free.

Backed by four decades of research from world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and the team at Healthy Minds Innovations & the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the Healthy Minds Program trains your mind through meditation and podcast-style lessons to develop skills for gaining focus, reducing stress, and maintaining positive social connections.

Research with the Healthy Minds App showed that just 5 minutes a day of practice leads to a 28% reduction in stress, an 18% reduction in anxiety, a 24% reduction in depression, and a 13% increase in social connection.

Featuring our scientific Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose, Well-being Framework, the Healthy Minds Program is a holistic, all-encompassing meditation app that offers the best of both guided meditations and opportunities to learn. You’ll learn simple skills to enhance personal well-being, build healthy relationships, and improve communication, performance, and creativity.

(From Google Play Store description)

Healthy Minds Website

Mindfulness Coach

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free.

“Mindfulness Coach was developed to help Veterans, Service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness.

The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness Coach also offers a library of information about mindfulness, 12 audio-guided mindfulness exercises, a growing catalog of additional exercises available for free download, goal-setting and tracking, a mindfulness mastery assessment to help you track your progress over time, customizable reminders, and access to other support and crisis resources.”

(From mobile.va.gov/app/mindfulness-coach description)

Mindfulness Coach Website

UCLA Mindful

Available on both Android and iOS.
Free with Paid Features.

“With this easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health.

Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, and cultivate positive emotions.

Mindfulness is paying attention to our present moment experiences with openness and curiosity and a willingness to be with our experience. Through regular practice, taught through this app, you can develop a meditation practice and learn to bring more mindfulness into your daily life.”

(From Google Play Store description)

UCLA Mindful Website

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