MENTAL HEALTH APPS

CRISIS

  • Mentalhealthu (MHU): Tools for navigating a mental health crisis. 
  • Calm Harm: Helps manage the urge to self-harm
  • MyPlan: Helps you or someone you care about in an unsafe intimate relationship identify, navigate and get resources.

STRESS, ANXIETY

  • Calm: Stress. Meditation and sleep stories. 
  • Headspace: Stress. Guided meditation, mindfulness.
  • Pacifica: Stress, anxiety, depression. CBT, mindfulness, meditation, relaxation, mood/health tracking.
  • Mind Shift: Anxiety. Relax, learn more helpful ways of thinking, active steps to deal with anxiety.
  • Breathe2Relax: Stress management; guided breathing exercises 
  • Minddoc: Daily self-care and wellbeing
  • What’s Up? – A Mental Health App; Anxiety and Depression

DEPRESSION

  • Happify: Depression. Games to help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts and build resilience. 
  • MoodTools:  Depression. Thought diary, activities, and tracking to help combat depression.

EATING DISORDERS

  • Recovery Record: Eating Disorders. Companion for managing your journey to recovery from eating disorders.

PTSD

  • PTSD Coach: PTSD. Education, self-assessment, find support, manage symptoms. 

SELF-HARM

  • Calm Harm: Self-harm. Helps you resist the urge to self-harm with activities designed to distract, comfort, release, express, etc.  ($1.99)

HEALTH AND FITNESS APPS

(Free on IOS and Android unless otherwise stated

Nutrition

  • Lifesum: Helps to build a healthy lifestyle with plans for losing weight, gaining muscle mass or maintaining a healthy body. Users choose a fitness plan that's right for them, and then record exercise, water and food intake manually or with a bar code scanner; the app gives you feedback and recommendations based on fitness goals.
  • HealthyOut: eating out doesn’t have to be a guilty pleasure. Many restaurants offer healthy options that align with even the strictest eating plans. HealthyOut helps you find them. It provides access to menus of local restaurants, and matches items on their menu to your dietary needs and preferences.
  • Mynetdiary: To get the most out of the tool, enter your nutritional goals or weight loss goals, and use features within the app to plan your meals and monitor your adherence. 

Fitness

  • MyFitnessPal: MyFitnessPal is a powerhouse app, with an enormous food database, barcode scanner, recipe importer, restaurant logger, food insights, calorie counter, and so much more. Whether you’re monitoring your nutrition to lose weight, change bad habits, build muscle, or just hold yourself accountable for what you’re eating.
  • Fitocracy- Fitness Collective. Track workouts, build support, challenge yourself and your friends, all with the help of our expert coaches.
  • Daily Yoga: Daily Yoga inspires yogis worldwide with the largest yoga pose base. Enables you to practice yoga on all mobile devices and platforms.
  • Nike Training Club: workouts for every fitness level- plus the Nike Performance Council’s tips on training, nutrition, mindset, recovery, and sleep.
  • Asana Rebel: Yoga inspired fitness. Workouts for Flexibility, Weight Loss, Strength & Balance.

Sleep, Headache

  • Sleep Cycle: Sleep Cycle analyzes your sleep and wakes you up at the most perfect time feeling rested. 
  • Slumber: Offers a combination of experiences to help you fall asleep. Many free options or $40 per year of full access. 
  • Migraine Buddy: a migraine diary and tracking app designed by data scientists and neurologists. The app allows you to record your migraine frequency and duration, pain location and intensity, and symptoms and medications, as well as to identify migraine triggers.