Mental Health Apps
Crisis
- Calm Harm: Helps manage the urge to self-harm with activities, breathing exercises, and other coping tools.
- myPlan: myPlan is a free app offered in English and Spanish to help with safety decisions if you, or someone you care about, may be experiencing abuse in an intimate relationship. It’s private, secure, personalized, & backed by research with domestic violence survivors involved every step of the way.
Stress and Anxiety
- Soluna: Free mental health support for young people, including 1:1 coaching or counseling, self-care activities, moderated peer support, and local resources. Availability and services vary by location.
- Calm: Meditation, breathing exercises, stress and anxiety support, and sleep resources.
- Headspace: Guided meditation, mindfulness, stress management, sleep resources, and mental health support.
- MindShift CBT: Free CBT-based tools for anxiety, stress, and panic, including relaxation, mindfulness, thought exercises, and strategies for facing fears.
- Breathe2Relax: Guided diaphragmatic breathing exercises and information about managing stress and anxiety.
- MindDoc: Mood tracking, journaling, self-care tools, and CBT-based courses for common mental health concerns.
- What's Up?: Free CBT- and ACT-based tools for managing anxiety, stress, depression, and other difficult emotions.
Depression
- MoodTools: Self-help tools for depression and low mood, including a thought diary, mood tracking, activities, and educational resources.
Eating Disorders
- Recovery Record: A companion app for eating disorder recovery, with tools for tracking meals, thoughts, feelings, and recovery progress.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- PTSD Coach: Free tools for learning about and managing PTSD symptoms, including education, symptom tracking, coping strategies, and connections to support.
Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB)
- Calm Harm: Helps manage the urge to self-harm with activities, breathing exercises, and other coping tools.
Health and Fitness Apps
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, then record exercise, water, and food intake manually or with a barcode scanner. The app provides feedback and recommendations based on fitness goals.
- HealthyOut: Eating out doesn't have to be a guilty pleasure. HealthyOut helps you find restaurant options that align with your dietary needs and preferences. It provides access to menus of local restaurants and matches menu items to your dietary needs and preferences.
- MyNetDiary: Enter your nutritional or weight-loss goals and use features within the app to plan meals and monitor your progress.
Fitness
- MyFitnessPal: A food and fitness app with a large food database, barcode scanner, recipe importer, restaurant logger, food insights, calorie counter, and more. Users can monitor nutrition, build habits, track fitness, and stay accountable.
- Fitocracy: Fitness collective. Track workouts, build support, and challenge yourself and your friends with the help of expert coaches.
- Daily Yoga: Daily Yoga offers a large yoga pose library and enables you to practice yoga on mobile devices and platforms.
- Nike Training Club: Workouts for every fitness level, plus tips on training, nutrition, mindset, recovery, and sleep.
- Asana Rebel: Yoga-inspired fitness with workouts for flexibility, strength, and balance.
Sleep, Headache
- Sleep Cycle: Analyzes your sleep and helps wake you at an optimal time.
- Slumber: Offers a combination of experiences to help you fall asleep. Many options are free, or full access is available for $40 per year.
- Migraine Buddy: A migraine diary and tracking app designed by data scientists and neurologists. The app allows you to record migraine frequency and duration, pain location and intensity, symptoms, medications, and possible triggers.