Wellness Apps
Explore a variety of wellness apps designed to support mental health, balance, and overall well-being. These tools are available to help you manage stress, build healthy habits, and take care of yourself—anytime, anywhere.
Calm
Is quickly becoming regarded as one of the best mental health apps available. Calm provides people experiencing stress and anxiety with guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, and relaxing music. (Free, iOS, Android)
Happify
Is your fast-track to a good mood with its psychologist-approved mood-training program. Try various engaging games, activity suggestions, gratitude prompts and more to train your brain as if it were a muscle, to overcome negative thoughts. (Free, iOS, Android)
Headspace
Makes meditation simple. Learn the skills of mindfulness and meditation by using this app for just a few minutes per day. You gain access to hundreds of meditations on everything from stress and anxiety to sleep and focus. ($12.99/month, iOS, Android)
Insight Timer
Offers a huge collection of more than 100,000 guided meditations with no required subscription or membership. Several meditation sessions are led by meditation-loving celebs like Gisele Bündchen or Zen masters like Thich Nhat Hanh. This app also offers features like meditation music and a free meditation timer that allows you to practice unguided, complete with ambient noise and a soft ending bell. (An optional premium membership starts at $5 per month and includes offline listening, meditation courses, and other features.)
Mind Shift
One of the best mental health apps designed specifically for teens and young adults with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxious feelings, Mind Shift stresses the importance of changing how you think about anxiety. (Free, iOS, Android)
Mood Kit
Uses the foundation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and provides users with over 200 different mood improvement activities. Developed by two clinical psychologists, MoodKit helps you learn how to change how you think, and develop self-awareness and healthy attitudes. ($4.99, iOS)
The Safety Plan
This app is for anyone who has experienced suicidal thoughts. The app helps you identify personal coping strategies and sources of support – giving suicidal thoughts time to decrease and become more manageable.There are six steps to creating your Safety Plan. It is important to create your Safety Plan when you’re not in distress, so you can think clearly and have time to complete the steps.
Quitzilla: Quit Tracker
This highly rated app lets you track and work toward quitting multiple bad habits and addictions (like alcohol, smoking, caffeine, sugar, etc.). It records your quit date, shows time sober, money saved, and offers motivational features and statistics to help keep you on track. Its simple tracking system and broad habit support make it one of the most useful tools for quitting behaviors and addictions in one place.
Recovery Record: Eating Disorder Management in the App Store
This app has excellent user ratings (about 4.9 out of 5 with thousands of ratings) and is designed specifically to help people recovering from eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and ARFID. It lets you:
- Log meals, thoughts, feelings, triggers, and urges in detail
- Track recovery progress over time
- Set reminders and personalized recovery goals
- See insights and progress from charts and feedback
- Optionally share logs with your treatment team or support person for accountability and personalized support
It’s one of the most highly recommended recovery apps currently available and works for both iOS and Android.
Self-Help for Anxiety Management (SAM)
Might be perfect for you if you’re interested in self-help, but meditation isn’t your thing. Users are prompted to build their own 24-hour anxiety toolkit that allows you to track anxious thoughts and behavior over time, and learn 25 different self-help techniques. (Free, iOS, Android)
What’s Up
Is an amazing free app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. (Free, iOS, Android)