Self-Help Applications

Anxiety and Stress

  • Insight Timer: Sleep, anxiety, and stress; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Headspace: Exercise mindful awareness, relieve anxiety, and reduce stress; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Breathwrk: Sleep, relaxation, breathing exercises, energy; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Mindshift CBT: Strategies to relax and be mindful based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); completely free to use

  • Exhale: Mindfulness app created for Black women to combat stress from oppression; includes meditations, daily messages, and activities; has in-app paid subscriptions

Depression

  • Daylio Mood Tracker: This app helps you identify patterns in the changes you may experience in your moods, events that trigger mood changes, and how to better understand your mood and identify adjustments you can make; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • What’s Up? A Mental Health App: Journaling app utilizing CBT and ACT that tracks mood patterns, offers positive quotes, habit tracker; completely free to use, besides the option of donating

  • Finch: Have your own self-care pet to look after utilizing healthy skills; mindfulness, sleep, quizzes, and quotes; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • MoodTools - Depression Aid: Diary app that helps to combat negative moods and thoughts; PHQ-9 test, activities, and safety plan; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Exhale: Mindfulness app created for Black women to combat stress from oppression; includes meditations, daily messages, and activities; has in-app paid subscriptions.

Anger:

  • Calm: Sleep, meditation, and relaxation; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Breathwrk: Sleep, relaxation, breathing exercises, energy; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Ahead - Emotions Coach: Building your toolkit to better manage your emotions; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Quit Anger: Combat anger with soothing techniques, anger log, and grounding techniques; has in-app paid subscriptions and is only available on Apple products

Intrusive Thoughts and Perfectionism

  • Calm: Sleep, meditation, and relaxation; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Headspace: Exercise mindful awareness and meditations; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • OCD.app - Anxiety, PTSD, CBT: For three minutes a day, train your mind to get rid of negative self-talk and replace intrusive with positive habits; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Mindshift CBT: Strategies to relax and be mindful based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); completely free to use

  • Gratitude: A personal journal app where you can write about things you are grateful for and instill more positivity in your life; has in-app paid subscriptions

Healthy Relationships

  • LoveNudge: This fun app provides you an opportunity to focus on developing healthy habits and goals for your romantic relationship; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Gottman Card Decks: Based off the work of the Gottman Institute, this app provides statements, questions, and suggestions for building your romantic relationship; completely free to use

  • Paired: Daily quizzes and exercises for you and your partner to promote healthy discussions; has in-app paid subscriptions

Body Image

  • ThinkUp: A platform to record your own or listen to recorded positive, motivational statements and phrases; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Body+: Body acceptance and positivity, coping with negative beliefs about self; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Worth Warrior: Uses a progression model to deconstruct negative thoughts, boost self-worth, and identify healthy habits to empower your body image; completely free to use

Self-Compassion

  • Healthy Minds Program: Relaxation, meditation, well-being; completely free to use

  • UCLA Mindful: This meditation app includes meditations in both English and Spanish. Mindfulness meditations range from focusing on bodily sensations, to managing distress, to cultivating loving-kindness; completely free to use.

  • Happier Meditation: This meditation app not only includes meditations, but also conversations from leading people in mindfulness and self-compassion research and practice; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • Happify: 65+ activities and tools to savor the present moment and increase mindfulness; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • Exhale: Mindfulness app created for Black women to combat stress from oppression; includes meditations, daily messages, and activities; has in-app paid subscriptions

Lonliness

  • TalkLife: Peer support app that helps the user make connections and share experiences with others around the globe; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • Bubblic: Daily prompts that encourage you to record your response and listen to others’ responses; only uses voice recordings and no other identifiers for your account; has in-app paid subscriptions.

Time Management

  • Todoist: Helps keep your tasks organized across multiple platforms; prioritize projects, set goals, visualize your productivity, and earn points for completing tasks; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • Remember the Milk: If you like making lists, this fun app can help you manage to-do lists across multiple devices to help you stay more organized and productive; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • myHomework: This app can help keep track of your various class assignments, projects, exams, and due dates across your devices; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • 2Do: Task manager app that allows to seamlessly add tasks to your day and organize your priorities; has a color-coding option to better organize your tasks; has an in-app paid subscription.

  • Trello: If your list of to-dos leads to feeling overwhelmed, this app can help you plan out your projects and tasks to combat procrastination; completely free to use

  • Forest: Foster your tree and forest while being productive, if you leave the app before your task is done, your forest withers; has in-app purchases.

Physical Well-Being

  • Thinkable Health: Improve thinking patterns and coping strategies when experiencing physical pain; can also be helpful for anxiety and depression; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Strava: Record your workout routines, track your progress, and gain insight on better ways to improve physical health; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • Medisafe: Medication tracking app that sends reminders to take pills and when to refill prescriptions; has in-app paid subscriptions

  • Birda: Bird-watching app that motivates the user to spend time in nature while collecting information on the birds around the area; has in-app paid subscriptions.

Trauma

  • CBT-I Coach: Learn sleeping patterns and skills and how to improve sleep environment; completely free to use.

  • PTSD Coach: This app can help you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma; completely free to use.

  • ACT Coach: Teaches the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, tracking logs, and exercises; completely free to use.

Self-Harm

  • Calm Harm: Provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm; completely free to use.

  • Calm Urge: Record your daily feelings and find coping strategies and exercises to curb your urge to self-harm; has in-app paid subscriptions.

  • Suicide Safety Plan: Helps user to construct a safety plan to identify coping strategies, support networks, and how to manage suicide ideation; completely free to use.


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