Looking for an app to look after your mental health? Here are some of the useful apps around.
Mindfulness
HeadGear
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.7
Google Play Ratings: 3.0
Price: Free
HeadGear is designed to build your resilience and well-being by guiding you through a 30-day mental fitness challenge with simple, engaging daily activities. Activities cover a range of topics such as relaxation, mindfulness, breathing exercises, stress-coping strategies, creating meaningful connections, improving sleep quality, getting active, and staying healthy. The app also features a mood tracker, quote of the day, and mental health support options. In fact, HeadGear has been scientifically proven to significantly reduce depressive and anxiety symptoms.
Headspace
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.9
Google Play Ratings: 4.5
Price: $18.99 monthly with 7-days trial / $97.99 yearly with 14-days trial
Headspace is designed to help you to find more joy, get more good nights of sleep, and become more centered by offering hundreds of guided meditation, including daily meditation, sleep meditation, and stress-relief and coping meditation. Listening to calming stories paired with relaxing music, can relax your mind and help you to have deep sleep. With fitness and tension release courses, you can explore mindful movement and gentle stretching which can help boost your overall mood.
Calm
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.8
Google Play Ratings: 4.4
Price: $14.99 monthly / $69.99 yearly with 7-days trial; $399.99 for lifetime subscription
Whether you are a brand new, intermediate, or seasoned expert in meditation, you will find what you need with Calm. Calm is for anyone in need of a mental break, soothing music, or a peaceful night’s sleep. Its library of guided meditations varies in length to suit your schedule and covers a wide array of topics such as deep sleep, stress management, breaking habits, self-esteem, forgiveness, etc. Calm also offers 100+ sleep stories for adults and kids, many relaxing music tracks and soundscapes to help you relieve stress, anxiety, and sleep problems, as well as classes on breathing and stretching to calm your mind and help your body feel at ease.
Ten Percent Happier
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.8
Google Play Ratings: 4.8
Price: $149.99 per year with 7-days trial
If you want to learn to meditate, sleep better, improve relationships, find relaxation, and be 10% happier, this is the app for you. It has a library of 500+ guided meditations, video and audio lessons, and practical teachings that address topics such as stress, anxiety, focus, parenting, and sleep. This app features experienced meditation teachers with varied approaches so you can find the best fit for you. It also offers a variety of podcasts that provide relatable wisdom to help you to deal with the challenges and opportunities that you face in daily life. New content is updated or released weekly.
Simple Habit
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.7
Google Play Ratings: 4.9
Price: $16.99 monthly / $84.99 yearly with 7-days trial
If a busy lifestyle stops you from practicing meditation, Simple Habit is a good choice for you. Simple Habit helps you to squeeze meditation into your hectic daily schedule. The app offers guided meditations as short as five minutes for those who want a quick meditation on a busy day. It also offers longer sessions if you want to expand the duration of your daily meditation practice. With Simple Habit, you will explore meditation topics such as stress, happiness, resilience, relationships, school, career, parenting, etc. One unique feature of this app is providing meditations for several specific scenarios, such as preparing for a test or interview,having a tough day, or feeling frustrated at work. Many relaxing music tracks, soundscapes, bedtime stories, and podcasts are included as well.
1 Giant Mind: Learn Meditation
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.6
Google Play Ratings: 3.1
Price: Free
1 Giant Mind is a meditation app designed for those who wish to experience less stress, be calmer and present and have better health and well-being overall. This app is particularly good for beginners, as the meditation approach used is easy to practice, and no prior experience is required. Begin your meditation journey with a 12-step short steps training and you should feel the benefits immediately. Next, you unlock a 30-day challenge which is designed to help you to make meditation a daily habit. A journal and set-a-reminder tool can assist you in keeping track of your progress and ensure you turn meditation into a regular practice.
Breethe: Meditation & Sleep
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.6
Google Play Ratings: 4.0
Price: Free with in-apps purchases to get full access:
$18.99 monthly / $129.99 yearly / $399.99 for lifetime subscription
Looking for an app to reduce anxiety, chronic insomnia, and burnout? With Breethe, you’ll get a wide variety of content to wind down and get a restful sleep that includes soothing music, nature sounds, bedtime stories, guided meditation tracks, inspirational talks and masterclasses, and hypnotherapy sessions (this is the only app on our list that has this feature). The app offers 7-Day, 30-Day and 90-Day meditation programs that are easy to follow for beginners learning how to build a routine. Its library of meditations includes topics such as dealing with pandemic stress, loving yourself, mindful sex and intimacy, having a healthier pregnancy, and much more. The app is fully customizable, so you can set up your personalized daily meditation routine in terms of duration, level, and goal.
Smiling Mind
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.2
Google Play Ratings: 5.0
Price: Free
Smiling Mind is one of Australia’s leading wellness apps that aims to help people manage stress and anxiety, boost calmness, and achieve better mental health. The app features a library of meditation and sleep programs suitable for all age groups: kids (3-12), youth (13-18) and adults (19+). The guided meditation sessions and daily meditation activities are intended to help people to deal with stress and the pressure and challenges of daily life in different settings such as family, school, and workplace.The sleep programs are designed to improve overall sleep quality of both kids and adults.
Parenthood
Expectful
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.8
Google Play Ratings: 3.0
Price: $19.99 monthly / $94.99 yearly with 7-days trial
Expectful is a welcome addition to the pool of meditation and sleep apps focused on motherhood. It is specifically designed for new moms and moms-to-be to help them reduce stress, lower anxiety, enhance sleep quality and bond with their babies. This app provides holistic care that can guide you through any phase of your journey, from fertility to pregnancy to motherhood to healing. Popular features of the app include weekly guided pregnancy meditations, 40 daily postpartum meditations, soothing sleep stories and soundscapes, emotional self-care, as well as live events such as prenatal and postnatal fitness classes led by experts.
N.B. Smiling Mind app also provide guided meditation for new moms to become more mindful and less reactive in your interactions with children.
Anxiety and Worry
Unwinding Anxiety
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.8
Google Play Ratings: 4.7
Price: Free with in-apps purchases to unlock all features:
$40.99 per month / $195.99 per six months / $290.99 per year
Learn to unwind your mind and control your anxiety with Unwinding Anxiety. The app features a progressive 30-day program with video and audio recordings lessons and short daily exercises. The app was designed by Judson Brewer to help you understand how your mind works and how to switch gears when unpleasant feelings or anxiety arise, and, ultimately, break anxiety-causing habits. With this app, you can have live video chats with Dr. Brewer and other experts, share your experience or insights in a private community, as well as start an online journal to collect and analyze your thoughts, and manage your progress in dealing with anxiety.
Reach Out Worry Time
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.6
Google Play Ratings: 3.7
Price: Free
Struggling with worrying can negatively impact self-esteem, career, relationships, and other aspects of your life. Reach Out Worry Time acts as a place for you to store your daily worries and manage the time you spend worrying. If you are worried about something, you can enter your worries into this app and schedule a suitable time, place, and length of time for you to think about what has been stressing you out. This means you will only deal with worries at your designated times instead of carrying your issues with you 24/7.
SuperBetter
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.5
Google Play Ratings: 4.1
Price: Free
Are you facing tough times or suffering from stress and anxiety? Here’s an app for you: SuperBetter aims to build resilience, improve mental well-being and support healing or recovery in a gamified way. SuperBetter gives you a range of activities to unleash your heroic potential so that you are able to tackle any difficult challenges and achieve goals in real life: ‘Power-ups’ are quick and easy actions you can do to boost your health and mood, ‘Quests’ enable you to move in the direction of your goals over the longer term, ‘Bad Guys’ involves transforming bad habits and mindset, ‘Allies’ helps you build strong social relationship and ‘Future Boots’ focuses you on future things you are looking forward to.
Depression
Guardians: Unite the Realms
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.6
Google Play Ratings: 4.0
Price: Free
Guardians: Unite the Realms, which was developed by Craig Ferguson, is the winner of Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design award in the Wellness category. Unlike the other apps featured in this list, this app is a game where you get and train a pet by engaging in real life activities that are meaningful to you. It is a unique app that combines the power of video games and psychological behavioral activation techniques to encourage you to build healthy habits, as well as help you to develop the skills you need to combat depression and improve your overall well-being.
SanoMind
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.3
Price: Free
*Available on IOS / App Store only
SanoMind, is an app where therapists create an intimate listening experience for you to boost your mental wellness. It is a platform that provides audio content created by licensed therapists and psychologists. This app can help improve your mental health with tips and guidance around topics such as stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and many more. You can explore and listen to a vast array of content at your own pace, anywhere, anytime, as well as subscribe to your favorite therapist to stay up to date with their new content.
PTSD
PTSD Coach Australia
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 3.7
Google Play Ratings: 4.0
Price: Free
PTSD Coach Australia is developed for Australian veterans and serving personnel, but can be used by any trauma survivors. This app can help you to understand about PTSD and give you tools to manage the symptoms that can come with life after a trauma. There are five main features in this app: ‘Learn’ includes latest information about PTSD and treatments for PTSD; ‘Assess’ that you can take a self-assessment and measure the severity of the symptoms over time based on the graph of the assessment results; ‘Manage’ offers a range of self-help symptom management tools and techniques; ‘Support’ provides information about where to find treatments and supports for PTSD in Australia; ‘Schedule’ allows you to schedule assessments, appointment or activity as well as set a reminder to use a tool.
PTSD Family Coach
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.6
Google Play Ratings: 4.3
Price: Free
Living with a family member who has PTSD can be extremely stressful, PTSD Family Coach is an app for family members of those living with PTSD. This app provides you with information that you need to know about PTSD such as managing symptoms in a loved one, improving your relationship with loved one or children, taking care of yourself and treatments for PTSD. A number of tools are provided for you to control your stress, worry and sadness including mindfulness exercises, relaxation activities, ways to reconnect you with others, etc. You can take assessments to measure how severe your loved one’s PTSD symptoms are or measure your personal well-being and to help you to track your loved one’s and your progress over time. Also, this app provides information about where to connect with support for you and your loved one.
Self-harm and Suicide
Beyond Now Suicide Safety Plan
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.1
Google Play Ratings: 4.0
Price: Free
*Available in Australia only
Beyond Now Suicide Safety Plan app can help you to stay safe when you are overwhelmed or having suicidal thoughts. Having a suicide safety plan can act as a reminder of the reasons to live and also connect you with a person or services who can help during tough times. This app will guide you step-by-step to create your own suicide safety plan that can be accessed at any time on your phone. The planning includes writing out warning signs, ways to make your environment safe, purpose of your life, ways of calming and comforting yourself, and people you can talk to.
Calm Harm
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.4
Google Play Ratings: 4.6
Price: Free
Calm Harm is an award-winning app that uses the fundamentals of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to help you manage your urge to self-harm. This app provides five categories of activities: ‘Distract’ helps you develop self-control; ‘Comfort’ encourages you to care for yourself rather than harm yourself; ‘Express Yourself’ allows you to express your feelings in a different way; ‘Release’ offers safe alternatives to self-injury and ‘Breathe’ helps you to calm down relax and get back in control. The app is password protected so it is completely private.
Grief
My Grief
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 3.4
Google Play Ratings: 3.0
Price: Free
My Grief is an app dedicated to providing helpful information, tools and resources to support bereaved people including children, adolescents and adults to cope with their loss and offering strategies for families and friends to help those who are dealing with grief – like what to say, what to do. By answering some simple questions about the experience of bereavement, the users will be given a variety of tailored strategies and techniques in order to manage their grief from initial stage of bereavement to long term support.
Cancer
Cancer Aid
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 4.4
Google Play Ratings: 3.0
Price: Free
Cancer Aid is designed by two oncologists to empower patients who have been diagnosed with the disease and caregiver to read through information related to diagnosis, treatments and side effects in order to have a better understanding about the disease and take greater control over the disease. The app allows the patient to record and keep track of your symptoms, side effects and complications in a personal journal, share your progress with personal and medical teams, and gain access to the in-app motivational community to read and learn from other patients’ experience and peer-reviewed content. With Cancer Aid, the patients can actively engage in their own care.
Domestic Violence
Penda
Language: English
App Store Ratings: 3.6
Google Play Ratings: 4.3
Price: Free
*Available in Australia only
Penda, which was developed by Women’s Legal Service Queensland, is Australia first financial empowerment app for women who have experienced Domestic and Family Violence (DFV), especially if they are thinking about separation or divorce. This app provides all the necessary financial tips as well as safety and legal information for women who have experienced DFV and covers issues related to emergency money, crisis payment, managing money and debt after separation or divorce, parenting and support, housing and property settlement, and visa and immigration issues.
In-Language Apps
Meditation & Sounds by Verc
Language: English / Simplified Chinese
App Store Ratings: 4.4
Google Play Ratings: 3.3
Price: Free with in-apps purchases to get full access:
$12.99 per month / $55.99 per six month / $82.99 per year
Meditation & Sounds by Verc is designed to improve your sleep quality, help you fall asleep faster, and help you release stress and anxiety. This app is a great anxiety helper as it offers quick stress-relief five minute meditations for busy people. Over 50 soothing sounds, tranquil music and nature sounds are provided to satisfy different needs for meditation, stress alleviation, good sleep, and relaxation. You can individualize the meditation courses by selecting your own goals such as productivity, anxiety, self-esteem, sleep or relationships. The app also provides special KIDS SLEEP packs filled with relaxing melodies. The content of the guided meditations is updated regularly.
Daily Yoga: Workout + Meditation
Language: English / Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese
App Store Ratings: 4.7
Google Play Ratings: 4.7
Price: Free with in-apps purchases to unlock all features:
30.99 per month / 44.99 per three month / 59.99 per year
Yoga is more than just a physical practice – it helps with burning calories and strengthening your muscles but it also brings mental benefits such as relieving stress, improving concentration and mood, and cultivating resilience. Daily Yoga is an app to calm your mind and move your body at home which can drastically increase your quality of life. The app provides more than 500 and1000 guided yoga, pilates, and meditation plans for yogis at all levels, beginner to advanced. You will never feel lonely when practicing yoga with Daily Yoga – the app has the biggest worldwide yoga community. You can connect with yogis from all over the world to make new friends, share your yoga moments, and ask questions about yoga practice.
潮汐/ Tide
Language: Simplified Chinese / English
App Store Ratings: 4.9
Google Play Ratings: 4.1
Price: $16.99 monthly / $82.99 yearly with 7-days trial
Tide is aimed at providing physical and mental health care by integrating meditation, sleep, relaxation, and focus into one app. On opening, the app automatically plays relaxing sounds for you to step away from your fast-paced life and enter into a peaceful moment. Features of the app include a focus timer (to fully immerse yourself and stay focused on your work), sleep and nap mode (to help you fall asleep with nature sounds), relax breathing guide (to improve your mood and relieve stress), a variety of meditations (to push a pause button in your mind) and daily inspiring quotes calendar (to encourage you to live life mindfully).
睿心冥想
Language: Simplified Chinese
App Store Ratings: 4.1
Price: $8.99 monthly / $52.99 with 7-days trial
*Available on IOS / App Store only, Android users can download from web
Ruixin Meditation is designed to help you with stress relief and relaxation, especially if you have difficulty concentrating, suffer from chronic insomnia, anxiety and stress, or have lost the sense of purpose in your life. This app provides various professional meditation courses, music tracks to help you with focus, sleep, stress, and anxiety, as well as offering words of encouragement to give you the inspiration to move forward.
Now 正念冥想
Language: Simplified Chinese
App Store Ratings: 5.0
Price: $10.99 monthly / $56.99 yearly with 7-days trial
*Available on IOS / App Store only, Android users can download from web
Now Meditation is an app that focuses on overcoming insomnia and anxiety, improving concentration and happiness, enhancing interpersonal relationships, and relaxing the mind and body. This app is committed to helping you achieve good health, well-being, and happiness from the inside out in today’s fast-paced world. It offers a rich range of comprehensive guided meditations, nature soothing sounds, sleep stories, relaxing music, emotion tracking and management, and breathing and stretching exercises. The app also provides live events which include Q&A sessions with well-being experts.
New Life 330
Language: Traditional Chinese/Cantonese-Speaking
App Store Ratings: 5.0
Google Play Ratings: 3.6
Price: Free
New Life 330 is promotes holistic health from the aspects of physical, psychosocial and transcendental well-being by incorporating mindfulness practice into daily life as simply as possible. It offers a wide range of mindfulness programs with audio guides focused on topics such as breathing, improving sleep quality, building healthy eating habits, managing stress and anxiety, enhancing parent-child interaction, conquering flight anxiety, etc. All audio and videos are provided in Cantonese.
Here Hear 聽聽
Language: Traditional Chinese (Chinese-speaking with English instructions)
App Store Ratings: 4.2
Google Play Ratings: 3.6
Price: $29.99 per month / $75.99 per three month / $248.62 per year with 7-days trial
If you don’t have anyone to talk to but want to express your feelings, Here Hear is the app for you. Here Hear allows you to freely talk about any secrets and things happening in your life and share it with others in a completely anonymous manner. After recording your own stories, the Al analysis feature in this app recognizes your emotion and keeps track of your daily emotional variations. You can also listen to others’ stories to feel the warmth of companionship and learn to pause during upsetting moments and focusing on yourself too much. Numerous guided mindfulness meditations and relaxing music tracks are provided in the app as well.
Note: The cost of the apps may be subject to change.
Download an app today to cultivate inner calm and increase your mental well-being.
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