Apps for
mental health
7 Cups of Tea
Connects users with listeners and counsellors for emotional support, anxiety relief and depression help.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
BlueIce
BlueIce is an app to help young people manage their emotions and to reduce urges to self-harm. It includes a mood diary, toolbox of techniques to reduce distress and automatic routing to emergency numbers if urges to harm continue.
BlueIce is a prescribed app. It should only be used alongside a face to face intervention provided by a mental health worker. Check with your local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to see if they subscribe to BlueIce.
Breathe2Relax
Breathing exercises
Available on iOS and Android - Free
CALM HARM
Provides tasks to help resist or manage urge to self-harm.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Exhale
An Emotional Well-Being App For BIWOC By BIWOC
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Grief: Support for Young People
For 11-25 year olds who have been bereaved of someone important to them. It can also be used by friends, teachers, parents and professionals who would like to know how to support bereaved young people.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/grief-support-for-young-people/id883195199
Freedom Charity
The main aspects of the app are concerned with 3 main groups. You, as a potential victim of forced marriage, or other abuse. Your friend, as the best person to help you,and to see the signs of abuse. And professionals who are educated by the app to look for signs of abuse.
Available on iOS and Android – Free
Headspace
Themed sessions on everything from stress and sleep to focus and anxiety and guided meditations.
Available on iOS and Android – Free & Subscription
In Hand
The app allows you to focus yourself in a moment of stress or low mood.
Available on iOS and Android – Free
MindShift
MindShift® CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
MoodTools - Depression Aid
Lifts your mood if feeling depressed, sad or anxious. Includes a thought diary, activities based on behavioural activation therapy, a safety plan to keep users safe if in a suicidal crisis and depression questionnaire to track symptom severity over time.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Move Mood
Move Moods helps you to manage the behaviours associated with low mood and depression using principles of behavioural activation therapy.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
My Possible Self
Take control of your thoughts, feelings and behaviour with the My Possible Self mental health app. Use the simple learning modules to manage fear, anxiety and stress and tackle unhelpful thinking. Record your experiences and track symptoms to better understand your mental health.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
OCD
This app provides skills to help resist obsessions and compulsions.
Available on Android only for £0.60
www.appbrain.com/app/ocd/air.com.asdspecialist.ocd#descriptionsection
Olllee
Ollee is an app designed to help children articulate their feelings and share them with their parents – and to help parents talk to their children about what they’re going through.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Personal Zen
Fun game to help reduce stress.
Available on iOS only - Free
Positive Penguins
For children to help them understand why they feel the way they do and help them challenge their negative thinking.
Available on iOS and Android for £0.62
ReachOut WorryTime
A place to store your worries, and alerts you when it’s time to think about them. The app also helps to manage stress levels and develop an effective method to dealing with daily worries.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Recovery Record
This app allows users to keep a food and feeling journal; create customisable meal plans, coping tactics, and goals; track progress through questionnaires, which is visualized on charts.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
RefAid
The RefAid mobile app shows migrants, refugees and those who help them where services near them.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Rise Up: Eating Disorder Help
Rise Up + Recover is an app to support you in your eating disorder recovery journey, and for those who are struggling with food, dieting, exercise and body image.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
SAM
Anxiety management and anxiety tracker
Available on iOS and Android - Free
Stay Alive
Suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
https://www.prevent-suicide.org.uk/find-help-now/stay-alive-app/
The Now
Daily mindfulness reminders to help you to pause, reflect, and refocus on the present moment. free iPhone push notifications with an audible chime and relevant message, to remind you to be fully focused on the present.
Available on iOS only - Free
ThinkNinja
ThinkNinja is designed to educate 10-18 year olds about mental health, emotional wellbeing and to provide skills young people can use to build resilience and stay well.
Available on iOS and Android - Free
UCLA Mindful
Practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Basic Meditations for getting started are in English and Spanish.
Available on iOS and Android - Free