Smart Phone Apps
Categories
Anxiety Relief
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
Exam Stress | For test anxiety: tools to help you calm down before exam, advice on exam-taking, and tools to prevent exam anxiety. | Free |
| MindShift CBT | Cope with anxiety by changing how you think about anxiety. Strategies to cope with different anxiety situations. Calming breathing exercise. | Free |
| SAM Self-help App for the Mind | Track anxious thoughts and behaviors, learn self-help techniques, and build your own anxiety toolkit. Also has online community for connection and support. | Free |
COVID-19 Coping Tools
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| COVID Coach | The COVID Coach was created for everyone, including Veterans and Service members, to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. | Free |
Depression & Suicide Safety Plan
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Stanley-BrownSafety Plan (iOS Only) | Help people recognize suicide warning signs and how to develop a safety plan. | Free |
| Suicide Safety Plan | Help coping with suicidal thoughts through customizable warning signs and coping strategies safety plans. | Free |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
| App name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| DBT911(Android Only) | With this app you will develop distress tolerance skills. Contains modules and skill exercises on mindfulness, emotional control, relationship management, and distress tolerance. | Free |
| DBT Coach | Learn and practice DBT skills using video lessons and fun animations. Utilize the Diary card for skills and target behaviors, summary screens to check your progress, and get awards for obtaining new skills or keeping up with one you already know. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| DBT Diary Card& Skills Coach(iOS Only) | Provides coaching to help you with how and when to use the taught skills. Features a customizable diary card that you can edit with the skills and targets you want to work on with charts and graphs to represent your progress. Presents a valuable DBT reference section which breaks down all things DBT. | $4.99 |
| Simple DBTSkills Diary Card | Go over DBT skills and examples on a diary card. Presents you with a progress report on the skills used. | Free, with in-app purchases |
Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills
| App name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| ACT coach | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to help you live your life by your values, even in the face of unpleasant experiences. | Free |
| CBT Thought Record Diary | Track mood, document negative emotions, analyze flaws in your thinking, and reevaluate your thoughts. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Virtual Hope Box | Decrease distress by using healthy coping and emotion regulation skills such as relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. | Free |
| What’s Up? | Coping with depression, anxiety, anger, and stress with CBT & ACT skills. Features help in Identifying negative thinking patterns, habit tracker, catastrophe scale, feeling/thought diary, grounding techniques, breathing exercises, positive quotes, and online support forum. | Free, with in-app purchases |
Focus & Time Tracker
| App name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| aTimeLogger | Time tracking, showing statistics on time allocation. | Free – $4.99 |
| Flora – Green Focus(iOS Only) | Helps you focus on your goal using tree-planting pomodoro timer. Tracks progress and set reminders. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| myHomework Student Planner | Track and organize homework assignments. Along with this valuable feature, this app includes a block class schedule model which will help with staying organized. Everything that a tracker traditionally offers is now present and easy to access with this app. | Free, offers in-app purchases |
| Now Then Time Tracking(iOS Only) | Time tracking, shows statistics on time allocation. | Free |
| Round Health(iOS Only) | Tracking and reminder for taking medication. | Free |
| Today habit Tracker(iOS Only) | Help you organize your day, build life-changing habits, and quit bad habits. | Free, with in-app purchases |
Games to Improve Mental Health
| App name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
Finch: Self Care | Daily self-care app – take care of and help grow a penguin pet by earning points, writing reflections, and completing physical and mental exercises. | Free, offers in-app purchases |
| Happify | Games and activities based on CBT, positive psychology, and mindfulness to help you overcome negative thoughts, reduce stress, and build resilience. | Free, offers in-app purchases |
| SuperBetter | A game focusing on increasing resilience and the ability to remain strong, optimistic, and motivated. Help you to adopt new habits, improve your skills, strengthen relationships, complete meaningful projects, and achieve lifelong goals. | Free |
Insomnia
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| BetterSleep | (Formerly Relax Melodies) Relaxing music, white noise, and meditation for sleep. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| CBT-I Coach | For people with insomnia. This app will guide you through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, improving your sleep environment, and alleviating symptoms of insomnia. | Free |
| Pzizz | Sleep, Nap, and Focus modules. Provides music to help you fall asleep, relax, or help you focus and get work done. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Sleep Cycle | An intelligent alarm clock that tracks your sleep patterns and wakes you up in light sleep – the natural way to wake up, feeling rested and energized. | Free, offers in-app purchases |
| Sleep Time | Track and analyze sleep patterns, natural sounds to help you fall asleep, and workout plan to help you sleep better. | Free, with in-app purchases |
Mindfulness, Meditation, & Breathing
| App name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Breathe2Relax | Diaphragmatic breathing to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ stress response. | Free |
| Calm | Meditation, breathing, bedtime stories, and relaxation music. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Headspace | Free intro of 10, 10-minute sessions of meditation. Contains “SOS sessions” to manage moments of panic or severe anxiety. | Free trial; $12.99/mo or $66.99/yr |
| Insight Timer(iOS only) | Features guided meditation to help with mindfulness. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Sanvello | This app works to help you feel better through food tracking, meditation, journaling, thought analysis, goal setting, positivity music playlists, and techniques to deal with anxiety and depression. | Free, with in-app purchases |
Mood Tracker
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| MindDoc | Assess for symptoms of depression. Videos and psychological exercises to help you understand your mood. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Sanvello | This app works to help you feel better through food tracking, meditation, journaling, thought analysis, goal setting, positivity music playlists, and techniques to deal with anxiety and depression. | Free, with in-app purchases |
Online Mental Health Care
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Cups: Online Therapy & Chat | Online support community and counseling for anxiety, depression, bipolar, addiction, trauma, self-harm, eating disorder, and relationship issues. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| AbleTo | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) programs to help people living with anxiety or depression. One-on-one support from a personal coach throughout the 2-month program. | Minimum $0 w/ select insurance plans |
| Betterhelp | Online counseling with licensed therapists. | Location-based; ~$60-90/week |
| TalkLife | 24/7 peer-support community for stress, anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders, bullying, or suicidal feelings without judgment. | Free, with in-app purchases |
| Talkspace | Talking to a licensed therapist through text, audio, or video chat. | Location-based; Plans start at $65/Week |
| Youper – Mental Health | Artificial Intelligence counselor providing emotional support through text. Include other functions such as: journaling, mood tracking, meditation, mindful practices, sleep sounds, and a personality test. | Free; Premium options vary in price. |
Minority Mental Health App
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
LIBERATE.CX | Mediation and safe space for Black community. | Free; Subscription is $9.99/mo or $71.99/yr |
| The Safe Place | Mental health tools specifically tailored to the Black community. Includes inspirational Black quotes, how to cope after police brutality, how to talk to family about mental health, and many other self-care strategies. | Free |
PTSD
| App Name | Function | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| PTSD Coach | Information on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), self-assessment, tracking symptoms, relaxation skills, positive self-talk, anger management, and opportunities to get support. | Free |