Using the right app can help you take care of your mental health and manage problems such as anxiety, stress and low moods. There are many to choose from but it’s important to find an app that is both safe and effective.
ORCHA is the world’s leading health app evaluation and advisor organisation. The following apps have been reviewed by ORCHA. Some apps may have paid-for features.
Calm – Meditate, Sleep, Relax
Offers guided meditations to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
Cultivating Wellbeing
Gardening for health and wellbeing app from Thrive, the gardening for health charity.
Subscribers to Cultivating Wellbeing can create a personalised garden and nature wellbeing
plan, choose from seasonally relevant activities, record thoughts in a reflection diary and get
gentle motivation to keep on track.
A subscription is just £2.49 a year, with a 14-day free trial.
The app is suitable for anyone age 18+ who would like to improve their health and wellbeing
through time in gardens and nature, no matter your garden space or experience.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
Eat Right Now
28-day program to help you change your relationship to eating.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
Feeling Good: Mental Health
Programme combining deep relaxation, mindfulness and meditation to increase skills and mental resilience.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
Headspace: Meditation & Sleep
Learn the life-changing skills of meditation and mindfulness in a few minutes each day.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
MindShift CBT – Anxiety Relief
Evidence-based anxiety management app using strategies based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
SilverCloud
Silvercloud provides a wide range of supportive and interactive programs, tools and tactics for mental and behavioural health issues.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
StayAlive
It is a pocket suicide prevention resource packed full of useful information and tools to help you stay safe in crisis.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
The Mindfulness App: Relax, Calm, Focus and Sleep
Offers guided meditations and courses from experts around the world to reduce anxiety and improve sleep
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)
Wysa: Anxiety, Depression and Sleep Therapy Chatbot (Android)
Mood tracker, mindfulness coach, anxiety helper, and mood-boosting buddy.
Download from the Google Play Store (Android)