SCRED Life Skills - Mobile Apps

Mobile Apps

Stress Management

How We Feel

Features:

Label your emotions using our favorite tool, the Mood Meter, which was created by Yale's Center for Emotional Intelligence
The app recommends self-care strategies that match your mood and even provides short video clips of experts explaining the strategies
Record your location, activities, notes, etc. so you can learn more about what affects your mood and how

Access: 100% free.

iOS | Android | Website

Smiling Mind

Features: A collection of hundreds of mindfulness meditations, including: body scans, breathing meditations, and sensory exercises such as listening to music or tasting foods.

Mark your favorite meditations and track your meditation practice on a dashboard. You can also download meditations for offline use.

Access: 100% free.

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Google Assistant:

“Hey Google, talk to Smiling Mind.”
“Hey Google, do a sleep meditation with Smiling Mind.”
“Hey Google, use Smiling Mind to do a relax meditation.”
“Hey Google, help me focus with Smiling Mind.”

MindShift

Features:

Thought journal to help you identify and challenge unhelpful thinking.
Audio recordings of guided relaxation and mindfulness meditations.
Check-in feature to keep track of your anxiety and mood over time.
Healthy habit tips.
Goal setting and reminder features.

Access: 100% free.

iOS | Android | Website

Headspace

Features: Hundreds of meditation, sleep, and movement exercises offered via audio and video records.

Access: Some of the recording are available for free, but you need a premium membership to access all of them.

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Alexa:

"Alexa, open Headspace"
"Alexa, tell Headspace to start my daily meditation"
"Alexa, ask Headspace for today’s meditation"
"Alexa, tell Headspace I’m ready to sleep"

Google Assistant:

"Hey Google, talk to Headspace."
"Hey Google, ask Headspace for today’s meditation."
"Hey Google, tell Headspace I want to wind down."
"Hey Google, tell Headspace I’m ready to sleep."

Calm

Features:

Breathing exercises to help you relax
Mindful stretching and movement.
Music and soundscapes engineered to help you focus, relax, or sleep.
7 and 21 day mindfulness meditation programs.
Audio classes featuring experts.

Access: Some of the recording are available for free, but you need a premium membership to access all of them. Calm offers a 7 day free trial. Annual memberships cost $69.99.

iOS | Android | Website

Google Assistant:

"Hey Google, talk to Calm."

Insight Timer

Features:

Thousands of guided meditations
Thousands of music tracks and ambient sounds
Thousands of discussion groups and community features
Stats and milestones for tracking your progress

Access: Many features are available through the free plan. The premium subscription costs $9.99/month or $59.99/year.

iOS | Android | Website

Balance

Features:

Personalized guided meditations tailored to your mood, goals, experience, and more.
Offers bite-sized single meditations and 10 day plans.
Wind Down, an activity to help you relax and prepare for restful sleep.
Animated breathing exercises.
9 concrete meditation techniques: Breath Focus, Body Scan, Labeling, Awareness, Visualization, Loving-Kindness, Breath Control, Spotlighting, and Innovation.

Access: The subscription costs $11.99/month and $49.99/year.

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Organization

Google Tasks

Features:

Break down your tasks to subtasks.
Add notes to tasks.
Create a task directly from an email in Gmail.
Organize your tasks by date or prioritize using drag-and-drop.
Receive due date notification reminders to keep your tasks on track.

Access: 100% free.

iOS | Android

Google Keep

Features:

Add notes, lists, photos, and audio to Keep.
Organize your notes with labels and colors.
Get reminded about a note at the right time or place.
Record a voice memo and have it automatically transcribed.
Grab the text from an image to help you quickly find that note again through search.

Access: 100% free.

iOS | Android