Health & Wellbeing Apps

An Apple Best of 2018 award winner, Calm's offerings run the gamut from masterclasses (on things like creativity and holistic health) and guided videos on stretching, to sleep stories (think soothing bedtime stories for grownups) and meditation series that address specific areas in life, like anxiety, focus, self-esteem, and self-care.  

The aim of this app is to make the practice of mindfulness accessible to everyone. Offers gentle reminders throughout the day, guided meditations for both experienced and novice meditators (as well as those in between), and timers for those who prefer silent meditation. 

How many negative thoughts have been endlessly repeating in your mind? Daily affirmations help rewire our brains, build self-esteem, and change negative thought patterns. Empower yourself by verbally affirming your dreams and ambitions. Choose from many daily intentions and set reminders to be delivered throughout the day. 

Relax your body and mind with a series of audio tracks designed to help you build confidence, energy and a positive mindset.

Created to be a “personal mindfulness coach,” and to help you observe and regulate your emotions throughout the day while maximising joy, peace, and happiness. It offers inspirational quotes, meditation exercises, a place to record things for which you’re grateful, courses on happiness and well-being, and an opportunity to communicate with like minded people who are also using the app. 

This app pairs your current mental state with the best meditation or relaxation strategies to help you reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep, as well as increase happiness. Offers guided meditations, relaxing nature sounds, short stories to redirect your worrying mind, tranquil music, a place to note things you’re grateful for, and more. 

Teaches mindfulness and meditation to young people and empowers them to become more compassionate.  Perfect when for when you’re overwhelmed by intense emotions like anxiety, stress, sadness, or anger.  

Create music to capture your mood and express how you feel with the Cove app. Instead of words, create music to reflect emotions like joy, sadness, calm and anger. You can store your music in a personal journal, or send them to someone and let the music do the talking. 

A great and simple app for beginning meditators looking to learn as well as more advanced meditators who want to deepen their practice. It offers meditation series that address various topics, like anxiety, stress, sleep, and physical exercise. 

Learn to relax, manage your worries and improve your wellbeing with Chill Panda. The app measures your heart rate and suggests tasks to suit your state of mind. Tasks include simple breathing techniques and light exercises to take your mind off your worries. 

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. 

Stress & Anxiety Companion helps you handle stress and anxiety on-the-go. Using breathing exercises, relaxing music and games designed to calm the mind, the app helps you change negative thoughts to help you better cope with life's ups and downs.

The distrACT app gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

Calm Harm is an app designed to help people resist or manage the urge to self-harm. It's private and password protected. 

Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression with Catch It. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing.

BlueIce is an evidenced based app to help young people manage their emotions and reduce urges to self harm.

The Student Health App provides easy access to more than 900 pages of reliable health information all in one place. The content has been created for university students by NHS doctors and is regularly updated.

Use the app to reduce your worries, feel more confident and get the support you need at what can be a challenging time for any student.

A clear, simple app that helps you to manage your to-do lists, set goals and routines, and track your progress. It offers users help in breaking negative habits and forming new, healthier habits.  

Just because you know that staying hydrated is extremely important doesn't mean you always remember to—or even want to—keep on chugging. Waterlogged helps you out, by allowing you to set sipping reminders throughout the day. You can also adjust these reminders depending on the day

The EXi app creates a 12-week exercise plan based on health information entered by the user. It then sets the duration and intensity of the exercise based on this information.

This helps improve your overall health, but can also be used to manage a number of long-term health conditions and help those at risk of developing them become more active.  

This focuses on short HIIT workouts, and videos. Trainers are first class, and even the lifestyle coaching films are helpful. The trainer-led programmes are the highlight of this app: multiple-week courses for all ability levels, they include carefully paced workouts as well as nutrition and cool-down advice. 

This visual journaling app allows you to also focus on how foods make you feel and create non-weight related health goals

A running programme for absolute beginners. Couch to 5K has now helped more than 4 million people start running.

If you're in the off season of your sport or looking to ease yourself back into a workout routine, this is a great place to start. Choose from over 500 workouts or spice things up by picking one of their 10 to 30-minute randomised full-body workouts to change up your usual sweaty habit.