Mental Health Apps

What to Be Aware of When Using Mental Health Apps

Apps are not intended to replace medical or professional assistance. We urge you to go to your nearest emergency room or call emergency services (911) if you are in immediate danger.

Mental health (MH) apps have been divided into six categories by the National institute of Mental Health based on how they function (Chandrashekar, 2018).

Symptom Tracking
Cognition (thought) Improvement
Self-Management
Social Support
Skills-Training
Passive Data Collection

They can encompass all the stages that clinical care provides, or just a few of these areas:

Immediate crisis interventin
Prevention
Diagnosis
Primary treatment
As a supplement to therapy
Post-treatment care

There is evidence that MH apps can reduce symptoms, particularly with individuals with mild to moderate depression and some anxiety disorders. But like any intervention, there’s always an element of risk. Some to keep in mind is that MH apps can have poor regulation of quality and privacy. What data are being collected? Can you delete it? Does it use cookies? Does data stay on the device or is it sent to the developer? (APA)

As an educated consumer, it’s important to remember to do your own research but you don’t have to start from scratch. Psyberguide.org has done evaluations of MH apps based on: credibility, user experience, and transparency. Psyberguide.org is still evaluating new apps since more are coming out each month, but check out their website to see how your favorite MH app did.

This list is not a comprehensive list of all apps available on the market. The list is separated into categories and there may be duplicates in some categories as many apps overlap in helpfulness for a variety of disorders. To indicate those apps that had good reviews in Psyberguide.org, you will see this yellow star

Categories (click link to jump directly to associated content):

Addiction
Anxiety
Break-ups
Depression
Eating Disorders
General Mental Health
Mindfulness / Meditation
Mood / Personality Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Schizophrenia
Self-Harm
Suicide Prevention

ADDICTION

	Twenty-Four Hours a Day ($5.99; iOS and Android) Based on the best-selling book of the same name, Twenty-Four Hours a Day offers 366 meditations from the book, making it easier for people in recovery from addiction to focus on sobriety wherever they are.
	Quit That! (Free; iOS) Helps users beat their habits or addictions. Whether you’re looking to stop drinking alcohol, quit smoking, or stop taking drugs, it’s the perfect recovery tool to track and monitor your progress. Track as many vices as you want and find out how many minutes, hours, days, weeks, or years it’s been since you quit.
	HabitGauge- Deep understanding of your habits (free; Android) Habit recorder and addiction recovery tool, app is connected with statistical computing server (Rserve). With its professional statistic and time series analysis techniques (Histogram, Moving Averages, Exponential Smoothing, ARIMA…) you can get a deep understanding about your behavior pattern like a data scientist. It’s the only tool which can forecast the behavior and helps you to prevent.

ANXIETY

	Mind Shift (Free; iOS and Android) Designed specifically for teens and young adults with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxious feelings, Mind Shift stresses the importance of changing how you think about anxiety. Think of this app as the cheerleader in your pocket, encouraging you to take charge of your life, ride out intense emotions, and face challenging situations. CBT-based tools. Get the tools to tackle: Worry, Panic, Perfectionism, Social Anxiety, & Phobias.
	Self-Help for Anxiety Management (SAM) (Free; iOS and Android) SAM might be perfect for you if you’re interested in self-help, but meditation isn’t your thing. Users are prompted to build their own 24-hour anxiety toolkit that allows you to track anxious thoughts and behavior over time, and learn 25 different self-help techniques. You can also use SAM’s “Social Cloud” feature to confidentially connect with other users in an online community for additional support.
	CBT Thought Record Diary (Free; iOS and Android) The centerpiece of cognitive-behavioral therapy is changing your emotions by identifying negative and distorted thinking patterns. You can use CBT Thought Record Diary to document negative emotions, analyze flaws in your thinking, and reevaluate your thoughts. This is a great app for gradually changing your approach to anxiety-inducing situations and your thinking patterns for future situations.
	Happify (Free; iOS and Android) Space to overcome negative thoughts and stress and build resilience. In fact, 86% of the app's users report feeling better about their lives after 2 months of using it. Employs techniques and evidence-based interventions in the areas of CBT, positive psychology, and mindfulness to help you break old and unhealthful patterns and form new, healthful habits. Offers activities and games to improve your life satisfaction and ability to fight negativity. Your emotional well-being is calculated as a happiness score that you can improve upon each week.
	Rootd – Panic Attack & Anxiety Relief (Free with in-app purchases; iOS & Android) Our mission is to help others overcome their panic, fear, and anxiety, and to end the stigma against those affected. Core features: the Rootr (big red button for panic attacks), understanding lessons, the Breathr, the Visualizr, emergency contact, and personal stats page. Can upgrade and pay extra for short term or long term lessons to change relationship with anxiety and panic attacks
	FearTools –Anxiety Aid (free; iOS &Android) Evidence-based app designed to help you combat anxiety, especially useful for those suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Phobias, and Social Anxiety Disorder. Contains: thought diary, exposure therapy, breathing exercise, information, GAD-7 test, and helpful videos.

BREAK-UPS

	Breakup freedom (free with in-app purchases; Android) Helps get you over your ex and provides broken hearted advice by: * Based on the no contact rule, tracking the amount of time you have had no contact with your ex and whether they are constantly contacting you * Seeing positive reinforcement through your break up milestones * Receiving broken heart quotes to keep you motivated from experts like Oprah and Deepak Chopra * The Essential Breakup Checklist to help you find ways to make positive actions while you're going through your breakup * Joining a private community of others going through a breakup that can offer support and ideas for recovery * Gaining access to handpicked resources & advice at www.breakupfreedom.com
	Mend: Self Care for Breakups (free with in-app purchases; IOS) Everyday, you’ll check in, listen to a short audio training that will help you with your breakup and complete a guided journaling activity. You will also have 24/7 access to a stream of advice, stories and interviews that will keep you motivated and inspired. Each week, you’ll select themes you’d like to focus on, which we’ll use to completely personalize your Mending journey as you move further from the breakup and focus on rebuilding a life you love. We never get sick of hearing about your breakup. Keep track of Days Since Breakup, Days Since Last Ex Contact and Self Care Activities as you mend. We also ask a daily question about your breakup to help you reflect, and you can write in your confidential journal whenever you need to get something off your mind. Read authentic and heartfelt stories and advice about heartbreak, relationships and love from our amazing community of Menders.
	Breakup Help – for love and relationship (free; Android) An app to get over your relationship's problems. How - 1. INSTANT CHAT with Miss. Zup, our relationship expert. 2. Breakup FORUM, where you can ask and get answers to relationship questions. 3. Take a 13 days BREAKUP RELIEF CHALLENGE with us. Design by our experts on How to get over from Break up in 13 days only. 4. Take a Break up test and see where your relationship stands. -Based on your answer we draw a statistics and your break up score. 5. Express your feeling using DIARY feature in app. -When you write your feelings down, it helps you to understand what is exactly going on. 6. Read articles on Love, Break up, Happy and Healthy Life. -It will help you to make better decisions about your relationship and life and make it better. 7. See interesting Relationship and Breakup statistics.
	RX Breakup (free; IOS, Android) A 30-day guide that delivers professionally developed self-help techniques in the tone of a trusted girlfriend. With Rx Breakup you will: -Take a realistic, proactive and humorous approach to navigating newly-single life. -Tackle fresh topics every day with beneficial writing exercises and activities. -Identify red flags and self-sabotaging patterns to avoid in future relationships. -Figure out what it is about your “type” that doesn't work. -Learn to navigate your emotions and shift your mood. -Receive a 5 pm pep talk push alert to get you through the end of the day. -Create specific LISTS, as reminders of what happened and going forward, what you need to do.

DEPRESSION

	Happify (Free; iOS and Android) Space to overcome negative thoughts and stress and build resilience. In fact, 86% of the app's users report feeling better about their lives after 2 months of using it. Employs techniques and evidence-based interventions in the areas of CBT, positive psychology, and mindfulness to help you break old and unhealthful patterns and form new, healthful habits. Offers activities and games to improve your life satisfaction and ability to fight negativity. Your emotional well-being is calculated as a happiness score that you can improve upon each week.
	MoodTools (Free; iOS and Android) Aims to support people with clinical depression by aiding the path to recovery. Discover helpful videos that can improve your mood and behavior, log and analyze your thoughts using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles, develop a suicide safety plan and more with this free app.
	Daylio – Mood Tracker (free with in-app purchases; IOS & Android) Ever notice that your moods tend to fluctuate at certain times? Daylio can help you pinpoint these trends sooner so you can make the adjustments you need. Within the PIN-protected app, use graphics to detail your daily activities and moods, then watch the app churn out stats and trends to help you understand your mood better. Reminders ensure you keep up with your tracking and journaling activity
	Depression CBT (free; Android) Based on the tenets of cognitive behavioral therapy. Through informational articles, diarylike mood tracking, and built-in motivational features, the app will help you modify your thought patterns for a better mood. A depression severity test allows you to evaluate your progress. Audio content is a game changer for stressful morning commutes.
	Suicide Safety Plan (free; IOS, Android) Suicidal thoughts can seem like they will last forever – but these thoughts and feelings pass with time. Having a plan in place that can help guide you through difficult moments can help you cope and keep you safe. This safety plan is designed so that you can start at the beginning and continue through the steps until you feel safe. In this safety plan app, you can customize your own warning signs that a crisis may be developing, coping strategies for dealing with suicidal urges, places for distraction, friends and family members you can reach out to, professionals you can call, methods of making your environment safe, and your own important reasons for living. If following your safety plan is not enough to stem a suicidal crisis, then this app also contains an easy-to-access list of emergency resources so that help is just a tap away.

EATING & EATING DISORDERS

	Recovery Record – Eating Disorder Management (Free; iOS and Android) Recovery Record is a great app for anyone recovering from an eating disorder and wanting to develop a more positive body image. Keep a record of the meals you eat and how they make you feel using the app and complete questionnaires that’ll help you track your progress over time. One user calls Recovery Record a “remarkable recovery tool”; “It helps me stick to my meal plan, provides an outlet to vent about my food concerns and helps me stay intact with my body to work with it rather than against.”
	Rise Up and Recover (Free; iOS and Android) Rise Up + Recover is a unique app as it not only allows you to track your meals and how you feel when you eat them, but you can also transcribe your progress into a PDF printout. Pull up the Rise + Recover app on your mobile when you feel the urge to binge or skip a meal, and need quick coping strategies.
	Lifesum - Diet Plan, Macro Calculator & Food Diary (Free; iOS and Android) A broader resource for all things healthy living. The app allows you to set personal goals, from eating healthier, to building more muscle and getting in more steps each day. You can also enter your own personal data and let Lifesum generate a “Life Score” to get a personalized roadmap to better health. With reminders to drink water and eat regularly throughout the day, Lifesum is a great option for anyone trying to live healthier, but for people with eating disorders, this app can be used to help you redefine how you think about healthy body image.

GENERAL MH & WELLBEING APPS

	What’s Up (Free; iOS & Android) Uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. There’s a “Get Grounded” page, which contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, which teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues
	MoodKit ($4.99; iOS) Uses CBT foundation and provides users with over 200 different mood improvement activities. Developed by two clinical psychologists, helps you learn how to change how you think, and develop self-awareness and healthy attitudes. The journal feature is a great way to practice self-care by reflecting on the day, noting any distressing thoughts, and documenting how you overcame them
	Sanvello (free, $8.99 month, 53.99 per year; iOS, Android) Teaches CBT through immersive journeys that combine videos, audio exercises, activities, mood and health habit tracking, and activities. The techniques are designed to work together to help you learn how to feel happier. Sanvello is rooted in widely-used and empirically-supported treatments for anxiety, depression, and stress. What you’ll get: daily mood tracker, guided journeys, tools, assessments, community.
	InnerHour Self-Help & Therapy: Anxiety & Depression (free with in-app purchases; iOS, Android) Uses insights from therapy along with the latest science in CBT, Positive Psychology, and Mindfulness. Six self-help courses: • Depression: Make small changes to overcome depression • Anxiety: Attain calm and balance with strategies for anxiety relief • Sleep: Build a sleep schedule and develop habits to sleep soundly • Stress: Keep a check on your stress levels to feel calm and in control • Anger: Channelise your anger and build learn strategies to cool down • Happiness: Develop critical skills to experience happiness in life Personalized 4-week plans: self-care activities, goal setting and tracking, mood tracking, innerhour resources, Allie – relief chatbot, qualified therapists
	Moodpath- Depression & Anxiety Test (free with in-app purchase; IOS, Android) Offers a mental health assessment that can help you make the judgement call about exploring professional treatment. Unlike other assessments that ask you to reflect on the past two weeks, Moodpath asks you in-the-moment questions over a series of 14 days to weigh your emotional well-being. The app is geared toward facilitating conversations with a professional, but you can also find more than 150 exercises and tools to work on your mental health within the app. At the end of the program, you will receive a detailed summary that you can also share with healthcare professionals, e.g. therapists, psychiatrists, or general physicians.
	Mood Meter (free; iOS, Android) Helps you identify your emotions throughout the day and supports you when you’d like to shift to a different emotion. Using the Mood Meter is quick and easy, helping you expand your emotional vocabulary and discover emotional nuances. Use the Mood Meter to: Check-in regularly with your feelings at work, at home, anytime; Discover what causes you to feel the way you do and see patterns in your feelings over time; Share your emotion check-ins with a small circle of family, friends or colleagues; Learn effective strategies to help you regulate your feelings and enhance the way you manage your life each day. Over time, you’ll develop emotional intelligence skills that can help you in all areas of life
	SuperBetter (free with in-app purchase; IOS, Android) Game focusing on increasing resilience and the ability to remain strong, optimistic, and motivated when presented with challenging obstacles in life. A study by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found that when people played SuperBetter for 30 days, their mood improved, symptoms of anxiety and depression decreased, and self-belief to achieve goals increased. The app can help you adopt new habits, improve your skills, strengthen relationships, complete meaningful projects, and achieve lifelong dreams. SuperBetter also has the potential to help you beat depression and anxiety, cope with chronic illness, and recover from PTSD.
	Booster Buddy (free; IOS, Android) Designed to help teens and young adults improve their mental health. Manage your personal wellness journey and earn achievements as your sidekick guides you through a series of daily quests designed to establish and sustain positive habits: Check-in with how you are feeling each day, use coping skills, keep track of appointments and medications, get started on tasks, follow self-care routines, and increase real-life socialization
	TalkLife (free with in-app purchases; IOS, Android) Offers connection and community support similar to group therapy. A caring community of thousands of people is waiting to talk, listen, and help you feel a little less lonely. If you’re concerned about privacy, anonymous sharing is an option too
	7 Cups (free with in-app purchases, $12.99/mo, $94.99/yr; IOS, Android) Provides online therapy and emotional support for anxiety and depression. There are more than 160,000 trained listeners and licensed therapists who are available to anonymously speak with 24/7. Speak your mind and confide in listeners without the fear of being judged. These listeners can be searched for based on their experience or their specialties, such as bullying, panic attacks, eating disorders, relationship breakups, and many more. Affordable therapy with an online therapist can commence one-to-one in a confidential setting
	Talkspace (free with in-app purchases; IOS, Android) Connects users with a convenient, affordable, and confidential way to deal with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship issues, and chronic illness. A free consultation is provided with a Matching Agent to identify the ideal therapist for your needs based on several factors. More than 1,000 licensed therapists are available, who specialize in anxiety, phobia, depression, domestic violence, PTSD, and more. After upgrading and becoming a member, access is given to a secure chat room wherein you can raise and discuss your worries with your private counselor. The app's pricing plans are described as being approximately 80 percent lower than traditional office-based appointments.
	Wysa: Stress, Depression, & Anxiety Therapy Chatbot (free with in app purchases; Ios, Android) Wysa is your AI friend that you can chat with for free. You can talk to the cute penguin or use its free mindfulness exercises for effective anxiety relief, depression and stress management. Research-backed, widely used techniques of CBT, DBT, Yoga and meditation are employed to support you with stress, anxiety, deep sleep, loss and other mental health and wellness needs. Wysa is an emotionally intelligent chatbot that uses AI to react to the emotions you express. Unlock tools and techniques that help you cope with challenges in a fun, conversational way. For extra support, you can avail guidance from a real human coach - a skilled psychologist who will take you through the advanced coaching sessions for your needs
	Woebot: Your Self-Care Expert (free; iOS, Android) Can help you: Think through situations with step-by-step guidance using tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), learn about yourself with intelligent mood tracking, master skills to reduce stress and live happier through over 100+ evidence-based stories from our clinical team. Helps users with everyday stress and challenges such as symptoms of depression, anxiety, relationship problems, procrastination, loneliness, grief, addiction, pain management and more! Woebot checks-in with you every day and guides you through practical techniques based on tried and tested approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Backed and crafted by researchers.
	Youper – Emotional Health (free but has in-app purchases; Android) Empowers you to monitor and improve your emotional health through quick conversations based on therapy techniques and mindfulness. Created by a team of doctors, scientists, and engineers led by Dr. Jose Hamilton, Youper utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize various techniques to fit your needs. It incorporates techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, and Meditation. KEY FEATURES: Quick conversations that can change your day, Mindfulness personalized to your moments, Effortless journal, Beautiful mood tracker, Emotional insights (on anxiety, depression, stress, panic, bpd, and more), Shareable reports, Personality test, Integration with Google Fit makes self-help and self-care easy

MINDFULNESS / MEDITATION

	Insight Timer (free version or $9.99 month for full version; IOS, Android) Help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply and improve happiness. With 100+ new free guided meditations added daily, more meditation is practiced on Insight Timer than anywhere else. Great for both beginners and experienced practitioners. FREE FEATURES: 25,000+ guided meditations, Select by time for short meditations when on the go, helping you to build a simple daily habit, Thousands of music tracks and ambient sounds to calm the mind, focus, sleep better and relax, The world's most popular meditation Timer, Follow your favorite teachers, Thousands of discussion groups and community features, Stats and milestones for tracking your progress.
	Headspace ($12.99/Month; iOS and Android) Makes meditation simple. Learn the skills of mindfulness and meditation by using this app for just a few minutes per day. You gain access to hundreds of meditations on everything from stress and anxiety to sleep and focus. The app also has a handy “get some headspace” reminder to encourage you to keep practicing each day.
	Calm (Free with in-app purchases; iOS and Android) Named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year, Calm is quickly becoming regarded as one of the best mental health apps available. Calm provides people experiencing stress and anxiety with guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, and relaxing music. This app is truly universal; whether you’ve never tried meditation before or regularly practice, you’ll find the perfect program for you.
	Ten Percent Happier ($12.99/Month; Android) Has a library of 500+ guided meditations on topics ranging from anxiety and stress to parenting and sleep, as well as videos, bite-sized stories, and inspiration you can listen to on the go. New content is added weekly so you’ll never tire of having to do the same meditative practice again and again.

MOOD / PERSONALITY DISORDERS

	IMoodJournal ($1.99; iOS &Android) Part personal journal and part mood tracker, can be used to record everything from mood and symptoms, to sleep, medications, and energy cycles. By tracking these various factors, you’re able to analyze your daily feelings through summary charts that indicate where your stress levels rise and fall.

	UP! – Depression, Bipolar & Borderline Management (free with in-app purchases; Android) Track your personal warning signs of depression, mania and hypomania. Benefits: Increases your competencies to differentiate between normal mood swings and disease symptoms, sharpens your competencies to recognize early warning signs, supports you to better understand the psychology behind your mood, the UP! mood diary is a valuable companion for your psychotherapy, supports a collaborative approach to respond on mental health issues even better. Trilogic telemedical setup: Share your mood with your therapist & trusted people. • Document your state of mental health and simply generate reports about the past 14 and 30 days in PDF-Format. You can print or directly send reports using your smartphone. • Recommend the UP!Doctor web application to your psychiatrist. Connect to it by using a pairing code. Share information effortlessly. • Better together: Connect with a trusted person from family & friends using the partner app UP! Buddy.
	eMoods (free with in-app purchases; IOS & Android) Mood tracking app designed specifically for people with bipolar disorder. Throughout the day, users can track depressive and psychotic symptoms, elevated mood, and irritability and give an indication of the severity of their symptoms. Users can then see their mood changes on a color-coded monthly calendar and even export a monthly summary report to identify specific triggers and better understand their fluctuating mood.
	Daylio – Mood Tracker (free with in-app purchases; IOS & Android) Ever notice that your moods tend to fluctuate at certain times? Daylio can help you pinpoint these trends sooner so you can make the adjustments you need. Within the PIN-protected app, use graphics to detail your daily activities and moods, then watch the app churn out stats and trends to help you understand your mood better. Reminders ensure you keep up with your tracking and journaling activity.

OBSSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

	nOCD (Free; iOS and Android) Designed with the help of OCD specialists and patients to incorporate two treatments: mindfulness and Exposure Response Prevention Treatment. You can receive immediate, clinically-supported guidance when an OCD episode strikes, take weekly tests to assess the severity of your OCD, and have motivational support along the way. One user calls nOCD “a free therapist in your pocket!"
	Worry Watch ($3.99; iOS) One of the most frustrating parts of living with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can be dealing with intense anxiety despite the fact you know your worries are irrational. Worry Watch aims to help users identify their trigger points for anxiety, note trends in their feelings, reflect on when the outcomes were harmless, and change their thinking patterns for the future. Think of it as your personal, password-protect, worry diary.
	Live OCD Free ($29.99; iOS) Claims it has been shown to reduce OCD symptoms by 34% in just 8 weeks. Guides users through Exposure and Response Prevention treatment, helps you to create practice goals, and provides a multitude of tools to help fight OCD at any given moment. You can also try their newly-launched forum (accessible from the website) for ongoing support from OCD experts and sufferers.
	Liberate: My OCD Fighter (free; Android) Helps you learn more about OCD, providing information about the causes and types of OCD and methods to combat it. It offers features to track your compulsions, building an environment suitable to control their OCD. Controlling OCD for the long-term is done using various ways to resist and weaken compulsions: scheduling worry time, controlling compulsions, creating fear ladder, goal setting, connecting to your therapist through regular reports, getting external support.
	OCD Daily Exercise by GG (GGOC) (free; Android) Designed to: 1. Increase your awareness of negative thoughts. 2. Train you to identify and challenge negative thoughts. 3. Increase your access to neutral and positive thoughts. 4. Increase the automaticity of the above processes. 5. Provide daily mood and self-esteem boost. You are advised to complete up to 3 levels per day, which should only take between 2-4 minutes. The app's many topics and themes are broken down into more than 40 levels. Each level has a pool of self-talk thoughts. Complete a set of thoughts to finish the level. To further strengthen learning of supportive self-talk, some levels you complete are followed by a quick memory game. The topics include: self-esteem, belief in change, self-criticism, negative thinking, coping, sin, harm, comparing, perfectionism, emotions, social fears, self as an object, danger and threat, seeing the beauty in the world, fear of abandonment, fear of contamination and more.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)

	PTSD Coach (Free; iOS and Android) Designed for Veterans and military Service members who have, or may have, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This app provides users with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help users manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. Users can customize tools based on their preferences and can integrate their own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are no.
	Breathe2Relax (Free; iOS and Android) Sometimes you just need to breathe and remind yourself you are okay. Breathe2Relax is made for just that. Created by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology, this app is a portable stress management tool that teaches users a skill called diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe2Relax works by decreasing the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ stress response, making it a great option for people suffering from PTSD.
	PTSD Family Coach (Free; Android) For family members of those living with PTSD it provides extensive information about PTSD, how to take care of yourself, how to take care of your relationship with your loved one or with children, and how to help your loved one get the treatment they deserve. The app also provides a great deal of information that is specific to Veterans and active duty members of the military. 24 unique tools to help you manage this stress, including mindfulness exercises, tools to help you re-build your social networks, and tools to help with difficult thoughts and emotions you may be experiencing. The app also provides a way for you to track your stress level over time, using scientifically valid measures, and can provide specific feedback about your progress. PTSD Family Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology.
	CPT Coach (free; Android) For Veterans, Service members, and others with PTSD who are participating in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) with a professional mental healthcare provider. This app contains support materials for a complete course of CPT to help patients manage their treatment, including between session assignments, readings, PTSD symptom monitoring, and mobile versions of CPT worksheets. CPT Coach is not intended to be used as self-help without the guidance of a professional mental healthcare provider. CPT Coach was a collaborative effort between the VA’s National Center for PTSD, the VA’s Sierra Pacific (VISN21) MIRECC, and the DoD’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology. Additional thanks go to the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.

SCHIZOPHRENIA

UCSF PRIME (Free; iOS and Android) Schizophrenia patients are prone to social isolation even when their condition is treated. The PRIME app, created by psychiatry professor Danielle Shlosser, connects people with schizophrenia to their peers through a social network style interface. It also lets users track “challenge goals,” things they’d like to accomplish or improve about themselves.

SELF-HARM

	Calm Harm (free; IOS, Android) Provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. Get started by setting your password so that it's completely private. You can personalize it if you wish, by choosing the background color theme and deciding on whether you would like some company using a variety of friendly characters. The app then provides you with four categories of tasks to help you surf the urge. ‘Distract' helps in learning self-control; ‘Comfort' helps you care rather than harm; 'Express yourself' gets those feelings out in a different way and ‘Release' provides safe alternatives to self-injury. There is also a ‘Breathe' category to help calm and get back in control. You can do the activities for either blocks of five minutes or fifteen minutes with a countdown for each minute. You will be able to track your progress and notice change*. Calm Harm has been developed for stem4 by Dr Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist using the basic principles of an evidence based treatment called Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
	My Shiny Thing (free; iOS) Specializes in distraction, consistent with the evidence based research theory of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. My Shiny Thing empowers those who self-injure with an individualized coping tool to help manage the urge to self harm. It asks how much you want to hurt yourself, and then shows you pages and pages of funny and cute YouTube videos
	Self-Heal (free; iOS and Android) Gives you a randomly chosen activity to do, either now (“write words on yourself with a red marker”) or long term (“plan for the future: holidays, weekends away, job or study plans.”) There’s also a button that takes you to a library of motivational memes and cute pictures, and another for information on managing self-harm urges. Downside is the phone numbers for help are for only for organizations in the United Kingdom.
	What’s Up (Free; iOS and Android) Uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. There’s a “Get Grounded” page, which contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, which teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues

SUICIDE PREVENTION

	MY3 (Free; iOS and Android) Aimed at people who are depressed and suicidal, and trains users to recognize suicide warning signs in others. MY3 asks you to choose three close contacts that you feel comfortable reaching out to when you’re down and keeps you connected to this core network. This best part of this app is that it helps you create your own safety plan asking you to think through and list your own warning signs, coping strategies and support network, so that you can easily act when you recognize your warning signs.
	SafetyNet: Your Suicide Prevention App (free; Android) Provides you with guidance and accessible resources while you are experiencing a mental health crisis. Our goal is to help you help yourself when other resources are not currently accessible to you. Complete with a crisis intervention plan, grounding techniques, journal exercises, and resources, this app is designed to help you navigate anxiety and crisis in a manner that helps to ensure your personal safety. Disclaimer: This app is not intended to replace medical or professional assistance. We urge you to go to your nearest emergency room or call emergency services if you are in immediate danger.
	Suicide Safety Plan (free; IOS, Android) Suicidal thoughts can seem like they will last forever – but these thoughts and feelings pass with time. Having a plan in place that can help guide you through difficult moments can help you cope and keep you safe. This safety plan is designed so that you can start at the beginning and continue through the steps until you feel safe. In this safety plan app, you can customize your own warning signs that a crisis may be developing, coping strategies for dealing with suicidal urges, places for distraction, friends and family members you can reach out to, professionals you can call, methods of making your environment safe, and your own important reasons for living. If following your safety plan is not enough to stem a suicidal crisis, then this app also contains an easy-to-access list of emergency resources so that help is just a tap away.
	SEESAY teen suicide prevention (free; Android) The SEE Something. SAY Something. (SEESAY) Teen Suicide Prevention app combines real-time crisis intervention with community and social engagement. Supported by our official crisis services partner, CRISIS TEXT LINE and available as a FREE download via GOOGLE PLAY the SEESAY app connects teens in crisis to live, trained Crisis Counselors via text 24/7.
	Operation Reach Out (Free; IOS, Android) Aimed at preventing suicide among military personnel and veterans. Developed by a team of suicide prevention experts, under the supervision of the primary author, Lawrence Shapiro, Ph.D. Designed to: encourage people to reach out for help when they are having suicidal thoughts; help those who are concerned about family members, spouses, or fellow service members who may be suicidal; provide a personal contact help center; provide activities to help people who are depressed stay connected to others. Features include: help center, help for people who are suicidal, and help for people trying to prevent suicide.