Supportive Apps

Mental Health & Emotional Support

  • Grief Refuge – Daily grief support with tools for coping and healing.

  • VirtualHopeBox – Coping strategies, distraction tools, and meaning-making (including pictures).

  • Dare – Provides audio affirmations to reduce anxiety, panic, insomnia, and worry.

  • Calm Urge – Self-harm prevention and distraction techniques.

  • Suicide Safety Plan – Crisis support app with warning signs, coping strategies, and emergency contacts.

Mood & Symptom Tracking

  • Daylio – Tracks mood, symptoms, and daily habits like sleep and food with visual graphs.

  • eMoods – Monitors mood and mental health symptoms with detailed tracking and graphs.

  • How We Feel — Helps users identify and track emotions to improve emotional awareness and regulation.

Relationships & Communication

  • (Gottman) Card Decks – Offers tools for building relational intimacy and effective communication.

  • Love Nudge – Helps couples connect through the love languages framework, improving understanding and connection.

Well-Being & Positivity

  • Happify – Happiness and well-being check-ins with games and activities.

  • Happier Meditation – Features mindfulness and well-being practices to foster positivity.

  • Insight Timer – A library of searchable meditations and guided imagery sessions.

  • Headspace – Offers guided meditation for stress relief, sleep improvement, and overall relaxation.

  • Calm – Combines mindfulness with sleep aids, relaxing music, and storytelling.

  • Balance – Provides personalized meditation and mindfulness programs tailored to reduce stress and improve focus.

  • Finch – Self-care app where you nurture a virtual pet while building healthy habits and improving your mental well-being.

Nutrition

  • Nourishly – Tracks food intake to manage eating behaviors like restricting or binging, with sharable reports for providers.

  • RR: Eating Disorder Management — Helps track eating habits, manage behaviors like restricting or binging, and share progress with your care team.

Sleep & Trauma

  • CBT-I Coach – Offers CBT tools for managing insomnia and improving sleep habits.

  • Sleep Cycle – Tracks sleep patterns and provides gentle alarms timed for optimal waking phases.

  • PTSD Coach – Includes coping strategies, relaxation tools, symptom tracking, and PTSD management resources.

Productivity & Organization

  • Structured – A block-scheduling app for time management and productivity.

  • Todoist – Task management with priority levels, recurring deadlines, and project organization.

  • Forest – A focus app that encourages productivity by growing virtual trees during focused work sessions.

Substance Use Recovery

  • Meeting Guide – Connects users to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings and tools.

  • NA Meeting Search – Helps find Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings, both in-person and virtual.

  • I Am Sober – Tracks sobriety milestones, offers daily motivation, and fosters community through shared journeys.

Disclaimer: These apps are intended for informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional counseling or medical advice.