Apps to Help Get Stress & Anxiety Under Control

Check out this stress management app. Calm in the Storm is an app for coping with the stresses of life. Receive personalized suggestions, listen to self-calming meditations, create your own guided safety plan, customize the experience and save your progress.

FearTools is an evidence-based app designed to help you combat anxiety, aiding you on your road to recovery. It includes an anxiety test, breathing tools, and a thought diary, and helps you to establish goals for graded exposure.

InnerHour offers an only counselling service, but they also have an app that includes self-help tools for stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Struggling with anxiety? Tired of missing out? There are things you can do to stop anxiety and fear from controlling your life. MindShift™ is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.    

The app has tools addressing a range of problem areas:

• Making Sleep Count
• Riding Out Intense Emotions
• Test Anxiety
• Perfectionism
• Social Anxiety
• Performance Anxiety
• Worry
• Panic
• Conflict

This app was developed by mental health researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol. It allows you to evaluate and track your anxiety, notice triggers, and develop tools for self-management.

The app will allow the user to:

• monitor their anxiety levels and visualize their anxiety profile over time
• discover and apply self-help techniques including multimedia and mini-games
• share anonymous advice and ratings with the user community (the "social cloud")

Want to feel more like yourself? Learn skills that help you deal with anxiety, stress, and feeling down.

TruReach is mental wellness on-the go. We've broken down cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) into quick, 5-minute lessons and packed them into the TruReach app. This will help to build skills to improve mental wellness.

What's Up? is a fantastic free app utilising some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Stress and more! With a beautiful, modern design, simple heading and easy-to-follow methods, you can get to what helps you the most in seconds!

Top Features:
• 12 common negative thinking patterns and simple methods to overcome them
• 10 great metaphors to help you cope with negative feelings
• A comprehensive diary to keep your thoughts and feelings together in, including the ability to rate feelings on a scale out of 10
• A positive and negative habit tracker. Set goals to practice those good habits while ending the bad ones!
• A catastrophe scale. Put your problems into a better perspective when things are too much
• A grounding game containing over 100 fun questions to help keep you grounded and in the present when stress is taking over
• 3 simple breathing techniques for keeping calm and relaxed
• Forums! Talk with people that may be feeling just like you from all around the planet, without worrying about the like/dislike system
• More than 70 positive quotes, with the ability to add your own and share them with the world!
• Protect your personal data with a pass-code, including either a number only pass-code or a more complex one
• Sync your data between your devices (not just Android) and back up your data so you never lose it
• Themes, including over 20 different colors to choose from in customizing the app

The ACT Coach app from the Department of Veterans Affairs is based on acceptance and commitment therapy to help you change your relationship with difficult inner experiences.

Build skills for lasting happiness: Happify turns the latest innovations in positive psychology, CBT, and mindfuless into activities and games that help you lead a more fulfilling life. Overcome negative thoughts, stress, and life’s challenges!

Shape up your mood with proven tools & insight using Moodfit's free mobile app. CBT, mood journal, gratitude, mindfulness & more.

Quirk is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app for iOS & Android. CBT is an evidenced backed treatment for depression, anxiety, and panic. Try for free!

Overcome panic attacks and anxiety the moment they strike with Rootd’s guided process for immediate relief. Get the Rootd app free on iPhone and Android.

Smiling Mind is a non-for-profit web and app-based meditation program
developed by psychologists and educators to help bring mindfulness into
your life.

The #1 app for stress and anxiety with over 3 million users. Digital self-care on iOS and Android to manage and treat stress, anxiety, and depression. Formerly known as Pacifica.

This mental heatlh resource directory contais a broad selection of high quality and informative mental health websites and apps.