Find wellbeing apps through Best For You
Explore free wellbeing and mental health apps for young people chosen by Best For You. They’re quick to access, easy to use, and can support your mental health alongside other support.
Any.do
A clean to-do list app for planning tasks, reminders and daily routines.
Apart Of Me
The Apart of Me app is a game that allows young people to cope with grief as they meet new characters and discover magical locations.
Be Focused
Uses timed work sessions to help you concentrate and avoid distractions.
Breathr
The Breathr app supports you to try guided meditations, mindfulness practices, and mindful moments.
Calm Harm
The Calm Harm app suggests activities to help people cope with the idea to self-harm.
Combined Minds
The Combined Minds app has information and suggestions for friends, family members, and carers who are supporting someone who’s struggling with their mental health.
DBT Travel Guide
The DBT Travel Guide app is designed to support people with a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD, also known as borderline personality disorder or BPD) who are following a dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) programme.
Engross
A focus timer that helps reduce phone distractions while you work or study.
Feeling Good Teens
The Feeling Good Teens app offers audio tracks based on Positive Mental Training, a technique from Olympic sports coaching.
Flora
A focus app where staying off your phone helps grow virtual plants.
Forest
Encourages focus by growing virtual trees while you stay off your phone.
Freedom
Blocks distracting apps and websites to help you focus and reduce screen time.
Habitica
Turns tasks and habits into a game to help you stay motivated.
Kooth
An online platform that helps young people with a forum, content, and online chat with professionals.
FAQ - Apps and your mental health
Why use mental health and wellbeing apps?
There are many mental health and wellbeing apps available. While apps aren’t a replacement for other forms of support, such as medication or talking to a professional, they can play an important part in helping us look after our wellbeing and mental health.
Apps are often quick to access, without a waiting list, and you can choose how often and when you use them. Many apps are free, and you don’t need a referral from anyone to give them a try.
Are apps a replacement for professional support?
If someone has a mental health problem, apps are not a replacement for other forms of support, such as medication or talking therapies. However, they can be a helpful extra way to support your wellbeing and mental health alongside other support.
If you need urgent support, text NATTER to 85258 or visit the Get help now page.
How does Best For You help you choose an app?
There are over 350,000 digital healthcare apps available – a pretty overwhelming amount. It can be difficult to narrow down which apps to try, especially if you haven’t used a wellbeing app before, or if you’re not sure which you can trust.
The Best For You website has a small selection of some of the best wellbeing and mental health apps available. The apps are designed to support you with different things in different ways – some have information, while others have audio for meditation and mindfulness, or interactive tools.
What kinds of apps are included on Best For You?
The apps on Best For You support mental health and wellbeing in different ways. Some provide information, while others include audio for mindfulness or meditation, or interactive tools to help you manage how you’re feeling.
Are the apps on Best For You free?
Every app on this site can be used for free. Some apps are entirely free, while others include optional paid-for features that you can choose whether or not to use.
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