A user friendly app that focuses on challenging unhelpful thinking patterns and providing users with positive thoughts to help better manage a range of mental health and wellbeing concerns. The design makes the app easy to use, but the information can become repetitive and tedious. There seems to be little education to highlight the reasons why a user’s belief might be unhelpful, and there appears to be cultural considerations given to suggestions. Overall, the app is worth exploring but may not be suited to users who are disengaged within 10 minutes. 

Mood app: Journal is well-designed with engaging features including journaling, mood-tracking, and community support where users have the option of sharing their concerns publicly. The app community seems to be very active and appears supportive. The developer website is under-developed, and there is a lack of clarity about data collection, data privacy and confidentiality guidelines for the app. Considering users tend to share some very personal information, this app is not recommended for users concerned about their privacy.

Thought Diary is a helpful app for understanding the basics of using a thought diary and supports users through clearly explaining CBT techniques. The app is well designed and useful as a learning tool but lacks in engagement.

Pocketcoach is an excellent app containing a wealth of resources to help with various mental health issues, including anxiety. Friendly design, very accessible and non-stigmatising language and lovely structure of the exercises. Lots of free content, but access to further paid content is also available at a reasonable price.

Joyable is an excellent, well-designed app, aimed to help users with depression and anxiety. It offers structured modules with daily exercises and the option to connect with a personal counsellor via phone call or SMS. It was developed by an expert team and uses CBT practices to offer support.

Moodnotes is an excellent, easy to use, mood-logging app offering CBT exercises and an excellent tracker with beautiful design and clear, understandable graphs. Data can be easily shared in PDF or Excel formats.

MindShift offers a series of CBT exercises, guided meditations, and journaling functions to assist users experiencing Anxiety. The app also provides an option to export and share data with mental health professionals via email. The design and functionality of the app is not very engaging, but overall this is an excellent self-care app for users seeking a simple option for addressing their concerns, and learning about, Anxiety. 

DARE-Break Free From Anxiety is an excellent app offering a diverse range of easily-accessible podcast-style audio tracks, exercises, and challenges addressing anxiety related concerns. A paid subscription provides users with additional features. Highly recommended! 

CBT Companion is truly an impressive, well-designed app! Not only does it incorporate a vast amount of information (via text and videos) about mental health, it also offers a variety of meditation tracks, a diary function, assessments, a community discussion board, quizzes and more. A 5-star app if not for some issues with functionality.

A memorable and simple diary-style app that offers users mindfulness, thought challenge, and diary keeping functions in a clearly structured format with excellent visual design.