These Apps have been developed to assist with a range of issues including anxiety, stress, panic, insomnia, self-harm, medication, body image and resilience.  In addition to the below, this website and this website list a range of award winning apps for a range of mental health  issues as well. 

Apps for Stress, anxiety and panic
  • Insight Timer is a free app (with a paid version) with hundreds of guided meditations, yoga sessions, sleep music tracks and talks led by meditation and mindfulness experts, yoga instructors, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers. It also has IFS guided meditations and talks
  • calm.com is described as a sanctuary in your pocket. It’s all about relaxation and meditation using visual imagery and calming sounds. (Free)
  • Buddha's Brain. Combines breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice to give you strategies to shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.
  • Mindshift - breathing and thinking strategies
  • Smiling mind - describes itself as modern meditation for young people. Its aim is calm, clarity and contentment. (Free)
  • Worry box - anxiety self-help is a virtual box to contain your worries. It’s like an interactive diary, but it also asks questions about whether the worry is controllable or important. (Free; Android only)
  • ReachOut WorryTime interrupts this repetitive thinking by setting aside your worries until later, so you don't get caught up in them and can get on with your day. This means you can deal with worries once a day, rather than carrying them around with you 24/7. 
  • Let panic go is an app for use by someone having a panic attack. (Free)
  • Anxiety free relies on more than meditation: hypnosis. It provides 30 minutes of audio used to place your mind in an ultimate relaxed state. (Free; iPhone only)  
  • Breathe2Relax is diaphragmatic breathing exercises for anyone who feels a panic attack coming on. It’s also recommended for anxiety, anger management, and mood stabilisation. (Free; iPhone and Android)
  • Stop, Breathe and Think – a free mindfulness, meditation and compassion building tool for middle-school students, high-school students, and adults. The App is simple, fun, and easy to use. Check-in to how you are thinking and feeling, and select emotions that guide you to recommended choices from 15 age-appropriate mindfulness and compassion-building audio meditations in a prioritized list.
  • PTSD coach – developed by USA Dept of Veterans Affairs for trauma sufferers. Teaches about PTSD and treatment options, as well as specific coping strategies for different PTSD symptoms
  • App for meditation and developing compassion and mindfulness click here 
  • App for free podcasts from UCLA for weekly mindfulness class
  • Apps for Depression 
  • MoodKit offers CBT ‘homework’ for young people to improve their mood, recording events and feelings, and rating their mood along the way
  • ACT Companion - The acceptance and commitment therapy companion app based on the best-selling book, The Happiness Trap, by Dr Russ Harris -– including guided mindfulness, written and experiential exercises such as simple defusion and acceptance techniques; values-clarification and goal-setting tools; powerful ‘observing self’ and self-compassion exercises 
  • Cloud Clinic. This easy to use self-help program for treating depression is based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).
  • Apps for suicidal feelings
  • BeyondNow App for people experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings, distress or crisis. It allows you to develop your own list of warning signs, coping strategies, reasons for living and ways to stay safe 
  • Apps for Better sleep
  • Relax melodies is 46 pieces of music to help those who can’t sleep, or are anxious about getting to sleep, to do it better. (Free; iPhone and Android)
  • Nature sounds relax and sleep has a wide selection of nature-inspired sounds like waterfalls and ocean waves to take your focus away from anxious behaviours and lure you to sleep. (Free; Android only)
  • Calming music to simplicity is a music app designed to relieve stress and encourage sleep using nine ancient balancing tai chi practices and related Chinese music. (Free; Android only)
  • iSleep Easy – range of meditations
  • SleepStream2 – ambient sounds
  • DeepSleep incorporates guided meditation to help overcome insomnia It can be customised and has an alarm for waking up.
  •  Sleep Time estimates rapid eye movement (REM) sleep cycles while you sleep to help someone gain a better understanding of their sleep habits.
  • Apps for Medication
  • Pillboxie sets up reminders for people to take their medication.
  • Apps for Body image
  • Body Beautiful promotes positive body image and self-esteem among women and girls. 
  • Apps for Self-injury
  • iCope, developed by mental health nurses, offers alternatives to deliberate self-harm by providing practical and easy steps to distract, displace and seek-help. (Free; iPhone only)
  • Apps for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Relationship OCD
  • These apps were developed to assist persons with OCD and ROCD to practice skills in detaching from negative thoughts and promoting positive thoughts. Go to this website
  • Apps for Resilience
    SuperBetter is an online game that supports young people to achieve health-related goals by increasing resilience