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A whole host of wellbeing and mental health support apps are now available to support you – here are just a few that you may find helpful.   
(See notes below for further guidance).

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Calm Harm

An award-winning app which provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm.  Free to download.calm harm
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`Hub of Hope App

FInd local support services in your area and access a crisis messenger service for tough times.
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DistrACT

Easy, quick and discreet access to health information, self-help tips and links to support and trusted resources for those who self-harm or feel suicidal - and those supporting them.
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Stay Alive App

A suicide prevention resource with information to help you stay safe. Helpful if you are having suicidal thoughts yourself or are worried about someone who may be considering suicide.
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Clear Fear

Anxiety is a natural response to fear, threat and apprehension. However sometimes it can become overwhelming - the Clear Fear app helps you to learn and reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.
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SAM (Self Anxiety Management

SAM helps you to understand and manage anxiety. Free download.
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Anti Stress App

A fun collection of 50+ relaxation toy and games to play - perfect for anxious moments. Play with wooden boxes or a Newtons cradle, clean a window, swipe your finger in water, press clicker buttons. Free download with in app purchases.
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Personal Zen

A stress and anxiety reduction app with a simple fun based game that helps to promote positive thinking and to reduce stress as you play. Free download - in app purchases.
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Molehill Mountain

A free app designed by Autistica and Kings College for those with Autism. Helps you to explore the causes and symptoms of anxiety and to feel more confident in managing anxiety. Suitable for young adults +.
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Mindshift CBT for Anxiety Relief

MindShift CBT is a free self-help anxiety relief app, that helps you reduce worry, stress, and panic by following evidence-based strategies. Using CBT tools, you can challenge negativity, learn more about anxiety, develop more effective ways of thinking, be mindful, and relax. If you are looking for anxiety, stress, and panic relief, you have come to the right place.
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BBC Bitesize Revision App

Revision app for 14-16 year olds with Flashcards and revision materials for GCSE (9-1). Set your subjects and exam board and you’ll only see the stuff that’s relevant to you. Free to download - no in app purchases.
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Quizlet

Flashcards app - create your own or use study sets created by experts. Free with in app purchases.
Flora

Flora - Grow Trees to Stay Focused

Free download - Flora blocks distracting apps, such as Facebook, Instagram or games, in a fun way to help you focus on what’s more important in real life.
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In-Hand

A ‘digital friend’ and mood checker app’ , allowing you to focus and re-balance yourself in moments of stress or low mood. Customisable with your own photos, music and videos. Free download.
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Hub Of Hope

Wellbeing App that helps you find mental health services local to you, linking you with people who understand and are ready to help. Available for Android and I-Phone.
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For Me

Childline App for support and advice on a wide range of issues – with access to information and videos to help you feel better, a mood tracker, access to 1-2-1 Childline support. Free to download.
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Three Good Things - A Happiness Journal

A happiness journal - research shows that writing down good things everyday helps increase your positivity and happiness. With the free, Three Good Things App, you can 'rewire' and retrain your brain to focus on the positive instead of the negative by actively finding positive things that happen in your daily life.
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Moodscope

Web-based mood tracking system to help you to manage your mood. Free registration.
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Tell Mi

Tellmi is the only pre-moderated (by humans) digital peer support app where posts are approved in minutes, not hours. Helps to improve mental health and loved by young people aged 11-25.



Moodkit

Moodkit

Moodkit is a paid for app which is a highly respected tool for depression. Improve your mood and become your own expert with the wisdom and guidance of MoodKit at your fingertips!  This app is not free - please check costs!
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Moodtools

Based on CBT principles, Moodtools combines a range of techniques such as thought diaries, self tests, videos and activities to help shift depression and low mood and keep you safe when things feel bad.
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Insight Timer

A meditation app for anxiety, stress and sleep. Please note - free but with in app purchases. Includes guided meditations and talks led by the world's top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Helps calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply and improve happiness. Great for both beginners and experienced practitioners.
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Liberate Meditation

'Liberate is the #1 meditation app for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour community with guided meditations to ease anxiety, find gratitude, heal internalized racism and micro-aggressions and celebrate Blackness. For us, by us.' In app purchases.
Calm

Calm

A free mindfulness and meditation app/website. Free to download with in app purchases/subscription options.
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Smiling Mind

Meditation and mindfulness to bring balance to your life with age-related sections for young people. Free app.
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PZIZZ

Sleep app – helps you to beat sleeping difficulties, reduce stress and relax.
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Calm

A free mindfulness and meditation app/website with sections for sleep support. Free to download with in app purchases/subscription options.
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BBC Own it App

The Own It app helps you take control of your online life! The Own It app will help you to make smart choices, feel more confident and get advice when you need it. When you're chatting online, do you know what information you can share? Own It gives you advice in real-time when you need it the most. And that means you can stay chilled and in control! Keyboard and Diary functions.
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Childline Zip It App

If someone's trying to get you to send nudes, use the Zipit app to keep the situation under control. Respond to unwanted chat with the power of GIFs taken straight from the app. We've made our own and chosen a selection of top ones from GIPHY. Use the flirting guide to navigate intimate chats, including tips from other young people. Also helps you to block it, report it, talk about it when things go wrong. Available App Store/Google Play.
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Kick It Out Reporting Tool

Kick It Out's confidential reporting tool for anyone to report incidents of hate crime witnessed at a football match - add video, photo and audio evidence to complaints to help support investigations into discriminatory abuse and behaviour across football.
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NHS Go

A confidential health advice and information service for 16-25 year olds - find services near you, test your general health knowledge, learn about healthcare and have access to clinically-approved medical information. Free to download.
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Student Health App

Reliable, relevant health advice for young adults - approved by the NHS.
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Lifesaver App

Lifesaver is about learning emergency life-saving skills made easy – learn anywhere, anytime, for free. Lifesaver is a movie you play like a game; you learn by doing as it throws you into situations where you have to make choices to save a life.
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Zoe Covid 19 Study & Symptom Tracker

If you would like to help out in this difficult time, then you can. This App is designed by doctors and scientists at King's College, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals and Zoe Global Limited to improve understanding of the C19 virus - it does NOT give health advice. With your help them can better understand how the virus is progressing across the UK.
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What 3 Words App

The what3words app makes it easy to find, share and save precise locations for anywhere in the world. The app has divided the world into 3m squares and given each square a unique combination of three words. what3words addresses are easy to say and share, and as accurate as GPS coordinates.
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St Johns Ambulance First Aid App

Simple to follow first aid advice with illustrated guides and voiced instructions.
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UK Relay

Relay is a free national relay service (all you pay are your normal call charges) helping anyone with hearing loss or speech impairment to communicate over the phone. Available for on Apple App Store 7 Google Play.
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Interpreter Now

InterpreterNow is an online service that offers deaf people video access to qualified BSL Interpreters so that they can then communicate with hearing people at any time, and anywhere in the UK. Register then download from Google Play or App Store.
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Bright Sky App

Free App providing support and information for anyone who may be in an abusive relationship or those concerned about someone they know. Available in English, Polish, Punjabi and Urdu. Available from Google Play or App Store.
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Grief - Support for Young People

Provides support following a bereavement - created by young people for Child Bereavement UK. Free to download.
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Recovery Record

An app for managing your journey to recovery from eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID. Also for those with general eating, weight and shape concerns. Use for self-help or link with your treatment team's Recovery Record Clinician.
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Rise Up Recovery Warriors

Eating Disorder recovery tools including behaviour and emotion tracking with meal logs and info about body image, mindfulness and relationships.
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Worth Warrior

A free app created for young people to manage negative body image, low self-worth, and related early-stage eating difficulties or disorders. Provides a range of helpful activities and information, based on the notion that through learning to challenge and change thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and body image issues underlying low self-worth, eating and body related issues can be helped.
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SuperBetter

SuperBetter builds resilience - the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of change and difficult challenges. Playing it unlocks heroic potential to overcome tough situations and achieve goals that matter most. Learn to live 'gamefully' with an app that brings the psychological strengths and mindset of gameplay to real life.

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London Village Network App

A networking app for 14-24 year olds which lists opportunities, practical advice and youth services in one place including a "Power of Hour' programme to give access to professionals for mentoring support.

https://www.lvn.org.uk

Where to download
All apps featured in our App Zone are normally available to download from the App Store and/or Google Play.
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App Costs
Always check for any costs before downloading.  Some apps are free but may have in-app purchase options;  some may have a cost to download and others may charge an annual subscription fee.

Want to recommend an app?
Have you have enjoyed using a wellbeing app that you would like to recommend to others?  Or would like to volunteer to become one of our app testers, please email us at ask@hycscounselling.co.uk

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