Apps and Web-Based Programs
Consumer-friendly resource for finding out about the software and apps available for help in managing mental health conditions, and the research and views of experts on the usefulness of these products.
General Mental Health
Delivers evidence-based computer-aided cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety, substance abuse, depression, insomnia, and OCD.
Provide therapeutic skills and education based on CBT principles. Three versions: Mood (mood disorders), Calm (anxiety disorders), and Trauma (PTSD).
DBT Diary Cards and Skills Coach (IOS) - $$$
Designed to help withskills generalization through easy access to DBT skills and a Coaching module built right into the app.
Emotional Intelligence Self-Help Toolkit (Web)
Designed to help you face and deal with anxiety, depression, and other uncomfortable feelings and quickly recognize and reduce stress.
Built on principles of positive psychology, a format for easy journaling and writing down 5 things you're grateful for each day.
Mental Workout App (IOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry) - $ for upgrade
Subscribe to a range of programs inside the app, including Freedom from Stress, Mindfulness Meditation, Good Night, Up in Smoke, and Social Success.
App and companion online course feature problem-solving therapy (PST) tools designed to teach skills for overcoming life problems.
Operation Reach Out (IOS, Android)
Encourages people to reach out for help when they are having suicidal thoughts; provides a personal contact help center and activities to help people who are depressed stay connected to others.
Gives you holistic tools to address anxiety and depression based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, relaxation, and health.
Offer two apps: iStress for stress management and PsychMeds, an app that enables you to objectively monitor symptoms related to medications.
Free CBT materials for cognitive behavioral therapists, other mental health professionals, and patients.
SuperBetter (Web with IOS and Android companions)
A gameful way of living. Living gamefully means bringing the same psychological strengths you naturally display when you play games – such as optimism, creativity, courage, and determination – to your real life.
Courses consist of 3 lessons, which you complete at your own pace, for shyness, stress management, and worry and sadness.
Virtual Hope Box (IOS, Android)
Helps people decrease their experience of distress by encouraging and facilitating healthy coping and emotion regulation skills.
Anxiety
Designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
Self-Help for Anxiety Management (IOS, Android)
Helps you understand and manage anxiety.
Use the worry cognitive diary to help you determine how to cope with the worry.
Journal app designed to log our worries and self-realizations and track them visually.
Mindfulness/Meditation
Program that offers users basic principles of mindfulness that can help manage the problems of everyday life. Provides education and practice in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Calm (IOS, Android, Web)
Meditation app.
Headspace (Apple, Android, Amazon, Web) - $ for upgrade
Guided meditation course. Upgrade includes include guided and unguided lessons that range from 2-60 minutes long.
Meditation Oasis Apps (IOS, Android, Blackberry, Web) - $$$
Offers a variety of mindfulness-bases apps including iSleep Easy, Breathe and Relax, At Ease-Anxiety and Worry Relief, and various guided meditations.
Meditation-based apps. Offers Sleep Smart (free), Breathe Space, and The Mindfulness App (also on Android)
Stop, Breathe, and Think (IOS, Android, Web)
Develop and apply kindness and compassion in your daily life.
Mood Disorders
Lets you explore how your mood relates to the data that your smartphone can invisibly capture as you carry it throughout the day.
An online community created to provide a safe haven and empowering resources and tools for those living with mood disorders.
Learn cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression.
Designed to help you apply effective strategies of professional psychology to your everyday life. Draws upon the principles and techniques of CBT.
Mood tracker app with online features.
Track your moods and emotions, and everything else that can affect how you feel. Lite version available.
Self-tracking applications designed to help increase understanding of all the things that affect mood disorders and other mental health conditions.
T2 Mood Tracker (IOS, Android)
Designed to help you track your emotional experience over time and to provide you with a tool to share this information with your health care provider.
PTSD
PTSD Coach (IOS, Android, Web)
Helps you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma.