Digital wellbeing is partly about managing your device use and the way that you use your devices. Scrolling through social media feed might be a "bad" use of a device if social media makes you feel bad.  Using these mental health, mindfulness and meditation apps listed below, might be a "good" use of your device.

The listing of the following apps does not imply any form of endorsement. The library takes no responsibility for the content of these apps, which have been suggested or recommended in good faith

Balance: free one-year subscription

• Balance is a meditation app that you'd normally pay for, but it's free until the end of 2021

Breethe: free meditation resources

• This meditation app is offering a free collection of meditation resources to use with the app

Checky

• How often do you actually check your device?  Use Checky to find out

ClearFear

• This is an app developed by a teenage mental health charity that uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to reduce stress

Headspace

• A well-known mobile app that teaches meditation and easy to use mindfulness skills (see also Exercises, Classes and Courses)

Insight Timer

• Popular app with a library of over 30,000 guided meditations and a simple timer for meditation

MindShift CBT - Anxiety Canada

• MindShift uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety

• Designed to help you combat depression and alleviate your negative moods

MyLife

• An award-winning meditation and mindfulness app that helps you find your quiet place

Overcoming

• This is a series of three apps that supports a book series of the same name. There are three apps available, enabling people with a range of common problems and disorders to take control of their own recovery programme using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The apps help you with Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Overcoming Depression and Overcoming Anxiety 

QualityTime

• QualityTime is an automatic diary of your smartphone usage activities

Relax Melodies

• This app is intended to help you sleep. Create a playlist of relaxing sounds or music, practice sleep meditation or simply listen to a bedtime story.

Self-Help Anxiety Management

• Understand what causes your anxiety, monitor your anxious thoughts and behaviour over time and manage your anxiety through self-help exercises and private reflection

Simple Habit

• App that focuses on five-minute sessions to help busy people develop a daily practice. Currently offering free Premium memberships to anyone who can’t afford to pay for them due to loss of income in the pandemic

Student Health Matters

• Produced by the Irish Student Health Association, this is a good source of reliable and good quality health information with links to services, and updated information on COVID19.

  Google Play Store (Android)

  App Store (Apple)

Superbetter

• SuperBetter aims to build resilience - the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of change and difficult challenges