MOBILE APPS FOR HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY
Educational Resources
It's time to empower yourself! Mobile apps can help bridge the gap between clinician visits, help you track moods, and view experiences and thoughts in a more concrete way. All of the following are available on Android and iPhone.
Category |
App Name |
Platform / Pricing |
Description |
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Anxiety /
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Breathe2Relax |
A portable stress management tool and hands-on breathing exercise to help decrease the body's 'fight-or-flight' response and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. | |
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Calm |
Helps improve health and happiness. | ||
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Tactical Breather |
Gain control of your heart rate, emotions, concentration, and other physiological and psychological responses to your body during stressful situations. | ||
Autism |
Autism Tracker Lite |
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Track what matters to your child and your family. Use the visual calendar and multi-item graphs to view and discuss patterns. Share individual events or entire screens with your team. |
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Autism Xpress |
A tool to help understand children’s emotions, educate Autistic children on how to express their feelings, and engage them through interactive games, emotion memory, and expression questions. | ||
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Spoken - Tap to Talk AAC |
Give non-verbal children a voice with this innovative app. |
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Depression |
Depression Test |
Designed to help you evaluate the severity of your depression with just nine simple questions. This app uses the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), an empirically-based, self-test questionnaire. |
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Health /
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Accupedo |
With easy-to-read charts and history logs, monitor your steps, calories burned, distance, and time. As your best walking buddy, Accupedo will motivate you to walk more! Set up your daily goal and step towards a healthier you. |
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Lose It! |
Ready to get serious about weight loss? Lose It! can help you make your goal a reality. |
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WebMD: Symptom Checker |
Check your symptoms, access drug & treatment information, and get first aid essentials on the go. |
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Mindfulness /
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Headspace |
Your mind’s best friend. We’re here for you whenever you need us, wherever you are, helping you get through tough times and find joy in every day. | |
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Insight Timer |
Guided meditations, sleep music tracks, and talks led by the top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford, and more. | ||
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Mindfulness Coach |
Developed to help Veterans, Service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness. This app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice. Mindfulness Coach also offers a library of information about mindfulness. | ||
| Simply Being Guided Meditation | Learn to meditate or deepen your meditation practice with Mary Maddux, a leading meditation teacher who has brought meditation to thousands of people worldwide. | ||
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Smiling Mind |
Provides accessible, life-long tools to support healthy minds. Practice daily meditation and mindfulness exercises from any device. | ||
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Take a Break! |
Sitting in front of a computer for a long time can take a toll on your health. Get away from the chair, take a break, and do some exercises. This app allows you to set a range for your working time and get an alarm and notification when it is time for a break. | ||
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Ten Percent Happier |
Learn how to train your mind to be happier over time alongside the most qualified people on the planet — including the Dalai Lama. | ||
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Welzen |
Meditation app to reduce stress, experience less anxiety, and sleep better. Our guided meditations will help you improve focus, relax faster, breathe easier, and more. | ||
Personal
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Mindvalley: Self-Improvement |
Become better at living your full potential. | |
Providers |
Provider Resilience |
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The Provider Resilience app was launched by the Defense Health Agency's Web & Mobile Technology (WMT) Program Management Office. |
PTSD |
PTSD Coach |
Access information about PTSD, information professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help users manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. | |
Sleep |
Harmony Hypnosis Meditation |
Find your inner calm, strength, confidence, and motivation to bring out the best in yourself. A fantastic hypnosis session for deep relaxation by one of the UK's leading hypnotherapists and trainers. |
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Better Sleep |
A personalized sleep experience for more restful nights and wakeful days. This app helps you wind down, get to sleep faster and sleep more deeply. |
Federal Occupational Health provides this information to you as a possible resource, but you should evaluate the usefulness of the content and decide whether you wish to use any of the apps referenced above. Provision of the information above does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Federal Occupational Health and is not responsible for the contents or use of any third-party webpage or application.