Smiling Mind: Mental Wellbeing

Smiling Mind is a free mindfulness and meditation app designed to support the mental wellbeing of children, teenagers and adults. It helps users manage stress, anxiety and symptoms of depression through guided practices focused on relaxation, emotional awareness and resilience. The app includes age-specific programmes, making it suitable for schools, families and individuals looking to build healthy emotional habits using mindfulness and breathing techniques.

Healthy Minds Program

The Healthy Minds Program is a free meditation and mental wellbeing app that helps users manage stress, build awareness, and improve their overall mental health. It provides guided meditations and self-guided exercises designed to enhance focus, compassion, and personal resilience. 

Medito: Meditation & Sleep

Medito is a free meditation and sleep support app designed to help users reduce stress, manage anxiety, and improve mental wellbeing. It offers guided meditations, sleep sounds, and mindfulness courses that users can personalise to suit their experience level and preferences. The app is suitable for both adults and teenagers and includes beginner-friendly content.

NHS Active 10 Walking Tracker

Just ten minutes of brisk walking every day can get your heart pumping and can make you feel more energetic, as well as lowering your risk of serious illnesses. Developed by the NHS, Active 10 Walking Tracker is a free app that helps you to include brisk walking into your daily routine. It lets you:

• Track all your walking and how many minutes were brisk.

• Use a Pace Checker, to see what brisk walking feels like.

• Set goals to keep motivated and help you progress.

NHS Food Scanner

You open the NHS Food Scanner app on your phone and then point your smartphone camera at the barcode of a food or drink. The app will show you how much sugar, saturated fat and salt per pack, 100 grams, liquid millilitre, or portion of that food or drink.

With some smartphones, you can use augmented reality (AR) to see a 3D picture of the sugar, fat and salt. The app suggests a smart food swap for you if you want a food or drink with less sugar, fat or salt.

NHS Drink Free Days

NHS Drink Free Days is a public health app developed to help adults and older people reduce alcohol consumption by encouraging alcohol-free days each week. It allows users to track their drinking, set personal goals, and calculate money saved, offering a simple and supportive way to monitor progress.

NHS Quit Smoking

• 28-Day Quit Plan: Offers a structured 28-day program designed to help users quit smoking, with a focus on building a smoke-free habit.

• Personalised Support: Provides tailored advice, encouragement, and support for each user’s quit journey, adjusting as they progress.

• Weekly Missions: Breaks down the quitting process into manageable weekly tasks to keep users engaged and motivated.

• Progress Tracking: Allows users to monitor their achievements, reinforcing their success and helping them stay on track.

• Relapse Assistance: Offers guidance to support users if they experience setbacks, helping them continue their journey to becoming smoke-free.

NHS App

The flu virus strikes in winter and it can be far more serious than you think. Book your vaccination now. Made by the NHS, the NHS app is free and amongst many other things, lets you:

• Book, cancel or change a flu vaccination.

• Book, or manage a COVID-19 vaccination appointment.

• Order a repeat prescription.

Intended age range: 12+ years old.

MyTherapy Medication Reminder

MyTherapy is a medication reminder app that helps users stay on top of their medication schedules. It supports pill tracking, and symptom logging, and integrates with health data like blood pressure and weight.

The app also features a patient diary for doctor visits and can be personalised for various conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. It’s certified according to ISO standards for privacy and security, ensuring user data safety.