Smartphone
Apps

Panic, Anxiety and Depression

MoodKit

This smartphone app is the logical CBT follow-up homework for a young client – it’s a toolkit for what they can do to improve their mood, recording events and feelings, and rating their mood along the way. They can email me how they are feeling each day or week.

Mood Mission

MoodMission is an evidence-based app designed to empower you overcome low moods and anxiety by discovering new and better ways of coping.

Clear Fear

The fear of threat, or anxiety, is like a strong gust of wind. It drags you in and makes you want to fight it or run away. Instead, face your fear with the free Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.

iBobbly

iBobbly is specifically designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who: are aged 15 years and older, are feeling sad and down, might be having thoughts of hurting yourself, have access to a Smart phone or Tablet/iPad and data for downloading.

iCounselor

Incorporates strategies for managing a range of conditions, including anger, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and depression.

Breathe2Relax

Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool that provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.

Self Help for Anxiety Management

SAM is a friendly app that offers a range of self-help methods for people who are serious about learning to manage their anxiety. SAM has been developed by a university team of psychologists, computer scientists and student users. Established methods of self-help have been combined with high standards of usability to provide an engaging, flexible, and practical resource.

This Way Up Mixed Depression and Anxiety course app

You can do this course on your phone – fpr people who have had attacks of anxiety and periods of depression at various times. People who commonly have both sets of symptoms whether or not they are currently suffering.

Talkspace Counselling App

Introducing Unlimited Messaging Therapy, affordable, confidential and anonymous therapy at the touch of a button. Your professional licensed therapist is waiting to chat with you right now, and help you make a real difference in your life. You can message your therapist anytime and anywhere, from your smartphone or the web, 100% safe and secure. Welcome to the wonderful world of therapy, re-invented for how we live today.

Pacifica

Daily tools for stress and anxiety alongside a supportive community. Based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Meditation.

MoodPrism

Helps you learn about your mood by transforming daily mood reports into a colourful summary of your emotional health. It also provides health information based on your daily mood, and links to mental health resources. MoodPrism can help you boost your emotional health and well-being.

Beat Panic

The Beat Panic app takes you through a series of flash cards designed in soothing colours and the text assists you in overcoming the panic attack in a gentle calm manner. It has been designed by someone who has lived with panic for many years and understands how frightening these attacks are.

Pause

A “relaxation and meditation experience” aimed at combating stress and the kind of scatterbrained thinking our multi-tasking, multi-device always-on existences risks encouraging.

Rootd

Rootd is a female led app for those struggling with panic attacks & anxiety. Helping you overcome anxiety & regain confidence.

BRAIN TRAINING

Brainy app

BrainyApp helps to raise awareness of the risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, and to help you live a brain healthy life. So look after your brain health to reduce your risk of dementia. Use the BrainyApp Survey to find out how brain healthy you are and complete the activities to watch your brain health score rise.

Lumosity Brain Trainer

Improve your memory, attention, and overall brain performance through scientific brain workouts.

DRUGS, GAMBLING & ALCOHOL MANAGEMENT

MyQuitBuddy

Personalised app to help you on your journey to become smoke-free. It provides a countdown to your quit attempt and stats to track your quitting progress, such as days smoke-free, cigarettes avoided and dollars saved.

I Am Sober

What if you could…Forgive yourself and let go of past mistakes. Have the courage to accept who you are. Have the respect of your friends, family, and yourself. I Am Sober is an app that helps you create a life you no longer want to escape from.

Daybreak

Daybreak is an online program that helps you change your relationship with alcohol through a supportive community, habit-change experiments, and one-on-one chat with health coaches.

GOAL SETTING & MOTIVATION

Stay Strong

A structured mental health and substance misuse intervention using Indigenous specific content. The app will assist therapists to deliver a structured, evidence based, and culturally appropriate intervention to their Indigenous clients.

IMPROVING SLEEP

DeepSleep

This app incorporates guided meditation to help overcome insomnia and get to sleep. It can be customised for short or long inductions, and has an alarm for waking up.

Sleep Cycle

A bio-alarm clock that analyzes your sleep patterns and wakes you when you are in the lightest sleep phase.

Sleep Machine

Sleep Machine provides a huge assortment of professionally mastered ambient sounds designed specifically for achieving a total relaxed state and improving sleep. The elegant multi sound player design is easy to play, mix, and create a truly lifelike sound for your sleep environment. You can mix iPod music with your favorite sounds too!

MINDFULNESS, ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)

Insight Timer

Home to more than 4,750,000 meditators, Insight Timer is rated as the top free meditation app on the Android and iOS stores.

Smiling Mind

Young people adore this. Smiling Mind is a meditation app customised by age for anxiety and depression.

Mnf

Always making excuses for not meditating? This is simply the best way to learn and enjoy mindfulness meditation.

Headspace

Headspace is a project designed to demystify meditation. Using the wonders of science and technology, we make it easy-to-learn, fun-to-do, and relevant to your everyday life.

Actcompanion

Guided mindfulness meditation exercises, like body scan and mindful breathing, help you get started with the basics of mindfulness training.

Mindful Creation

Gain a greater sense of connection to meaningful life experiences. Step out of repetitive thinking patterns. Break free from reactive behavioural patterns. Release stress, and overcome boredom and frustration. Enjoy a simple, yet effective way to know yourself.

The Mindfulness App

Do you want to find more balance in today’s increasingly stressful existence? The Mindfulness App is a tool for increasing your awareness in life. It helps you with the most difficult aspect of Mindfulness practice – namely to remember to be mindful.

1Giant Mind

Meditation is no longer a fringe idea or some hippie hocus pocus. Doctors, CEOs, celebrities, athletes, corporations, schools, and even the military are meditating. Meditating regularly has a real and lasting positive impact on our lives. Not only does it reduce stress and anxiety and the risk of stress related mental illness and disease, it also increases our sense of calm, improves our health, and makes us happier.

The Now Mindfulness App

Now Mindfulness is an app to help you retrain your mind to live more fully in the moment. The Now accomplishes this using a technique called continuous mindfulness training. The process works by using periodic cues, in this case, free iPhone push notifications with an audible chime and relevant message, to remind you to be fully focused on the present. The ultimate goal being to make mindfulness essentially continuous.

Stop, Breath and Think

Check in with how you’re feeling, and try short activities tuned to your emotions.

MEDICATION MANAGEMENT

Pillboxie

This pill reminder app provides useful reminders to take medication.

MOOD & HEALTH MONITORS

Catch It

To help users better understand their moods through use of an ongoing diary and is designed to illustrate some of the key principles of psychological approaches to mental health and well-being, specifically Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Snapshot

A mobile app designed by the Black Dog Institute that allows Australian adults to confidentially measure, monitor and manage factors that may influence depression and anxiety, using evidence based feedback from The Black Dog Institute. Snapshot also provides options to engage online and offline professional mental health services within Australia.

Moodpath

If you’re struggling with depression or anxiety, Moodpath is the leading mental health app to guide you toward emotional well-being.

eMoods Bipolar Mood Tracker

Managing your mood just became easier and more effective! eMoods is a private and easy to use mood tracker and diary for journaling, graphing, reporting, and managing symptoms related to Bipolar, Depression, Anxiety, and other mood disorders. Start tracking, notice your triggers, and take control of your mood and other symptoms!

RELATIONSHIPS

Lovesmart

Ever wondered what the secret is to a great relationship? What are others doing right that you are not? How can you improve your own partnership or find a partner who is truly compatible with you? The app does this through a series of simple tests backed by decades of rigorous scientific research on the psychology of love and human relationships, including brain-imaging studies. The tests are scored and accompanied by thorough explanations and practical information on ways to improve your relationship in each category.

SUICIDAL THINKING & SELF-HARM

Beyond Now

If you or someone close to you is experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings, safety planning can help you get through the tough moments. It involves creating a structured plan that you work through when you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts, feelings, distress or crisis.

Safety Plan

A safety plan is a list of coping strategies and social supports that people can use when they are in a suicidal crisis or very distressed. It helps them not act on their suicidal feelings. The plan is brief, is in the individuals’ own words, and is easy to read. It is an emergency plan for suicide crises.

Operation Reachout

This is designed to: Encourage people to reach out for help when they are having suicidal thoughts. Help those who are concerned about family members, spouses, or fellow service members who may be suicidal. Provide activities to help people who are depressed stay connected to others.

Calm Harm

Why try it? Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can add your own tasks too and it’s completely private and password protected.

VETERANS

High Res

Can assist serving and ex-serving Australian Defence Force personnel and their families to manage the daily stresses of military life, deployment, transition to civilian life and life post-service. Test your physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural reactions to stress and adjust your response in real time by using the stress management tools in the app. Optimise your performance and build your psychological resilience and mental fitness with regular resilience training.

Operation Life

Designed to help current and former serving ADF personnel manage suicidal thoughts with the support of a clinician.

SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

The Toolbox

The Toolbox is a collection of health and wellbeing apps endorsed by professionals and reviewed by people under 25.

SuperBetter

A remarkable online game that supports young people to achieve health-related goals by increasing resilience.

Music eScape App

A clever and creative new iPhone app is being developed that allows users to customise their music playlist based on their mood, and then map desired improvements of their state of mind.

Ray’s Night Out

Take Ray the Red Panda for a night out! Buy him drinks and food, make him dance and flirt and play bar trivia. Collect good vibe points to unlock rewards and take selfies. But take good care of Ray, don’t let him cross his ‘stupid line’ for drinking – you know – the point where a good night out turns bad. Most of all have fun while you learn to identify your own ‘stupid line’ for drinking.

Recharge

Recharge is an app which offers a personalised 6 week program that’s focused on improving mood, energy and wellbeing by putting in place good sleep/wake patterns.

ReachOut Breathe

Helps you reduce the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety by slowing down your heart rate with your mobile phone (iOS) or Apple Watch.

ReachOut WorryTime

A mobile app that gives you a place to store your worries, and alerts you when it’s time to think about them. When a worry no longer matters to you, you can ditch it and move on.

Breakup Shakeup

Helps young people manage distress and improve their wellbeing during a romantic relationship breakup. Provides easy things to do to help cope after a breakup.

In Hand

Using a traffic light system, In Hand acts as a digital friend to help you in times of stress or low mood. Taking you through different activities depending on how you’re feeling, In Hand aims to focus you on where you’re at and bring back the balance. Made by young people for young people!

FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO USE

3D Brain

Check out our interactive brain map that allows users to rotate the brain in three-dimensional space. Individual maps of 29 structures include information on brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research. Ideal for students, researchers, and educators in psychology and biology.