App Zone

This is a collection of free apps that are designed to support young people, adults and families with their mental health and well-being. If you click on the image, it will open the app site in a new window.

The information provided here is for your convenience and information only; it does not imply YPS endorsement of third party organisations or their content; nor is it intended to replace advice from trained professionals.

A free app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety.

​Helps build resilience – the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of difficult obstacles

A meditation program developed by psychologists and educators to help bring mindfulness into your life

An app that helps young people manage the urge to self-harm.

​Helps with those suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder.

Aims to provide young people with access to coping strategies and resources to help better cope with difficult situations.

​Free app that helps to raise self-esteem, self-confidence and happiness levels in children and young people.

​Chill Panda helps children better understand their stress and shows them ways to feel better using breathing techniques, yoga, exercise and calming games.

​SAM is an app to help you understand and manage anxiety.

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

The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a app that contains simple tools to help with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking.

Clear Fear provides you with a range of ways to manage anxiety.

Create music to reflect emotions like joy, sadness and anger to help express how you feel.

MeeTwo is a free fully moderated app for young people, which provides peer support, expert help, inbuilt educational and creative resources

The Check-in app helps take the fear out of having a conversation with a friend who might be struggling.

This app is for anyone who wants to feel less stressed, more calm and present and experience greater health and well-being.

​This app from Healios, helps young people aged 11 to 17 years old with their mental health, emotional well-being and resilience and is being made available for free during the Coronavirus crisis.

​The Feeling Good Teens App uses short audio tracks to help let go of worry, improve sleep, develop self-esteem, resilience and goal focused motivation – access is free using the username: coboost and password: coboost during this period.

BlueIce is an evidenced-based app to help young people manage their emotions and reduce urges to self-harm.

The distrACT app gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

The eQuoo app uses adventure games designed by psychologists to help you increase your emotional fitness and teach you new psychological skills.

​The WorryTree app aims to help you take control of worry wherever you are.

​notOK App® is a free digital panic button to get you immediate support via text, phone call, or GPS location when you’re struggling to reach out.

​This app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.