Move Mood is a free Android app developed to support teenagers and adults experiencing low mood or depression. It helps users plan and complete activities that promote better mental health, using behaviour activation techniques. The app includes habit tracking, reminders, and motivational goal-setting tools to encourage gradual and positive behaviour changes.

Feeling Good Teens is designed to help build self-esteem and motivation. It features 11 tracks of varying length, from 3 minutes to 11 minutes, that guide mindful relaxation, muscle relaxation, calming the mind, building self-confidence, coping with exam stress, and sleeping well. It can help you with:

• Feeling calmer and more relaxed

• Feeling less stressed

• Having better concentration

• Having more confidence

Intended age range: 10–15 years olds

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.

Clear Fear is a free app designed to help young people manage anxiety using techniques based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It offers simple tools and strategies to understand and reduce anxiety, including journaling, mood tracking, and guided exercises. The app is specifically created for teenagers but can be helpful for anyone.

Created by Stem4 (teenage mental health charity), Calm Harm provides techniques to help break the cycle of self-harm. Users can learn to ‘surf the wave’ by doing five-minute or fifteen-minute activities in these categories:

• Distract: helps to combat the urge by learning self-control

• Comfort: helps to care rather than harm

• Express Yourself: gets those feelings out in a different way

• Release: provides safe alternatives to self-injury

• Random: selects a random activity from the categories above

There is also a breathing technique to help reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety. Intended age range: 13+

The app has been developed for self-guided use by individuals who experience non suicidal self-injury. If you self-harm with suicidal intent, please talk to a responsible adult and see a health profession

Molehill Mountain is designed to help people with autism to understand and self-manage their anxiety.

Molehill Mountain allows you to track your worries and identify the situations that trigger your anxiety. Your daily check-ins are plotted on a chart which allows you to identify pattern and trends – and you can also display a previous check-in to help you identify recurring triggers for your anxiety. Over time, tips are unlocked that will help you to understand your anxiety and learn ways to manage it.

Intended age range: 16+

Kooth is a web-based mental health platform designed for children and young people aged 10–18. It provides access to a moderated online community, mood tracking tools, self-help resources, and one-to-one support from mental health professionals. The platform aims to support mental wellbeing, prevent self-harm and suicide, and offer a safe space for open discussion.

Tellmi is an anonymous, peer-support app for teenagers and adults that helps users manage anxiety, depression, loneliness, stress and other emotional challenges. The app is designed to support mental wellbeing and reduce feelings of isolation by enabling users to share experiences, express emotions and connect with others going through similar issues. It includes moderated chat forums, mental health content and a supportive community aimed at preventing self-harm and promoting resilience.

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Combined Minds is a free mental health support app developed to help friends and family members support someone experiencing mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders, or addiction. Designed for teenagers and adults, it provides accessible, easy-to-understand guidance and relaxation strategies to help users respond with confidence and care.