Free useful Apps for your Health and Wellbeing
Your phones and tablets can be incredibly powerful tools to support improving your mental health and wellbeing.
We take a look at six free apps that can help if you are looking for ways to keep your mind healthy or if you are feeling anxious and need to calm the mind.
Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is Australia’s leading digital-led, prevention focussed mental health not-for-profit and the innovators behind Australia’s most trusted mental wellbeing app. The Smiling Mind App is a free tool, developed by psychologists and educators and downloaded by millions of people.
Programs in the app are underpinned by mindfulness and positive psychology strategies and designed to build mental fitness and resilience; support good sleep, study and sports training; reduce stress and improve relationships; and promote the development of new social and emotional skills.
The Health App
The Health App comes free with your Apple device. This app was created to help organise your important health information and make it easy to access in a central and secure place. The Health app has many useful features including monitoring your sleep patterns, your heart and respiratory rates as well counting the number of steps you walk each day in addition to a trend analysis feature that will let you know how these patterns change over time and providing alerts if they do.
Lumosity
Lumosity is an online brain training program that aims to train your core cognitive abilities and help you track your improvement by having you play simple games. You need to create a profile that allows you to track your progress and play certain games that target mental flexibility, memory, problem solving, speed and attention.
Lumosity’s cognitive training program is a fun, interactive way to train your brain and learn about how your mind works.
First Aid - IFRC
The Red Cross First Aid app is a free, comprehensive pocket guide to first aid and CPR, giving you access to the most up to date first aid information anytime, anywhere. Simple. Free. It can save lives.
The official IFRC First Aid app gives instant access to the information you need to know to handle the most common first aid emergencies and safety tips for crisis situation. With interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step everyday first aid scenarios, it’s never been easier to learn first aid.
Insight Timer
Insight Timer is a leading meditation app. Guided meditations and talks led by the world's top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Join millions learning to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply and improve happiness.
With 80+ new free guided meditations added daily, more meditation is practiced on Insight Timer than anywhere else. Great for both beginners and experienced practitioners.
BrainTrack
BrainTrack is a free app that helps you monitor and understand changes in cognition over time, which you can use to start a conversation with your GP. The app will help you explore this common concern, providing brain health information through fun, travel-themed games that test your cognition. The resulting conversation and monitoring may lead to an earlier diagnosis of dementia.
There are millions of apps in the app store and we have only selected a few to get you started.
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