Health and wellbeing apps have seen a huge boom in recent years - but it can be difficult to know which ones are worthwhile.
Apps can cover everything from stopping smoking and weight management to help with sleep disorders, mental health issues and more.
Lower My Drinking
Lower My Drinking is a free app that will give you the expert advice and scientifically-proven tools you need to reduce your drinking to the recommended limit of 14 units a week or less.
Lower My Drinking will guide you to set your drinking goal. Then it will help you achieve this by guiding you to:
- track your progress towards your drinking goal
- recognise all the gains you will make by cutting down
- focus on what is really motivating you to reduce your drinking
- see how your drinking compares to the rest of the population
As well as this, Lower My Drinking will show you the issues that could potentially cause you to drink more than is healthy for you and give you a set of proven skills you can use to address these.
You can download the Lower My Drinking app.
Emotional Wellbeing apps and programmes
DistrACT
Do you have concerns about you, or someone you know, self-harming or having suicidal thoughts? If you are not sure what to do next then the distrACT app may be for you.
The distrACT app provides easy, quick and discrete access to general health information and advice about self-harm.
Download DistrACT from the Apple App store.
Feeling Good: Mental Health
Feeling Good offers positive mental training programmes based on scientific research. The programmes can help you to feel better, lift your mood and recover from stress, anxiety and depression.
Please check carefully before downloading any app as we cannot be held responsible for any charges that you may incur.
You may wish to disable in app purchases by following guidance for Apple devices and guidance for Android devices.
Calm
The Calm app can help with sleep, meditation and relaxation. Find out more about Calm online.