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Mental health apps are mobile apps designed to help users improve their emotional well-being, become more mindful, and address common mental health issues. Some mental health apps allow users to access online talk therapy or psychiatric care. Others may help you to begin a meditation practice, cope with stress and anxiety, or improve sleep quality. Available for iOS and/or Android users, mental health apps are typically designed to be used via smartphone or tablet.

The best mental health apps are affordable, user-friendly, and well-designed, with few technical glitches. Many of these apps have unique features that allow you to improve your overall wellness in enjoyable, accessible ways. High-quality therapy apps remove some of the usual barriers to mental health care, while mindfulness apps can help you achieve better focus and productivity. With so many available to choose from today, we sent our research team on a mission to find the best-of-the-best. Our team evaluated over 55 of the top mental health apps and ranked each according to whether or not the program was built on evidenced-based therapies, provided regular content updates, the variety of therapies offered, cost, and personal user reviews. Here are the mental health apps that ranked the highest.

10 Best Mental Health and Therapy Apps of 2023

Privacy

When choosing an online therapy provider, we recommend that you read the company's privacy guidelines before you sign up to better understand whether it is HIPAA-compliant and whether it shares any private information with third parties. There have been some concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and several government officials about what user health information online therapy providers collect and what they do with any information they collect.

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Guide to Choosing the Best Mental Health Apps

What Types of Mental Health Apps Are Offered?

There are a variety of types of mental health apps designed to address specific needs. These include:

Meditation: Many mental health apps focus on mindfulness techniques, such as guided meditation and grounding exercises. If you're not experienced in this area, look for apps with beginner-friendly meditation sessions.

Coping skills: Some mental health apps use games, activities, and online worksheets to help users develop important life skills, such as healthy ways to deal with stress and focus more intently while working or studying.

Addiction: Are you in recovery or trying to get sober? Sobriety apps can help you track your progress and celebrate milestones.

Anxiety and depression: If you have anxiety or depression, talk therapy with a licensed provider through a therapy app may help to treat your symptoms or supplement your in-person therapy.

Sleep problems: Many people use mental health apps to help with sleep issues, such as insomnia and nightmares. Features like sleepscapes, guided visual imagery, audio narration ("bedtime stories for grown-ups"), soothing music, and nature sounds may help you fall asleep more easily.

Comparing Mental Health Apps

There are a variety of factors to consider when choosing which mental health app is best for you. These factors include:

Price: If you're concerned about your budget, there are many free and low-cost mental health apps available. Many apps work on a monthly subscription-based model, but you can often cut costs by purchasing a discounted annual subscription. Look for an app with a free trial if you're not sure you want to commit to buying.

Topics discussed: Are you looking for help with mindfulness, stress relief, anxiety, or depression? Do you need online therapy or medication management services from a qualified professional? Each mental health app has different offerings.

Communication options: Some people benefit from live online therapy, such as live one-on-one video, audio, or chat sessions with a care provider. If you're more accustomed to communicating through text or writing, look for a therapy app that offers unlimited messaging or text-based therapy.

Features: Are you looking for an app that includes games and fun activities? What about meditation sessions, sleepscapes, and movement classes? Or are you looking specifically for online therapy that could replace in-person therapy? Look for an app that matches your needs and goals.

Who Should Use a Mental Health App?

Mental health apps can help you if you're dealing with a common mental health challenge, such as depression, stress, anxiety, or grief. Mental health apps can also help you deal with day-to-day problems like insomnia, lack of focus, and procrastination. Some mental health apps are designed to help people who have recently gotten sober or want to get sober.

You might especially benefit from using an online therapy app if you:

Live in a remote area

Need to find a more affordable form of therapy

Have a busy schedule

Feel more comfortable communicating via text

Have a disability that makes face-to-face therapy less accessible

However, mental health apps aren't for everyone. Mental health apps should generally not be used by people in active distress. A mental health app also might not be the best choice for you if you've been diagnosed with a severe mood disorder or schizophrenia or if you are experiencing psychosis.

What If I'm Having Thoughts of Harming Myself?

If you or someone you know is in extreme distress, having thoughts of self-harm, or thinking about harming someone else, seek emergency medical help by calling 911 or 988 from anywhere in the U.S.

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, here are some other resources that may help:

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Mental Health Apps Be a Substitute for In-Person Therapy?

In some cases, a therapy app may be used as a substitute for in-person therapy. Some studies suggest that online talk therapy with an accredited therapist is just as effective as face-to-face therapy in treating conditions like depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, mental health apps that don't provide direct therapy-such as mindfulness-based and stress relief apps-should not be used as a substitute for therapy. Instead, they are most effective when used as a supplement to counseling.

How Much Do Mental Health Apps Cost?

Some simple mental health apps, such as sobriety counter apps and apps that teach deep breathing techniques, are free to use. However, many apps offer a free basic version as well as a premium version with many additional features. A monthly subscription to a premium version of a mental health app often ranges from about $8.99 to $14.99 per month. For an app that offers talk therapy with a licensed therapist, typical subscription prices may range anywhere from $200 to $600 a month.

How Do Mental Health Apps Work?

Mental health apps vary greatly in terms of function, design, purpose, and features. There are six main types of mental health apps, each aimed at helping in a particular area of mental wellness. These areas include:

Social support and community

Tracking symptoms of a mental health condition

Life skills training

Self-care

Improving thinking patterns

Collecting data about mood and other aspects of mental health

Some mental health apps also offer online mental health care (such as talk therapy or psychiatric care) directly.

Are Mental Health Apps Effective?

Research suggests that mental health apps are effective in treating the symptoms of certain conditions. For example, one 2022 systematic review found that using Headspace improved symptoms among people with depression in 75% of studies. However, the research on mental health apps is ongoing, and findings are mixed. About 40% of studies found that Calm and Headspace could help with concerns like anxiety, sleep, and stress.

Methodology

To find the best mental health apps, our reviewers researched more than 50 apps for alleviating and managing mental health-related issues, including gathering and assessing internally collected user survey data. The apps were assessed based on whether they were developed via research-based programs and experts, were stable and regularly updated, offered live talk or text therapies, cost, the number of positive reviews on the Apple and Google Play app stores, cost, and any extra resources or activities offered.

Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.

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2. Greenwood H, Krzyzaniak N, Peiris R, et al. Telehealth versus face-to-face psychotherapy for less common mental health conditions: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. JMIR Ment Health. 2022;9(3):e31780. doi:10.2196/31780

3. Chandrashekar P. Do mental health mobile apps work: evidence and recommendations for designing high-efficacy mental health mobile apps. mHealth. 2018;4:6-6. doi:10.21037/mhealth.2018.03.02

4. O'Daffer A, Colt SF, Wasil AR, Lau N. Efficacy and conflicts of interest in randomized controlled trials evaluating headspace and calm apps: systematic review. JMIR Ment Health. 2022;9(9):e40924. doi:10.2196/40924

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April McCormick

April is the health editor for performance marketing at Verywell. Her work has appeared in Time, Parents Magazine, The Huffington Post, TripSavvy, Parenting.com, First Time Mom and Dad, Mama Mia, All4Women, the New York Times Bestseller, A Letter To My Mom, and more.

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"You're on mute" might be the Zoom quote of the year, but on Slack - at least around lunchtime - it seems to be: "Grabbing a quick bite."

That was the daily refrain I heard from colleagues at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, where I edit the school's alumni magazine, after we started working remotely in March. And while we were all very busy doing very important jobs, it's not like we were developing a coronavirus vaccine. Was our work really so urgent that we couldn't afford to take more than a few minutes for the midday meal? And why were we all "grabbing" our lunches? Were we afraid that if we loosened our grip, someone might snatch them out of our hands?

This is how downtime feels in general these days: snatched away. While working from home has eliminated our commutes and given us the freedom to work in our pajamas, it's also blurred the lines between work and life - and deprived us of the ability to leave the office behind, physically or mentally. A May survey by the career website Monster found that half of remote workers said they were experiencing burnout, but roughly the same number weren't planning to take any days off to decompress.

That's a big mistake, says Charlotte Fritz, a professor of industrial and organizational psychology at Portland State University. For one thing, she says, working remotely during a global health crisis is not the same as working from home under normal circumstances. There are additional demands at home - like educating your kids, if you're a parent - along with heightened anxieties.

Even when we're not in the middle of a deadly pandemic, Fritz says, it's crucial to our wellbeing to attain what she and other researchers call "psychological detachment" from work. "By 'psychological detachment,' we mean mentally letting go of work when we leave the workplace," she says. "Currently, some of us have overlap between the physical workspace and home, and it might make it a lot harder to detach."

Detaching requires us to take breaks, whether they're multiple-day vacations or short moments of meditation or relaxation during the day. But the health crisis itself is making it harder to take the downtime we need to deal with the stress it's causing. Fewer of us are planning vacations because we don't feel safe traveling. And the economic uncertainties of the pandemic are adding to a sense of pressure to be a perfect employee: highly productive and always on.

Remote workers tend to take fewer breaks in general, in or out of a pandemic, in part because we can't demonstrate our work ethic in the same ways from home that we can in an office, explains Minjae Kim, an organizational behavior professor at Rice Business. "Because our interactions are so limited, we have fewer opportunities to prove our commitment and our value," Kim says. "One way to do that is to show that we're working overtime, or by staying on Zoom all the time."

The latter is more common in Korea, where Kim has studied workplace behavior. The pressure to demonstrate your commitment to your company - your willingness to make sacrifices for the sake of the organization - is greater in Korean workplace culture, and the pandemic has magnified that. "Since the pandemic began, people are pressured to keep their camera on all the time, even if they're not in a meeting," he says. "It's a little more of an extreme setting, where signaling commitment is more intense."

The problem is that changes to our work culture - including the "always on" mentality many of us feel now - have a tendency to become ingrained even after the crisis that provoked them has passed. That could mean that remote work sticks around long after the pandemic subsides, which may be a good thing overall. But it could also mean that if we let our lunch breaks slip from our grasp now, we'll never be able to grab hold of them again.

Lunch breaks play a particularly vital role when it comes to maintaining our mental stamina, says John P. Trougakos, an organizational behavior professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. In an aptly titled study, " Lunch Breaks Unpacked," Trougakos and his colleagues found that being able to disconnect from work at lunchtime, for an activity entirely of your own choosing, was linked to a reduction of fatigue at the end of the workday and improved employee performance and wellbeing.

"We have a fixed amount of mental energy, just like we do physical energy," he says. "When you don't have a break, you become less and less efficient, and it becomes more stressful. That stress accumulates throughout the day, and it's emotionally exhausting. If it accumulates day after day, week after week, that's how you get burnout."

Assuming remote work does linger after the pandemic ends, we're going to have to find ways to make it sustainable - without burning out the workforce, Trougakos says.

"Remote work can be a huge benefit for people. We tracked 500 Canadian workers at the start of the pandemic for 12 weeks, and 83 percent didn't want to go back to the way things were. They were adamant that 'the way things were' wasn't working either," he says. "Most people preferred a hybrid system where they had the freedom to go in some days and they could work from home some days."

Luckily, there are ways to make remote work more workable, Trougakos says: "If remote workers structure their day well, they can find extra time for breaks. They don't have their commute time anymore; they can use that time to take a walk or get some exercise. They have, in theory, more flexibility to plan out their best productivity windows. That could mean if you're a night owl, you might schedule a block of work in the evening. But that doesn't mean work your full workday and work the night shift."

Managers, meanwhile, should be firm about their expectations for the quality of work being done - and flexible about when it happens, he says.

"Are your employees getting the things done that they need to get done in a high-quality way? Then leave them alone and give them the freedom to make their own schedule," he says. "Managers need to create some time for their employees to go offline, not just at the end of the day but during the day. Lunch is lunch; maybe you encourage coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon. If you're really progressive, build in a half-hour nap break at 2 p.m. and watch them come back energized and productive at the end of the day."

Managers can also encourage employees to take more downtime just by assuring them that they are valued and that their jobs are not in jeopardy, Kim says. Without that pressure to prove themselves, workers not only breathe easier but also perform better. And over time, as the workforce becomes increasingly remote, expectations will adjust and we'll likely come up with new ways to demonstrate our commitment to our work - while still finding time for a leisurely lunch.

"It has to be managed, though," Trougakos says. "We plunged into the pandemic with no preparation, no planning, and no structure. It was chaos in a lot of ways. Now employers are seeing that there's only so long you can maintain a feverish pace. As we come to a realization of what the new normal is, there will be issues that come up that maybe we didn't expect, and companies will need to adapt."
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"You're on mute" might be the Zoom quote of the year, but on Slack - at least around lunchtime - it seems to be: "Grabbing a quick bite." That was the daily refrain I heard from colleagues at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, where I edit the school's alumni magazine, after we started working remotely in March.

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