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2. My Mood Tracker Lite (tracks counter-productive coping behaviors)
Daylio enables you to keep a private diary without having to type a single line. Try this beautifully designed micro-diary app right now for FREE!
Pick your mood and add activities you have been doing during the day. You can also add notes and keep an old-school diary. Daylio is collecting recorded moods and activities in the statistics and calendar. This format will help you to understand your habits better. Keep track of your activities and create patterns to become more productive! Download the app on your android or iPhone.
3. The Bump: Pregnancy App & Baby Tracker
4. Happify: for Stress & Worry
Happify’s science-based activities and games can help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts, and build greater resilience by providing effective tools and programs to improve emotional well-being. Find more information on Happify’s website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
5. Fooducate: Calorie Counter App
Find out what’s on your food with Fooducate, the only app that scans & grades foods based on their ingredients. Learn nutrition basics and get recommendations for healthy alternatives! Lose weight and keep it off. Eat tasty, healthy, real food. Track your calories, macros, and workouts. Get motivation from the most supportive community in the world. Find more information on Fooducate website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
6. Lose It (Weight Loss)
The world’s most effective weight loss program just got even more fun. With Lose It! and Snap It, you have everything you need to rock your goals in one app, the easy way! Simply upload your food pic to Lose It!, and Snap It will identify the foods it sees to get you the calorie count and nutrition information in a snap. Download Lose It! and try Snap It Beta today! Find more information on Lose It website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
7. Relax Melodies (Better Sleep)
Sleep problems? Insomnia? Personalized white noise, sleep sounds and meditation can help you fall asleep! Take back control of your sleep with Relax Melodies, the most popular sleep app featured in People magazine, Mashable and many more. Download the app, mix sounds, add a meditation and enjoy full nights of sleep like you haven’t in a long time! All the tools needed for falling asleep. Find more information on Relax Melodies website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
8. Recovery Path – Addiction Help
Your sobriety journey companion. Suitable for people struggling with or recovering from substance or alcohol addiction. Built on research. Made with love and compassion. Recovery Path incorporates aspects of Motivational Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Community Reinforcement to boost your treatment and recovery plan. Download the app on your iPhone.
9. Smoke Free – quit smoking now
Quit smoking using 40+ proven stop-smoking techniques and the most reliable quitting methods science has to offer. Stop smoking through Smoke-Free to more than triple your quitting chances and conquer tobacco cravings forever! Download the app on your android or iPhone .
10. NA Meeting Search
NA Meeting Search is an application developed to help find an NA Meeting anywhere around the world. Also bundled with this app is the daily Just For Today meditations. The app uses your current location to display the meetings nearest you. However, your location is not stored or transmitted to us. Download the app on your android or iPhone .
11. AA Meeting Guide
Brought to you by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., Meeting Guide is a free of charge app that provides meeting information from A.A. service entities in an easy-to-access format. Over 100,000 A.A. meetings are currently listed. Download the app on your android or iPhone .
12. Al-Anon Family Groups
Al‑Anon Family Groups is a mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. By sharing common experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, families and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their individual situations, whether or not the alcoholic admits the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help. Download the app on your android or iPhone .
13. AbleTo: Mental Health Support
Get the support you need to improve your mental health. From on-demand self care to therapy and coaching, AbleTo makes it easy to put your well-being first. Using tools backed by science, you’ll learn coping skills to help build better habits.. Find more information on AbleTo website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
14. Intuit Credit Karma
Where credit meets confidence. Intuit Credit Karma uses your credit profile to show you curated recommendations. Plus, you can see your Approval Odds¹ before you apply without impacting your scores. Find more information on Credit Karma website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
Manage your jam-packed life and keep the whole family in the loop with Cozi, Appy Award Winner for Best Family App and named a “must-have” app for a better life by The TODAY Show.
There’s nothing stationary about your life, so why depend on a family calendar that hangs on a fridge or wall? Cozi turns all your devices into ultimate family organizers with a shared calendar, shopping lists, to do lists, recipe box, and more everyone can access on the go. Find more information on Cozi website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.
16. Cell-Ed
With Cell-Ed, you can learn the skills you want anywhere, anytime. With just a click, listen to the voice of our teachers. With just a text, learn and communicate with your personal coach who can help you when you need that extra support. Complete the course and earn a certificate! It’s that easy! Find more information on the Cell-ed website, or download the app on your android. *NOTE: this is a app that companies can puchase though Cell-Ed for their employees.
17. Duolingo
Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh and English.
Totally fun and free. New! Swahili and Romanian.
Practice your speaking, reading, listening and writing skills while playing a game! You’ll improve your vocabulary and grammar skills by answering questions and completing lessons. Start with basic verbs, phrases, and sentences, and learn new words daily. Find more information on duolingo website, or download the app on your android, or iPhone.