Move Mood

Move Mood is designed to help young people manage the things they might find difficult when experiencing low mood. Created for Stem4 (teenage mental health charity) Move Mood supports users to define goals and set activity schedules. The app motivates users by providing a 'companion' to help them accomplish tasks they commit to and earn 'awards' for completing them.

There is the opportunity for monitoring progress and a section for resources. Intended age range: 13+

Calm Harm

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 professional urgently.

Clear Fear

Created by Stem4 (teenage mental health charity), Clear Fear uses a Cognitive Behavioural framework to help change anxious thoughts and emotions, alter anxious behaviours and calm fear responses. It also has descriptions of the different ways in which anxiety can manifest, and information and resources to help manage this.

Intended age range: 11-19

Combined Minds

Created by Stem4 (teenage mental charity), Combined Minds helps families and friends support young people with their mental health. When a child or young person has a diagnosed mental health condition, families and friends want to support them in the best way but also know when to step back.

Tellmi

Tellmi is a peer-support app, where users can post questions or concerns and receive replies from a community of people their own age, whether they are struggling with stress, anxiety or depression, or having problems with relationships. All posts are checked by a trained worker before being published.

Age range: 11+

distrACT

The distrACT app provides easy, quick and discreet access to general health information and advice for people who self-harm and may feel suicidal, and people supporting them.

Intended age range: 13+

Feeling Good Teens

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

Molehill Mountain

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+

Worth Warrior

Created by Stem4 (teenage mental health charity), Worth Warrior aims to help young people manage negative thoughts, feelings and behaviours that can lead to low self-worth, body dissatisfaction and possible eating disorders.

Recommended age 12+

It is recommended a GP should be consulted in the first instance to ensure physical health is not at risk. If you have been diagnosed with an eating disorder, please talk to a responsible adult, and see a health professional first to find out if the app is suitable for you.

If you are under the supervision of a mental health team, you may use the app under their guidance.