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Recommended apps to reduce anxiety and insomnia

This selection of apps will help you deal with the anxiety and insomnia that can sometimes occur when trying to quit smoking.

Woebot: Your Self-Care Expert

Woebot: Your Self-Care Expert

Free

  • English
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A life coach at your fingertips

Woebot is a free app made with clinicians that offers a chatbot as a life coach. With guided conversations, Woebot tries to positively change the negative thoughts of the user. It can discuss issues of anxiety, depression, and addiction.

  • Guided conversation with a chatbot. Discuss on various topics: accomplishing goals, managing emotions, adjustment to change, mindfulness practices.
Mindfulness with Petit BamBou

Mindfulness with Petit BamBou

$7.49 / month

  • English
  • French
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Back to basics through breathing and meditation

Petit Bambou is a mindfulness app. It offers guided meditations to help with emotional problems, sleep and dependence issues. You can find a mix of relaxing sounds. The app also provides breathing exercises to improve calmness.

  • Relaxing sounds and music
  • Guided programs to help with emotional problems, sleep disruption, addiction issues, practice mindfulness
  • Breathing exercises to relax
MindShift CBT - Anxiety Relief

MindShift CBT - Anxiety Relief

Free

  • English
  • French
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Challenge your fears by reframing your thoughts

Mindshift is a free app that helps reframe your thoughts in difficult situations. It offers activities to help you better perceive the problem you may be facing. You can find tips to conquer anxiety, challenges to face your fears with action, and forum groups to discuss your journey.

  • Tools to manage emotions: thought journal, breathing exercises, guided meditation, visualization activity
  • Challenges to fight anxiety by taking action
  • Articles on healthy habits to better manage anxiety
  • Online community to discuss many subjects such as mindfulness, anxiety, emotional issues.
  • Tips for quick relief when facing obstacles. Ex.: taking a break, refocus, thinking differently.
Insight Timer - Meditation App

Insight Timer - Meditation App

Free

Unlimited access $78.99 /year

  • English
  • French
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A guide to sleep and relax

Insight Timer is a free app that offers hundreds of guided meditations to help with stress and sleep issues. You can find a mix of sounds and music for relaxation. There are also breathing exercises and forums to talk about your daily challenges.

  • Guided Meditation Plan
  • Relaxation exercises to help you sleep, release anxiety and stress
  • Relaxing music and sounds
  • Discussion groups between differents communities
Smiling Mind

Smiling Mind

Free

  • English
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A better state of mind with personalized programs

Smiling Mind is a free app that offers customized programs for mental health. This app is built with psychologists. Made for all ages, it offers activity plans on good sleeping routines, mindfulness, and handling your stress.

  • Set of programs intended for adults and adolescents to help with mood management.
  • A 21-day program to promote quality sleep
  • A program on key elements to promote awareness
  • Guided breathing and meditation activities
Headspace: Mindful Meditation

Headspace: Mindful Meditation

$17.99 /month

  • English
  • French
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A meditation toolbox for serenity

Headspace offers a large selection of guided meditations to help you with anxiety and sleep problems. It shares methods for being mindful and breathing exercises to relax. Clinically approved, this app helps with the feeling of defeat when trying to adapt to change.

  • Guided meditation classes
  • Exercises on stress and anxiety management
  • Guided activities to help sleeping
Calm - Sleep, Meditate, Relax

Calm - Sleep, Meditate, Relax

Free

Premium access $14.99 /month

  • English
  • French
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Peaceful night rest made easy with guided meditation

Calm is a well-known app that offers various activities to help you sleep and relax. It shares guided meditation to help you sleep better, relieve your stress, and lower your anxiety. This app shares bedtime stories to help you sleep, breathing exercises, and music to relax.

  • Guided meditation classes
  • Exercises on stress and anxiety management
  • Bedtime stories
  • Breathing exercises to reduce stress
  • Videos of physical exercises to relax and release stress
Sanvello: Anxiety & Depression

Sanvello: Anxiety & Depression

Free

  • English
  • French
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The all-in-one mental health manager

Sanvello is an emotional management app. Based on science, it offers a toolbox for overcoming anxiety and depression. You can find coaching sessions, meditation exercises, and tips on how to handle change. You can set your personal goals and track your mood.

  • Several discussion groups available to discuss, among other things, anxiety, depression, smoking cessation
  • Variety of programs to help you manage emotions including anxiety and stress. Exercises includes journaling, meditation and educational activities
  • The user can set health goals for himself (e.g., reduce anxiety) and will be challenged to achieve them
  • Toolbox to help the user: a support group, sleep routine, reminders to calm down.
7 Cups: Therapy & Support

7 Cups: Therapy & Support

Free

Premium access $12.99 /month

  • English
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A community to support you wherever you are

7 cups is a free app that offers a mental health online support group. You chat with a certified therapist or trained volunteer about your personal problems. Join an organized group to discuss a subject such as anxiety or dependence. It also offers programs to help you work on your mental health concerns.

  • The user has access to organized discussion around various subjects such as anxiety and addiction
  • Trained volunteers are available in private online chat to discuss with the user problems
  • Access to a variety of personalized programs with exercises to achieve goals (e.g., emotional management, self-acceptance, physical health)
BetterSleep: Sleep tracker

BetterSleep: Sleep tracker

Free

Premium access $39.99 /year

  • English
  • French
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A community to support you wherever you are

BetterSleep is a free app focused on improving sleep quality. It offers a great selection of sounds, music, and fiction stories. The user can create a custom mix of sounds to help sleep and relaxation. It offers breathing exercises and guided meditations to ease anxiety.

  • The user can create a personalized sound environment by mixing relaxing sounds to help relaxation and sleep.
  • Access to an organised reading list built for rest, relaxation and meditation.
  • Access to fiction stories to sleep faster.
  • Access to breathing exercises to relax.
  • Access to meditation exercises for awareness and relaxation.