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

Free

English

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.

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Mindfulness with Petit BamBou

$7.49 / month

English
French

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

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MindShift CBT - Anxiety Relief

Free

English
French

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.

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Insight Timer - Meditation App

Free

Unlimited access $78.99 /year

English
French

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

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Smiling Mind

Free

English

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

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Headspace: Mindful Meditation

$17.99 /month

English
French

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

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Calm - Sleep, Meditate, Relax

Free

Premium access $14.99 /month

English
French

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

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Sanvello: Anxiety & Depression

Free

English
French

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.

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7 Cups: Therapy & Support

Free

Premium access $12.99 /month

English

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)

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BetterSleep: Sleep tracker

Free

Premium access $39.99 /year

English
French

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.

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Amaha (InnerHour): self-care

Free

Premium access $4.99 /month

English

The mental health guide and tracker

Amaha is an app that offers various activities to improve mental health. The app offers customized classes and programs on emotional management. You can find a mood diary and support online groups. You can also discuss with a smart chatbot on your mental health journey.

Personalized courses and programs to develop skills on emotional management (e.g depression, anxiety, stress, anger)
Journaling exercises based on CBT
Positive affirmation exercises
Meditation and breathing exercises to practice awareness
The user can set goals and receive reminders to assess their progress.
Access to discussion groups on addiction, depression, and anxiety issues.

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