An app for young children to help teach problem-solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence skills. Kids learn as they help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down with belly breathing and solve everyday challenges. The website includes many other apps to help children cope with divorce, incarceration of a family member, emergency preparedness, autism, moving, and being part of a military family.

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• Sesame Street Apps and eBooks
• Age: kids
• Cost: free

This app for younger children offers relaxing, kid-pleasing stories, music, and relaxing sounds coupled with cute characters to reduce bedtime stress and anxiety and promote mindful moments during the day.

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• Age: kids
• Cost: free trial with subscription 

An app for guided meditation. Categories include general meditations (confidence-building, positive-thinking, etc.), sleep stories, affirmations, and issue-based guided meditations (ADD/ADHD, anxiety, overeating, etc.). 

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• Age: kids
• Cost: free trial with subscription 

An app with evidence-based courses that focus on helping children conquer anxiety, depression, ADHD, general stress, and more. Also includes courses that focus on parenting. A “family-first mental health app for the modern world.” 

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• Age: for kids but to be used with parents
• Cost: many free courses 

This app helps children understand why they feel the way they do. Four positive penguins take the user on a journey to understand that feelings arise from their own thoughts. The app content focuses on challenging negative thoughts to help see things through a more optimistic lens. It emphasizes that feelings come from thoughts, not situations, and that anxiety is therefore modifiable. 

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• Age: kids
• Cost: $0.99 

This app uses a superhero character to guide children through yoga poses and breathing. Helpful for calming, mindfulness, and sensory integration. Focuses on self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-regulation. 

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• Age: kids
• Cost: free 

Smiling Mind is an extensive Australian mental health resource focused on mindfulness and developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to people’s lives. The website offers videos and resources for home, school, and the workplace. 

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• Smiling Mind
• Age: any
• Cost: free 

This is a simple app developed by the U.S. Defense Health Agency to teach diaphragmatic “belly” breathing, which helps lower stress and anxiety. Graphics and narration lead users through several breathing exercises. It is described as a portable skill rehearsal tool. 

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• Age: any
• Cost: free 

This is a popular app for sleep, meditation, relaxation, and sleep stories. Soothing bedtime stories, some narrated by celebrities, help users relax and fall asleep naturally. 

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• Age: any
• Cost: free trial with subscription 

This app offers free, anonymous, emotional support and counseling from trained active listeners. There is a text chat feature and listeners are available 24/7. Teens can also share their thoughts with peers. Described as “emotional support on demand. 

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• Age: any
• Cost: free 

Happy Color

This app is an electronic color-by-number app for mindless coloring. Includes an endless amount of pictures, including mandalas, flowers, and Disney characters.  

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• Age: any
• Cost: free with in-app upgrades 

Colorfy

This app offers a relaxing electronic coloring experience. 

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• Age: any
• Cost: free 

An app that helps users track daily anxiety levels on a calendar to track day-to-day progress. It includes access to an online community of users and a skills section for better understanding emotions, resilience and mindfulness, and effective communication skills.

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• Age: teens
• Cost: free with in-app purchases 

This is one of the more recognized mindfulness apps available. It focuses on teaching meditation and mindfulness skills from world-class experts. There are hundreds of guided meditations focusing on everything from sleep to anxiety and mind-body health.

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• Headspace (Web Version)
• Age: teens and adults
• Cost: free trial with subscription 

This app has received many awards as a meditation aid. It offers guided meditations and talks by top mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply and improve happiness. 

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• Insight Timer (Web Version)
• Age: teens and adults
• Cost: free with in-app purchases 

Smiling Mind is an extensive Australian mental health resource focused on mindfulness and developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to people’s lives. The website offers videos and resources for home, school, and the workplace. 

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• Smiling Mind
• Age: any
• Cost: free 

This app uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to “help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.” Focuses on challenging negativity and developing effective ways of thinking.

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• Age: teens
• Cost: free 

This is a simple app developed by the U.S. Defense Health Agency to teach diaphragmatic “belly” breathing, which helps lower stress and anxiety. Graphics and narration lead users through several breathing exercises. It is described as a portable skill rehearsal tool. 

Click below on an icon to download the app:

• Age: any
• Cost: free 

This is a popular app for sleep, meditation, relaxation, and sleep stories. Soothing bedtime stories, some narrated by celebrities, help users relax and fall asleep naturally. 

Click below on an icon to download the app:

• Age: any
• Cost: free trial with subscription 

This app offers free, anonymous, emotional support and counseling from trained active listeners. There is a text chat feature and listeners are available 24/7. Teens can also share their thoughts with peers. Described as “emotional support on demand. 

Click below on an icon to download the app:

• Age: any
• Cost: free 

Happy Color

This app is an electronic color-by-number app for mindless coloring. Includes an endless amount of pictures, including mandalas, flowers, and Disney characters.  

Click below on an icon to download the app:

• Age: any
• Cost: free with in-app upgrades 

Colorfy

This app offers a relaxing electronic coloring experience. 

 Click below on an icon to download the app:

• Age: any
• Cost: free