Healthy Living Apps Recommendations

These phone apps can be downloaded on your smart phone from Google Play (Android) or the Apple iOS app store. These apps are geared to help improve your health and well-being!

A Friend Asks

  • Provides warning signs of suicidal ideation and tips for getting help for a friend (or yourself) who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide.
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Calm

  • Guided meditation, sleep stories, breathing & stretching exercises, and relaxing music.
  • Price: Free with optional in app purchases
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

FitOn

  • Provides home workout classes with celebrity trainers in strength, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, dance and more.
  • Price: Free with optional in app purchases
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

GoodRx

  • Provides coupons for medications.
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Insight Timer

  • Guided meditations, music tracks and talks from the world’s mindfulness experts.
  • Price: Free with optional in app purchases
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

My Fitness Pal

  • Log the food you eat daily. Barcode scanner for food nutritional information. Healthy recipes. Tracks all your nutrients for the day. de.
  • Price: Free with optional in app purchases
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

My 3

  • Provides warning signs of suicidal ideation and tips for getting help for a friend (or yourself) who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide.
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Nike Run Club

  • Run tracker with GPS tracking, audio guided runs, personalized running plans and goals.
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Rain Sleep Sounds

  • Rain and nature sounds to help you relax and fall asleep.
  • Price: Free with optional in app purchases
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Self-help for Anxiety Management

  • Helps manage anxiety by helping you be aware of triggers and understanding anxious thoughts.
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Smiling Mind

  • Mindfulness, meditation and sleep guided sessions
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Stop, Breathe & Think

  • Provides short “check-ins” and 1-5 min activities that can help keep you calm.
  • Price: Free with optional in app purchases
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Trill Project

  • An app that is a social networking platform that creates a virtual support community where everyone feels like they belong.
  • Price: Free
  • Apple: Yes | Android: Yes

Contact

Nancy Montgomery, RN, MSN
Assistant Dean, Health, Wellness and Veterans Services

Ask a Nurse: 949-451-5687

T: 949-451-5221
Video Phone: 949-333-0260
F: 949-451-5393

E: ivchealthcenter@ivc.edu

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