Our mental health is the most foundational thing to producing great work as designers and living a fulfilling and healthy life. Whether you are suffering from anxiety, depression, burn-out, stress at work or experience difficult team dynamics or imposter syndrome, this collection of mental health apps can help you assess where you are and help you build better, more mindful habits to get you to where you want to be.
Whole
A self-care app and companion that includes daily mood-tracking, journaling, a social gratitude feed, breathing exercises, hydration reminders, sleep sounds, meditation and many more habits that you can customize.
Trill Project
Give yourself some cyber-space; a social network to anonymously and freely express yourself. Connect with other designers and tech friends going through the same struggles and focused on cultivating more empathy and compassion towards them.
Holly Health
The adaptive and personalized burnout prevention coach. If you're a UX or Product designer looking for a science-based approach to helping you prevent burn-out and build healthier work-life balance this is a great companion.
Insight Timer
Incredible free meditation timer, guided meditation and mindfulness classes. This is an incredible app for helping designers unwind, relax their minds and address and reduce work stress, imposter syndrome and anxiety.
Heyr
An AI-powered virtual assistant designed to boost commitment to mental wellbeing with access to a conversational AI. A great app for designers that prefer a more personalized, rewards-driven and conversational approach to building better habits and staying on track and accountable.
Oasis Tab
Self care, right in your browser's New Tab. A lovely daily reminder for UX and Product Designers, to take a minute to unplug, journal, breathe, center and do some self-care.
Welltory
Measure your wellness and HRV. Use data to feel great every day. Using your phone camera to measure your heart rate, pulse and other health factors to analyze your energy and nutrition for the day to help you be proactive about your health and do your best design work.
Oak Meditation
Guided breathing and relaxation sound meditations. Bathe yourself in soothing sounds and clear your mind from a long day of designing and meetings with this sound and mediation app.
