Useful Apps
Explore a range of useful apps that are available to download for free in the Apple and Google Play App Stores.
Services
Policelink
Call police, hoon line & SES, send msg to neighbourhood watch, crime map, & access online reporting.
Emergency Plus
Call emergency services from the app & provide them with GPS coordinates. Gives advice re the best suited service.
Homelessness Australia
Contains details for emergency services, helplines, and ideas to find basic necessities when necessary.
Health & Mental Health
MyGrief
This app provides support to grieving people, and those who support them.
MoodMission
Tell the app how you’re feeling and receive a tailored list of 5 missions to help you feel better & improve your wellbeing.
niggle by Kids Helpline
Supports young people to identify & do something about their ‘niggles’. Take home, self-help toolkit for mental, social & emotional wellbeing.
Exposure – Face Your Fears
Exposure therapy. Enter your own personal fear. Create a fear hierarchy. Complete exposure tasks while live updating your anxiety levels.
FearTools – Anxiety Aid
Especially useful for phobias, social anxiety disorder & generalized anxiety disorder. Contains info, thought diary, breathing, exposure & tests.
Check-In: Beyond Blue
An app to support users in approaching and facilitating a conversation with someone they think might be struggling.
Rise Up: Eating Disorder Help
Supports users struggling with food, dieting, exercise and body image. Log meals, emotions & behaviours. Connect with clinicians & more.
MoodTools – Depression Aid
To help combat depression and negative moods. Thought diary, energizing activities, safety plan, information, test & videos.
Living Well
Supporting men who’ve been sexually abused. Featuring: assessment, learning, breathing, community, manage difficulties.
Apart of Me
This app support bereaved youth. A peaceful, relaxing game that offers acceptance, wisdom & connection.
Beyond Now – Suicide Safety Plan
Helps you create a suicide safety plan like ReMinder, only much more basic.
Mind Ease: Anxiety Relief
A collection of the world’s best exercises for reducing stress & anxiety. Customizeable.
Curable
Provides relevant information and tasks to assist in better understanding & managing the user’s pain.
ReMinder Suicide Safety Plan
Helps you create a suicide safety plan that can be accessed any time on your phone.
Calm Harm
Provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. Password-protected. Personalise the app so it suits you.
PTSD Coach Australia
An app to help users understand and manage the symptoms of PTSD.
Thinkladder
Supports users to challenge unhelpful beliefs around stress, anxiety, relational conflict and depression.
MoodPrism
A research-based mood-tracker that turns the user’s emotional health into colourful moodprisms.
BetterHelp
An affordable and convenient way to get professional help from licensed therapists and counsellors online.
Clear Fear
Provides a range of ways to manage anxiety, alter anxious emotions, thoughts and behaviours, and calm fear responses.
13SICK – National Home Doctor
Book an after-hours, bulk-billed home visit by a doctor
Indigenous-Specific
iBobbly
A social and emotional wellbeing self-help app for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander’s aged 15 years and over.
Deadly Tots
Information to support Indigenous families with babies. Get reminders on immunisations & helpful tips, add photos & contacts for local services.
Kurdiji 1.0
Created by Warlpiri Elders to increase resilience & combat Aboriginal suicides. A collection of videos, games and stories.
AODconnect
A national directory of alcohol & other drug treatment services for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people.
Women's Health
Mind the Bump
Provides tailored exercises to mentally & emotionally support you from day 1 of the pregnancy to 24 months after the birth.
Clue
This app is an accurate menstrual calendar, ovulation app and fertility tracker. Find patterns & manage your menstrual health.
Relationships
The Arc App
For DV survivors to track abusive behaviour & record photos, videos, audio & diary entries of their abuse.
Penda
For women considering separation/divorce because of F&DV. Contains financial tips, safety and legal info & referrals.
Talking Parents
Designed for DV survivors’ co-parenting with their abuser. Shared calendar includes every edit/deletion/view, recorded calls, secure messaging, personal journal, real-time notifications & attachments library.
The Keep
For DV survivors to track abusive behaviour, record photos, text & audio of their abuse. This app is encrypted & disguised as a reminder app.
Sunny - 1800Respect
Helps women with disabilities to recognise, respond and get help if they are experiencing violence or abuse.
Daisy
An app that connects sexual assault and F&DV survivors to services that will support them.
Parentship
To support co-parenting. All the child’s details in one place. Scheduling, minimises stress & stores important documents.
Addiction Support
Daybreak – Alcohol Support
Professional support to change your relationship with alcohol. Featuring: Peer community, personal improvement activity, anonymous & safe.
I Am Sober
Supports users to stay sober. Tracks days, helps build new habits & provides ongoing motivation by linking you to a community.
Quit Now: My QuitBuddy
Supports users to quit smoking. Featuring: goals, personal bests, danger times, distract & remind me & access to a peer community.
Financial & Employment
WiseList
An app to support users in tracking and managing bills, and putting together a budgeted grocery list.
Pocketbook
A budget planner, money & expense manager. Sync your bank account, get bill reminders, track expenses and more.
Mindfulness & Meditation
Stop, Breathe & Think
Check in with how you feel and receive a tuned mindfulness or meditation session to improve your day & help you sleep better.
Headspace: Meditation & Sleep
A meditation and sleep app.
Insight Timer
An app to support users in managing stress, anxiety & sleep issues with guided meditations, talks & music tracks.
Smiling Mind
A mindfulness meditation app.