Apps
Talkspace Gives You a Real Licensed Therapist Without the Waiting Room
Talkspace matches you with a licensed therapist for text messaging, audio notes, and video sessions, making professional mental health support accessible from your phone.
Clarity Gives You Hard Data On Your Own Mental Health Trajectory
Clarity is a free CBT-based mood journal that maps your emotional patterns with data and graphs, helping you understand why you think and feel the way you do.
The Best Safe Social Media and Messaging Apps for Kids and Teens
We rounded up the best kid-friendly social media and messaging apps with built-in safety features, parental controls, and age-appropriate content.
Break Your TikTok Addiction With One Sec
One Sec is a screen time app for iOS and Android that forces a breathing pause before you open flagged apps and tracks how many times a day you try to open each one.
Dumbphones Are Trending—This Free App Gives You the Benefits.
Dumbphone Homescreen is a free Android launcher that replaces your home screen icon grid with a clean text-based interface, removing the colorful visual cues designed to keep you picking up your phone
Your Brain Is Running a Background Tab Called Anxiety—Headspace Helps Close It
Headspace guides beginners through a full meditation practice with structured courses, breathing exercises, and quick SOS sessions for stressful moments.
Brick Turns Your Phone Into a Dumbphone the Second You Tap It
Brick is a physical NFC device paired with a free app for iOS and Android that instantly locks distracting apps when your phone taps it, with no bypass option available from the device itself.
The Freedom App Blocks Instagram on Your Phone and Your Laptop at the Same Time
Freedom is a cross-device screen time app for iOS, Android, and desktop that enforces app and website blocks across all connected devices at the same time, with a free tier and premium plans.
I'm Losing Years of My Life on My Phone. This Free App Is How I'm Getting Some of It Back.
ScreenZen is a free, tip-supported screen time app that delays distracting apps instead of blocking them outright, giving you a moment to decide whether you actually want to open them.
Save Your Kid From Brain Rot This Summer With Shift
Shift is a desktop-controlled screen time app for iOS and Android that locks out distracting apps at the system level with no bypass option, making it the most tamper-proof option on the market.
