Apps are available for everything these days – from games and social media to shopping and travel. Among some of the most popular downloads also include apps that help protect and strengthen your mental health.

Apps that focus on protecting and improving mental health use methods like guided meditation, psychoeducation material, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and provide helpful networks of support. I have put together a list of the top 5 app that can help you enhance your overall well-being and look after you mental health.

Calm

Voted 2017’s #1 app for meditation, mindfulness and sleep! This app covers everything from meditation, sleep, mindfulness, and music channels to help influence your mood. Calm is the perfect app for beginners and includes hundreds of programs for intermediate and advanced users.

(Free; iOS and Android)

What’s Up

What’s up is an amazing free app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. It also helps users understand the root causes of depression, anxiety, self-esteem and stress and provides healthy coping strategies to  try right now!

(Free; iOS and Android)

Mood Kit

MoodKit uses the foundation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and provides users with over 200 different mood improvement activities. Developed by two clinical psychologists, MoodKit helps you learn how to change how you think and develop self-awareness and healthy attitudes. The journal feature is a great way to practice self-care by reflecting on the day, noting any distressing thoughts, and documenting how you overcame them.

($4.99; iOS)

Headspace

The Headspace app makes mediation simple. Learn the skills of mindfulness and meditation by using this app for just a few minutes per day. You gain access to hundreds of meditations on everything from stress and anxiety to sleep and focus. The app also has a handy “get some headspace” reminder to encourage you to keep practicing each day. Headspace is suggested to enhance compassionate behavior towards others in just 3 weeks!

(Free; iOS and Android)

Happify

This science-based activities and games can help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts, and build greater resilience by providing effective tools and programs to improve emotional well-being. Happify helps you to regain control of your thoughts and feelings. Recent reports find that 86% of the app users report feeling better about their lives after just 2 months of using it.

(Free; iOS and Android)