Our Favorite Apps – Taking the Health Initiative

Headspace

Headspace offers numerous resources for mental health, mindfulness, and meditation. The app contains expert-led guides to ease stress, anxiety, and sleep troubles, as well as science-backed exercises and programs to help you care for your mental and physical well-being. Explore a wide variety of programs tailored to meet specific needs, and enjoy a diverse collection of free and subscription-based options.

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Calm

Calm is one of the top-rated apps for sleep, meditation, and relaxation. The app contains an extensive library of guided meditation, breathwork, music, and stretching exercises to help guide you on your journey towards mindfulness. Beginner, intermediate, or advanced users can find resources suited to their level. The app’s Sleep Stories also feature talent like Matthew McConaughey, Stephen Fry, Rosé, and P!nk!

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Breethe

Breethe features a wide variety of meditations, music, hypnotherapy, nature sounds, masterclasses, and more. The app provides a serene, aesthetic interface to help you meet your sleep, relaxation, and health goals, access to world-renowned experts, and diverse programs designed to help you build a successful meditation practice.

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Insight Timer

Insight Timer is a meditation app designed to calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, encourage deep sleep, and improve happiness. With thousands of available guided meditations, an interactive milestone board to keep track of your stats and progress, and lesson topics from leading meditation teachers and musicians, Insight Timer helps you build a sustainable routine and focus on your well-being.

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Simple Habit

Simple Habit features meditations, daily motivation, coaching content, and a variety of wellness and sleepy therapy sessions designed to facilitate improved mental and physical health. The app offers workout content, kid-friendly sleep guides, and daily inspiration to help keep you on track for your goals. You can set reminders, toggle display features, and tailor your page’s content to suit your mindfulness needs.

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Meditation Nest

Meditation Nest focuses on centering you for 5 minutes of meditation per day to reduce stress, improve focus, promote sleep, and ease breathing. The app offers a variety of 7-day programs to choose from and a constantly refreshing feed of meditation, breathing, and sleep story resources.

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Buddhify

Buddhify offers meditation designed to accommodate your busy lifestyle. In lieu of a premium membership subscription, the app offers a one-time fee for access to step-by-step guided meditations that can fit into any part of your day. Whether you’re going to sleep, travelling, waking up, or getting some fresh air, Buddhify simplifies meditation for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users alike.

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Finch: Self-Care Pet

Finch is a self-care pet app that helps you stay positive and motivated, one day at a time! Take care of yourself by taking care of your digital pet and choose from a wide variety of self-care exercises personalized for you. The app includes goal trackers, bullet journaling, quizzes, guided breathing exercises, mood trackers, and various insights to help you take control of your mental health in a fun, unique way.

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Cronometer

Cronometer is a calorie- and macro-tracking app designed to help you tune in to your daily nutrition goals. The app offers personalized health and nutrition insights using verified data and science-backed tools, and utilizes a large food database to simplify logging. Cronometer also includes water and sleep trackers to help you gain further insights into your health.

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MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is a health and nutrition app designed to facilitate a variety of fitness goals, providing in-depth calorie and macro tracking as well as fitness and food diaries. You can find numerous workouts tailored to your goals and activity level via the app’s expansive fitness library. It also includes a variety of recipes and a meal planning feature to help balance daily nutrition.

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MacroFactor

MacroFactor tracks calories, macros, scale weight, and visual body fat with finely-tuned scientific algorithms that calculate total caloric expenditure and intake. The app tailors programs designed to suit your individual weight and nutrition goals based on activity level, diet preference, and starting body composition. You can also choose which food components to focus on and pin to your dashboard, allowing you to gain further insight into your nutrition.

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Elite HRV

Elite HRV helps you track heart rate variability (HRV), a strong indicator of vagal tone, to help prevent burnout, improve well-being, reduce stress, and optimize training and recovery. The app gives you insights into your sleep, workouts, and daily routines to pinpoint stressors and other sources of chronic inflammation. You’ll get real-time HRV biofeedback as well as easy-to-read data to help improve your overall health.

→ Alternatively, you can use an Apple Watch or Oura Ring to track your HRV. If your Apple Watch is synced to your Health app, navigate to the app and select Browse > Heart > Heart Rate Variability. HRV data can be accessed directly via the Oura app.

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Oura

The Oura app works in conjunction with the Oura Ring to provide detailed data on biometrics like your heart rate, body temperature, blood oxygen, HRV, and quality of sleep. The app’s insights can help you build stress resilience, track your cycles, and measure the day’s physical activity. It also provides weekly, monthly, and yearly data to help you visualize your body’s responses to your environment and health choices.

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Yuka

Yuka analyzes the nutritional quality, presence of additives, and organic aspect of various food and cosmetic products just by scanning their barcodes. When a product has a negative impact on your health, the app will recommend similar but healthier alternatives. The app will help you gain nutritional insights into grocery products, shampoos, makeup, and more.

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Hatch Sleep

Hatch Sleep helps you build healthy sleep habits by creating personalized sleep routines and providing access to a growing library of relaxing audios. The app also has content specifically curated to help soothe little ones and encourage healthier sleep habits in children, so it’s a great addition for all ages.

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Impulse

Impulse is designed to improve your cognitive health through a variety of mind games, puzzles, and challenges that assess everything from intelligence and memory to focus and brain speed. You can set personal goals for yourself and measure your progress in a unique, colorful way designed to stimulate your brain and keep your mind sharp.

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Yoga | Down Dog

Down Dog is a yoga app with access to various practice types like Vinyasa, Hatha, Gentle, Restorative, and Yin. The app has over 60,000 configurations to help you build a yoga routine you love, and provides six different yoga teachers whose voices can guide you through your practice. You can toggle through numerous poses to see what you like best as you build your ideal yoga routine!

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SmartGym

SmartGym provides access to a variety of workouts as well as a personalized training plan based on your activity level, level of experience, and available equipment. From HIIT to weightlifting, the app offers over 130 expert-crafted workout plans and walks you through reps and proper form for over 600 different exercises.

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RISE: Sleep Tracker

RISE is a sleep tracker with unique features designed to measure your sleep debt and energy levels. You can use a variety of widgets, sleeping sounds, meditation guides, smart alarm clocks, and habit reminders to help build the perfect bedtime routine. The app also includes calendar integration to make scheduling enough sleep into your schedule more convenient.

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