Mobile apps are a quick, convenient way to have helpful information available at your fingertips. Consider adding some of these free apps to your device to enhance knowledge of suicide prevention and practice of mental health and wellness techniques. Remember that apps focusing on suicide prevention are intended to be supplemental resources, not a replacement of medical or mental health advice. If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, please seek professional help or contact an emergency hotline listed down the right side of this page.
Suicide Prevention Apps
Suicide Lifeguard
Free app for anyone concerned about someone who may be thinking of suicide. Includes specific resources for: Military/Veterans, LGBTQ, Spanish speaking individuals, and the deaf or hard of hearing.
Veteran-Specific Apps
Multiple helpful apps including assistance with: sleep, depression, PTSD, mindfulness, relaxation tips, breathing regulation, relationships, parenting, traumatic brain injury, concussions, parenting, resilience, smoking cessation, suicide prevention, and more.
Virtual Hope Box
Simple tools to help with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking via personalized supportive audio, video, pictures, games, mindfulness exercises, positive messages and activity planning, inspirational quotes, coping statements, and more.
A Friend Asks
Provides the information, tools, and resources to help someone (or yourself) who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide. Includes warning signs of suicidal ideation, how to help a friend, resources, and what to do/not to do.
notOK
When you can't think of the right words, the notOK App™ takes the guesswork out of getting the help and support you need through immediate support from your friends, family, or peer network. Simply open the app, tap the notOK™ button, and a text message along with your current GPS location will be sent to your pre-selected contacts.
My3 Safety Plan
Helps define your support system, create a safety plan, access important resources, and reach out to others when you are having thoughts of suicide.
Suicide Prevention Apps
A variety of apps for a concerned friend or for a person contemplating suicide. Topics included are: risk factors and warning signs, what to say/not to say to a friend, creating a safety plan, and how to intervene.
Suicide Safe
For health care providers, SAMHSA's new suicide prevention app helps integrate suicide prevention strategies into their practice and address suicide risk among their patients. Suicide Safe is a free app based on SAMHSA's Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) card.
Teens and Parents
A variety of helpful apps for teens in crisis, as well as parents or caregivers, to access resources, utilize coping skills, maintain mental wellness, and prevent suicide.
Relaxation & Mental Wellness Apps
Breathe2Relax
This app is a portable stress management tool using a hands-on diaphragmatic breathing exercise.
Calm
Calm allows you to learn meditation, practice breathing exercises, improve sleep, and enjoy relaxation nature scenes, all helping bring clarity, joy and peace to your daily life.
Relax Melodies
Select sounds and melodies that you like and combine them to create a mix. Add a meditation, lay back, listen, and enjoy falling asleep.
Meditations, Music, & Guided Imageries
Over 5,000 free guided meditations, music tracks, talks, and courses. Playlists for sleep, relaxation, anxiety, and mindfulness. Our guided meditations and teachers span spirituality, religion, science and psychology.
Stop, Breathe & Think
Check in with how you’re feeling and try short activities tuned to your emotions. Stop what you are doing. Check in with what you are thinking, and how you are feeling. Practice mindful breathing to create space between your thoughts, emotions and reactions. Broaden your perspective and strengthen your force field of peace with personalized meditations and activities
Happier
This app helps you practice your gratitude skills and find more joy, beauty, and comfort in simple, everyday moments. More than 11,000 scientific studies show that developing a gratitude habit helps you feel more optimistic, sleep better, and be more creative, productive, and less stressed.
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