NHS Active 10 Walking Tracker

You use NHS Active 10 Walking Tracker by tapping on the app when you want to go for a walk, and putting your phone in your pocket. The app works by using the sensors in your smartphone.

The app will count your steps, including how fast you walk. When you do 10 minutes of fast walking, the app will reward you with a badge.

Medito: Meditation & Sleep

Medito is a completely free, non-profit meditation and mindfulness app designed to support mental wellbeing and better sleep. Trusted by over 2 million users, it offers guided meditations, breathing exercises, sleep stories, and personalised mindfulness programmes for goals like reducing anxiety, improving focus, and finding calm.

Features include daily meditation packs, soundscapes for sleep, offline access, streak tracking, and a dark mode. Backed by research, Medito has been shown to improve wellbeing in a 2024 clinical study. With no ads or paywalls, Medito makes mental wellness accessible to everyone.

NHS Food Scanner

You open the NHS Food Scanner app on your phone and then point your smartphone camera at the barcode of a food or drink. The app will show you how much sugar, saturated fat and salt per pack, 100 grams, liquid millilitre, or portion of that food or drink.

With some smartphones, you can use augmented reality (AR) to see a 3D picture of the sugar, fat and salt. The app suggests a smart food swap for you if you want a food or drink with less sugar, fat or salt.

Smiling Mind

The Smiling Mind app has been developed by psychologists and educators, and downloaded by millions of people. It can support you with developing mental fitness skills, and can also help you:

• Increase your sense of calm

• Manage your technology use

• Enhance the important relationships in your life

• Reduce stress and anxiety

• Improve mental health and wellbeing

NHS Quit Smoking

NHS Quit Smoking works by giving you a guide to follow for 28 days to help you stop smoking. You complete tasks that can help you beat your cravings and focus on your goals. And you get daily messages of support and advice. You can track how many days you have had without a cigarette and how much money you have saved.

Sidekick Health

Sidekick Health has exercise videos, mindfulness meditation guides, and a medication tracker. You can speak to a health coach, or a supportive community.

Track what you eat and how much you exercise. You can also record your heart rate and weight. You can connect Sidekick Health to Fitbit, Apple Health or Google Fit.

NHS Drink Free Days

NHS Drink Free Days works by asking you how much alcohol you drink each day. You then choose one or more days per week to not drink any alcohol and track your progress.

Get tips, advice and reminders on how to manage your drinking habits. If you try to stop drinking alcohol on your own and you start shaking, sweating or feeling anxious, please speak to your health or care professional straight away.

Sleepful

Sleepful works by providing you with an 8 step guide that includes thinking about how you sleep and what can help you sleep better. You can watch videos or read about how to sleep better, keep track of how well you are sleeping in a diary and listen to recordings to help you relax.

Sleepful uses a type of therapy called cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) to help you understand how your thoughts, feelings and surroundings can affect your sleep.