Mental wellness and calm apps
Apps offering AI companion chats, mood journaling, breathing, meditation, grounding and CBT-style exercises, plus some habit-quitting and digital wellbeing tools, for people managing stress, anxiety or unwanted habits.
Built for: Stressed or anxious consumers
Projects since May 04
246
Different builders
236
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+7%
AI is the core
17%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (72%), web app (19%), ai agent or bot (2.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/ShowYourApp, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Crystal Mind — Teaches users mental-health concepts through eight therapeutic approaches.“I’m building Crystal Mind, a mental-health education app with eight therapeutic approaches.”
- MantraTimer — Times Transcendental Meditation sessions with a mantra-focused timer and practice tracking.“Do you practice Transcendental Meditation?”
- Fallow — Tracks the gap between cannabis sessions and gradually lengthens the target break, with on-device weekly reflections.“Fallow - an iPhone app for cutting back on weed with a break that grows a little every day”
- Pontus — Guides static apnea breath-hold training sessions on iOS.“I built Pontus — an iOS app for static apnea training”
- Connected Breath — Guides a one-minute breathing exercise in the browser, synced to a shared server heartbeat so strangers breathe together.“I built a website where strangers around the world breathe in sync”
- Empower Soul Path — Guides users through meditations, breathwork, emotional check-ins and journaling, including a body map for linking feelings to bodily locations.“We built an app that maps emotions to where you feel them in your body. Looking for honest feedback.”
- Somaura — Takes a photo of a painful body spot and shows the exact point on a 3D body to press, with pressure and duration guidance and voice instructions.“I kept pressing the wrong spot on my neck for years, so I built an app that finds the right one”
- Reset Buddy — Matches a user's chosen feeling to a short guided reset with breathing and a calm hands-on activity.“Reset Buddy – short resets matched to how you feel (web app, free tester access)”
- SoberShift — Provides a private solo recovery tool with a panic button that alerts a chosen partner.“Building SoberShift.app — Solo Recovery, Partner Supported, Private First. 🛠️🔒”
- coping.tools — Offers short, situation-based coping exercises for difficult moments without requiring an account or questionnaire.“I built a free coping-tools site for difficult moments — no account, no ads, no chatbot”
- DrugFree — Tracks alcohol-free and smoke-free days with up to three separate quit-date counters, plus journaling, craving logs and guided breathing.“I built DrugFree for tracking alcohol and nicotine quit dates separately on iPhone”
- Good Egg — Encourages users to perform small acts of kindness and connect with others.“I made a kindness app”
- worry compost — Lets users save worries to be revisited at a set time and turns the ones they release into a pixel garden.“I built a free "worry compost", park your worries until worry time, and the ones you let go of grow a pixel garden”
- VoyoFace — Helps users assess skin concerns and generates a personalized skincare and face yoga routine.“I built my first app. It’s finally real.”
- Power Moves — Delivers daily mindset and self-improvement prompts to encourage gratitude and self-compassion.“You could use a Power Move”
- ProgramU — Generates custom subliminal, hypnosis, meditation and EFT tapping audio sessions from user-written goals, with an AI voice teacher and a 90-day program.“I built an app for shifting your identity: custom subliminals, hypnosis, meditation and EFT tapping, written from your own words for anything you want to improve about yourself or your life (iPhone, Android, web)”
- CalmMate — Guides users through breathing exercises, meditation timers, grounding tools and private journaling for panic and stress on iPhone and Apple Watch.“I built a free panic support app for iPhone and Apple Watch - no account, no paywall”
- Unspiral — Guides breathing exercises with timed rhythms run over filmed nature footage, with spoken cues and ambient sound.“Unspiral guided breathing app using real filmed footage instead of an animated dot (iOS)”
- SensaAI — Offers a conversational guide that asks reflective questions based on Buddhist thought, a daily contemplative teaching, and a private space to save meaningful passages.“In 2014 I survived a rare, aggressive cancer (type C thymoma). Buddhism kept my mind alive through 2+ years of treatment. I taught myself to code and built this iOS app to pay it back”
- Take4 — Guides users through four DBT TIPP skill exercises to help manage anxiety attacks.“I spent at least two evenings on this. Where are my 10,000 users and acquisition offer?”
Most discussed
- Uprise — Guides users through a nine-phase porn addiction recovery program with urge-handling SOS steps and relapse pattern tracking.“I was addicted to porn. So I built the app I wish I had.”
- Grit: stoic journal — Delivers daily and weekly stoic quotes and offers journaling, meditation, breathing exercises and sleep sounds in one iOS app.“I will personally checkout your saas. Drop them below!”
- Provides a mobile app with crisis-support resources and server-side AI features, sold by subscription.“I can't code. An AI tool deleted my first app 3 months in (I didn't know git existed). I rebuilt from scratch and it's now on Google Play. What 18 months of vibe coding taught me.”
- Pond — Guides users through challenging negative thoughts in a daily thought journal, showing each thought as a fish whose swimming and the pond's mood reflect how distressing the thought feels.“I built a thought journal app where your thoughts become fish, now trying to work out how to distribute it honestly”
- Stillwall: Focus Reset — Guides users through a short stare-at-a-wall exercise to regain focus.“My girlfriend roasted my startup, and that's why I renamed my app.”
- RegularMonk — Prompts users to take four mindful pauses a day to reduce doom-scrolling.“Share what you are building 👇”
- somequiet — Generates guided meditation sessions tailored to how the user feels, and turns journal entries into meditations.“We built a meditation app that creates a session for how you feel right now, and we'd love feedback”
- Rueh — Generates personalized meditation sessions based on how the user is feeling.“Built an AI meditation app — 87K TikTok views, 0 paying users. What am I missing?”
- Offers one-tap breathing, grounding, and calming prompts for panic attacks, working offline without login.“I’ve been building a panic attack app for months—today someone paid for it after actually using it”
- HolistiQ — Combines guided breathing, workouts, a Pomodoro timer, meditation sessions and ambient sounds in one wellness app.“I have near zero dev background. Today my first app went live on the App Store. Still can't believe it!”