Keeping Well
Presenting a thoughtfully curated selection of apps designed to boost your confidence in using digital health tools, and help you tackle common health challenges while awaiting treatment.
The apps below are low risk, simple and easy to use, and have been tested and reviewed as safe.
These apps have been specifically selected to help you to improve your confidence around digital health apps and to support you with common health challenges. They can be of benefit whilst you are waiting for treatment.
Support
Manage My Pain
Every day, Manage My Pain sends you a message to ask how you are feeling. You then choose how you describe your pain using pictures and a sliding scale.
You can also track the medicines you take and describe how effective they are. You can share all of this information with your care team, so they can improve your care plan and help you manage your long term pain.
Pain Management
In App Purchases
81%
Level 3
81%
Level 3
MyTherapy Medication Reminder
MyTherapy is an app designed to help adults keep track of their medications. It allows you to record your symptoms, mood, exercise, weight, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. You can also log the medicines you take and receive reminders to take them. If you inject medications, the app helps you track injection sites.
Developed with input from healthcare professionals, MyTherapy is free to download and use.
Utilities/ Administration
Entirely Free
71%
Level 2
71%
Level 2
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 heartrate and weight. You can connect Sidekick Health to Fitbit, Apple Health or Google Fit.
Autoimmune disease
Gastrointestinal
+2
Entirely Free
79%
Level 4
79%
Level 4
General 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.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
72%
Level 2
72%
Level 2
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.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
76%
Level 3
76%
Level 3
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.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
74%
Level 2
74%
Level 2
NHS Weight Loss Plan
Losing weight provides many health benefits, particularly if you're overweight. By making small, simple changes to your diet and portion sizes, you can effectively lose weight.
This 12-week plan helps you set weight loss goals, plan meals, make healthier food choices, increase physical activity, and track your progress.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
74%
Level 2
74%
Level 2
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.
Healthy Living
Respiratory
Entirely Free
78%
Level 2
77%
Level 2
Mental Health & Sleep
SilverCloud - Making Space for Healthy Minds
SilverCloud provides a wide range of supportive and interactive programmes, tools and tactics for mental and behavioural health issues. These programmes address wellbeing, life balance, time management, communication skills, goal setting, communication and relationship management, anger management, stress management, relaxation and sleep management, among many others.
Silvercloud content is entirely evidence-based and follows best practice in its delivery. Rigorous research has been conducted to identify the most appropriate foundation for this effective and evidence-based content.
We're excited to inform you that the cost of this health app is now FREE for your benefit and available to all Hywel Dda Health board patients.
Please click the 'Download' button below where you will be redirected to the Silver cloud Wales site to register for your free account.
Mental Health
Utilities/ Administration
Free to download and use
86%
Level 4
85%
Level 4
FREE TO DOWNLOAD & USE
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
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Entirely Free
77%
Level 2
77%
Level 2
Wysa: Mental Health Support
Wysa Mental Health Support works by providing you with relaxation guides and exercises to reduce stress, help you sleep better and manage depression.
It also provides you with a safe space to have private text chats with an artificially intelligent (AI) chatbot. You can use a guide to help you meditate.
Healthy Living
Mental Health
In App Purchases
90%
Level 4
90%
Level 4
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.
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Entirely Free
65%
Level 2
65%
Level 2
Hywel Dda Health App Library
Our health app library only contains compliant health apps, so we can be sure that the ones we recommend meet digital and clinical safety standards. You can visit the app library at hyweldda.orchahealth.com/ Please be assured we do not expect apps or the library to replace any services you may be using, but rather to complete them.