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Anxiety and Relaxation App Directory

Anxiety and relaxation apps offer grounding, guided breathing, mindfulness, journaling, hypnosis, and short reset practices.

Directory note

We include apps that are useful for everyday regulation while keeping a clear boundary around clinical treatment claims.

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Last reviewed 2026-06-25

Editorial criteria

These criteria keep the category useful for users and credible as a citable directory page.

Fast access to grounding or breathing tools
Calm, low-pressure interface
Clear crisis and professional-care boundaries
Repeatable routines for daily stress
Supportive tone without overpromising

Anxiety app profiles

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Rootd

Anxiety and panic attack support app

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Rootd focuses on panic attack support, breathing, lessons, journaling, and anxiety management tools.

Good fit for

  • Users who want panic-focused tools
  • Fast grounding during anxiety spikes
  • Breathing, journaling, and education

What stands out

Panic button flowBreathing toolsAnxiety education

Breathwrk

Guided breathing exercises for health and performance

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Breathwrk offers guided breathing exercises for calm, energy, focus, sleep, and performance routines.

Good fit for

  • Users who want breathing exercises as the core product
  • Quick calm, energy, and focus routines
  • Beginner-friendly guided breathwork

What stands out

Large breathing exercise libraryGoal-based routinesVisual and audio pacing

Calm

Large meditation, sleep, story, and relaxation library

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Calm is a mainstream mental wellness app with sleep stories, guided meditations, breathing tools, music, and relaxation content.

Good fit for

  • People who want a polished all-purpose wellness library
  • Sleep stories and bedtime routines
  • Guided meditation, breathing, and relaxation

What stands out

Sleep storiesLarge meditation catalogBreathing and soundscape tools

Headspace

Structured meditation, mindfulness, sleep, and focus app

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Headspace offers guided meditation courses, mindfulness practice, sleep content, movement, and focus tools.

Good fit for

  • Beginner meditation courses
  • Structured mindfulness practice
  • Users who want a polished mainstream app

What stands out

Beginner-friendly coursesMindfulness and sleep libraryFocus and movement content

DARE

Anxiety relief app based on the DARE response

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DARE offers audio, exercises, and education around anxiety, panic, worry, and the DARE method.

Good fit for

  • Users interested in anxiety-specific audio coaching
  • Panic, worry, and fear-of-sensations education
  • People who want a named method

What stands out

DARE method audioAnxiety and panic educationSupportive exercises

InTheMoment

AI hypnosis and meditation generator for short daily sessions

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InTheMoment is a mainstream AI hypnosis and meditation app built around quick check-ins, generated sessions, and short daily wellness practice.

Good fit for

  • People who want short daily AI-generated wellness sessions
  • Users comparing simple AI hypnosis apps
  • Beginners who prefer a generous free tier before upgrading

What stands out

AI-generated sessionsShort check-in flowSimple daily wellness format

Finch

Self-care pet app for goals, mood, and routines

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Finch turns self-care, mood check-ins, goals, reflections, and routines into a playful companion app.

Good fit for

  • People who like playful self-care
  • Daily goals and check-ins
  • Users who need gentle routine support

What stands out

Companion-based self-careMood check-insSmall daily goals

Wysa

AI-guided mental health and self-care chatbot

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Wysa offers an AI chatbot, self-care exercises, coaching pathways, and mental health support tools.

Good fit for

  • People who want chat-based self-care support
  • Mood check-ins and guided exercises
  • Users comparing AI wellness tools

What stands out

AI chatbotSelf-care exercisesCoaching and enterprise pathways

Othership

Breathwork app and in-person sauna plus ice bath experiences

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Othership pairs breathwork content with immersive in-person sauna, ice bath, and nervous system regulation experiences.

Good fit for

  • People interested in breathwork plus state-shift rituals
  • Users in markets with Othership locations
  • Music-driven regulation practices

What stands out

Breathwork app linkSauna and ice bath ecosystemMusic-driven class style

iBreathe

Simple breathing exercise app

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iBreathe is a simple app for paced breathing exercises, customizable intervals, and quick relaxation sessions.

Good fit for

  • Users who want a minimal breathing tool
  • Quick relaxation sessions
  • Custom breathing intervals

What stands out

Simple interfaceCustom breathing intervalsQuick stress resets

Happier Meditation

Practical meditation app formerly known as Ten Percent Happier

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Happier Meditation focuses on practical mindfulness instruction, teacher-led courses, and meditation for real-life stress.

Good fit for

  • Skeptical beginners
  • Practical mindfulness instruction
  • Users who like teacher-led courses

What stands out

Practical teacher-led coursesStress and mindfulness focusPlainspoken meditation framing

Youper

AI mental health support and CBT-style conversations

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Youper uses conversational AI, mood tracking, and CBT-style exercises for mental wellness support.

Good fit for

  • Users who want conversational self-reflection
  • Mood tracking and CBT-style tools
  • People comparing AI support apps

What stands out

AI conversationMood trackingCBT-style exercises

Fabulous

Behavior change and routine-building app

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Fabulous focuses on habit formation, routines, coaching-style journeys, motivation, and self-improvement rituals.

Good fit for

  • Daily routine building
  • Users who want behavior design support
  • Morning, sleep, exercise, and focus habits

What stands out

Routine journeysHabit designCoaching-style prompts

Aura

Personalized mental wellness and sleep app

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Aura combines meditation, sleep, CBT-style resources, hypnosis, breathwork, coaching, and personalized recommendations.

Good fit for

  • Users who want one app with many wellness formats
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Sleep, meditation, hypnosis, and breathwork discovery

What stands out

Personalized app experienceHypnosis, meditation, sleep, and breathwork formatsLarge creator-driven content library

Balance

Personalized meditation plans from The Mind Company

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Balance offers personalized meditation plans, sleep singles, and daily practice tracks based on user goals and experience.

Good fit for

  • Users who want a meditation plan adapted to them
  • Beginners building consistency
  • Sleep singles and daily practice

What stands out

Personalized plansDaily guided practiceSleep and relaxation tracks

Breath Ball

Guided breathing visualizer for relaxation and HRV practice

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Breath Ball uses a simple expanding and contracting visual cue to guide breathing practice.

Good fit for

  • Visual paced breathing
  • People who want low-distraction practice
  • Relaxation and HRV-style breathing sessions

What stands out

Visual breathing cueSimple session setupCross-platform availability

Breathe+

Minimal breathing visualizer and timer

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Breathe+ provides a simple visual breathing guide for paced breathing, relaxation, and short resets.

Good fit for

  • Simple visual breathing practice
  • Short calm-down sessions
  • Users who want minimal setup

What stands out

Visual breathing guideCustomizable patternsMinimal interface

Breethe

Meditation, sleep, hypnosis, and life coaching audio

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Breethe combines meditation, sleep stories, music, hypnosis-style content, and life coaching audio.

Good fit for

  • People who want a mixed wellness audio library
  • Sleep stories and meditations
  • Users interested in hypnosis-adjacent tracks

What stands out

Mixed content librarySleep, meditation, and coachingHypnosis-adjacent audio

Earkick

AI mental health companion for mood and stress tracking

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Earkick offers an AI companion, mood tracking, stress check-ins, breathing support, and mental wellness insights.

Good fit for

  • AI-based mood and stress check-ins
  • People who want tracking plus conversation
  • Users comparing newer AI wellness apps

What stands out

AI companionMood and stress trackingBreathing support

Expectful

Meditation and wellness app for pregnancy and motherhood

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Expectful focuses on meditation, sleep, and wellness support for fertility, pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

Good fit for

  • Pregnancy and motherhood meditation
  • Sleep and stress support during life transitions
  • Users who want perinatal wellness framing

What stands out

Perinatal wellness focusMeditation and sleep audioStage-specific content
Hypnothera pick

Hypnothera

AI-personalized hypnosis sessions from your exact goal

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Hypnothera generates custom hypnosis audio around a user's goal, context, session length, voice, language, and style preferences.

Good fit for

  • People who want a session written around a specific situation
  • Users who need voice, language, length, or style control
  • Creators of repeatable self-hypnosis and visualization routines

What stands out

AI-generated scriptsMultiple voices and languagesCustom sleep, confidence, focus, habit, and manifestation sessionsRegeneration and personalization workflow

Insight Timer

Large free meditation library and teacher marketplace

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Insight Timer offers a broad library of meditations, sleep tracks, music, courses, yoga nidra, and teacher-led practices.

Good fit for

  • Users who want many teachers and styles
  • Free meditation discovery
  • Yoga nidra, sleep, and deep rest searches

What stands out

Large free catalogMany independent teachersYoga nidra and deep rest discovery

Joseph Clough Hypnosis

Self-hypnosis and personal development recordings

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Joseph Clough's app and audio ecosystem focus on hypnosis, coaching, confidence, anxiety, sleep, and personal development topics.

Good fit for

  • Users who like coaching plus hypnosis
  • Confidence, anxiety, and habit topics
  • People who want a named-practitioner style

What stands out

Hypnosis and coaching blendPersonal development themesLarge practitioner-led ecosystem

Medito

Free meditation app from the Medito Foundation

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Medito provides free meditation courses, sleep content, breathing exercises, and mindfulness tools.

Good fit for

  • Users who want a free meditation app
  • Beginners building basic mindfulness practice
  • Sleep, breathing, and meditation basics

What stands out

Free accessBeginner meditation coursesSleep and breathing content

Open

Breathwork, meditation, movement, and music classes

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Open combines breathwork, meditation, movement, and music-led classes in a premium studio-style app.

Good fit for

  • People who want a premium class experience
  • Breathwork plus movement and meditation
  • Users who value music-led practice

What stands out

Breathwork classesMovement and meditation blendMusic-led practice design

Prana Breath

Breathing exercise timer and training app

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Prana Breath offers configurable breathing patterns, timers, and training modes for paced breathing practice.

Good fit for

  • Users who want configurable breathing patterns
  • Android-first breathwork practice
  • People who like timer-based training

What stands out

Configurable patternsBreathing timerTraining mode

Reflectly

AI-inspired mood journal and self-care tracker

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Reflectly focuses on mood journaling, self-care prompts, gratitude, and emotional reflection.

Good fit for

  • Mood journaling
  • People who want daily reflection prompts
  • Users who prefer writing and tracking to audio

What stands out

Mood journalReflection promptsGratitude and self-care tracking

Reveri

Interactive self-hypnosis guided by Dr. David Spiegel

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Reveri centers short interactive self-hypnosis sessions for pain, stress, sleep, focus, smoking, vaping, and habit-related use cases.

Good fit for

  • Users who want clinician-led self-hypnosis structure
  • People who prefer short, focused sessions
  • Pain, stress, sleep, focus, and habit support use cases

What stands out

Interactive session flowDr. Spiegel-guided voice experienceFocused catalog of self-hypnosis outcomes

Rosebud

AI journaling for reflection and emotional patterns

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Rosebud is an AI journaling app for reflection, pattern spotting, goal support, and guided self-understanding.

Good fit for

  • Users who want AI-assisted journaling
  • Reflection, patterns, and goal review
  • People who prefer writing to audio

What stands out

AI journalingPattern reflectionGoal and mood support

The Breathing App

Resonance breathing timer from Eddie Stern and collaborators

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The Breathing App focuses on simple resonance breathing practice with visual and audio pacing.

Good fit for

  • Resonance breathing practice
  • Users who want a simple non-subscription tool
  • People who prefer minimal instruction

What stands out

Resonance breathingMinimal timerSimple visual pacing
Wellness scope

This directory covers consumer wellness and self-care apps. It is not medical advice, and listed apps should not replace qualified medical, mental health, or emergency care.

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Can anxiety apps replace therapy?

No. Anxiety and relaxation apps can support day-to-day coping, but they are not a replacement for therapy, medical care, or emergency support.

What should an anxiety app have?

Useful anxiety apps usually provide fast grounding tools, guided breathing, short practices, and clear instructions during high-stress moments.