Health and Wellbeing Portal

Helpful Apps

We can utilise smartphone apps to make day to day living easier. Here are some of the ones staff at Heales like using (n.b. we do not officially endorse or support any apps).

Apps for Mental Health

Calm

Meditation techniques for sleep and stress reduction

Headspace

Meditation made simple

Woebot

Your self-care expert in CBT & mindfulness

7 Cups

Anxiety & Stress Chat

Apps for Back Pain

Pain Diary

Pain diary and community CatchMyPain

NHS 24 MSK help

Advice on common muscle, back and joint problems

Kaia

Back pain relief at home

Daily Yoga

Yoga and pilates fitness plans

Apps for the Visually Impaired

Aipoly Vision

Object and colour recogniser, which will speak out loud what it sees

Dragon Anywhere

Mobile dictation app that allows you to dictate documents, edit, format and share on the go.

KNFB Reader

Text to speech reader, which can read documents, PDFs and hardcopy text such as menus and magazines

Fleksy

Keyboard app for mobile and tablets with big keys, gestures, favourites and predictive-text to make typing easier

Apps for the Hearing Impaired

Skype

Use video chat to lipread. Other apps with video chat include FaceTime (Apple), WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

BioAid

A research hearing aid app which takes in sound through the microphone on your smart phone, makes the sound better and plays it in real time through your headphones

Dragon Anywhere

Speech to text app that can recognise what someone else is saying and transcribe it into text.

SoundALERT

SoundALERT can notify you of sounds in your enviroment, such as doorbells, firealarms and oven timers, by onscreen notifications, vibrations and flashing lights to ensure your safety, security, and comfort.