Free Apps
Trusted free self-care support apps for organisations across health, education, and industry - helping underserved groups make better health decisions, while giving your teams breathing space.
We know you want the best possible care for the groups you support - but it's hard when demand is high and time is short.
It gets even harder when people with higher support needs feel overwhelmed and overlooked, and struggle to know:
- what their symptoms mean
- how to self-care
- when and where to get help
This kind of health confusion - often shaped by mixed messages and unreliable online information - can leave people feeling panicky, isolated, and unsure what to do.
For services, the impact is familiar: missed opportunities for early support, avoidable crises, and growing pressure on already stretched services.
A calm, practical new way to support people earlier
With Expert Self Care apps, you have a new way to reach people - adding a simple, mobile layer to how you share trusted health information.
Our apps allow you to complement leaflets, websites, and face-to-face support by putting clear, reliable guidance directly into people's hands - when they need it, where they are.
And if you want to go further, you can localise them to improve signposting and help people find local support - with your own home page and service directory.
Supporting people across the care pathway
People don’t move through services in a straight line. Needs change over time - and support often needs to be available before, during, and after contact with services.
Expert Self Care apps can be useful at different points along this pathway, including:
- Early concerns or emerging distress - offering clear, trusted information and coping support when people are unsure what they’re feeling or what to do next.
- While waiting for support - providing safe, stigma-free guidance and reassurance during gaps, delays, or transitions between services.
- Alongside ongoing care - supporting people to manage difficult moments between appointments and reinforcing messages shared by professionals.
- During or following a crisis or service contact - helping people feel less alone, understand next steps, and access appropriate ongoing support.
In each case, our apps sit alongside existing services - offering clarity, reassurance, and a safe starting point, rather than replacing professional care.
Why mobile apps?
Because support works best when it's there at the moment it's needed - without barriers.
Mobile apps make it possible to offer discreet, trusted self-care guidance in people’s pockets - reaching more people without replacing what you do or adding pressure to services.
Once downloaded, apps stay with people. They can work offline. And they give people one clear, trusted place to turn when something doesn’t feel right - in a place where they already feel at home.
A simple way to deliver trusted support
You can think of Expert Self Care apps as a trusted front door, a pocket guide, and a digital version of the information people need - all brought together in one calm, easy-to-use place.
They're designed to help you:
- support people in priority and underserved groups
- reduce health confusion and bring clarity before problems escalate
- complement your existing services, not replace them
No contracts. No personal data collection. No technical setup. And no ads.
Proven quality - real-world impact
Our apps are already supporting people across the UK and beyond:
- 250,000+ users and 1.5M+ page views of trusted health and wellbeing content.
- Winners of the BMA Patient Information Award and the Nursing Times Award.
- Recognised and reviewed positively by users, clinicians, and partner organisations.
This is established, trusted support - ready to use.
What makes our apps different
We combine clinical credibility, trusted partnerships, and real-world design to create digital support people actually use - and organisations can rely on.
- Trusted and quality assured. PIF TICK certified, ORCHA assessed, and NHS DTAC compliant - and regularly updated.
- Clinically led and co-created. Developed with clinicians, partner organisations, and people with lived experience.
- Designed for real-world use. Clear, calm, and easy to navigate - even in stressful moments.
They work offline, require no log-ins, and are entirely free to use.
How the apps work in practice
With Expert Self Care apps, you can:
- Deliver clear, joined-up information more consistently across your communities - helping people understand what’s affecting their health and what to do next.
- Support confident, safe self-care before problems escalate - with practical guidance people can trust and act on.
- Ease pressure on your teams by improving signposting to the right support - making it easier to find appropriate services and reducing avoidable contacts.
All without adding to workload, budgets, or risk.
Support specific priority groups
Our free apps are designed for people in specific priority and underserved communities who are often overlooked, including:
- Students - Student Health App (UK) and Student Health Matters (Ireland)
- International students - International Student App (UK)
- People who self-harm - distrACT (UK)
- Young carers - Young Carers Support (UK)
- Irish farmers - Fit Farmers (Ireland)
- People with eating disorders - Eating Disorder Support (UK)
- People with bladder and bowel leakage - CONfidence (UK)
- People with Polycystic Kidney Disease - PKD App (UK)
- Offshore helicopter maintenance teams - HeliOffshore Wellbeing (global)
Simple to share, easy to promote
You can help people discover - and feel confident using - trusted self-care support at key moments in their journey, including through:
- posters and QR codes
- websites and newsletters
- staff recommendations and everyday signposting
To make this easy, we provide a free implementation and marketing guide with practical ideas to help maximise uptake - available on request.
The result: clearer understanding, lighter workloads - for everyone
With no contracts, no data collection, and no cost, you can offer trusted self-care tools that help people find the right support sooner - freeing your teams to focus on what matters most.
Together, we can reduce serious outcomes, save resources, and make reliable safe self-care part of everyday life.
Give people one trusted place for support - and everything starts to feel lighter.
Want to go further and connect people to the right local support?
You can add your branding and a local service finder to most of our free apps - so people can find the right help faster, in the place they already trust.