Free Apps
A simple way to put trusted health support in people's hands.
Whether you work in the NHS, a university, local government, a charity, or industry, you can now reach more of the people you want to support and ease the strain on your teams – with trusted self-care apps.
Services are stretched. Wait times are long. And people in your communities reach crisis point because they don't have easy access to the right information.
The problem:
- Printed leaflets go out of date and get left behind.
- Websites require someone to search, find, and navigate – often in a moment when they're already overwhelmed.
- Face-to-face support is invaluable, but it isn't available at 2am when someone is in distress and services are closed.
When leaflets and web pages are no longer cutting through, your frontline teams won't have the capacity to educate at scale.
What traditional formats can't do – and our apps can.
You can now deliver trusted health content straight into people's pockets – with free-to-use, clinically reviewed apps tailored for your priority groups.
Offer your teams and communities intant support:
- Make evidence-informed health content instantly available – once downloaded for free (iOS and Android), the apps are always ready when needed.
- Provide offline access – cater for disadvantaged people in areas with poor signal and those with limited data.
- Respect people's privacy – enable discreet access on people's phones, with no sign-up, no search history, no personal data collection, no advertising, and no in-app purchases.
- Make information easy to find – provide consistent guidance all in one place, with key information easy to navigate and accessible in seconds.
- Feel reassured and comply with standards and regulations – apps are clinically led, and co-developed with health professionals and the people who use them. PIF TICK accredited. ORCHA assessed. NHS DTAC compliant. Regularly updated.
- Integate apps easily into different touchpoints of your service pathways – no sign-up or set-up. No contracts. No learning curve for your teams or the people using them.
How Expert Self Care apps support your organisation.
With each app, provide a trusted one-stop guide – organised into clear, bite-sized sections covering symptoms and challenging situations, self-care, and where to find help.
Use them to help those who need the most support to:
- Understand health, illness, and wellbeing – and make better-informed choices
- Manage more of their health at home – before problems escalate
- Find the right support – before reaching crisis point
Easy to navigate in a calm moment. Easy to rely on in a crisis. And there to reduce avoidable demand.
Ten apps. Ten communities. All free.
Each Expert Self Care app is purpose-built for one specific community:
- CONfidence – for people whose lives are affected by bladder and bowel leakage
- distrACT – for people who self-harm or feel suicidal
- Eating Disorder Support – for people with eating disorders and those supporting them
- Fit Farmers – for challenged farming communities in Ireland
- HeliOffshore Wellbeing – for pressured offshore helicopter maintenance teams worldwide
- International Student App – for international students challenged by study and life in the UK
- PKD App – for people having to manage polycystic kidney disease
- Student Health – for students with health and wellbeing concerns across the UK
- Student Health Matters – answering health questions for students in Ireland
- Young Carers Support – for struggling young carers across the UK
Support people at every stage of the care pathway.
With Expert Self Care apps alongside your services, your organisation can reach people:
- At early concern – give easy access to the right amount of information when people aren't sure what they're feeling, what's going on, or what to do next
- While waiting – provide safe, stigma-free guidance before people attend appointments
- Alongside ongoing care – reinforce what your teams share, between appointments
- In a crisis and beyond – offer people access to emergency information and safety signposting when they need it most
Easily employ apps alongside your existing services – complementing, never replacing, what your teams already do.
Simple to promote. No cost to implement.
Share through posters, QR codes, staff recommendations, websites, and newsletters.
Get in touch for a free implementation and marketing guide – with practical ideas to help your teams maximise uptake.
Making an impact.
Since 2012, Expert Self Care apps have supported over 250,000 people across the UK and Ireland, delivering more than 1.5 million page views.
Value you can demonstrate.
Use Expert Self Care apps to create value across categories your procurement teams are looking for – with measurable benefits that grow with use.
- Reduce avoidable contacts (999, A&E, GP, helpline calls) – even small percentage reductions deliver meaningful savings
- Save staff time spent on routine information requests
- Eliminate printing, distribution, and update costs of paper resources
- Save money with freely accessible tools – no per-user licences or organisational set-up fees
- Scale without additional cost as your community grows
Take advantage of a pragmatic, low-risk way to extend support – with value that's easy to estimate and easy to defend in procurement.
Greener by design.
Reduce the environmental footprint of health information and support Net Zero ambitions and broader sustainability commitments.
- Reduce printing costs and environmental impacts. No need to print, distribute, or dispose of leaflets, booklets, and posters.
- Reduce carbon emissions. Lower emissions from preventable patient travel.
- Reduce hospital resource use. Minimise resource use by reducing preventable emergency department attendances and hospital admissions.
A measurable contribution to greener services and your ESG reporting – delivered alongside the clinical and reach benefits.
Want to go further?
You can add a branded homepage and local support directory to an existing app to widen your reach, advertise available services, and help people make the right decisions about accessing care in your area.