Melon | By Melon Health |
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Country of origin |
New Zealand |
Clinical review | For COVID-19: ![]() Read a clinical review of this app. |
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Cost | Free |
What does the app do?
The Melon app is a health and wellness app with a variety of programmes. The app is aimed at people who are feeling anxious or stressed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The app has the following main sections:
- Program, also called 'Living well program', which has 4 modules covering COVID-19-related anxiety, staying connected, making the most of self-isolation and looking after yourself and others. The modules cover standard psychological tools.
- Health journal in which you can record your sleep, activity and feelings. It integrates with multiple third-party wellness tools like Fitbit and Strava.
- Community, which is a shared online community in which you can ask questions and share ideas and thoughts anonymously.
- Resources has multiple videos, podcasts and articles on a range of wellbeing topics.
- I need help has an emergency contact list and emergency exercises.
For the complete app description, go to the app website(external link), Google Play(external link), App Store(external link) or, for a more detailed review, see Reviews.
PROS | CONS |
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✔ The Community section is quite active and has quite involved community support workers (13 at the time of writing). |
✘ The program section has no way of tracking progress and doesn't have any interactive worksheets. |
Review details
Date of review: April 2020
Platform reviewed: Android and Apple
Version: 3.22.0
Related topics
COVID-19 | Mate korona outbreak
COVID-19 care and information topics
Mental health and wellbeing apps
Consumer guide: how to choose a health app
Clinicians guide: how to choose a health app
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