Awards aside, we are extremely pleased with how our project has impacted so many lives in such a positive fashion. KeepAppy focuses on a number of different factors in what it deems can help you to lead a healthier, happier life. To take life’s stresses and deal with them in a positive way. To meet your daily challenges in a positive manner. To keep your mind and body healthy, allowing you to maximise your potential.
Aimée-Louise Carton is one of the founders behind the app’s development. Carton has had experiences of mental health issues in her life, and on her road to recovery found herself exercising her own self-help habits. A driven and determined individual, Carton looked to her app store to assist.
She found a number of wellness and mental health apps, yet found none to be useful. If you try a number of these yourself, it’s clear that many of these apps prove to be overly cold and sterile, developed by psychologists with the best of intentions, but none with the user in mind.
This gave Carton an idea. What if there was an app that could really benefit the user, one which could give the user a template to map out the route they needed to get them from where they are, to where they want to be.
On her own journey, Carton realised that while everyone has mental health to look after, very few people know how to exercise their mind and keep it in tip-top shape. With this app, she wanted to address that.
KeepAppy is designed with the user in mind. This was key to Carton’s pitch to our development team, and our awards winning collaboration speaks for itself. With nearly 10,000 users spread over 75 countries, our users get to experience a multitude of features designed by qualified psychologists.
KeepAppy is the total package when it comes to proactive wellbeing practices. It provides each and every user with the tools they need to take control of their mental health and wellbeing.
The various ‘Prevention’ steps included are journaling, goal-setting, mindfulness, pill reminder and a period tracker. Under ‘Growth’ we have included mood tracking, personalised content, a gratitude diary, etc. With the ‘Care’ section we have introduced geo-specific helplines. This range of features has proven to be very popular amongst our users.
One problem Carton found while doing research for the app was that of all the people who used apps to assist with their meditation, only 13% would use those apps on a continuous basis. A huge problem these apps faced was that user interaction dropped steeply after the initial download, leading to the apps being discarded and a user's meditation process being constantly broken.
Another issue was one of awareness. Everyone has a bad day from time to time, but why? Not all of us can answer this question. Why do we find it more difficult to go to work somedays? Why can’t we get out of bed early enough to go to the gym? Why did we have that extra portion of pizza after feeling full?
With KeepAppy, you have access to a database of your full range of thoughts, feelings and emotions. We have 10 exclusive features relating to prevention, growth and care. We like to think of the app as being just like a gym. There are a range of machines, all targeting specific areas.
