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SuperBetter: Mental Health app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 5936 ratings )
Lifestyle Health & Fitness Education
Developer: SuperBetter, LLC
Free
Current version: 1.3.9, last update: 5 months ago
First release : 28 Jun 2012
App size: 69.25 Mb

Improve mental health, resilience and social-emotional skills.

SuperBetter is at heart a simple and transformative idea – we can use the same strengths naturally displayed in game play to confront real-life challenges, build skills, manage stress & practice self-care.

SuperBetter uses the psychology of game play in all of life. Playing SuperBetter means bringing a gameful mindset to real-life - challenging yourself, going for epic wins, adopting a secret identity, completing quests, battling bad guys, activating power-ups and checking-in with allies. The 7 rules for living gamefully is a framework to be stronger, happier, braver & more resilient in everyday life.

Invented by researcher & game designer Jane McGonigal, SuperBetter is backed by science. In a randomized controlled trial at University of Pennsylvania playing SuperBetter for 30 days was associated with significant improvements in mental health and resilience.

The SuperBetter app makes it simple to go for epic wins, track your gameful strengths and build your whole-person resilience - mental, social, emotional & physical. Proven results in 10 minutes a day.

SuperBetter is for youth, teens, young adults & everyone who wants to unlock their heroic potential using the power of living gamefully. Over 1 million people have played SuperBetter.

SUPERBETTER PRODUCTS

> Hero account: Play SuperBetter on your own.
> Host account: A web-based portal to host challenges for squads.
> Player account: Join squad challenges when invited by a host.

HERO ACCOUNT: PLAY ON YOUR OWN

14-day free trial

Grow your mental health, social-emotional wellbeing & physical resilience with a library of over 40 solo challenges.

Create your own challenges to go for personal epic wins.

Join squad challenges from hosts.

Watch a demo video on the SuperBetter website.

HOST ACCOUNT: HOST CHALLENGES FOR SQUADS

Promote mental health, resilience, social-emotional learning and skills for success with groups in a way thats practical & engaging.

Designed for educators, the Host account is available to anyone:

> Middle & high school teachers promote social-emotional learning.
> Small groups, teams & clubs foster youth mental health & resilience.
> Universities empower student success & student wellbeing.
> Small businesses make it a low-cost employee wellbeing program.

The web-based host portal makes it easy to create squads & host challenges. Squad challenges bring the SuperBetter methodology to life. Each has an epic win and 5-days of activities. Hosts select from a library of over 90 challenges to promote mental, emotional, social & physical resilience, or create custom challenges to have squads go for any epic win they choose. Squad members play about 10 minutes a day on the SuperBetter mobile or web app. They use a free Player account or a low-cost Hero account. Learn more on the SuperBetter website.

PLAYER ACCOUNT: SQUAD PLAY ONLY

The Player account is a companion to the Host account. It is a free account to play with squads only.

Players can join squad challenges when invited by someone with a Host account, and play a weekly challenge hosted by SuperBetter.

DESIGNED FOR SMARTPHONES

The SuperBetter mobile app is designed for smartphones. If you have a Chromebook, iPad or tablet device you can play on the web app.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS

The Hero account price is $24.99 per year.

Pricing is for U.S. customers. Pricing in other countries may vary. Charges may be converted to local currency depending on country of residence.

Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled before the end of the current subscription period. Manage your subscription in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

Pros and cons of SuperBetter: Mental Health app for iPhone and iPad

SuperBetter: Mental Health app good for

Very inspiring game to help bring just a little more positivity into your life. Try it!
Great concept, I find it helpful in my fight against depression post surgery. Could use some organizational upgrades but is worth checking out. Be sure to watch the TED Talk too!
Ive been using this app for 4 days and feel an instant improvement in the quality of my thoughts, my mood, and attitude, thank you.
Cognitive behavioral therapy - the do-it-yourself version - brilliant! The interface is a little buggy at times, but the science is sound and the concept is perfect. This is to gaming what the field of positive psychology has been to psychotherapy - a simple idea that will, hopefully, lead the way to massive change.
This is brilliant! This game gives you the structure necessary to make little, extremely easy lifestyle changes that can really change your life. Its simple, and if you are willing to try I promise youll find its easy and it works.
No bugs, works perfectly and I have found it very effective. The best 5 bucks Ive ever spent!

Some bad moments

This app is a great idea. But it is frustrating to use. It crashes A LOT and quests and power ups from the website dont always show up in the app. I find it frustrating to use and that defeats the whole purpose of the app. Fix the crashes and the bugs and this could easily be 5 stars.
Froze the first time I tried to defeat an enemy, and I encountered a few glitches before then. Love the idea so might try web version, but this app is currently unusable imho.
The focus on calories and exercise in the depression challenges really rubbed me the wrong way. It could be incredibly triggering for someone struggling with disordered eating as well as depression. Protip: I didnt choose the "losing weight" track, so dont nag me about calories. End of story. I wont be recommending this app to anyone.
Ive been trying for weeks to get this working. I really want to try this. I cant get my account set up to even give it a try. Nothing is working :(
Bugs, all the time. Impossible to use. Big deception. (The idea is great.)
This felt like someone put every single idea they ever had into this app. Two stars for effort - but super bad login experience - took 5 tries to get in.

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