Want to boost your sleep, track your hormones, or decrease your stress levels with ease? There’s an app for that. Discover our pick of the best wellness apps to help you biohack your life.
From sleep optimisation and cycle tracking to stress reduction and smarter training, the wellness world is firmly in its digital era, with apps promising to help you better understand your body, sharpen your mind, and optimise just about every part of your life.
Here are six of the most interesting wellness apps right now – and what they say about where the future of biohacking is heading.
How can apps help with biohacking, and why are they so popular?
Biohacking once conjured up images of extreme routines and high-tech wearables that only the most committed of the wellness elite ever engaged with – not least because the activities associated with ‘living your best life’ required lots of time, and even more money. Today, things are far more accessible, courtesy of a growing trend for wellness apps tailored to making supercharging your goals easier than ever before.
At its core, biohacking simply means using data, tools, and behavioural insights to optimise how your body and mind function. And, while fitness tech is getting better and better, wellness apps can actually make things simpler, mainly because they just require one item, your phone, which you tend to keep on your person anyway. At their core, these apps also help you get to know your body better (rather than just pushing it harder). Whether that’s from sleep data, cycle tracking, sound therapy or AI coaching, the goal is the same: to build a more responsive daily relationship with your own wellbeing.
Six wellness apps to know
Getahead is a wellness app that recognises that to perform at your physical best you need to support your mental fitness too. And, because the focus is on building a personalised performance mindset (powered by the in-app Mental Edge diagnostic test), you don't have to be anywhere near a professional athlete to benefit. Built around five pillars: confidence, motivation, focus, self-talk and emotion control, the app uses guided audio, visualisation, and sports psychology tools delivered through short, practical daily exercises to help you mentally prepare for any training goal – whether that’s a marathon, HYROX, or stepping into the gym for the first time. In fact, it's perfect for anyone trying to balance any sort of fitness routine with a busy lifestyle.
It's so important that women feel in control of their hormonal health, and cycle-tracking apps can be a brilliant way for us to do that. But what we particularly like about the Clue app is that it takes that process one step further, by helping you connect the dots between your cycle and the rest of your life. That's because it allows you to log not just your period, but also your mood, energy and sleep, so that, over time, the app can reveal patterns in your health that you might not have noticed on your own. That's incredibly helpful for working out why you might feel great one week and exhausted the next, or if you are trying to get pregnant, or identify potential health conditions like PCOS.
Move over meditation apps – there's a new mind-soothing wellness practice in town: audio wellness, and if you've ever played your favourite song when feeling stressed or nervous, then Sollos is for you. Created by leading music company Universal in partnership with audio scientists, the app uses carefully crafted soundscapes to support concentration, reduce stress and improve sleep quality, with options to power you through your next deadline, big meeting and stressful situations. Best of all, its not just white noise or 'heard that before' spa sounds. The music is infused with particular soundwaves that are scientifically proven to boost your brain. Our beauty director even used it writing this piece!
If you've ever felt your period has got in the way of your health and fitness goals, for example, by making you want to do anything but workout or succumb to a sweet-treat craving, you are not alone. But you also don't have to beat yourself up about it. Sync With Georgia wants to help you work with your body and your hormones, not against them. The app combines cycle tracking with hormone-informed Pilates workouts, recipes and rituals designed to support energy fluctuations throughout your cycle, and rather than treating wellness as linear, it embraces variation – offering structure that adapts to the body’s changing needs.
Meditation can be an incredibly effective wellness tool for anchoring your mind, but sometimes it can feel like just another practice you have to fit into your hectic calendar. That's the issue Unplug is trying to solve. The fast-growing meditation platform is built around short, accessible sessions designed for real life, not ideal conditions, and with thousands of guided meditations led by global teachers, it has positioned itself as a practical alternative to longer-form mindfulness practices. The emphasis is on immediacy: calming the nervous system quickly, without requiring significant time or setup (even in just 16 seconds!), so whether you are nervous before boarding a flight, stressed before taking your kids to school or just feeling a bit overwhelmed, Unplug is your quick and easy wellbeing boost.
Like having a personal trainer in your pocket, Veyr is a new kind of fitness app; one that isn't constrained by fixed or repetitive programmes. Instead, it offers fully adaptive, AI-driven training that responds in real time to your environment, energy, and constraints. That means you simply input what time, equipment and motivation levels you currently have and the app builds workouts instantly that you can actually manage, without pushing yourself towards burnout. We particularly love the concept for frequent travellers as it means you can fit a fitness session in wherever you are – at home, the gym, the office, a hotel room, or even the beach without missing a beat.
Becki Murray is Citizen Femme’s Beauty and Wellness Director. As one of the only UK journalists to hold a Distinction-grade diploma in cosmetic science, she combines her unique knowledge with an editor’s eye to help you make smarter choices about beauty, wellbeing, and aesthetics. Becki also heads up CF’s spa guide so you could say she’s an expert in the science of relaxation too…
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