Apps to Support Healthy Alcohol Choices This Festive Season
The festive period can make it easy to drink more than usual, and these digital health apps are designed to help you stay aware of your alcohol intake. With tools to track drinking, set goals, understand units, and remain in control during social events, these apps offer simple, supportive ways to look after your health and wellbeing throughout the celebrations and into the New Year, if reducing alcohol consumption is one of your resolutions.
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Apps to Support Your Wellbeing
Derby City Health App Library
Try Dry: The Dry January app
TRY DRY is a behaviour change app designed to support users in reducing their alcohol consumption—particularly during Dry January. It helps users monitor alcohol-free days, track units and calories avoided, and calculate money saved based on typical drinking habits. The app promotes greater awareness of alcohol use and encourages healthier choices year-round.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
84%
Level 3
83%
Level 3
MyDrinkaware - Alcohol Tracker
The MyDrinkaware app allows you to check how many units are in different drinks, set goals to reduce alcohol use, understand when you might be at risk of binge drinking, celebrate drink-free days and highlight the links between alcohol and sleep quality.
Healthy Living
Utilities/ Administration
Entirely Free
67%
Level 3
67%
Level 3
NHS Drink Free Days
NHS Drink Free Days is an app to help you manage how much alcohol you drink. You can track days where you do not drink any alcohol to reduce how much alcohol you drink each week, get tips, advice and reminders on how to manage your drinking habits and track your progress.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
77%
Level 3
77%
Level 3
DrinksRation
DrinksRation is a free app designed to help the Armed Forces community cut down on alcohol. Developed by the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, it lets users track drinking, set goals, get personalised feedback, and access helpful tips. Backed by leading organisations, it also supports research into military alcohol use.
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Entirely Free
81%
Level 2
82%
Level 2
Local Support Services and More Information
Problematic drug and alcohol use can cause a lot of harm to the individual, the family, the local community and to society as a whole. If you are concerned that you or someone you know needs support, you can visit Derby Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service or Drinkwise Derby.
For more support and information around alcohol use, visit the Alcohol Change website.
Apps To Support Your Wellbeing
Medito: Meditation & Sleep
Medito is a completely free, non-profit meditation and mindfulness app designed to support mental wellbeing and better sleep. Trusted by over 2 million users, it offers guided meditations, breathing exercises, sleep stories, and personalised mindfulness programmes for goals like reducing anxiety, improving focus, and finding calm.
Features include daily meditation packs, soundscapes for sleep, offline access, streak tracking, and a dark mode. Backed by research, Medito has been shown to improve wellbeing in a 2024 clinical study. With no ads or paywalls, Medito makes mental wellness accessible to everyone.
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Entirely Free
74%
Level 2
73%
Level 2
Smiling Mind: Mental Wellbeing
Smiling Mind helps support mental health by showing you how to practice mindfulness meditation and you can also view guides on how to sleep well. There are exercises you can practice daily, with the goal of reducing your stress levels and getting better quality sleep.
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Entirely Free
76%
Level 2
76%
Level 2
Find More Safe Health Apps
Our health app library only contains compliant health apps, so we can be sure that the ones we recommend meet digital and clinical safety standards. Please be assured we do not expect apps or the library to replace any services you may be using, but rather to complement them.
