Considerations When Selecting Apps:
Social-emotional apps are a helpful tool for learning skills, but are just one piece of the puzzle:
• Read reviews before purchasing
• Check the developer’s website
• Watch videos, if available
• When was the last update and will it work with your system?
Breathing Zone by Breathing Zone
• Download: iOS, Android
• Price: $3.99
• An app with guided breathing exercises for relaxing and calming down.
Super Stretch Yoga by The Adventures of Super Stretch, LLC
• Download: iOS, Android
• Price: Free
• An interactive yoga app created for kids.
Hopster Saturday Club for Kids by Hopster
• Download: iOS
• Price: Free
• An interactive app for kids to learn about recognizing and understanding different emotions.
Bouncy the People Trainer by Ripple Effects
• Download: iOS, Android
• Price: Free
• An interactive app with Bouncy, a three-legged dog, who trains people to navigate social-emotional skills.
Pictello by AssistiveWare
• Download: iOS
• Price: $19.99
• An app to create visual stories including talking photo albums, books, visual schedules, and social stories.
Mindful Powers by Smashing Ideas LLC
• Download: iOS
• Price: Free
• A voice guided meditation app that uses the power of play to engage students in mindfulness activities.
Tappy – Haptic Fidgeter by Cameron Nazemi
• Download: iOS
• Price: Free
• A fidget app that incorporates haptic touch to help replicate a physical fidget. It also includes distraction
games.
Harmony Game Room by National University
• Download: iOS, Android
• Price: Free
• A collection of resources and activities that utilize the power of play to engage students in social emotional learning skills. Can be played solo or in a group setting.
Emotionary+ by Funny Feelings
• Download: iOS
• Price: $1.99 and Free version available
• An app that helps students identify primary feelings and secondary feelings using emotion charts, secondary emotion categories, and additional emotional vocabulary.
Moment AR by Kevin Chaja
• Download: iOS
• Price: Free
• This app uses Augmented Reality to engage students in a hands-on exploration of primary emotions and the deeper secondary emotions. Moment AR needs a physical MERGE Cube or a DIY paper MERGE Cube and an iPhone or iPad.
Quandary by Learning Games Network
• Download: iOS, Android
• Price: Free
• This app utilizes the power of play and narrative to help students develop critical thinking skills, perspective taking, empathy, communication, reading, moral reasoning, problem solving, and social and emotional learning through encounters with differing perspectives and conflict.
Choiceworks by Bee Visual, LLC
• Download: iOS
• Price: $14.99
• A picture-based app with customizable schedule, waiting, feelings, and feelings scale boards.
Autism 5-Point Scale EP by Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
• Download: iOS
• Price: Free
• App that allows individuals to become more aware of their feelings and communicate their level of anxiety.
Carousel: SEL for All by Carousel Technologies, Inc.
• Download: iOS, Android
• Price: Free
• Carousel is an app intended for teachers, counselors, educators, social workers, and other SEL professionals. The app helps students engage in a variety of social and emotional learning activities and allows classroom professionals to guide students and observe progress.