Wellness apps have become all the rage as companies seek a low cost and effective way of assisting employees with their wellbeing.

In fact, demand is so big that there are more than 350,000 health apps in the market!

To save you researching all of them, we’re introducing eight of the leading employee wellness apps and platforms available in the UK today.

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8 of the best employee wellness apps today

#1 Unmind

Unmind gives staff the tools to take control of their own mental wellbeing. Thanks to its science-backed insights, Unmind’s app can spot trends before they have become a problem, allowing employers to use data to create a personal strategy suited to the business.

Unmind’s platform is split as follows:

For leaders

• Unmind Insights: Access wellbeing insights from across your company and see how how employees are faring and what support may be required.
• Manager Training: A series of tools and accredited programmes that help managers learn the skills required to lead on wellbeing.

For employees

• Nova: A personal AI health agent that handles a range of queries confidentially.
• Therapy and coaching: On-demand access to professional therapists and coaches in multiple languages
• Critical incident support: For the most urgent scenarios
• Member community: Gain access to live events with experts, wellbeing content (such as menopause education), covering 50+ languages and major time zones, with over 20 therapeutic approaches including CBT.

#2 YuLife

Next up we have the all-in-one employee wellness and perks platform, YuLife! YuLife acts as a wellbeing hub for your staff, focusing on rewarding simple steps towards healthier living.

The YuLife Employee App includes:

• Wellbeing challenges and daily quests
• Virtual GP when included in an employer’s benefits package
• Mental health and wellbeing support
• Employee perks, discounts and rewards
• Earn “YuCoin” rewards through adopting healthy habits, like walking, workouts, cycling and meditating.
• Wellbeing Hub providing access to all your benefits and resources in one place

Note: YuLife also sell health policies through Bupa, and are in partnership with Metlife for Group Life and Income Protection Insurance.

#3 Headspace

Headspace for Employers offer a workplace mental health support platform. The app has received 100+ million downloads and is used by more than 4,000 organisations around the world.

Headspace focuses on providing expert support to employers and staff, helping teams become healthier, happier and more resilient.

Features include:

• Full EAP replacement: mental health coaching, critical incident support, work-life services, mindfulness, sleep assistance and focus exercises are included.
• Mental healthcare: 24/7 access to digital support resources, including, content on mindfulness, sleep, focus and movement.
• Content library: guided meditations, mindfulness practices, focus music, workouts, sleep-casts
• Tools for leaders: live workshops, webinars, leadership training, communications support, engagement insights and more

#4 Calm

Calm offers a mixture of individual and group settings to help develop mental wellness habits and support employees. Using powerful analytics, employers also have access to Calm Partner Portal providing insights for management and analytics to support staff. Calm Business is incredibly popular, with over 3,500 organisations signed up across the globe!

The Calm wellness app is all about giving staff the opportunity to learn how to take better care of themselves, and take control of their wellbeing. According to Calm, 37% of users recording moderate to severe anxiety or depression engaged in therapy.

Features include:

• Guided meditations
• Mindfulness programmes
• Breathing exercises
• Self-guided experience: staff have direct access from any device
• Interactive discussions and workshops
• Support and insights for leaders
• Digital events and webinars
• Family support, including children

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#5 PerkUp

PerkUp is not quite a typical employee wellness app. It describes itself a global employee rewards, gifting and swag platform with an emphasis on perks that boost engagement and retention. Some of PerkUp’s reward options include:

• Team lunch gift cards
• Life event gifts
• Holiday gifts
• New hire swag

Nonetheless, it does gives employers the chance to to gift employees with a range of wellbeing benefits, including:

• Fitness perks e.g., gym access and yoga classes
• Mental health support including meditation apps and one-to-one therapy
• Lifestyle allowances including spas, massages, live event tickets
• Home office allowance including standing desks, wireless keyboards, ergonomic chairs

Employers can also celebrate major accomplishments, schedule team events, mark birthdays, arrange team lunches, and much more through easy-to-use management tools.

#6 Vitality Health app

It’s worth remembering that all the major health insurance providers also offer free health apps with their policies. One example is the Vitality Health app. Staff under the Vitality business health insurance plan can use the wellness app, allowing them to keep track of their health, rewards, and benefits.

The app gives employees access to the following:

• Rewards tracker: track progress towards lifestyle rewards including free coffee, cinema tickets, TV subscriptions, optical care and more
• Healthy Living status tracker (via a fun points-based system)
• Easy access to Vitality’s health plan
• Connectivity to most fitness trackers
• Step trackers and exercise prompts
• Personalised health recommendations

#7 Wellness 360

Wellness 360 aims to help employees stay “fit, focused and energised”. Like any good wellness provider, they take a holistic approach, reflected in their brand name. The app also helps connect employers and staff, acting like a social hub.

Some of Wellness 360’s features include:

• Health risk assessments
• Health coaching and lifestyle support
• Biometric screening
• Team challenges to boost teamwork and develop a fun approach to wellbeing
• Rewards and incentives
• Communications hub
• Device and app integration
• Company branding

Managers get access to real-time reporting and an executive dashboard to track engagement rates which might highlight trends that need addressing (not identifiable to an individual, of course).

#8 Myles Wellbeing

Myles Wellbeing is a holistic wellbeing app to track physical, meditative or mindful activities. It’s designed to encourage individuals in teams and organisations to become more physically active with trophies, points and challenges whilst staying interactive with peers.

The app connects with over 30 smartwatches and fitness apps, allowing staff to earn rewards for healthy habits.

Myles Wellbeing features include:

• Rewards for completing challenges and activities via the “Smyles” point-scoring system
• Vouchers available for 40+ brands, including Amazon
• Leaderboards to encourage health competition
• Team challenges
• Charity donations
• Measurable engagement and impact for employers

Overall, Myles Wellbeing puts fun and healthy competition at the heart of its wellness app.

Apps, benefits and beyond…

“You can’t just log in to a healthy mind. Employees are overwhelmed and burning out, the role of leadership is changing, and organisations are taking the hit.” –  Unmind

According to the Health & Fitness App Report, there were 313 million health app users in 2025.

Employee wellness apps can be a great addition to your overall wellbeing package. They are best used as part of a wider system of workplace benefits, such as private health insurance and other protection schemes.

But don’t worry – enlisting FREE help from an independent benefits broker like Hooray Health & Protection makes the process of finding the right mix of benefits much simpler

Our friendly team will talk you through how wellbeing apps work alongside your other health and wellbeing policies, and reveal practical ways of gaining maximum value from it. We will answer any queries, no matter how simple or complex, and gather quotes from the whole UK market.

Contact us at hello@hoorayinsurance.co.uk or call 01273 222805 for FREE no-obligation advice and support.