Be Present, Open Up,
and Do What Matters.
An App, Based on the
Best-Selling ACT Self-Help
Book “The Happiness Trap”.

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Industry

Health & Fitness

Platforms

Android Mobile Application

iOS Mobile Application

Technology Stack

Objective C for iOS application

Java for Android application

Overview

ACT Companion is designed as a comprehensive companion to the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach. If one is working with an ACT coach, clinician, or self-help book, this ultimate ACT app will help put into practice what has been learned, and create meaningful change in life.

ACT is a scientifically supported mindfulness-based behaviour therapy with over 1000 published peer-reviewed studies demonstrating its effectiveness for mental and physical health, relationships, performance, and behaviour change. ACT encourages mindfulness, acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings, and commitment to actions aligned with personal values.

This interactive app is aimed at helping users apply ACT principles in their daily lives. The app aims to support users in overcoming psychological challenges, reducing stress, and enhancing overall well-being using evidence-based techniques from ACT.

An independent peer-reviewed study found that completing just one ACT Companion exercise per day can significantly reduce anxiety, depression and stress, improve mood, and increase mindfulness skills and psychological flexibility.

Key Features

A simple and clean app -- Clients can get to where they need to go really quickly.
Mindfulness and Values: The app guides users through mindfulness exercises and helps them identify and clarify personal values.
Practical Exercises: Offers a variety of practical exercises and activities to promote psychological flexibility and resilience, and help develop the ACT superpowers that one may need to live life more fully and openly.
Effective defusion and acceptance techniques, and goal-setting tools – you will find it all in the app that might just change your life.
Track Your Progress: A completely redesigned dashboard allows users to track their progress over time, providing insights into their emotional and psychological well-being. Use the ACTometer to apply ACT skills to real-life situations.
Personalization: Tailors recommendations and exercises based on user input and progress.
Develop essential mindfulness skills with over four hours of ACT-focused mindfulness exercises. A rich variety of guided practices to choose from, designed to be applicable to everyone from complete beginners to experienced mindfulness practitioners.
Community Support: Includes a community feature where users can connect, share experiences, and support each other.
Daily Reminders: Provides reminders to engage with mindfulness and values exercises regularly. Mindful Moments notifications prompt users to pay attention to the here-and-now, open up to their experiences, and re-connect with their values, throughout the day.

Challenges

Customizing the Chart for multiple screen support, to manage the Screen Orientation.
Custom Odometer for health score.
Daily Account Backup in background mode at a specific time.

Solution

We used a Charts library to show graphs, and did some customization to display according to our design.
Developing the custom odometer for the scores related to different exercises (after calculations), was not easy. We took the reference of different libraries to sort this out.
We implemented a background alarm service to upload the daily/weekly backup to the server from the app.

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