Objective User Engagement With Mental Health Apps: Systematic Search and Panel-Based Usage Analysis

Understanding patterns of real-world usage of mental health apps is key to maximizing their potential to increase public self-management of care. Although developer-led studies have published results on the use of mental health apps in real-world settings, no study yet has systematically examined usage patterns of a large sample of mental health apps relying on independently collected data.

Our aim is to present real-world objective data on user engagement with popular mental health apps.