Archive · 15 Jun 2025
Australian Researchers Launch Wellbeing App to Boost Adult Resilience
Some smart people in Australia made a new app called ReNeuWell to help adults feel better and be stronger mentally.
Instead of just fixing problems, the app helps people become happier and more successful.
It uses science and gives each person a plan to follow.
You take a survey to see how you're doing, then do activities like meditating and setting goals.
The app checks how well you're doing on things like your mood, feelings about yourself, and how well you achieve.
Scientists are testing it with lots of people to see if it really works.
Australian researchers launched ReNeuWell, an app to enhance adult wellbeing and resilience.
The app offers a personalized, neuroscience-backed approach focusing on mental flourishing.
ReNeuWell assesses hedonic and psychological wellbeing using the COMPAS-W scale.
The app provides a four-week program with mindfulness, meditation, and goal-setting activities.
A 12-week clinical trial with 500 participants is underway to validate the app.
- Who
- Developed by researchers from NeuRA and the University of New South Wales Sydney and funded by the Mindgardens Neuroscience Network.
- What
- Development and launch of a new app called ReNeuWell, designed to boost the wellbeing and resilience of adults.
- When
- Ongoing, with a 12-week clinical trial currently underway.
- Where
- Australia (app available in the Apple App Store in Australia).
- Why
- To provide a tool for individuals to understand and improve their mental wellbeing, offering a personalised program of activities.
- App Name
- ReNeuWell
- Focus
- Boosting wellbeing and resilience
- Approach
- Personalised, neuroscience-backed
- Activities
- Mindfulness, meditation, self-compassion, goal setting
- Trial Length
- 12 weeks
- Price
- AUD$24.99
- Availability
- Apple App Store (Australia)