Helping autistic people understand and self-manage their anxiety
4.45·316 reviews·10,000+ downloads
About Molehill Mountain
Molehill Mountain is a health & fitness app developed by Autistica.
How many times has Molehill Mountain been downloaded?
Molehill Mountain has been downloaded 27 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 240 times.
What is the rating of Molehill Mountain?
Molehill Mountain is rated 4.45 out of 5 stars, based on 320 ratings.
Is Molehill Mountain free?
Molehill Mountain is free to download. The APK download size is 8.59 MB. The latest version available is 2.6.0. The last update was on January 15, 2026.
What are the requirements for Molehill Mountain?
Molehill Mountain requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2018.
Description
Molehill Mountain has been developed by Autistica and King’s College London to help autistic people understand and self-manage their anxiety.
We have worked with closely autistic people at every stage in developing Molehill Mountain to ensure that it is easy for autistic people to use and is relevant to their needs.
Molehill Mountain is based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), a well-established and clinically proven technique for managing the symptoms of anxiety. The app has been developed with the full involvement of Professor Emily Simonoff, Dr Ann Ozsivadjian and Dr Rachel Kent from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London.
Most autistic people experience anxiety on a regular basis. Around eight out of ten will have symptoms of anxiety – and of these, three or four will have enough symptoms to be given a diagnosis of anxiety disorder.
Molehill Mountain allows you to track your worries and identify the situations that trigger your anxiety. Your daily check-ins are plotted on a chart which allows you to identify pattern and trends – and you can also display a previous check-in to help you identify recurring triggers for your anxiety.
Over time, you unlock tips that will help you to understand your anxiety and learn ways to manage it. The daily tips have been completely rewritten for this new version of Molehill Mountain. In addition, we have added dozens of extra mini-tips to cover many of the common causes of anxiety and stress in autistic people, such as hypersensitivity to noise, light and touch or difficulties with social situations and communication.
The app also has interactive CBT activities which you can use at any time. These draw upon well-established and clinically proven techniques and are designed to help you to recognise and overcome unhelpful patterns of thinking.
The development of Molehill Mountain has been supported by: • The Maudsley Charity • The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists’ Charity • The Pixel Fund
Autistica
Autistica is the UK’s national autism research charity. They exist to create breakthroughs that enable every autistic person to live a happy, healthy and long life. They do so by: • Shaping and growing research across the UK • Funding new and innovative research solutions • Campaigning for better services and shaping national policy • Sharing evidence-based tools, resources, and information
https://www.autistica.org.uk/
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London
King’s College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2018/19) and among the oldest in England. King’s has more than 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,500 staff.
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London is the premier centre for mental health and related neurosciences research in Europe. It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on mental health than any other centre (SciVal 2019) and on this metric we have risen from 16th (2014) to 4th (2019) in the world for highly cited neuroscience outputs. World-leading research from the IoPPN has made, and continues to make, an impact on how we understand, prevent and treat mental illness and other conditions that affect the brain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/
Recent changes: What's New in 2.6.0:
✅ Enhanced compatibility for Android 11-14 ✅ Better stability and performance ✅ Bug fixes and improvements
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★★★★★
I like the fact it understands the specific things that I am anxious about because of autism like social situations and sensory stuff. I would like to have better rating scales for anxiety and add depression too.
★★★★★
I'm liking it so far only problem is the scroll in the little boxes doesn't work if you write a paragraph in it It's hard to see what you wrote before. But overall good work guys love the cleaness of the UI. One suggestion alot of my worries arise purely because it didn't plan my day and then the day was filled with uncertainty if you added this feature taking me through step by step into life categories it would help me load. Thanks again.
★★☆☆☆
The primary intended use of this app is to collect research data on anxiety scores for Autistic to send to King's College London, this was not clear to me at the start but when reading the privacy policy. The process of sizing worry bubbles is too abstract to be meaningful and molehill mountain sounds like a very silly place. Popping worries each day when they appear randomly from different places on the mountain only remind me of my worries, make me feel like they will always return and can come from anywhere. The name is clearly a reference to the English phrase "making mountains out of molehills" which seems very presumptuous and disrespectful. The daily hints remind me of advice from bad mental health teams, things like 'Try not to be anxious'. I haven't managed to get through a whole week or honestly more than one day. It actually made me stressed. Only good thing was it didn't suggest making endless cups of tea.
★★☆☆☆
Saw CBT, immediate uninstall, having been put on Deciders Skill CBT that was not designed for Autistic People despite raising concerns. Therefore, I immediately distrust anything using it. CBT is designed to teach conformity and re masking, masquerading as 'treatment' for everything from BPD - Tinnitus on the cheap. CBT doesn't deal with the causes of whatever it is being used to 'treat', instead it teaches us to gaslight ourselves.
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