Self-Care Apps

Hands-on, methodology-driven app reviews · ranked & re-tested · 2026

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Our team

Mara Delgado

Editor & lead reviewer · Runs the review desk and guards the home-screen test.

Mara Delgado runs the review desk at Self-Care Apps and maintains the scorecard behind every ranking on the site. She spent years in consumer-product testing, learning to distrust the polished first run and watch instead for what an app feels like once the novelty is gone — and that is still how she works. No app earns a score here until she has lived with it for weeks across the kind of week that actually tests a self-care habit.

She wrote the rubric the desk applies to all twenty apps, and she holds three lines on every page: no number ships without a source and a date, every review states plainly where a rival beats our top pick, and any price or feature we cannot confirm is flagged rather than guessed. The test she keeps returning to is the unglamorous one — six weeks in, does this app still earn the space it takes up on your home screen, or has it quietly become another icon you swipe past?

Mara is drawn to the unshowy craft of habit design: how an app can earn a daily return without nagging, shaming or turning looking after yourself into one more thing to fail at. That bias runs through how this site tests, scores and ranks.

Areas of expertise

Knows about: self care apps, consumer app testing, journaling, mood tracking

How Mara evaluates apps

Mara uses each app daily for several weeks, scores it against the same weighted rubric as every other app, cross-checks ratings against the App Store, Google Play and Trustpilot, and re-dates a page the moment a price or feature moves.

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