Best Self Care Apps
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Our team

Nadia Okonkwo

Editor & lead app tester · Runs our testing desk and keeps the scorecard honest.

Nadia Okonkwo leads testing at Best Self Care Apps and maintains the scorecard that every review here is built on. She came to app reviewing from user research, where her job was to watch how real people actually use software on a tired Tuesday rather than how a glossy demo says they will — and that habit stuck. She doesn't trust a first impression, so she keeps an app on her phone for several weeks before she gives it a number.

She wrote the rubric we apply to all twenty apps, and she enforces three rules on the desk: no claim ships without a source and a date, every review says plainly where a rival beats our top pick, and any price or feature we can't confirm gets flagged rather than guessed. The question she keeps coming back to is the one most wellness marketing avoids — after a hard week, does opening this app actually leave you feeling a little better?

Away from the desk, Nadia is interested in the gentle end of product design: how an app can encourage a daily habit without nagging, guilt-tripping or turning self-care into another chore. That interest shapes how this site tests and scores.

Areas of expertise

Knows about: self care apps, app onboarding, journaling, mood tracking

How Nadia evaluates apps

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

Articles by Nadia

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Nadia works to our published review methodology.

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