SuperBetter

SuperBetter is a web- and mobile-based program intended to help users enhance their physical, mental, and emotional well-being, and improve their social connections. The program is designed to help users achieve multiple goals based on their preferences and motivations: beat depression and anxiety, cope with an illness or pain, recover from post-traumatic stress, improve nutrition, increase exercise, and overcome daily challenges. Based on their goals, users can complete “quests” (i.e., real-life activities such as 10 minutes of stretching), accomplish “power-ups” (e.g., drink a glass of water), and also battle “bad guys” (i.e., common bad habits/traits such as self-criticism) on a daily basis. The “squad play” option allows users to invite others and create a group that accomplishes challenges together. Users advance through levels and are awarded points for completing each activity. The progress is tracked and reflected in graphs, divided into different life areas (emotional, physical, social, mental)). The program allows users to focus on the quests, power-ups, and bad guys that are important to them and to skip those that are not, as well as take notes while completing the different tasks and create their own quests, power ups or bad guys. Users can also invite “allies” to leave encouraging comments and suggest new quests and power-ups. Additional features include a daily wellness questionnaire and a weekly “Superbetterness” questionnaire, which are used to assess players’ progress; and external links to TED Talk videos in which the developer describes the development of SuperBetter.