Services · Mobile app development · Mental wellness apps
Codeeo offers mental wellness app development Riyadh organisations can put in front of staff, students and patients with confidence. We build Arabic first apps that combine self-guided wellbeing content, booking with SCFHS licensed therapists, private video sessions and a clear route to emergency help, so a person who opens the app at a hard moment is never left talking only to software. Our Riyadh team plans the product with you in person.
The app supports care; it does not diagnose or treat anyone. Clinical decisions stay with licensed practitioners, and the product is designed so that line is obvious to every user, every employer and every reviewer.
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What the app can include
In Riyadh, a large share of wellness app requests come from employers and institutions rather than from consumers. A ministry contractor in Olaya, a company in King Abdullah Financial District or a university in the north of the city wants to give people private access to support without HR, managers or lecturers ever seeing who used it. That changes the product. Enrolment has to be anonymous or close to it, reporting has to be aggregate only, and the clinicians behind the app have to be licensed in the Kingdom.
The features below are the ones we most often scope for capital city clients. A clinic group would weight them differently from an employer, and discovery decides which belong in the first release and which wait for the second. Every item is costed and scheduled separately, so you can see what each choice adds before committing.
Staff or students join with an organisation code or a work email check, then the link to their identity at the employer is cut. The organisation knows how many seats are active, never which person holds them. Nafath sign in can be added where a verified national identity is needed for paid clinical sessions.
People sign up because they trust their employer cannot see them.
Profiles show language, approach, gender and availability, and every listed practitioner has a Saudi Commission for Health Specialties registration that your clinical lead verifies before the profile goes live. Expiry dates are tracked in the admin system so a lapsed licence hides the profile automatically.
Only currently licensed clinicians are ever bookable.
Evening and weekend slots, short lunchtime check ins and reminders timed for the commute home. Users choose video, audio only or chat sessions where the provider offers them, and can reschedule without phoning anyone.
Sessions fit around long working days and city traffic.
Certain answers, phrases or a dedicated help button open a screen with Saudi emergency numbers, one tap calling and, where your clinical protocol allows, an alert to an on call clinician. Automated features never handle risk alone; the protocol is written and signed off by your licensed clinical lead.
Someone at risk is pointed to emergency services and a human straight away.
Short audio and text modules on stress, sleep routines, work pressure and relationships, written in Gulf Arabic and English and reviewed by your clinicians. Content is framed as general wellbeing, which keeps the app clear of medical claims.
Users get useful support between sessions without the app overstating what it does.
HR sees uptake by month, the themes people read about most and satisfaction scores, with small groups suppressed so no department of three can be identified. Individual notes, bookings and mood data never leave the clinical side.
Employers can justify the programme without compromising anyone.
Small online groups for topics such as new parents, managers under pressure or students in their first year, led by a licensed facilitator and run on a schedule. Members can join with a display name, group rules are shown before entry, and facilitators can remove messages or pause a group at any time.
Peer support happens in a supervised space, not an open forum.
Session notes, consent records, caseload views and supervision flags in a web dashboard, with access limited by role and every view logged. Notes are kept separate from the consumer side of the app.
Practitioners work in one secure place instead of spreadsheets and chat apps.
mada, Apple Pay and STC Bank for individuals, and invoiced billing for employers, with ZATCA compliant e-invoices produced through your accounting system.
Clinics and employers both get paid and invoiced correctly.
Clinic groups can sync appointments with the scheduling or electronic record system they already run, and employers can connect single sign on or benefits portals. We review each system's API during discovery and keep any data that crosses the boundary to the minimum the workflow needs.
Staff stop typing the same booking into two places.
Who this is for
As a mental wellness app development company with a team in Riyadh, we meet clients face to face for discovery and design reviews, which matters when sensitive workflows and clinical protocols are on the table. The four situations below cover most of what we are asked to build in the capital. Each one changes who the product answers to and how much clinical infrastructure sits behind it, so the first conversation is always about your users and your obligations rather than a feature list.
Head offices along King Fahd Road and in KAFD often run wellbeing initiatives through a mix of helplines, workshops and benefits portals. An app gives employees one private place to read, book and talk, while the employer sees only aggregate uptake. We design the separation between employer and clinical data first, because staff will not use a service they suspect their manager can see. Companies with branches in Jeddah or the Eastern Province can extend the same app to those offices later without rebuilding it.
Confidentiality is the feature that decides adoption.
Riyadh psychology and psychiatry practices that already see patients in person can extend into video and chat sessions under the Ministry of Health telehealth rules. The app handles booking, intake forms, consent and payment, and it hands clinicians a single schedule that covers both clinic rooms and remote sessions. Integration with your existing practice system is usually part of the scope. Patients who prefer the clinic can still book a room visit through the same screens.
Student counselling teams at campuses such as King Saud University and Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University deal with exam pressure, homesickness and transitions into adult life. A campus app can offer self-booking, drop in chat during agreed hours, peer support moderated by trained staff and a prominent route to urgent help. Student data access is set with the university's own policies in mind. Counsellors can publish their own hours and close chat when the service is unstaffed, so students are never waiting on an empty inbox.
Founders building subscription wellness apps need a product that app store reviewers, investors and regulators can read clearly: wellbeing content on one side, licensed clinical services on the other. We help you draw that line, scope a first version you can launch, and build the admin tools your clinicians and support team need from the first day.
We also advise when a feature would turn the app into a regulated medical device.
How we work together
Most clients start with a fixed scope first version, then move to a monthly retainer for content updates, new features and app store maintenance. Larger programmes, such as an employer rolling out across several Saudi offices, sometimes take a dedicated team that stays with the product. Whichever route you choose, a written scope sets out what is included before work begins, and the mental wellness app developers on your project stay named and consistent. Clinical content review, crisis protocol testing and licence monitoring can sit inside the retainer so they never fall between teams.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Cross platform or native mobile apps, a secure web dashboard for clinicians and administrators, and hosting chosen with your data residency needs in mind, including cloud regions inside the Kingdom where your policy requires them. We pick the stack with the team who will own the product afterwards.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on how much clinical service sits behind the app.
A self-guided wellbeing app with content and anonymous enrolment is a smaller build than a platform with licensed therapists, video sessions, payments and employer reporting. The crisis protocol, privacy review and any integration with a practice system also add time. We agree the first release in discovery, then write the schedule into the scope once those questions are answered, rather than quoting a date before we understand the work. A pilot with one department or cohort normally comes before a wider launch, and that pilot period is planned into the schedule too.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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