I’m not laughing, mental health apps have tons of problems on Android

Hey Gang,

Getting a chance to look around to see if there is anything worth talking about these days, and this one I think is very serious.

We’re talking about at least 10 apps that supposedly supply mental health assistance to those who need it with tons of vulnerabilities.

Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users’ sensitive medical information.

In one of the apps, security researchers discovered more than 85 medium- and high-severity vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise users’ therapy data and privacy.

Some of the products are AI companions designed to help people suffering from clinical depression, multiple forms of anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and bipolar disorder.

While I’m not going to keep the table, here is the information publicly available.

App Type Installs High Medium Low Total Scan date
01 Mood & habit tracker 10M+ 1 147 189 337 01/23/2026
02 AI therapy chatbot 1M+ 23 63 169 255 01/22/2026
03 AI emotional health platform 1M+ 13 124 78 215 01/23/2026
04 Health & symptom tracker 500k+ 7 31 173 211 01/22/2026
05 Depression management tool 100k+ – 66 91 157 01/23/2026
06 CBT-based anxiety app 500k+ 3 45 62 110 01/22/2026
07 Online therapy & support community 1M+ 7 20 71 98 01/23/2026
08 Anxiety & phobia self-help 50k+ – 15 54 69 01/22/2026
09 Military stress management 50k+ – 12 50 62 01/22/2026
10 AI CBT chatbot 500k+ – 15 46 61 01/23/2026

Apparently, none of the issues are critical, but some issues can leverage others including HTML parcing and more.

Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws is going to be the article you need to read.

This can’t be good for those who want to get the care they need, even if its AI doing some assisting.

I hope that the developers will release updates to these apps and they’re not abandonded. If any of these apps are, its going to now just be a matter of time before someone could take you in a very nice advantage attack even though you’re doing nothing wrong.

I’m not going to tell you to remove these apps if they help you, but you should be aware of what is going on.