Covid-19 has led to a 25% increase in health app downloads, research shows The pandemic has led to a huge increase in health apps downloads, particularly mental health apps, where downloads have increased 200%, as people struggle to cope during the crisis, according to Orcha Share this item with your network: By Published: 12 Jan 2021 11:00 This has particularly been true for mental health apps, as the UK public has struggled during the pandemic, with downloads increasing by nearly 200% from summer 2019 to summer 2020. “Mental health has always been a top search query and can be seen back to January 2019. But looking again to March 2020, we can see a magnification of this which has continued into the end of 2020,” the report said.