A systematic review published September 11, 2026, in JMIR mHealth and uHealth found that only 7 of 976 smartphone apps evaluated for preventing adolescent health problems met quality standards for health care professionals. The review, indexed in PubMed (ID 42727054, doi 10.2196/83908), screened apps using the Mobile App Rating Scale for health professionals (MARS-F).

The seven apps that passed evaluation represent 0.72% of the sample. Two addressed mental health and five covered sexual health, including three focused solely on contraception. The authors reported these results in the abstract.

The read here is that the vast majority of apps in this space do not meet the quality bar for clinical use, which suggests health care professionals face a very narrow set of tools when seeking digital resources for adolescent patients. The review did not name the individual apps that passed or specify the criteria that disqualified the other 969.