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The mental health of children and young people is an emerging major public health issue that requires means of addressing it in an age-appropriate and effective way. Here we present Mindcraft, a mobile mental health monitoring platform which has been developed in response to the negative mental health trends among children and young people. Mindcraft followed a human-centred design approach focusing on user experience and careful collection of meaningful mental health-related self-reported data and passive mobile sensor data following Good Clinical Practice standards of data security and privacy. User acceptance testing of the app done via a patient and public involvement group showed good acceptability of the app. Our platform’s design has the potential to facilitate mental health studies to support a range of clinical study questions, including digital micro-interventions in the future and expand into an intervention system.