Table of contents:
- For meditation and healthy sleep
- For proper breathing
- For coloring and contemplation
- With soothing sounds
- Other useful applications and services
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26
Color by number, mood trackers, meditation programs and other tools.
For meditation and healthy sleep
Please note: except for the first one, all applications from this category are not available in Russian. To use them, you need to understand English well by ear.
1. Insight Timer
Inside the application, you will find voice instructions and special timers for your meditation sessions. A separate block contains melodies and exercises to help you fall asleep. Most of the content is available by subscription ($ 60 per year), but the free section has plenty to choose from.
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2. Simple Habit
Huge collection of meditation exercises. Choose a goal (such as reducing stress levels or getting ready for bed) and listen to your mentor's soothing voice. Lots of tutorials are available for free, and more are available by subscription ($ 12 per month).
3. Headspace
A collection of beautifully designed tips, meditation and other exercises that should make you happier. You can view only a few of them for free, for the rest you need to subscribe ($ 13 per month).
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4. Calm
Mini-courses on meditation, sleepy tunes and mesmerizing stories read by famous people. Everything in order to improve your emotional state. After a seven-day trial period, you will need a paid subscription ($ 5.8 per month) to access the content.
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Calm - Meditate, Sleep, Relax Calm.com, Inc.
Calm: Sleep & Meditation Calm.com
5. FitMind
A step-by-step training complex for mental fitness. According to the developer, the app uses monks' calming practices approved by neuropsychologists. After a trial week, the program is offered for money ($ 12 per month).
For proper breathing
1. The Breathing App
This free app adjusts the user to a specific breathing rhythm - 5-7 breaths per minute. According to the developer, this frequency helps a person to calm down.
The Breathing App Edwin Stern
2. Pranic breathing
The program is based on oriental breathing practices. By choosing "Anti-stress", "Relaxation" or another category, you will see the corresponding types of workouts. Some of them are available only in the paid version (60 rubles for 3 months).
Pranic Breathing: Pranayama and Meditation Oleksandr Albul
3. BreathAir
A set of breathing exercises to combat stress, as well as improve thinking ability and sleep quality.
4. Breath Ball
This app promises to help combat anxiety and insomnia. According to the developer, the program uses only scientifically based breathing techniques. The free version has restrictions on the frequency and amount of exercise that can be turned off with a one-time payment ($ 8).
Breath Ball: The Stress Relieve Breathing Exercise Fun Driven
Breath Ball Breathing Exercise Michael Holl
For coloring and contemplation
1. Pigment
Color illustrations with fantasy landscapes or popular cartoon characters. Hundreds of images are available for free. To unlock a few thousand more along with additional brushes, you need to subscribe to a paid subscription ($ 10 per month).
Pigment - Adult Coloring Book Pixite Inc.
2. Happy Color
Thousands of free illustrations are waiting for you to color them. There are animals, flowers, landscapes, mosaics and even esoteric symbols - mandalas. You might be annoyed by the ads, but they are removed for $ 8.
Happy Color® - X-Flow Coloring Game
3. Pixel Art
And this is a coloring book for pixel art lovers. Inside is an extensive catalog of a wide variety of images. There are even 3D ones that can be rotated while painting. To turn off ads, you have to subscribe to the premium version of the program ($ 16 per month).
Pixel Art: Color by Number Easybrain
Pixel Art: Color by Number Easybrain
With soothing sounds
1. Soundly
In this application, you will find several categories of sounds for different tasks: concentration, meditation, relaxation, and so on. The app also allows you to set sleep timers and mix different audio elements.
2. Rain Rain
The program contains hundreds of atmospheric sounds. Most of them are natural - the howling of the wind, the rustle of foliage, the sound of rain. But for fans of urban ambient there is also a technogenic selection. There are 43 sounds available in the free version of the program, for the rest you need a paid subscription ($ 4 per month).
Rain Rain Sleep Sounds Tim Gostony
Rain Rain Sleep Sounds Tim Gostony
3. Ambient sounds
Another audio catalog with quality sounds of nature. Inside there are over a hundred records for your relaxation. All are available for free, but the app shows ads.
Ambient Sounds - Nature Sounds Sleep mikdroid
4. Brain.fm
The sounds offered by this program increase productivity, relax and help you fall asleep. At least that's what the authors say. They used artificial intelligence and scientific research data to generate unique audio snippets. You can feel their effect on yourself for free, but after five sessions the application will ask you to subscribe ($ 7 per month).
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Music to Stay Focused by Brain.fm Brain.fm
Brain.fm - Focus Music Brain.fm
5. Atmosphere
In addition to the sounds of nature, vibrations and pulsations of various intensities and frequencies are available in the program. Each has its own function, such as calming down or preparing for meditation.
Atmosphere Relaxing Sounds - Rain and Sleep Sounds Peak Pocket Studios
Other useful applications and services
1. Happify
First, the service asks questions about your life and attitudes towards it. It then recommends exercises and helpful information that can make you happier, more balanced, and more confident. All methods and detailed statistics are available only after a subscription ($ 15 per month).
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Happify Happify, Inc.
Happify: for Stress & Worry Happify, Inc.
2. AntiPanic
Professional psychologists have been involved in the development of this application. It is intended for people suffering from panic attacks. The program explains the nature of these seizures, helps track them, and tells you how to deal with them. Trainings are available to users that will make it easier to endure panic attacks.
AntiPanic Egor Bachilo
3. Moodnotes
A special diary with which you can track your emotional state and the circumstances that affect it. It's simple: the better you understand the causes of your psychological problems, the easier it is for you to deal with them. To fully track statistics, you will need to subscribe ($ 10 per month).
Moodnotes - ThrivePort Mood Diary, LLC
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