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Use your smartphone to become a better person with these three apps


What might look like playful works of art or glorified egg-beating are in fact games and apps that, with a tap of the button, help users beat procrastination, reduce stress or take time for a pause in their day. Here’s an overview of three such apps.

#SelfCare, a mini-game for the everyday

The main menu of the app #SelfCare is a view of a comfy-looking bedroom from a bird’s-eye view, with a tap on certain objects in the room leading to different miniature games. From breathing exercises to tracing simple geometric shapes, these games help you take a deep break from the stress of everyday life. The soundtrack is relaxing, subtly blending into the background, and the app greets users with uplifting messages like “Bad days will pass” or “It’ll all be fine.”

Why it’s worth playing: Truluv, the team behind the #SelfCare app, has been developing stress-reducing games for years and has combined its findings into this wonderfully relaxing app. The diverse minigames are suitable for almost every moment of everyday life.

Forest: Learn to ignore your phone

The app Forest aims to make problems with concentration and procrastination a thing of the past, implementing a simple principle to do so: Once users open the app, they plant a tree and then select a time period. During this time, if the user closes or minimises the app, the tree will rot, but if they leave their phone alone for that time, a digital sapling is the reward. The idea is that it prevents users from constantly reaching for their phone instead of working.

Why it’s worth playing: The idea behind Forest is simple but good: Users who leave their phone untouched and finish up their to-do list are rewarded with a beautiful tree – as well as statistics that show how often and how long they’ve concentrated while using the app.

Brain.fm: Perfect background noise

It’s not easy to find the right background noise for working. The app Brain.fm wants to take over this task. It offers not only pre-set instrumental music, but also can compose an individual, never-ending song on request that should perfectly match your taste. The app draws on all music genres, from jazz to world music, to provide you sound.

Why it’s worth playing: Hardly any other app allows as much customisation and individualisation options as Brain.fm. The powerful AI responsible for the compositions delivers great results. – dpa





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