We’re all looking for ways to calm down. To relax after a busy day. Since we all carry our phones with us just about everywhere we go, having an app on it is a quick and easy way to work relaxation into our day. Whether you spend 5 minutes or a half-hour, here are a few great apps to help you relax.
This relaxing app focuses heavily on meditation. Guided sessions are available in 3, 5, 10, 15 20 or 25-minute increments. There are nearly 20 different topics to choose from including calming anxiety, gratitude, calm kids and breaking habits. It’s a great place for beginners to find meditation practices suited for their skill level, but there are also guided lessons for intermediate and experienced meditators as well. Calm also contains calming nature sounds and over 100 sleep stories. Stories they guarantee will help you fall asleep.
This app also allows you to track your progress with daily streaks and time spent meditating.
This app is free.
Headspace claims to be a personal guide to health and happiness. It says that it will help you focus, breathe, stay calm and create an environment for better sleep. It says that by using the app to practice meditation and mindfulness, your sleep habits will improve.
The app says that it contains multiple types of exercises including ones to help you manage anxiety, to help with stress relief and aid you in mindful breathing. The sleep portions of Headspace there are sleep casts to help you sleep, relaxing music and sleep meditations. It says that the sleep portion of the app is darker and the buttons are easier to find.
This app has a free and paid version.
Adult coloring exploded a few years back and is still going strong. It’s a great way to relax and ease your mind after a stressful day. A wifi or internet connection is not required for this game. The pictures can be colored over and over again as well. There are images for whatever style you prefer to color. The app description states that your options for images in mandalas, florals, animals, and patterns.
This app is free.
Smiling Mind is a relaxing app that focuses on meditation. They are a little bit different as they offer different programs for different age groups. The app description lists the following age groups:
7-9; 10-12; 13-15; 16-18; adults; sport; mindfulness in the classroom; mindfulness in the workplace.
This app is free.
Mindbody focuses more on the physical aspect of relaxing than the rest of the apps on this list. Mindbody helps you find workout classes near you, along with wellness services, and beauty appointments. You’re able to book these appointments right through the app. You’re also able to filter your search results by time, date and category. It offers last-minute rates, along with new client deals to try new studios with Intro Offers. You’re able to save your favorite locations for easy future bookings.
This app is free.
Sleep Cycle is reportedly a relaxing app that gives you a gentle wake up call that only wakes you up when you’re in a light sleep stage. It claims to use the accelerometer of your phone to track your movement. Since you’re less likely to move while you’re in a deep sleep, it detects your level of movement to determine which level of sleep you are in. There is the option to begin waking up as much as 90 minutes before your actual alarm goes off. It also gives you detailed sleep stats and sleep graphs so that you can track your sleep habits and whether your sleep, in fact, improves while using the app.
There is a free and premium version of this app.
The app description starts with ‘Sleep at the push of a button! Fall asleep fast, stay asleep & wake up refreshed.’ This app claims to play ‘dreamscapes’, which is a mix of music, voice-over and sound effects that change. It is supposed to quiet your mind and help you fall asleep. There is a sleep module, a nap module, and a focus module.
The sleep module allows you to personalize your sleep experience with several different features. The nap module is supposed to help reduce the after nap groggy feeling and the focus module is supposed to help you get focused, help you concentrate and make you more productive.
This app is free.
This is an app that aids those who struggle with panic attacks and anxiety. The app description says that when a panic attack hits you can open the app and activate the ‘rootr’. This will present you with two options. One direction will help you face the panic head-on, the other will simply help you find comfort as quickly as possible.
There is a setting to aid with deep breathing to calm you during a moment of stress. There is also a setting to give visual aid to root you when you’re anxious. There is emergency contact when you need to hear a calm voice and a place to see your personal stats and take pride in your progress in overcoming your panic and anxiety attacks.
This app is free.
This app allows you to track your daily emotions and gives you daily meditation tips to help you relax. The app claims to track your moods and give you meditation tips that match the skill levels of both beginners and experienced meditators, along with yoga and acupressure videos based on your mood.
The app description says that it allows you to track your progress and well being by logging your moods before and after daily meditations. It helps you learn to breathe mindfully, allowing you to be centered and more aware of yourself.
This app is free.
This relaxation app is great because it caters to a wide variety of people. There is everything from the standard rain and thunder to a crackling fire.
According to the app description, there is a list of 6 different sounds to choose from. You can set a sleep timer so that you can listen to the sounds of nature while you drift off to sleep, or you can choose to set one of the sounds as your morning alarm so that it’s a calmer wake up process than the standard beep. It claims to contain no music, only the full natural sounds of nature.
This app is free.
There are hundreds of relaxing apps out there. Finding the one that works for you is most important. Whether you struggle with anxiety, stress, panic or just feel like you need something to help you unwind, these are ten great relaxing apps for you to try!
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