Many elements support creative lifestyles. From building habits to having fun to spark flow, here are 10 unique lifestyle apps to inspire and support creative living.
Creative living is made up of habits to support the mind in healthy ways and habits to inspire and spark creativity. These habits are made up of elements that are important to the creative process. Imagination, mindfulness, observation, continuous learning, openness, and more are just a few areas to strengthen to improve creative living.
With these lifestyle apps, creatives can support and strengthen creative skills through the positive benefits of gamification, known for helping build habits.
Do you have trouble waking up in the morning? Try this creative lifestyle app to support a creative morning routine.
Alarmy is an alarm clock that challenges you with missions that challenge your body and brain to get you out of bed and prove you’re awake to turn the alarm off.
Mission Examples:
- Photo Mission – Wake up and take a photo of the registered place, away from your bed, to dismiss your alarm.
- Memory Mission – Energize your brain by memorizing which tiles are open
- Barcode Mission – Scan the barcode or QR code you registered to turn the alarm off.
- Math Mission – Solve simple or advanced math problems and kickstart your brain.
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The Nudge is a lifestyle app that is like having a friend that nudges you to try new things every week. This helpful app crafts 3 lifestyle “Nudges,” from secret hike plans to life-changing date ideas to get you out of your comfort zone and try new things.
Nudge makes it effortless to be more adventurous, romantic, creative, and social in your community.
Currently Supported Cities:
- Austin
- Chicago
- Dallas
- DC
- Denver
- Los Angeles
- Nashville
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Seattle
More cities coming soon: Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, San Diego, and more
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Meetup is a community and event app for creative living and a great way to support curiosity and other creative elements.
Connecting with a community is important for any creative process, and with this app, you can find unique events and community groups to support your interests or explore new ones. Pursue your interests with people who share them, both online and in person.
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1 Second Everyday is a video diary that makes it easy to take your day-to-day moments and create a meaningful movie of your life. Not only is it a unique way to capture creative living if you don’t like writing but still want to journal in some way, it’s a great way to direct creative travel and save notable memories to trigger creativity after returning home and the feelings of travel fade off.
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Support your imagination with the Houzz App for mobile devices and iPad. This app provides all the tools and information you need to complete your next home remodeling or decorating project.
Find home improvement inspiration, view products in your rooms, save and share design ideas with others, use the Sketch feature to annotate and draw directly on photos from Houzz, and more.
Named the “Wikipedia of interior and exterior design,” This creative lifestyle app can help you design the perfect creative spaces for inspiration.
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Habitica is a productivity app that makes it simple to have fun while accomplishing goals. Simply put in habits, goals, or your to-do list, and then create a custom avatar.
As you complete tasks, you level up your avatar and fight monsters trying to stop your productivity. The more you get done, the more you unlock, including features such as armor, pets, skills, and even quests! You can even work with friends to keep each other accountable. Flexible, social, and fun, Habitica is the perfect way to motivate yourself to accomplish anything.
Habitica is free, but it also offers subscriptions with special monthly equipment sets, team plans, and more.
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How often do you forget to drink water when you’re focused on the task at hand? Water is essential for life and maintaining a healthy brain, but drinking enough can easily be neglected.
With Plant Nanny, you can keep track of how much water you drink while also growing a cute virtual garden. This helpful app provides a customized plan that uses simple charts and interfaces so you can get a solid grasp on your water consumption.
As you improve your drinking habits, you will boost your spirits, improve your health, and cultivate good habits to stay productive.
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Moovit is an urban mobility app that includes all local transit options in one app: buses, trains, subway, bikes, scooters, Uber, Lyft, and more.
Discovering new ways to explore and experience a city can have many creative effects on the brain. By finding new ways to get around, new connections are made in the brain, which can support creative thinking and new ideas.
Moovit provides riders with a one-stop-shop journey experience to help them get from point A to B in the easiest and most efficient way. Get train and bus times, maps, and real-time arrival information with ease so that you can plan your trip with confidence. Pay and validate your rides. Find critical alerts and service disruptions for your favorite lines. Get step-by-step directions on optimal routes bus, train, metro, bike, scooter, or a combination of them.
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Pepper the App: Social Cooking is a social media app for passionate chefs to connect with other chefs to create, share, and discover recipes together.
Cooking is a great way to support creativity. With this creative lifestyle app, you can enjoy a wide range of functions to support your creative life and strengthen your creative skills.
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Set the mood with this lifestyle and productivity app, Noizio, an ambient sound equalizer.
Featuring over 40+ enchanting ambient sounds, you can choose the right ambient sound for your creative mood and home. From a Paris cafe to increase productivity to calming nature sounds to wind down and relax the creative mind. The options are endless, and the app’s design is minimal and easy to manage.
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Headspace is a great app to learn the the life-changing and creative skill of meditation in just a few minutes a day.
With so many different types of meditations to choose from, you can find what works best for you and your goals. From stress relief to supporting creative skills like curiosity, you can dive into the relaxing and enlightening practice of mindfulness.
Try Headspace and other creative meditation apps to meditate anywhere, anytime, and start living a healthier, happier, and more creative life.
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Alto’s Adventure is an endless snowboarding odyssey that has been widely praised beautiful and relaxing experience. This fun game is a great way to relax and get in the flow.
Join Alto and his friends as they embark on an endless snowboarding odyssey. Journey across the beautiful alpine hills of their native wilderness, through neighboring villages, ancient woodlands, and long-abandoned ruins.
Along the way, you’ll rescue runaway llamas, grind rooftops, leap over terrifying chasms and outwit the mountain elders – all while braving the ever-changing elements and passage of time upon the mountain.
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Walking is one of the best ways to support a healthy lifestyle, but it can be hard to remember or stay motivated in a busy creative life. A great way to support healthy habits is with gamification apps like this fun walking app.
Pikmin Bloom offers a fun and creative way to earn rewards for going outside and exploring with friends! With the brand-new Weekly Challenges feature, you can team up with others, no matter how far away they might be, and work towards a shared steps goal!
With the creative benefits of walking and getting out into nature, this is a great app to support healthy creative lifestyles.
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Coloring isn’t just for kids anymore. With studies showing the creative and health benefits of coloring, like stress/anxiety relief, mindfulness, creative flow, and more, many companies have started making adult coloring books and apps.
Pigment is an award-winning coloring app for all ages that lets you discover a world of color, relaxation, and creativity. Featuring thousands of coloring pages and access to exclusive content from brands like Marvel, this is a fun and relaxing app to support creative living.
Features:
- Create with oil, watercolor, and pastel tools
- Try different types of brushes
- Unlimited number of colors
- Import your own images, or choose from the largest collection of illustrations and grayscale images including flowers, mermaids, people, animals, landscapes, anime, mandalas, and tons more! Or start with a blank page and use Pigment as a sketchbook.
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A creative life is one of curiosity and continuous learning. A healthy creative mind is always learning something new to build connections and support one’s creative passion.
Trivia Crack is a fun app and trivia game to challenge the creative mind across six different categories. Support your creative lifestyle by learning something new while having fun.
With many ways to play, from apps, voice devices, wearable tech, and even a Youtube show, there are endless opportunities to challenge friends and support continuous learning.
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Zach is an international writer, photographer, filmmaker, martial artist, and creator of Creative Enso, the Zen art of creative living. His goal is to empower and inspire creatives to live healthier, happier, and more creative lifestyles.
