Best for Personal Growth

This year, we took baby steps toward becoming our best selves – soaking up new ideas and finding confidence and calm with these pocket gurus by our side.

Balance caught our attention with its lovely, minimal design and kept us coming back with personalized meditation plans – customized to your goals, experience, current state, and age. We love tracking the skills we’re developing (think: visualization and awareness), and winding down with a sweet sleep song or dream scene.

Clementine is designed to help women channel calm, confidence, and more through hypnotherapy (getting relaxed enough to be open to new ideas). Meet the day with a morning pick-me-up and modern mantra, dive into courses to take on anxiety or self-doubt, then wind down with a deep sleep session.

Want to soak up Malcom Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers, Tim Ferris’s The 4-Hour-Life class, and the Fantastic Fungi film – all in 15 minutes? Consider it done with Uptime’s “Knowledge Hacks”: five-minute, easy-to-digest summaries of books, courses, and documentaries that hone in on key insights.