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.
Meditation made for you
Balance: Meditation & Sleep
The Mind Company
In-app purchases
4.7star
46.8K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Everyone
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- 1Calm your mind, reduce stress, and improve sleep with meditations personalized to suit your specific needs
- 2Access a library of meditations throughout the day or answer questions and let the app choose for you
- 3Use 10-day plans featuring techniques like breathing exercises and badges for progress towards your goals
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.
Hypnotherapy with style
Clementine - Hypnotherapy
Lewis & Palmer Limited
In-app purchases
4.1star
187 reviews
10K+
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Mature 17+
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- 1Reduce stress and sleep better with cognitive hypnotherapy tools that help support women's mental health
- 2Transform your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with brain training for more positive thought patterns
- 3Build resilient self-belief with 3- to 45-minute sessions you can listen to anytime, even while sleeping
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.
Learning in the fast lane
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.
