15 Beautiful and Useful Mobile Apps for Your Inspiration
I’m in love with mobile design. When it’s done well, it can look so good! I’ve collected some of my favorite apps that aren’t only useful but also beautiful. Mobile design can be a big challenge. I don’t use many apps on my phone. Many of them are not very well-designed, as it’s hard to create useful and seamless applications for small screens. Still, some products use that feature to their advantage.
Good design leverages the tiny screen real estate to make an uncomplicated and easy app. Some apps are truly fantastic. I’ve gathered a thorough list of well-designed mobile apps. Check out this list; I’m sure you will find something that you like, too. Almost all of these apps are also free—a great bonus. I’ve linked both the iOS and Android download links. Let’s get started!
1. Headspace (free)
Headspace is a multiplatform software that helps people meditate. Meditation has been proven to reduce stress and anxiety and improve focus, among many other benefits. The app is widely praised all over the internet. They even have a quote from Emma Watson praising it as well. What I love about the app is its design style. The language is real and a bit funny. The UI design is light, friendly, and all around pleasant.
Download iOS | Download Android
2. Sleep Cycle (free)
Sleep Cycle is a sleep tracking app that has recently updated its UI. The app is useful in learning about your own sleeping patterns to improve the quality of your sleep. The app also has beautiful dark UI design that is stunning. The use of the accented neon colors, for instance the neon green bars, is a nice touch. It gives the app some personality, makes it prettier, and makes the graphs easily distinguishable.
Download iOS | Download Android
3. Day One Journal (paid)
Day One Journal is a multiplatform diary app. Over the years, the app has expanded its features which makes the app smart and useful. The user experience is phenomenal because you can save the location of your entry by default and the mode of transportation if it detects you moving at a higher speed. It’s extremely good at keeping note of your situation when you’re jotting down your journal entry. It can even save the song you were listening to.
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4. Automatic (free)
Automatic is a car adapter that lets you keep a closer eye on your car. It notifies you about maintenance issues such as low oil. It can also improve your driving habits. Automatic’s mobile app has a great design, too. The visuals are clean and easy to distinguish. The graphs are helpful as well. It shows you all sorts of important information with ease.
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5. Keezy (free)
Keezy is a super fun music game. It’s a great app whether you’re looking to have a little bit of fun or entertain your kids. The interface is so dumb and so simple—I love it. The design is very primary and it works so well! It doesn’t distract you with unnecessary UI elements. It just lets you play and have fun. I wish more apps were this straightforward.
Download iOS
6. Snapseed (free)
Snapseed is a mobile photo editing app. If you’re into mobile photography I highly recommend this app. It has a lot of features but it’s also stunning and beautiful. The design of this app is very modern; you can easily see that if you observe the rectangular shapes, slim fonts, and overall minimalist design. The app doesn’t feel cluttered, even though it does have many editing features.
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7. Qapital (free)
Qapital is an app for keeping track of your savings. The unique thing about Qapital is that you can set up a budget for a specific goal, for instance a new car or TV or whatever you need to save money for. You can even invite people to join and help you reach your saving goals. The product design makes this app amazing.
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8. Digit (free)
Digit is another savings app. It works by removing a certain amount from your checking account without you really noticing it. I love this app for what it’s doing to my savings. Its minimalistic design style is stunning and clean. Most banking apps are cluttered and heavy but not Digit.
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9. Shorts (free)
Shorts allows you to browse through your friends’ photo files to see what they have most recently snapped in their Camera Roll. The app has given users a new way to interact and share moments, memories, or adventures with their close friends.
The app tries to get out of the user’s way to let them experience the photos and videos. I love that the application doesn’t defeat its own purpose.
Download iOS
10. HotelTonight (free)
HotelTonight lets you book a last-minute room at a hotel for a night or two. I’ve been a big fan of the app for many years now. I’m especially a big fan of their dark color scheme.
It makes a very good sense of what the product is selling. The design is well executed too; the purple and black colors are a great choice.
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11. Lifesum (free)
Lifesum is another app for a healthy lifestyle. It can help you achieve various goals. I like it for its use of gradients and colors. They are used throughout the app in small amounts. The use of both is subtle, so they don’t overwhelm any interaction. There are also a few pages with big colorful backgrounds but limited actions, which balances out nicely.
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12. Artifact Uprising (free)
Artifact Uprising is a photo printing service. You can order books, calendars, or prints of your own photographs. They provide you with beautiful templates that you can customize and just drop in photos as you please. The end product is a well-made, high-quality print. Their mobile app is easy to use and just as stylish as their prints.
Download iOS
13. sweetgreen (free)
Sweetgreen is a mobile app for a salad franchise. Their salads are really good and you can pre-order them with their app. My favorite thing about their app is their icons. I can’t get over how awesome they are. The overall design is amazing; the lines are classy and clean. The photographs of the ingredients and salads are stunning, too.
Download iOS
14. Days (free)
Days is an event countdown app, be it a wedding, a birthday, or a vacation. The thing I love the most about this app is the way you fill out a new event.
It’s a bunch of forms, sure, but it doesn’t seem like you’re filling out one because the inputs don’t look like typical input UIs. I love that you’re just filling out pieces of the event. The reliability of this app is another question. (Yes, that is a photo of Pisa when I’m going to Rome!)
Download iOS
15. Verse (free)
Verse is a mobile payment app. I recently came across this app and I’m in love with its user interface. The numbers are big and bold. The interfaces are simple, to the point, and clean. The app could use a little bit more color, but I digress. I am very fond of the app’s simplicity; it really improves the user experience.
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How did you enjoy this list? I hope you got a chance to be inspired. I also hope you found a new favorite app, or two. Let me know if there is an app you love that fits into this list of useful and well-designed apps and I’ll add it to my next post ?
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Rather unfortunately, however, along with the genuine works of the master, a certain number of pieces have been handed down to us under his name, of which some are almost universally admitted to be spurious, while the authenticity of others is a question on which the best scholars are still divided. In the absence of any very cogent external evidence, an immense amount of industry and learning has been expended on this subject, and the arguments employed on both sides sometimes make us doubt whether the reasoning powers of philologists are better developed than, according to Plato, were those of mathematicians in his time. The176 two extreme positions are occupied by Grote, who accepts the whole Alexandrian canon, and Krohn, who admits nothing but the Republic;115 while much more serious critics, such as Schaarschmidt, reject along with a mass of worthless compositions several Dialogues almost equal in interest and importance to those whose authenticity has never been doubted. The great historian of Greece seems to have been rather undiscriminating both in his scepticism and in his belief; and the exclusive importance which he attributed to contemporary testimony, or to what passed for such with him, may have unduly biassed his judgment in both directions. As it happens, the authority of the canon is much weaker than Grote imagined; but even granting his extreme contention, our view of Plato’s philosophy would not be seriously affected by it, for the pieces which are rejected by all other critics have no speculative importance whatever. The case would be far different were we to agree with those who impugn the genuineness of the Parmenides, the Sophist, the Statesman, the Philêbus, and the Laws; for these compositions mark a new departure in Platonism amounting to a complete transformation of its fundamental principles, which indeed is one of the reasons why their authenticity has been denied. Apart, however, from the numerous evidences of Platonic authorship furnished by the Dialogues themselves, as well as by the indirect references to them in Aristotle’s writings, it seems utterly incredible that a thinker scarcely, if at all, inferior to the master himself—as the supposed imitator must assuredly have been—should have consented to let his reasonings pass current under a false name, and that, too, the name of one whose teaching he in some respects controverted; while there is a further difficulty in assuming that his existence could pass unnoticed at a period marked by intense literary and philosophical activity. Readers who177 wish for fuller information on the subject will find in Zeller’s pages a careful and lucid digest of the whole controversy leading to a moderately conservative conclusion. Others will doubtless be content to accept Prof. Jowett’s verdict, that ‘on the whole not a sixteenth part of the writings which pass under the name of Plato, if we exclude the works rejected by the ancients themselves, can be fairly doubted by those who are willing to allow that a considerable change and growth may have taken place in his philosophy.’116 To which we may add that the Platonic dialogues, whether the work of one or more hands, and however widely differing among themselves, together represent a single phase of thought, and are appropriately studied as a connected series. Before entering on our task, one more difficulty remains to be noticed. Plato, although the greatest master of prose composition that ever lived, and for his time a remarkably voluminous author, cherished a strong dislike for books, and even affected to regret that the art of writing had ever been invented. 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