Believe it or not, while the entire world is crying about boredom during this stay-at-home period, it’s actually the best time to start working on your self, learning new skills, playing new games, spending time with family, and much more. That’s why we at Read Scoops are rolling out a number of ‘Lockdown Hacks‘ articles helping you deal with the situation in a more productive manner.
Most of the articles in this series are for self-improvement, especially where we mention the easiest 5 home workouts one could try. There’s plenty more one can do in this period to keep improving as an individual, so today, we’ll speak about some of the best mobile applications to download during the time, which will help different aspects of your life in the future as well.
5 apps to download in quarantine
1) Workout – MyFitnessPal
Working out is more of the most essential activities during a lockdown period because there’s not much of physical activity taking place in such times. MyFitnessPal is free to download on Android as well as iOS and apart from keeping track of your workout schedule, it helps you achieve fitness goals and most importantly, it has a vast database of different foods one can consume, along with recipes and nutritive info of such foods.
2) Reading – Audible
If you like reading, you will love this app. Audible as the name suggests is an audio app for books, which reads aloud the book of your choice. It has a subscription based plan that lets you listen to a couple of books per month, from their huge collection of online books. Amazon has owned Audible since 2008 and if you have a Prime account, you get free, exclusive content, while you don’t really need Prime to access this content.
3) Meditation – Insight Timer
Reducing stress, improving sleep, controlling anxiety, enhancing self-awareness, helping fight addictions and much more. All of these are the benefits of practicing meditation, and Insight Timer is the best app to help you do the same. The app has over 10 million meditators and apart from a free version, there’s a premium version you can choose as well. TIME Magazine voted it as one of the best meditation apps of the year in 2018!
4) Learn an instrument – Yousician
There’s nothing better than music to soothe your soul. If you weren’t fortunate enough to have music inbuilt in you and have been trained when you were younger, you have the chance to train yourself now. If you want to learn to play the piano or guitar or bass or ukelele, Yousician is the app you need to have. It will teach you to play the instrument based on your current experience and knowledge of the same. There’s a limit to the number of songs you can play for free before a paid version is required.
5) Sky love – Star Walk 2
This is an app we’ve been using since a couple of years. It’s tough to be a sky lover when you’re living in polluted cities, but the skies have cleared out because of the lockdown scenario, which means everyone has the chance to now look up and enjoy God’s creation each night. The moon, the sun, the stars and their constellations, and much more; you’ll be able to name them all after a few days of using this app. You can use the app even from your window, pointing out towards a particular star and getting its name.
Stay tuned to ReadScoops.com for more lockdown hack articles in the near future…
