Best Free Apps to Enhance your Lock-down Period

Cronometer is a calorie tracking app that enables you to log how many calories you consume and burn throughout the day. The best part of the app is that it lets you track your micronutrient intake even in the free version. So, along with your macro intake, you can see the breakdown of your vitamin and mineral intake.

As many of us are completely stuck at home during the lockdown, I think it is very important to track your diet habits. Numerous research has found a correlation between Vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk of mortality from Coronavirus. While this might just be a correlation, it doesn’t hurt to track and ensure that you are getting enough of the vitamin.

Some people, me included, might not be too keen on tracking your food habits each and every day but you can just use the app intermittently to ensure that your staple diet is not deficient in anything.

While the app does not have one of the most aesthetically pleasing design, it is very functional. There are a lot of options for measuring serving of food and the database is huge. A web version of the app is available as well which makes it very easy to enter new foods and recipes manually.

ReWi is the companion app for the Yale University “The Science of Well-Being” course which is now available online at Coursera. The course feels especially relevant now as with a halt on our everyday life we have time to consider and ponder how we want to move forward with our life.

The app aims to help the students of the course to change their behaviour and in turn, become happier. By building healthier habits, the core assumes that we can rewire our brains. The app enables users to track eight different activities including sleep, exercise, meditation, goal setting, gratitude, kindness, social connection, and savouring.

Users have the option of logging in these activities at any time during the day and track their process. The app also allows users to listen to meditation tracks and get prompts for effective goal-setting.

Fair warning: this game actually has nothing to do with how chemistry actually works. But this is a very fun minimalist game that you can lose yourself into.

Players need to match up pairs of atoms to combine them and create a different element. The game starts with hydrogen atoms and as you continue to fuse the atoms together, new elements pop up following the sequence of elements in the periodic table.

The game is very intuitive and has a minimalist user design. The accompanying music is pretty great and has an almost calm and meditative feel to it.

This is the best ebook reader out there and I have tried a lot of them. If you use an android device, this is a must-have reading app.

One of the best features of the app is that you can turn pages using the volume rocker. Additionally, you can dim the backlight inside the app to the brightness that is dimmer than the lowest setting of your phone’s system and that is a blessing especially if you are a night time reader. The reader is compatible with books in numerous different formats including epub, pdf, mobi, and cbz.

The interface is very user-friendly and intuitive. You can adjust the settings to ensure that your reading is very smooth and clear.

Question Diary is an app for self-reflection. So, basically what the app does is that you will receive a question from the app every day and you will have to answer it. The questions are usually quite introspective, thought-provoking, and insightful. So you continue answering the questions and after a year you are asked the same questions and as you answer then, you get to see whether and how you have evolved over time.

The questions put forward by the app aren’t issues that we get to discuss outwardly. So, what better time to go into self-reflection and introspection rather than now right?

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Originally published at http://behindbhairavsmask.wordpress.com on June 1, 2020.