Some of us like to play games to relax and not get stressed about rankings or obtaining ever more powerful items. Enter Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit. If you're a Netflix subscriber, you can access this game for free. This is a life simulation game that places emphasis on exploring the area, rebuilding, and making sure most of the desert areas on the island get a little bit of color.
The game looks great with extremely cute characters. I loved how the landscapes were carefully drawn and watercolored, and kindness is the main theme here since the more kind acts you perform, the overall happiness of the community will increase in tandem. It might take a while getting used to the controls like I did, although hooking up your smartphone to an external controller would ease the rite of passage.
Price: Varies (Netflix subscription) / Advertising: None / In-app purchases: None / Account required: Yes (Netflix subscription)
Inflow ADHD: A Digital Companion
Having ADHD is no fun at all. If you are a parent and your child has ADHD, parenting becomes even more of a challenge. Thankfully, there's an app for that in the form of Inflow ADHD, although do remember that an app is just a guide and can never replace the experience and skill of a qualified medical professional. If you are still seeking help from a medical professional, use Inflow ADHD as a supplement, and not as a replacement.
Inflow ADHD helps the user struggle with various aspects of everyday life, including focus, procrastination, organization, attention span, hyperactivity, and even anxiety. Perhaps the calendar or habit tracker is not cutting the mustard—Inflow ADHD is here to help. It aims for you to get back on track with visual reminders and a daily focus feature so you can have effective prioritization of your daily tasks.
Price: Free / Advertising: None / In-app purchases: Yes (.49-9.99) / Account required: Yes
Email Management Made Simple with Blue Mail
Having an email address used to be cool back when the Internet began. Seeing Google offer 1GB of storage space in your inbox was amazing, and boy, have we come a long way since then. These days, email management has become more of a necessary pain than anything else. What if there was an app that could make life a whole lot simpler? Enter Blue Mail.
The user interface of Blue Mail is simple and elegant enough to get around without being confused. You can add several email accounts and manage all of them from one app. I love how smart push notifications and group emails allow me to be notified only of important emails, where anything else that are unimportant will remain where they are.
Price: Free / Advertising: None / In-app purchases: Yes (.99-.99) / Account required: Yes
COOKmate: Your Personal Recipe Database
Do you love cooking? For those with an affinity to the stove and absolutely love feeding others with amazing, tasty recipes, COOKmate might be just the right app for your smartphone. This app helps you build your own recipe database by collecting recipes from all over the place, importing them into the digital space. Basically, whenever you come across a new recipe online, import it and you're good to go.
From there, you can perform a slew of modifications including changing the recipe accordingly. Think that your plating skills are the bee's knees? Why not take a photo and include it in your recipe for the world to see? If you think you've hit on a killer modification formula on an age-old recipe, change the ingredients and cooking style accordingly, adding comments while you're at it.
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