It’s the beginning of the year 2025, and you want to start it with a whole new ‘YOU’. Sure, there are more ways to do it than you can comprehend, but the problem is, you are stuck fiddling around on your phone much to the dismay of your conscience. It’s become a habit of scrolling endlessly and aimlessly to see how people flex on social media, but there’s a way out. You can use your phone for something productive.
How, you ask? Well, where there are apps to put you off the rails, there are apps that can boost your memory, and motivate you to become more productive and more. Well, if that’s something you would like to read about, you have hit the jackpot.
We at TrueTech will open a Pandora box for you giving away five such best iOS apps you would wonder why you didn’t discover them before. If all that hype is worth it, let’s look into the content of this Pandora’s box, shall we?
Brain.fm
Category: Meditation
The world is full of people with a shorter attention span. Although you might think this won’t affect you much, indeed it does, and in more adverse ways than you can comprehend. Losing focus when doing anything even if you talk about ‘sleeping’ as an activity, can cause havoc in your day-to-day operations.
Brain.fm is a tried and tested meditation app that produces sounds that channel brainwave patterns allowing you to focus. Whether you are working, studying, or feeling procrastinated out of the blue, Brain.fm is an app made for you. It reduces stress and anxiety in the body, helps boost activity in the brain’s region responsible for attention, and induces brain signatures for deep sleep. Focus, relax, sleep, or meditate, the app has it all, especially for those with ADHD.
Download: Brain.fm
Queryable
Category: Photo Finder / Photo Albums
In this world of photos and multimedia, we often take hundreds and thousands of photos that capture each and every moment of your life in various forms or shapes. Be it selfies, groupies, receipts of payments, documents, an emotional encounter, or any random click you took just because you felt good.
Now imagine finding a particular photo or memory from the trove? Sometimes, it is easy, and I get it, but there are times when you just can’t find that particular photo no matter how many times you scroll.
Well, for all that, we have Queryable. The app puts a searchable phrase or keywords or description to a particular image such as an object or a blue sky as a subject, etc. Once the automatic indexing is done (you can also trigger manual indexing), the app is all set to find that particular image you have been looking for by entering that particular query. On top of that, the app works offline which means there’s no transmitting of data and thus, your photos remain completely private to yourself. Isn’t that great?
Download: Queryable
Just Press Record
Category: Voice Recorder / Transcriber
Say you are in a press conference or maybe in a meeting or a seminar where you don’t want to miss a beat. What do you do? Video recording isn’t always suitable but hey, voice recording won’t hurt anybody, right? What if I tell you, there’s an app that can’t just record audio but also transcribe it for you and sync it across all Apple devices via iCloud?
Just Press Record is that very app. It lets you record a session with unlimited recording time unless you run out of space. You can seek backward or forward in audio playback with adjustable speed. Its transcribe feature supports 30 languages allowing you to record everything and never miss any details whatsoever.
What’s better is that this best iOS app lets you make corrections in transcriptions in case it falters somewhere. Isn’t that amazing? And yes, it will be a great tool in your professional life since you can record and transcribe everything every time with a superior command over punctuation.
Download: Just Press Record
GetYourGuide
Category: Travel
I get it, this isn’t a new or a less discovered app, but it’s something you should give a try if you haven’t. GetYourGuide is a one-stop-shop for activities and tickets booking of over 75,000 experiences and counting. Visiting the Colosseum? What about a cruise around Prague? I heard there are a lot of tours around Europe or an outdoor adventure in Bali is really value for money.
GetYourGuide lets you book all these travel excursions allowing you to take advantage of the access of information when visiting a new place. Imagine you are in Dubai for the New Year (already done though) and you don’t know where and what to do? GetYourGuide takes over so that you can plan your itinerary better and enjoy it to the fullest.
Download: GetYourGuide
Hevy
Category: Fitness
It’s the ‘New Year’ and I know most of the people will have resolutions around their fitness and discipline (I am one of them). With Hevy, you can plan your fitness regime by perfecting your exercises through high-quality videos that perhaps help you to make your form better.
The app is a gym log tracker, and it lets you keep track of what exercises and repetitions you have done so far. You can mark your sets as warm-up, normal, failure, drop sets, and supersets based on their current state.
The app lets you check and copy your friend’s workouts as well so you can just repeat what’s working for them to find if it works for you as well. Undoubtedly one of the best iOS apps for January 2025, the app lets you customize rest times, calculate reps of strength exercises, create unlimited routine and above all, analyze the progression of your workout over time.
Download: Hevy
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Conclusion
These were just a few of the apps that I have found solace in using this month. We are sure that there are bigger fish to fry, these top 5 best iOS apps (Check December 2024 Edition) gives you a gist of just how useful these apps can be indeed. Let us know which app did make your day though.
