Otherweb provides handpicked news using advanced AI models to detect and filter misinformation, propaganda and clickbait titles. Select your interests to receive suggested relevant news. Swipe right if you like the suggestion, and swipe left if you don’t. Every article is first summarized in a few sentences to help you decide if you want to read it. Otherweb learns your preferences from your usage habits. Each article has a ‘nutrition’ label — you decide to ‘consume’ it based on metrics like article tone, hate speech, offensive language, attention-grabbing headline, etc. Use the adjustable sliders to increase quantity for more content from a category, or prioritize quality to only read the best articles. Free for iOS and Android.

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Flora offers a green way to stay off your phone, clear to-do lists, and build life-changing habits. Flora blocks distracting apps in a pleasant way to help you focus on what’s important. Plant a seed in Flora, and as you progress towards your goals, the seed will grow into a healthy tree. If you leave Flora for social media or games while growing a tree, the tree dies! If you don’t, you’ll unlock new trees. Create a to-do item and set a reminder; tag your trees with a to-do item to track the progress. Grow trees regularly to earn a beautiful garden, with each tree a record of your hard work. Daily, weekly or monthly statistics help you improve your time-management skills. Challenge friends to plant trees together; if you successfully stay away from your phones together, each of you will win an additional tree. You can also chat and share your progress with each other. Flora’s opt-in Price and Care service lets you plant real trees if you kill or successfully grow a tree in the app.

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Otter is a recording and AI-based transcription service that works in real-time. Hit the record button during a conversation, meeting, podcast, webinar or lecture, and Otter produces a transcript a few minutes later. The app also features cross-conversation speaker identification, search tools, and in-app editing of transcripts. It can learn your voice so that it correctly labels you in each transcript. When permission is granted, Otter can join video meetings on a variety of conferencing apps. Start a recording inside a group to share the transcript live. An assistant, OtterPilot, can attend a meeting alongside you and record audio, write notes, automatically capture slides, and generate summaries. The notes OtterPilot produces are accompanied by a transcript and audio recording. Otter also syncs with your calendars to send reminders to record your meetings. Free for Android and iOS.

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Pocket Casts is an ad-free podcast app with a simple user interface. Your podcasts display as a list or grid; you can add filters like In Progress, Starred or Release Date. Advance the audio by 30 seconds or rewind by 10 seconds, create a queue of what to listen to next, and see stats on how long you’ve listened for. Download episodes, put them in a playlist, set a sleep timer, mark episodes as played, and archive them when finished. Searching for new podcasts by episode lets you find all the podcasts that talk about a specific topic. Other notable features include adjusting playback speed, ‘volume boost’ to make it easier to hear voices while reducing background music or noise, and ‘trim silence’ to eliminate long pauses. Users can sync subscriptions and playback position across multiple devices. Free for Android and iOS.

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Unpluq helps you reduce your screen time by breaking your habit of picking up your phone and endlessly scrolling. Recover your time and focus by making a conscious choice every time you want to access an app. Select the apps you don’t want to use and create a Schedule to automatically block them by day of the week and time. E.g. create a Productivity schedule wherein you block social media apps during study hours. Open blocked apps with a Distraction Barrier – a digital key that makes you think twice and ensures you really do want to open that app. E.g. take a walk, shake your phone, follow a random pattern by tapping, charge your phone, or use the NFC-powered Unpluq Tag physical key. Emergency Mode allows you access to apps in an emergency, and you can whitelist contacts, so notifications from them always get through.

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Scribbl offers a cool way to spruce up your images and videos with effects and animations. Draw striking scribble type animations over static pictures or tap on the animation of your choice and add it over videos. Change the colour, size and position of the animation, customize your art brush and edit your effects easily. Scribbl also lets you add a glow animation to achieve a neon sign or lightning effect. Export your animation in full HD quality for your social media posts and show off your creative side to your friends. You can even get your work featured in the app’s home page. Free for iOS and Android.

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Dawn is a minimalistic calendar app that aims to be your central point for remembering and getting things done. It lets you sync your calendars and reminder lists, and sort, categorize, and filter your events. Create unique Spaces to organize different aspects of your life — group tasks, create itineraries, manage projects, plan vacations, and more. Dawn’s Today page is an adaptive homepage that changes as your day goes by. Quickly add tasks to your day and check off tasks you’ve completed. Never miss a thing with multiple reminders. Pinpoint busy days with Calendar Heatmap and day summaries. Free for iOS.

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Seek by iNaturalist (a joint venture by the National Geographic Society and the California Academy of Sciences) connects people with nature.

The app features live image recognition — it scans its database of millions of wildlife observations while users have their camera open and before they take a photo. Once Seek identifies the species, it prompts users to take a photo, unlocking further features. It will also display a map of where the species is located near the user, and awards them badges that go towards completing various challenges.

With the user’s permission, the app sends collected data to iNaturalist’s global biodiversity database, helping scientists to track the health of the planet.

Free for iOS and Android.

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Getting enough sleep is an essential part of our health but sometimes it’s hard to turn your mind off at night. Restflix is designed to help users fall asleep faster and stay asleep through the night. It uses a technology called ‘binaural beats’ to harness the brain’s responsiveness to sound and help create a restful state.

The sleep streaming service offers over 20+ channels filled with hundreds of hours of soothing bedtime stories, music, meditations and dark screen videos that aim to ease anxiety and stress and fall into a peaceful slumber. Fall asleep to ocean sounds, rainstorms and the chirp of nature, along with visual aids. Even if you’re not having trouble sleeping, Restflix is a helpful tool for relaxation.

The app is compatible with iOS, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Roku and Android.

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The Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based browser designed to protect your privacy. It is billed as featuring “the most comprehensive local private browsing in any browser.”

It includes an ad blocker, HTTPS Everywhere, every browsing session in Incognito Mode, a File Vault to encrypt any files stored on your device, Fingerprinting Protection, a free Virtual Private Network and an Encrypted Connection to connect securely to websites, among others.

Other notable features include Audio Queue that converts a web post to an audio version. Once done, pop in your earphones, tap on Play, and voila, no more eye strain! Its built-in Video Downloader allows you to download videos and other snippets from web pages.

Free for iOS and Android.

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