Apps to Help you Meditate and Journal

Written by Noyonika Sircar

When life has become fast-paced and the pandemic has surged digitally, mindfulness has tossed to the other side of life. Caged in front of the screens, staying at home in caught in anxious anticipation of the next announcement and not meeting a single soul, surely our mental health has traded with Zoom. For many reasons, taking time out for self seems unattainable. In a digital world, this somehow has charted an easier path. Believe me, meditation and journaling are the most underrated activity. It can boost your productivity and at the same time storm you with fresh perspectives, casting a spell of peace. Understanding the gravity of the strange times, BMG brings you, the best apps for journaling and meditation.

How do I meditate?
No worries if you haven’t done it before. Meditation promotes mindfulness and takes away anxiety and stress. There is no right or wrong way to meditate. When you are dealing with overwhelming thoughts and emotions and combating some insurmountable amount of anxiety, the best step to calm yourself is with meditation. Meditation organizes your chain of thoughts and keeps you tied to the present. Here is a list of the three best mobile apps that will ease your process:-

1. Calm
The most popular app is celebrated for reasons to empower the users for incorporating more meditative practices in their routine. There are programs catered for handling anxiety issues and the same time some pertinent daily life issues like- lack of sleep, stress,  along with an audio guide for you to have a concrete mental guide. This app also touches every sense, setting the tone for more than one reason to engage in meditation, away from the chaos of your current surroundings.

2. Insight Timer
This app has a huge library with a plethora of content to pick from; 80,000 or more free content for you to de-stress, sleep, heal tension and instill some fresh perspectives and creativity. Furthermore, this app has an inbuilt progress tracker that keeps a record of your daily activity and engagement, which will earn you badges for the time you are meditating.

3. The Mindfulness App
If you are previously introduced to meditative practices and you are not looking for guides, this might come to your rescue. This allows you to create a custom sessions for flexible periods of time, the ideal way to pair your daily life chores and activities with meditative exercises.


How do I journal?
If you brought up before that you want to journal digitally, I would’ve never bought it. But along the lines of transformation, journaling can be your clarion call when you find it difficult to pen down your thoughts after a long day. Thanks to BMG, as we can take you through the best apps that can help you journal your days

1. Journify
Like you talk to Siri, Alexa, and Google, Journify believes you can talk and fill your journal entries. Easy, isn’t it?

2. Swipe Journal
Modifying the traditional experience, here you can pick the bars or categories of what you want to journal, and becomes a multiple-choice test. You don’t need to write with this app, instead, you tap options and choose between several categories, cards to track. There is a wide array of categories and each category has multiple custom categories.

3. Momento
As the name goes by, this app seals all your favorite moments. If you have a habit of posting on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook every day, this app brings together all the experiences in the shape of a journal. You can keep a digital achievement of all the shared posts and all the interactions boosting your online interactions. You can also write a journal like a typical journal notebook app, as you prefer.