50 Incredible iPhone Apps to Relax Your Mind and Body

Monday, June 8th, 2009

If you have an iPhone, you probably depend on it to keep your contacts organized, your web access fast, your music on hand, and your maps, GPS and utility tools easy to find at any given moment. But if all that data starts to give you an anxiety attack, will your iPhone still be able to help you out? Of course it can. Check out our list of 50 incredible iPhone apps to relax your mind and body.

Exercises and Healing

These apps are designed to help you de-stress through optimum exercise moves.

1. Yoga Trainer PRO: Customize your yoga workout from this iPhone app.
2. Pocket Workout: Practice your calisthenic exercises along with this training app.
3. Workout: This app helps you balance high intensity exercises against periods of relaxation and cooling down.
4. Japanese massage: Get detailed illustrations of how to do shiatsu.
5. YOGA Instructor: This app is another yoga tool to help you learn poses and come up with a customized work out.
6. Sole Massage Guide: Learn how to give yourself an effective foot massage with this app.

Visual and Simulation

Sometimes visualization is the most effective strategy for regaining your composure and relaxing your mind and body. Use these apps to picture yourself somewhere peaceful and away from the people and situations gnawing at your sanity.

7. Distant Shore: This game centers around a desert island and simple tasks like collecting sea shells and sending messages in a bottle.
8. Blow Away: Use this app to view a peaceful image of a windmill blowing flowers.
9. iLava: View 3D blobs move around your iPhone screen just as they would in a lava lamp.
10. Trancit: Use Trancit to distract you from whatever’s worrying you with bright, swirly lights and colors.
11. iAquarium: iAquarium displays a colorful, peaceful tropical tank full of chilled-out fish.
12. MindWave Lite: This incredible app brings your brain to its optimum level for relaxing, learning and breaking bad habits.
13. iFish: This fishing simulator features 40 different locations in which to zone out.
14. Glyder: Play Glyder to simulate flying in a magical, relaxing land.

Audio

Here you will find play lists, nature sounds and music to help you drift away from your hectic day and fall asleep, focus, or just mellow out.

15. Music Healing: Music Healing plays soothing songs and pieces while streaming relaxing images to help you de-stress.
16. iheartradio: Find your favorite radio stations, including jazz and classical music.
17. Audiogasm: Audiogasm displays corresponding images to the songs you listen to for a cohesive relaxing experience.
18. SleepStream Music Spa: Start the soothing play lists during your lunch break, nap time or anytime you need to wind down.
19. Public Radio Tuner: Find relaxing public radio stations with this app.
20. iLoveNature: Learn about wild animals and the environment while listening to natural sounds that relax you, too.
21. Tranquil Alarm: Set up your alarm so that it wakes you up with sounds of wind chimes, wind in the trees or a violin.
22. Ambience: Ambience blocks out distracting, stressful noises by playing gentle, peaceful sounds from the jungle, a rainstorm, the ocean and more.
23. BBeats Lite: These beats lure you into a hypnotic trance and help you focus on positive affirmations and relaxation.
24. AmbiScience: These tracks are designed to boost brain power, help you visualize your tasks, and relax. Tracks include Angel Ascension, High Plains Asia and Pink Noise.
25. iAspirin: Take a virtual aspirin that manipulates brain waves to make you drowsy, relaxed, and free of pain.

Meditation and Sleep

Drift off to sleep or get help meditating with these useful apps for the iPhone.

26. Sleepmaker Waves Lite: Listen to relaxing ocean waves with this app.
27. White Noise: This app plays natural sounding noises like crickets chirping and waves to help you fall asleep or tune out your environment.
28. Daze: Hypnotize yourself with Daze, which uses the eye fixation technique to relax you.
29. Zen Bound: This mind game is challenging but also relaxing.
30. Meditate Now: Meditate Now can help you fall asleep, chill out, end emotional eating, find inner peace, ace a test and get over whatever’s troubling you.
31. Sleepmaker Storms: Sleepmaker Storms mimics the sound of heavy rain, heavy wind and more.
32. Sheep Counter: Count sheep along with this app to fall asleep faster.
33. aRelax Sound Sleep Lite: Set a timer and choose a relaxing sound or play list, like dogs barking, katydids, cave winds and more.
34. Tylenol PM Sleep Tracker: Customize your sleep experience by keeping a sleep log, picking your mood for the day, getting sleep tips and more.
35. Meditate Now 2: This thought coach app will help you with affirmations to end pain, center your chakras, breathe it out, anchor your spirit and more.

Mood

Use these apps to boost mood and help you study mood cycles so that you can better understand how to make yourself relax and feel more positive.

36. Happiness: This simple app shows you comforting images to make you smile and laugh.
37. Wired for Joy: Wired for Joy lets you log your emotions and helps you deal with your mood swings.
38. iPsychologist: Track your moods and let this tool help you define your behaviors and attitudes.
39. Mood Tracker Ver 1.0: Rate your mood and tune into your overall psychological health with this app.
40. MindPulse: Depending on your mood, this app generates a synchronized audio/visual experience to enhance meditation, sleepiness, relaxation or focus.
41. Dream: Ultimate: This app syncs audio and visual features to help you focus. Choose from rain, fire and water settings.
42. iTakeBreaks: This app vibrates at pre-set intervals to remind you to get up and take a stretch or snack break.
43. Cheer For Me: Cheer for Me is better than a pep talk. When you open your iPod or iPhone music, this app will cheer you on as you work out, run or relax.
44. iMood Tracker: This app is another mood tracker that lets you record and study the factors that influence mood.

Health

Relaxing isn’t just about feeling more positive and focused: relaxing is also key to good health. These apps will help you lower blood pressure, learn about holistic living and more.

45. Natural Cures: With Natural Cures, you can learn about natural health remedies that will help you feel better without going to the doctor.
46. Yogi Says: Touch the yogi to generate a new quote about holistic living.
47. Hypertension Awareness: Learn the signs of hypertension and high blood pressure and what you can do to minimize risk.
48. ChakraMania: Sync up your seven Chakras (located along the spine) to minimize stress, anxiety and pain. This app will show you how to do it.
49. iRest: This app helps you relax your head, throat and eyes.
50. BeatMonitor: This app can be used as an exercise partner to monitor your target heart rate. Or, you can use it to help you calm down and slow heart rate when you’re overanxious.