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LOS ANGELES — Be calm.
Apple's best for iPhone app of the year is all about meditation, abatement music and accepting to sleep.
Screenshot of the Calm app (Photo: Calm)
The app is alleged Calm, and it's been out back 2012, accession 14 million downloads and 40,000 new users daily. Beyond the app, Calm has created a mini-industry that's additionally produced a accompaniment book, "Calm the Mind, Change the World," and a new $29.99 "sleep mist" artefact that is meant to be sprayed on the pillow to aid sleep, in affiliation with a bedtime adventure from the app.
Apple said that Calm accustomed above updates this year that "expanded their across considerably, demography on capacity such as amenity for accouchement and bigger sleep."
Last year's app of the year champ was Prisma, which transforms accustomed iPhone photos into artwork in the appearance of the masters of the art world. In 2015 it was Periscope, the Twitter-owned app that helped avant-garde alive adaptable streaming, afore Facebook got in and affected it as Facebook Live.
The Calm app is all about adequate visuals and sounds (which can be adapted to copse in the fireplace, abounding waters, black crickets and more) to calm you down, and a best of three tabs: music, meditate and sleep.
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Meditation offers you altered programs, (7 canicule of Calm, 7 canicule of Sleep, Breathe) which advise the "basics of mindfulness," audio programs which affection a narrator over adequate images.
For sleep, Calm offers bedtime belief by notable storytellers, such as Stephen Fry, Tamara Levitt and Anna Acton. The music tab offers new-age appearance electronica set to images of sunsets, cityscapes, waterfalls and ocean seas, forth with accustomed water.
The app's antecedent programs are free, but added 7 and 21-day programs targeting stress, anxiety, self-esteem, beatitude and acknowledgment are accessible on a cable basis, $12.99 monthly, or if you accede to a year's commitment, $4.99 monthly.
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Apple's aces for iPad app of the year is Affinity Photo, which brings able photo-editing techniques to the tablet, for a collapsed fee of $19.99. Apple said it chose the app, which came to the iPad in May 2017, because it offered iPad users accoutrement "previously begin in big-ticket software that about appropriate a master's amount to use."
In games, Splitter Critters, a beautiful $2.99 racing project, got the nod for iPhone games, with The Witness ($9.99) addle bold for iPad as the favorite.
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