Creative Cool Apps You Need to Download Right Now
Looking to spark a little more creativity, stay organized, or simply make your doomscrolling a little more productive?
We’ve put together a list of apps that can help you improve some of those random areas of everyday life — from keeping track of the movies you want to see to finally doing something with all those screenshots and saved posts sitting on your phone. And, of course, they’re aesthetic too.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration, a better way to stay connected with friends, or something new to learn, these apps are worth adding to your rotation. Who knows? You may just find your new favorite app to open.
Calling all movie lovers! Paradiso is a great option if you’re constantly adding movies to your Letterboxd watchlist and then forgetting to actually see them. The app brings cinemas and movie showtimes together in one place, making it easier to see what’s playing near you and find a time to finally check something off your list.
You can import your Letterboxd watchlist into Paradiso and see when those movies are playing at nearby cinemas. The app also has friend features, so you can see what your friends are interested in watching and share plans with them. There are also tools for saving movies and screenings, which makes it a little easier to turn your ever-growing watchlist into actual plans.
For anyone who loves going to the movies — especially for older films, special screenings, or movies you’ve been meaning to see forever — Paradiso is a fun way to make the whole process feel a little less overwhelming.
Cosmos is a great platform for inspiration of pretty much any kind. You can search by color, keyword, or image and find everything from textures and visual references to objects, photography, and other ideas worth saving. Once you find something you like, you can add it to your profile and build up your own collection of inspiration over time.
You can also follow friends and other people whose taste you like, making it easy to see what they’re currently discovering. If you prefer to keep your feed focused on human-created content, Cosmos also gives you the option to hide AI content. You can import content from elsewhere, so you don’t have to start from scratch when you already have a collection of saved inspiration somewhere else.
There are also collaborative collections, which can be useful when you’re working on a project or putting together ideas with someone else. Whether you’re planning a room makeover, figuring out a creative direction, or just collecting things you think look cool, Cosmos is a nice place to build out a visual reference library.
Paperless Post is a pretty neat idea for anyone who loves a good card or beautifully designed invitation but doesn’t always have the time to go out and find or make one.
Didn’t have time to grab a birthday card on the way to dinner? Maybe you’re celebrating a friend who lives across the country and want to send something a little more personal than a text. Paperless Post lets you send digital cards and invitations, with designs that range from simple and classic to more playful and customizable.
You can browse curated designs or personalize your own with different colors, photos, fonts, and other details. If you’re planning an event, you can also send invitations, collect RSVPs, and keep track of your guest list in the app.
It’s especially handy when you want something that feels a little more thoughtful than a standard text message without having to deal with buying a physical card, finding a stamp, or remembering to mail anything. And, as a nice bonus, Paperless Post is ad-free.
Retro is a social app centered around sharing photos with your actual friends rather than trying to keep up with a massive public feed. The app works as a weekly photo journal, giving you a place to share the pictures and little moments from your life with the people you actually know.
You can choose photos you’ve already taken and add them to your weekly profile, which makes it easy to turn those forgotten camera-roll pictures into something you’ll actually look back on. You can also create private group albums and use group messaging to share photos, videos, and notes with friends or family.
One of the best features is the option to turn your photos into physical postcards that can be printed and mailed to friends and family. Retro also creates photo recaps, giving you another way to revisit the things you’ve shared over time.
This could be especially fun for a friend group that doesn’t get together as often as they’d like. Everyone can share little pieces of their week without the pressure of keeping up with a traditional social media feed. It’s a simple way to stay in the loop and hold onto the everyday moments that might otherwise get buried in your camera roll.
If you live in a city and are constantly saving places you want to visit, restaurants you want to try, recipes you want to make, or random things you come across online, you probably know the struggle of trying to find that one thing you saved three weeks ago.
That’s where Albo comes in. It’s a universal save app that gives all of those links, videos, recipes, places, and other finds one organized home. Instead of having screenshots scattered throughout your camera roll or links buried in your notes app, you can save everything to Albo and sort it into collections that make sense to you.
You can also save location-based finds to a map, which is especially useful when you’re planning a trip or trying to figure out what you want to do around your own city. Collections can be shared with friends, too, making it easy to plan a trip, save ideas for a night out, or put together a list of places you all want to try.
Basically, it takes all those “I need to remember this” moments and gives them somewhere to actually live.
If you’re trying to cut back on doomscrolling but still want something to do on your phone, Imprint is worth checking out. The app is designed around visual, interactive learning, breaking down complex topics into shorter, more digestible lessons.
You can explore subjects ranging from psychology and philosophy to economics, science, technology, and more. Imprint also offers visual explanations of ideas from books and courses, making it a good option when you’re interested in learning something new but don’t necessarily have the time to sit down and read an entire book or take a full course.
The lessons are designed to be completed in short sessions, so you can fit one into a break, your commute, or whenever you find yourself reaching for your phone out of habit. You can also save and revisit ideas that you want to remember.
It’s not going to replace a full class or a good book, but it can be a much more interesting alternative to opening social media for the tenth time that day. You might even stumble across a topic you end up wanting to learn more about.
Worth a Download?
In today’s tech-focused world, there seems to be a new app for just about everything. Every once in a while, though, you come across one that makes you wonder, “Where has this been?”
If we’re going to spend so much time on our phones anyway, we might as well find apps that make that time feel a little more useful and keep the ideas flowing.
And who knows? Maybe one of these apps will even spark a creative conversation at your next brainstorming session at Task Up. Sometimes, a small tool or a fresh idea is all it takes to get a conversation moving in a new direction. So the next time you’re gathering with your team, try putting one of these apps to work; you might just find that your next great idea starts with something you downloaded for fun.
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