Best Creativity Apps & Games

Freeform

Bring your ideas to life

Free

This app provides a flexible canvas for bringing ideas to life. It supports various file types, drawing tools, and shape libraries for creative projects. Real-time collaboration with multiple users is also a key feature.

Blackbox

Play without touch

Free

This puzzle game challenges you to solve intricate problems without touching the screen. It utilizes minimalistic visual cues, sonic interfaces, and haptic feedback to guide you through unique challenges that require thinking outside the box. Discover a new way to interact with your device and prove your cleverness.

Shuffles by Pinterest

Unleash your creative energy

Free

This app allows users to create animated and still collages and moodboards using photos and a vast library of inspiration. Easily cut out objects, layer them, add animations and effects, and collaborate with friends on creative projects.

Brainsparker Creativity Coach

creative brainstorming prompts

Free

This app provides creative brainstorming prompts and coaching questions to help users overcome creative blocks. It offers tools for individuals and groups to generate fresh ideas, solve problems, and enhance creative thinking techniques.

Figment by Lumosity

Get Creative. Color. Compose

Free

Unleash your imagination and build creative confidence with daily interactive exercises. Track your progress in art, music, and writing through a personal gallery. Explore a wide range of creative activities designed to inspire and entertain.

Altering: Your creative ritual

Build a transformative habit

Free

Cultivate a daily creative habit to reduce stress, boost well-being, and enhance productivity. Engage in playful exercises designed to foster creative flow without judgment, strengthening your creative abilities and mental resilience. This app offers an active alternative to meditation, focusing on focused creation and idea generation.

Tayasui Sketches

Digital Drawing: Draw & Paint

Free

This app offers a realistic and versatile digital drawing experience with a wide array of tools, including watercolor brushes and a brush editor. It supports layers, cloud sync, and pressure stylus input for enhanced creativity on mobile devices.

Messier: Creativity Unlocked

Build a Creative Habit

Free

This app offers science-backed creative exercises designed to enhance problem-solving, overcome creative blocks, and manage stress through artistic expression. Connect with a community, track your progress, and discover new ways to bring fun and novelty into your life.

IdeaPad: Practice Creativity

To have good ideas, have many

Free

This app helps you develop your idea generation skills by encouraging daily practice. It provides a simple interface to record your thoughts without judgment, fostering creativity and problem-solving abilities. You can export your ideas to develop them further outside the app.

Muzi: Your Creativity Coach

Build Your Creative Practice

Free

This app helps you build a consistent creative practice by identifying your unique creative profile. It offers personalized guidance, missions, reflections, and meditations to foster inspiration, courage, discipline, and connection. Join a supportive community and make your best work.

Skillshare: Creativity Classes

Drawing, Photography, Design

Free

Access thousands of online courses taught by industry professionals to develop your creative skills. Learn drawing, animation, design, photography, and more at your own pace. Offers free classes and a premium subscription for unlimited access.

HowTo - Uniting Creativity

Social platform for all makers

Free

A social platform for creators to share their projects, from woodworking to baking. Connect with a community, discover new ideas, and share your creative journey through photos, videos, and 'Snaps'. Monetize your creations by linking to tools and equipment.

Easl: Creative Meditation

A daily 5-minute practice.

Free

Engage in a daily five-minute practice combining guided meditation with creative prompts for drawing or photography. Designed by experts, it helps reduce stress, spark wonder, and encourage authentic self-expression without requiring artistic skill.

Creative Whack Pack

by Creative Think

Free

This app offers 100 interactive creativity strategies to stimulate innovative thinking. It's designed to help users break free from habitual thought patterns and explore new perspectives through illustrated cards, stories, examples, and questions.