Awesome Apps For When You're Bored
When boredom strikes the first thing most of us do is scroll aimlessly through our phones or tablets. But download these 10 apps to your device and you can wave boredom goodbye!
1. StumbleUpon
Stumbleupon is a content discovery tool personalised to your tastes. Just choose the categories you are interested in, from animals to tech, from celebrities to DIY, narrow down the topics and Stumbleupon will do the rest. You will get recommendations of cool content from all over the web. Expect articles, videos, memes, lists, images and tips – page after page of brilliant things to read, watch and do, keeping you occupied for hours.
2. Secret message
When you’re bored you may text your friends for a chat. But where’s the novelty in that? Turn your conversation into a game with Secret Message. Your message is hidden in the form of a word search, which you send to your friend to decipher, and vice-versa.
3. 10,500+ Cool Facts
Any app that relieves boredom and teaches you cool things is a sure winner. This app does what it says on the tin – it is a collection of thousands of cool facts which you swipe through. Surprisingly addictive – you’ll often find that without realising it you’ve spent half an hour flicking through the interesting facts! As well as filling some time when you’re alone, this app will also make you a super interesting conversationalist; cool facts are great ice breakers, and help to fill a lull in a conversation.
4. Paper Toss
Ever been fed up with work so you’ve scrunched up your paper and tried to shoot it into the bin? Well this app lets you do just that, but without the wasted paper and with a little more discretion! With a fan blowing in at varying speeds to send the paper off course, this game is not as easy as it looks. This addictive game will keep your boredom away as you’ll find you keep saying to yourself “just one more try” as you aim to beat your record.
5. Hair MakeOver
When bored, lots of us start playing around with our appearance – trying different outfits, make up looks, and hair styles. But if you’re thinking of a new hair style stop before you chop and try it out first. Avoid the risk of a style that doesn’t suit by using this app. Wondered what you’d look like blonde? With a fringe? How about bald? Upload a photo of yourself, and try on loads of different hair styles to see which is the one for you.
6. Vine
The saying goes: “When boredom strikes, creativity takes over”. Vine is an app full of creativity. Vine is a video sharing app but the videos are 6 seconds long and play on a continuous loop. The brevity of the vines make them all the more creative as people must find ways to get their message, idea, or humour across in only 6 seconds. Vine is full of cool animations, music performances and stop-motion videos so if you’re bored, download vine and see what cool videos you could create that are only 6 seconds long.
7. Netflix
If you’re bored and have a lot of time to kill, Netflix is the one for you! Netflix is the biggest subscription service for watching movies and TV online, and you can download it as an app too. Just subscribe to the service and you have access to thousands of television episodes and movies. Watch your favourite movies or discover new series; instead of being bored you’ll soon be wishing you had even more time to kill, so you can watch another episode.
8. Temple Run
Looking for games to play when you are bored? In Temple Run you can play an Indiana Jones-type explorer who, having stolen sacred treasure from a temple is being chased by demonic apes. By tilting your device, and swiping left, right, up and down, you swing from ropes, jump over canyons, slide under branches, and ride mine carts, to collect coins and escape the apes. The game is never ending, so you play until you fall off the ruins or get caught by the apes, and making you desperate to beat your score.
9. Buzzfeed
Buzzfeed was built with the ‘bored-at-work’ audience in mind, making it perfect for this list! Most famous for its humorous ‘listicles’ made up of gifs, such as ’26 Dogs Who Hate Their Halloween Costumes” and “50 People You Wish You Knew In Real Life”; Buzzfeed also has a whole host of quizzes such as “Which Pop Diva Are You?” and “Which Country Should You Move To?”, as well as more serious journalism and breaking news.
10. 101-in-1 Games
This app contains 101 bored games to play (plus a new addition of an extra 39) all in one app. From quizzes and puzzles, to racing and sports games, classic arcade games, and fast paced action games; pretty much every category is covered. With so many games to choose from, even if you get tired of one, you have over a hundred others to play, keeping boredom at bay!
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