Author: Mihir Patkar

When it comes to productivity, I’m not a fan of consolidating different tasks into single apps. If you want to keep a track of what you need to do, use a to-do list app like Tick. If you want to track your achievements, use an app like Datalove. And if you want to form better habits, then Clever Routines is the way to go. Routines and habits are about regularity. They’re actions you repeatedly perform, but on some sort of schedule. Clever Routines wants to make make it easy to set and follow up on these routines. The app uses…

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If ever you wanted to see how great art can make you fall in love with an old concept, grab Kami from the App Store. This game is really all about the execution of a tried-and-tested style of gameplay. You’ve probably played Flood-It! or one of its knock-offs — games where you have to turn a grid of squares into one colour in a set number of moves, by turning any tile into a different colour that matches it with adjoining tiles. Well, Kami takes that concept and beautifies it. Kami is Japanese for paper. So each ‘tile’ is a…

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The App Store is full of to-do list apps and we’ve featured quite a few of them here on Beautiful Pixels, such as the recent Tick. But to-do lists don’t always work. As Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich says, it can be healthier and more productive to maintain a ‘done list’ that keeps track of your achievements rather than the things you are yet to do. And that’s what Datalove is all about — tracking all the things you have done and turning them into beautiful statistics. Datalove has a gorgeous, very slick interface that lets you either automatically track or…

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