Lake

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Color your mind with this delightful adult coloring book

> Free; Pro sub $2.99/week; $9.99/month; $39.99/year > FROM Lake Coloring > FEATURES over 1500 exclusive drawings, 700 colors to choose from, personalized content, curated Book of the Week > NEEDS iPadOS 14.0 or later, iOS 14.0 or later

Image credit: Apple Inc./Lake Coloring

The Apple Pencil is one of the iPad’s best features, allowing you to have a realistic drawing experience directly on your Apple tablet. Mostly used by creatives to create wonderful art, those of us who may be a little less artistic often struggle to find a real use case for the Pencil. While the Apple Pencil excels for note-taking, you can also use it for coloring apps to get that creative spark without knowing how to draw. One such coloring app which is adver tised as “the world’s first coloring journal” is Lake and it may be the best mindfulness app you ever use on your iPad.

Pick from a range of designs.
Image credit: Lake Coloring

There are so many coloring apps on the App Store but Lake stands out from the crowd with its gorgeous app design and welcoming introduction. It’s a beautiful app that feels like a warm hug as soon as you launch it and one that once you start using you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. When you launch the app you create your first coloring book which allows you to detail your daily mood and feelings before choosing one of two free daily designs to color in. The app will provide you with a color palette based on your mood that allows you to reflect on your days the more you color. It’s a very clever concept that allows you to see your emotions in color. Had a bad day? You’ll see more purples in your palette. Happy? Lots of bright colors. Angry? Yep, your drawing for the day is mostly red. It’s a really intuitive way to feel more connected with your emotions and feels like an accessible first step into the world of mindfulness.

The free version of Lake gives you a new daily drawing from a small selection of options. If you want to access the large library of designs fro