Apple Vision Pro: Top Indie Apps and Games to Elevate Your Experience

Immerse Yourself in the World of visionOS Apps

As the Vision Pro hits the market, users are eager to explore the innovative AR/VR headset from Apple and the apps that come with it. While well-known companies like Disney+, Max, TikTok, Zoom, and Reddit have their offerings, independent developers have also created a range of visionOS-optimized apps that are worth checking out.

Unleash Your Inner Gamer

Soul Spire

Image Credits: Soul Assembly

Soul Spire is an exclusive spatial puzzle game for the Vision Pro, where players must rescue friendly ghosts trapped inside color-changing cubes.

Blackbox

Image Credits: Ryan McLeod

Blackbox is a one-of-a-kind spatial puzzle game where players interact with floating bubble puzzles using creative methods like singing and rotating, rather than tapping or swiping.

Ploppy Pairs

Image Credits: Tempuno/Michael Temper

Ploppy Pairs is a card-matching game that can be enjoyed with friends and family via SharePlay during FaceTime calls. Players can manipulate the cards’ size and position, making them appear on the coffee table or as large as the floor. The developer, Michael Temper, is also launching a hidden-object game called “Where is Ploppy?”

Doodle Draw

Image Credits: Sindre Sorhus

Doodle Draw is a straightforward digital drawing pad for brainstorming ideas and sketching doodles using various brushes, pens, markers, and colors.

Tiny Fins

Image Credits: Ditached GmbH

Tiny-Fins is an adorable underwater game where players guide a school of fish through bubble rings while avoiding enemies like sharks and squid.

Loóna

Loóna is a calming spatial puzzle game that involves assembling 3D dioramas that transform into animated scenes.

Wylde Flowers

Cozy gamers can enjoy tending to their virtual garden right on their living room coffee table with Revolutionizing Productivity and Creativity with Vision Pro Apps

Immersive Music Creation and Performance

Djay, an AI-powered DJ app, brings the live DJ experience to life with its interactive, hyperrealistic 3D turntable. Users can control knobs and buttons, choose from various futuristic environments, and access a built-in music library.

Spool, a music video editor, allows users to create captivating videos and add visual effects in real-time by tapping on visual pads as they perform.

AmazeVR Concerts offers an immersive experience where users can watch live-action 3D footage of their favorite artists in stunning virtual environments. The app has previously hosted VR concerts with renowned artists such as T-Pain, Megan Thee Stallion, Zara Larsson, and Upsahl.

Image Credits: AmazeVR

Spatial Symphony, a gesture-controlled synthesizer, transforms hand movements into captivating sounds. Inspired by the theremin, users can control waveform, reverb, distortion, chorus, and scale snapping, while a three-dimensional waveform visualization adds depth to the experience.

Animoog Galaxy combines a virtual synthesizer with generative visuals and audio, blending seamlessly with the user’s environment. With over 120 presets, including a futuristic sci-fi theme, users can play and modulate sounds using various physical gestures.

Image Credits: Moog

tappr.tv empowers users to create mesmerizing laser shows with their fingers while listening to music. Users can also choreograph dances and share them with the community.

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Enhancing Productivity and Collaboration

MindNode, a visual brainstorming app, helps users outline and organize notes using thought bubbles that float in their virtual space, fostering creativity and clarity.

Image Credits: MindNode

Numerics, a dashboard app, consolidates KPIs from over 90 tools, such as HubSpot and Google Sheets, allowing users to view all their tasks in one centralized location.

Image Credits: Cynapse

OmniPlan, a project management tool, offers a dedicated Vision Pro app that enables users to visualize Gantt charts in a large window the size of their room. The Omni Group is also bringing its other apps, including OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner, to the headset.

Focus is a task management app that utilizes the Pomodoro technique to help you stay on track with your tasks. With the ability to start and stop timers and monitor your progress, Focus also allows you to keep a small timer window visible while using other apps. The app is free for the first year on Vision Pro, after which users can opt for an annual subscription of $39.99 to access it across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

Image Credits: Meaningful Things

Focused Work: Simple Timer Creation

For those who prefer a straightforward timer app without the task management features, Focused Work is the perfect choice.

Image Credits: Focused Work

Things 3: Comprehensive To-Do List Management

Image Credits: Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG

Things is a comprehensive to-do list app that allows you to interact using your eyes, hands, and voice. You can rearrange windows or hide the sidebar to concentrate on a single list at a time.

Parchi: Voice-to-Sticky-Note Conversion

Image Credits: Squircle Apps LLP

Parchi is a user-friendly note-taking app that converts voice recordings into virtual yellow sticky notes.

Utility Apps for Apple Vision Pro

Tizipizi: Time Zone Conversion and World Clock

Image Credits: Axel Le Pennec

Tizipizi is a time zone converter and world clock that simplifies scheduling meetings with team members across the globe. The app enables you to compare availability with colleagues and customize clocks by assigning them to specific events or individuals in different time zones.

Navi: Real-Time Conversation Translation

Image Credits: Good Snooze/Jordi Bruin

Navi provides real-time conversation translation, displaying live captions during FaceTime calls.

World Clock Widgets: Straightforward Time Zone Display

As the name suggests, World Clock Widgets offers a simple solution for displaying various time zones on the Vision Pro.

Educational Apps for Apple Vision Pro

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Immersive Apps for the Apple Vision Pro

Insight Heart: Explore the Human Heart in 3D

Insight Heart offers a captivating experience where users can interact with a floating 3D model of the human heart. The app allows you to dissect the heart and examine various components, such as the cardiac skeleton and myocardium. It also showcases visualizations of different heart conditions, including heart attacks and atrial fibrillation. The SharePlay feature enables users to invite others to a multi-user session via FaceTime, making it an excellent tool for virtual lectures.

Discover the Wonders of the Universe

Image Credits: Fifth Star Labs

Sky Guide has reimagined its constellation finder app for the Apple Vision Pro, providing an immersive stargazing experience from the comfort of your home. The app utilizes gaze detection to aim a laser pointer at celestial objects and supports hand gestures for zooming in and pulling constellations from the sky.

Design Your Dream Home in 3D

Image Credits: Planner 5D

Planner 5D, a popular home improvement tool, has brought its interior design features to the Vision Pro. Users can view and customize 3D design projects using their eyes and hands, explore an extensive catalog of furniture and décor, and experience renders and 360-degree panoramas in VR mode.

Unleash Your Inner Artist

Da Vinci Eye’s AR Art Projector allows artists to project a transparent image or stencil onto any surface, simplifying the process of tracing, sculpting, or cutting. For example, users can project an image onto a wall to outline a large mural they’re painting. The app also offers editing features like image filters and the ability to deconstruct photos.

Elevate Your Basketball Coaching

Image Credits: Elite Hoops

Elite Hoops, the basketball play creation app, has launched its visionOS app, enabling basketball coaches to draw up plays and defenses and visualize their drills in their living rooms.

Enjoy YouTube Videos on Your Vision Pro

Since YouTube decided not to build an app for the Vision Pro, indie developer Christian Selig, known for the third-party Reddit client Apollo, created one instead. The $5 Juno app uses YouTube’s embed API to load videos in a web view and provides playback controls. (Read more about Juno here).

Image Credits: Christian Selig

Track Your Goals and Bucket Lists

Söka is a goal tracker app that allows you to create and track various bucket lists. You can mark countries you’ve visited on a virtual map, browse and add photos to your goals using Unsplash integration, and discover new activities.

Callsheet becomes invaluable for accessing information about movies and TV shows. Powered by data from The Movie Database, Callsheet enables users to effortlessly search for details about the cast and crew. It also offers a feature to conceal character names, episode titles, and thumbnails to prevent spoilers.

Mindfulness and Meditation Apps

Although Vision Pro comes with Apple’s built-in Mindfulness app, there are alternative options available. Zenitizer provides features such as meditation timers, daily tracking, and immersive sounds to enhance your meditation sessions.

Lungy: Spaces offers a variety of interactive breathing exercises, accompanied by soothing music. Users can engage with floating objects and play virtual instruments within the app.

Immersive Soundscapes and Visuals

Image Credits: Odio

The wellness app Odio offers immersive spatial soundscapes, combining artistic animations with ambient sounds to help users escape from everyday distractions. Odio supports sharing favorite soundscape sessions through SharePlay and experiencing 3D audio using head-tracking-enabled devices like AirPods Pro and Beats Fit Pro.

Endel presents an audiovisual experience where users can interact with gesture-controlled particles of light resembling various natural phenomena such as shooting stars, a warm sunset, or rays. The soundscapes in Endel adapt in real-time based on factors like time, weather, the user’s heart rate, and location, creating a personalized and immersive experience.