With thousands with Vision Pro pre-orders going live, many consumers are curious about Apple’s AR/VR headset and the apps that will arrive with the new device. While some come from companies you recognize — Disney+, Max, TikTok, Zoom, Reddit and more — there are plenty of independent developers releasing visionOS-optimized apps on Friday. So far, more than 600 apps and games have been designed for Apple Vision Pro, Apple said earlier this week.
From spatial puzzle games to an app where you can see interior design projects in 3D, here are some of the visionOS apps from smaller developers that users can try out when their headsets arrive. We will continue to add more to this list as they come out.
Games
Soul Spire
Image Credits: Soul assembly
Soul Spire is a spatial puzzle game developed exclusively for Vision Pro. Players must free the friendly little ghosts trapped in color-changing cubes.
Black box
Image Credits: Ryan McLeod
Black box is a unique spatial puzzle game where, instead of tapping or dragging, players must interact with puzzles – which appear as floating bubbles in the physical world – in other creative ways such as singing and spinning, among other methods that don’t involve use of their hands.
Ploppy Pairs
Image Credits: Tempuno/Michael Temper
Ploppy Pairs is a card matching game that can be played with friends and family via SharePlay during FaceTime calls. You can also move, scale and rotate the cards to appear on the coffee table in front of you or make them as big as your floor. Additionally, Michael Temper – the developer behind Ploppy – is launching a hidden object game called “Where is Ploppy?”.
Doodle drawing
Image Credits: Sindre Sorhus
Doodle drawing is a simple digital drawing pad where you can capture ideas and use your creativity to draw doodles with various brushes, pens, markers and colors.
MUSIC
It’s playing now
Image Credits: ModumHQ
It’s playing now is for all your music knowledge and discovery needs. Search for your favorite song to learn detailed artist information, see recommendations, try out 3D models of Grammys and other music awards, and even win trophies that can be displayed on a virtual shelf. Thanks to its ShazamKit integration, it can also recognize what song is playing in your environment, whether it’s a vinyl record or a TV show playing in the background.
Djay
Image Credits: Algoriddim
DJ app and AI mixer Djay aims to recreate the live DJ experience, with an interactive, hyper-realistic 3D turntable with controllable knobs and buttons, different environments/backgrounds with a futuristic look and a built-in music library.
Coil
Music video editor Coil allows you to create music videos and add visual effects as you perform by tapping visual patches.
AmazeVR Concerts
Image Credits: AmazeVR
AmazeVR Concerts allows you to watch live 3D footage of your favorite artist in virtual environments. Also available on Meta Quest, AmazeVR has previously hosted VR concerts with T-Pain, Megan Thee Stallion, Zara Larsson and UPSAHL.
Spatial Agreement
Spatial Agreement is a gesture-controlled synthesizer that acts as an instrument when you move your hands in the air. There are controls for waveform, reverb, distortion, chorus, scale breaks and more. In addition, Spatial Symphony includes a 3D waveform display, making the sound waves move towards you in 3D.
Productivity
MindNode
Image Credits: MindNode
MindNode is a visual brainstorming app that helps you sketch and organize notes in the form of thought bubbles that float around your virtual space.
Numerically
Image Credits: Synapse
Numerically is a dashboard app that lets you bring in your KPIs from over 90 tools like HubSpot and Google Sheets to see all your work in one place.
OmniPlan
Image Credits: The Omni Group
Project management tool OmniPlan presents an exclusive application for Vision Pro that allows you to visualize Gantt charts in a large window the size of your room. Omni Group is also bringing its other apps to the handset, including OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner.
JigSpace
Image Credits: JigSpace
JigSpace wants to enable anyone to show their ideas using 3D content, audio, video and text in spatial presentations. The company uses its collaboration with the Alfa Romeo F1 Team as an example (pictured above), bringing its C43 car to life-size built to scale.
Concentrate
Concentrate is a task management application that implements the Pomodoro method. You can start and stop timers and track your progress on various tasks. You can also place a small focus timer window on the side while browsing other apps. The app is free for the first year on Vision Pro. After that, users can pay an annual fee of $39.99 to use it on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac.
Image Credits: Meaningful things
Focused Work
If you don’t want any of the task management stuff, but just want to create timers, Focused Work is the app for you.
Image Credits: Focused Work
Utilities
Tizipizi
Image Credits: Axel Le Penec
Tizipizi is a time zone converter and world clock that allows you to convert the time to schedule a team meeting with staff around the world. The app also lets you compare availability with colleagues and personalize watches by assigning it to a specific event or renaming it to someone who lives in that time zone.
Navi
Image Credits: Good Snooze/Jordi Bruin
Navi translates conversations in real time, allowing you to see live subtitles during FaceTime calls.
World clock widgets
Well, the name says it all. Of world clock widgets for the Vision Pro device.
Image Credits: World clock widgets (opens in new window)
Education
Snack Study
Snack Study breaks the words you learn into space and then you have to match them to guess the correct word.
lessons
The lessons The app, which helps students track classes, assignments and grades, is launching its version for Vision Pro.
Image Credits: lessons
Other Fun Apps
Sky Guide
Image Credits: Fifth Star Labs
Sky Guide redesigned the constellation finder app for Apple Vision Pro, giving you an immersive experience designed for spatial computing, so you can imagine you’re looking at the stars inside your home. The app also uses gaze detection to aim a laser pointer at planets and stars, as well as gestures to zoom in or shoot constellations from the sky.
Planner 5D
Image Credits: Planner 5D
Planner 5D, a 2D/3D home improvement tool, brings its interior design features to Vision Pro. Users can view 3D design projects, customize objects using their eyes and hands, explore a large catalog of furniture and home decor, and experience 360 renders and panoramas in VR mode.
Elite Hoops
Image Credits: Elite Hoops
Elite Hoopsbasketball playmaking app, released the visionOS app so basketball coaches can design plays and defenses and see their drills come to life in their living rooms.
Hera
Since YouTube decided not to build an app for Vision Pro, indie developer Christian Selig, known for his third-party Reddit client Apollo, built one. The $5 Juno app uses YouTube’s built-in API to load videos into a webview and offers playback controls. (Read more about Juno here).
Image Credits: Christian Selig
Söka
Söka is a goal tracking app where you can create different bucket lists and track them. It lets you do things like mark countries you’ve visited on a virtual map, browse photos to add to your goal with the Unsplash integration, and discover new activities.
Image Credits: Söka
Meditation
Zenitzer
Vision Pro launches courtesy of Apple. But if you are looking for other apps, Zenitzer it has features like meditation timers, daily tracking and immersive sounds for your session.
