Many apps and resources are being offered for free by companies to make our time in isolation less boring, and to encourage us to stay indoors. This means there a plenty of ways to stay entertained without having to spend a penny!

Free Fitness resources:

  • Joe Wicks – has PE lessons on his YouTube channel every day.
  • Core Power Yoga – are hosting daily live yoga classes for free.
  • 305 Fitness – have organised two live workouts at 12pm and 6pm every day.
  • Nike Training Club – is a free app which has over 185 free and varied workouts on it.
  • Rumble – is a boxing studio offering a variety of free classes over Instagram live.
  • Tai Chi Foundation – Is a website offering free live classes throughout the week.
  • Kemtai – is a new AI free fitness app that actually sees you.

 

Books to read:

  • Amazon – has made a range of eBooks free to be downloaded
  • Apple Books – are offering a free book to its users
  • Kobo – are also offering free eBooks to their users
  • Audible – no longer require a subscription, so you can now get free access to hundreds of audiobooks.
  • Dark Horse – has made many of their comic books available online for free
  • BookBub – has free eBooks in over 20 different genres.
  • Google Books – has a range of free books, as well as a choice of books to buy.

 

Virtual Tours:

 

Cooking Classes:

  • The Athenian – has an interactive live-streamed class every Saturday at 7pm.
  • Bread Ahead Online Baking – on Instagram Live at 2pm every day they will be sharing baking lessons.
  • Instructables – have free beginner-level cooking classes available on their website.
  • Dinner Tonight – have free classes available on how to make quick and healthy meals.
  • Massimo Bottura – is hosting an Instagram series called ‘Kitchen Quarantine’.
  • Seamus Mullen – is using Instagram to cook live at 6:30 pm Mon-Sat.

 

Music Lessons:

  • The Benedetti Foundation – are uploading free daily music lessons.
  • Justin Guitar – has thousands of free lessons to help you learn guitar.
  • Fender – are offering 3 months of free lessons to the first million people that sign up.
  • MusicTheory – have free online lessons available to help you learn all about music.
  • Springboard – is a website with dozens of free music courses, ranging in genres and difficulty.
  • Flowkey – is a free app that can help you learn the songs you love on piano.

 

Free Games:

  • PlayStation – have new ‘Play at Home’ initiative that lets users download two games for free
  • Xbox – has similar ‘Free Play Days” programme, allowing users a minimum of two free games every weekend.
  • Epic Games – are offering plenty of PC games for free
  • Houseparty – is an app that lets users talk to friends and play in-app games with each other.
  • Origin – also has a few games that are free to play.
  • Microsoft – has a range of free games available too.

 

Meditation and Mindfulness Resources:

  • Headspace – is an app with a free collection of guided meditations and movement exercises.
  • Insight Timer – is an app with over 30,000 free guided meditations.
  • Calm – is an app full of free exercises, kindness prompts, and sheets to print out and colour in.
  • Simple Habit – is perfect for busy people as it’s sessions only take 5 minutes.
  • Twinkl – has plenty of mindfulness colouring sheets available for free.
  • TRICYCLE – are offering three free live meditation sessions every week.

 

Free Education Resources:

  • The Open University – have a variety of free online courses
  • Duolingo – can help you learn a language for free
  • Future Learn – has plenty of short free courses available for you to try.
  • Vision2learn – has a variety of free courses available to help boost employability.
  • Alison – is a website that also has lots of free courses on offer.
  • Google – is also offering a selection of free digital courses, with some including a certification.