Why This New Trend In Mobile Apps Could Change Your Life

The pace and challenges of life seem to move at more and more frenetic speed each week so we seem to turn more to mobile apps to help us do everything from ordering food to hiring a car to finding a housekeeper for the day all in a flash. But a new strain of apps seems to reflect a more nurturing aspect that many are seeking in their rather than that of simple utility, and they are growing in popularity.

Call it, perhaps, a by-product of the “slow...