There’s power in connecting with others around a shared cause. Explore these standout apps to find your community, make an impact, broaden your horizons, and prioritize your wellness.

‣ Inspired to meet people IRL? Browse Meetup to find events near you, including litter clean-up crews or political discussions with neighbors. With Meetup for Organizers, you can create your own group.

‣ With Fable, join book clubs like “Discover Latinx Literature” and “Sapphic and Proud” to get in the mix with fellow bookworms who share your interests.

‣ Created for members of the LGBTQ+ community, the social platform Lex hosts a range of in-app groups, including Black Neurodivergents and Black Queer Group.

‣ More apps to impact your local community and beyond:

‣ Two ways to fight waste at a local level: Too Good To Go helps you buy unsold food from local restaurants at a discount. And with Olio, trade items you no longer need with neighbors.

‣ 5 Calls stays on top of the latest news from Congress and puts info on upcoming bills in one place. Select a cause you support, then tap a representative you want to contact. The app will let you know how to reach out to their office—and will even provide a suggested script to make your voice heard.

‣ Not sure what you can do to prevent climate change? Find inspiration with chilli’s daily notifications, which suggest actions like sending emails and commenting on social media to influence key decision-makers.

‣ Support marginalized communities by being intentional about where you shop. These apps make it easy to find food, services, and culturally specific products.

‣ Round up the cost of your Lyft rides to send the difference to organizations like the ACLU and Everytown for Gun Safety.

‣ With the oral-history project StoryCorps, encourage friends and family with opposing political views to record honest interviews with each other that will later be archived in the Library of Congress.

‣ Ground News compares coverage of a topic across different news outlets and rates the political bias of each publication. Boring Report strips its news feed of sensationalist headlines to deliver just the relevant facts.

‣ Explore audiobook favorite Audible for collections like “Trans and nonbinary poetry” and “South Asian historical fiction.”

‣ Dive deep into important moments of U.S. history with video lectures by top professors in The Great Courses Plus. Or explore history lessons in Khan Academy’s Arts and Humanities section.

‣ Only have a few minutes? Learn on the go with book summaries and guides. Unpack vulnerability and other lessons with Blinkist’s “6 Powerful Lessons from Brené Brown” guide, or learn from Headway’s summary of Anna Malaika Tubbs’ book The Three Mothers, which explores events through the eyes of the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.

‣ Stay informed with these news apps made by and for underrepresented communities.

‣ Headspace’s “For Challenging Times” and “Shine” collections offer meditations to help you process injustice and tragedy. Browse Calm for collections like “Celebrating AAPI Creators” and “Belonging & Acceptance.”

‣ With the wellness app Alkeme, find culturally compassionate support for intergenerational trauma, systemic racism, anxiety, and microaggressions through the lens of the Black experience.

‣ Open’s nervous-system reset courses are perfect when you feel out of sync with yourself. Or enjoy a moment of mindfulness with the app’s beautiful breathwork timer.

‣ Voda’s Queer Joy collections are full of breathwork exercises and affirmations to help you explore your identity.

‣ When you head outdoors for your next walk, consider listening to the Time to Walk series on Apple Fitness+. You’ll be joined by figures like Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, who developed ocean policy for the Environmental Protection Agency and cofounded a climate-change solution organization.