Find and support Black-owned restaurants in all major U.S. cities with EatOkra—just search by name, location, or type of cuisine. Husband-and-wife duo Anthony and Janique Edwards created EatOkra in 2016, driven by a love of food and their desire to support Black-owned businesses.

After spinning his wheels working on automotive apps, Neil Jones (aka Aerial_Knight) came up with the concept for Never Yield and followed his game-making dream to the finish line. Race through futuristic Detroit in this high-voltage twist on infinite runners, vaulting through windows, jumping over cars, and sliding beneath heavily armed drones.

History comes alive with Kinfolk’s digital monuments of pivotal figures, like Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass. View them in AR to learn about their unique stories. The app was created to “make Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer history empowering and interactive through imagination and play with community,” founder Idris Brewster says.

Family-friendly finance app Goalsetter helps kids set concrete goals. Parents pay allowances through the app, and others can contribute money or gift cards for milestones and accomplishments. Goalsetter founder and CEO Tanya Van Court was inspired to create the app after her daughter said she only wanted two things for her ninth birthday: a bike and enough money to start an investment account. “I thought, ‘If we can get every kid to say that, we can change the world,’” she says.

In the App Store Award–winning adventure Dot’s Home, you’ll open a time-traveling portal in your grandmother’s world—and learn about the history of housing injustice in the process. Developer Rise-Home Stories Project makes multimedia experiences (including books, podcasts, and games) that focus on how racial inequality impacts housing and communities.

Built for Black communities around the world, the social network Spill puts a bold, visual spin on online conversation. Each post beautifully blends a few words with a single image, GIF, or video. Founded by DeVaris Brown and Alphonzo Terrell, Spill was “designed to be a safer, more rewarding, and more fun social experience for Black, Queer, and other culture-driving communities around the world.”

BAFTA-nominated indie developer Xalavier Nelson Jr. didn’t just write El Paso, Elsewhere’s gripping neo-noir story of love, addiction, and sacrifice—he also voiced the main character and performed the game’s original rap songs.

Storia is a free (and ad-free) journaling app that uses AI to weave together your daily thoughts and reflections to provide big-picture perspective. Elizabeth Uviebinené, coauthor of Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, created Storia to help “the dreamers and the doers connect with their future self, process emotions, and find gratitude.”

Make room in your self-care toolbox for Exhale, an app full of guided meditations, created with Black women in mind. Founder and CEO Katara McCarty created Exhale as a space for Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color to see themselves in the world of self-care and find resources rooted in their experiences.

The learning app Nkenne teaches 14 African languages. “I had not been given the access of learning my native language of Igbo—and as a team, we realized there were many people who shared that same story,” says CEO and founder Michael Odokara-Okigbo. Mastering the language has had a big personal impact too. “I feel more connected to my heritage and my people, and I feel elevated as a human,” he adds.

Founder Kaya Thomas created Milk Diary after her own experience as a first-time mother. Built with advice from lactation consultants, the app helps parents manage their babies’ feeding journeys, from scheduling with reminders to tracking feeding across caregivers.