Here’s Some Apps to Help You Achieve Your New Year Resolution
Year in, year out, we make resolutions to better ourselves in terms of getting rid of poor habits, picking up good ones and learning to manage our lives better etc.
And what better way to manage your life goals than your smartphone. So in this post, we’ve compiled some pretty useful apps to help out with your New Year resolutions. Some feature productivity enhancement traits, others help you to watch your finances and your health, and if you have a habit to kick, there’s an app for that too. Here’s to a fruitful 2020 ahead. Onward to the list!
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Save some money
Can’t seem to save enough money to buy yourself all those awesome geeky stuff you really must have? Looks like you need your very own financial advisor, like the ones below.
Toshl Finance
This all-in-one finance manager syncs with all your devices with an account on their website. You can track your expenses and view your budget to ensure you’re not overspending. It also has the option to add bills so that you get reminded of those due dates.
App is available for: iPhone
Concur
For a more business-focused app, Concur can help keep track of and manage travel expenses. Set different currencies and manage hotels or flight plans for overseas travel. You can then generate an expense report when you return home.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
Expensify
With Expensify, you can sync your credit cards and bank accounts to track purchases with real-time updates. It’ll be able to track transactions via eReceipts; otherwise you can take pictures of paper receipts, and with that information be able to generate a expense report.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
HelloWallet
HelloWallet allows you to track multiple bank account balances. It also gives you a summary of your budget progress and can average out your spending trends based on categories you’ve created.
App is available for: iPhone
Mint.com Personal Finance
Mint allows you to add multiple type of bank accounts to your account on their website. You can add your personal bank, credit, loan and retirement account to Mint and it’ll automatically retrieve transactions as you make them.
App is available for: iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Bills Monitor
With Bills Monitor, you can easily categorize and manage your bills. You can view weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly reports on your spending in each category and view due dates on the in-app calendar.
App is available for: iPhone and Apple Watch
Shoeboxed Receipt Tracker
If you want to keep track of your spending through receipts, Shoeboxed allows you to take pictures of your receipts where it will automatically extract the store and expenditure information.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
Visual Budget
Visual Budget allows you to manage expenses of different accounts simultaneously and sort them into different groups at the same time for easier management. You can also set recurring transactions such as your Internet or phone bill.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
Eat and live healthier
Not too long ago, we featured health-related apps you can download on your iPhone. Here are more apps to add to that list.
Sworkit – Circuit Training Workouts
For easy to do home workouts, Sworkit comes with a few moves and instructions for both strength training and yoga. You then set the amount of time you want to work out for, and it’ll provide a simple workout program for you.
App is available for: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
Whole Foods Market Recipes
If eating healthy is the goal of your New Year, then this app will give you the information and recipes you need to start eating healthy. It features diary free, fat free, gluten free and many other healthier-than-usual recipes to suit your needs.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
Calorie Counter by FatSecret
This app has a barcode scanner and a database of all the nutritious info of food with barcodes. It helps you keep track of your meals, exercise and weight to help you get healthier faster.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
Make or break habbits
During this New Year, if your goal is to break a bad habit like smoking or drinking, we’ve got some apps to help you. Need to pick up a new habit? We got that too.
App is available for: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
Quitter
Quitter is an app to break bad habits that cost you money. It could be smoking or a constant craving of junk food. You can see how much you’ve saved each day, add pictures to motivate you and share your progress on social networking sites.
App is available for: iPhone and Apple Watch
Way Of Life
This is a habit-building app to help you identify and track your habits with charts and notes. You can then share these charts with others to ensure you’re on the right path of building a good habit.
App is available for: iPhone
Be a bit more productive
With only 24-hours in a day, these apps could help you be more productive by better managing your time and daily to-do tasks throughout each day.
Any.DO
We’ve done an in-depth look of Any.DO before, but it needs to be on this list. Having a to-do list and setting deadlines for each list item can help you manage your time better and not miss out on any important tasks. Not only does it work across iOS and Android devices, it’s now integrated into Gmail and you can set reminders right from your mailbox.
App is available for: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
Cozi Family Organizer
If most of the members on your family have an iOS device, this app will be able to share family calendars, shopping lists, to-do lists and family journals. Everyone logs in to one account with their own email address and will be able to see daily tasks that each person has to do.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
RE.minder
A reminder app that allows you to set an alarm that repeats each minute, hour or day until you actually complete the task, kinda like having a mom-style virtual assistant who can’t stop nagging you to get your stuff together. You can also share reminders with others via email.
App is available for: iPhone
Remember The Milk
This app works really well with the features on their website. With an account on their website, you can set reminders via email, SMS and instant messenger. It also syncs and backs up whatever information you add to your mobile device to the web account.
App is available for: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
Todoist
Todoist is a productivity app that helps organize your tasks and works well with your desktop browser or Android device. It also works well with services like Gmail and you can get notification reminders via SMS or email.
App is available for: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
Looking for a better job?
Feel like you’ve hit a brick wall in your career? Maybe these job search apps can help you get a new, better job you want to get up out of bed for.
If you’re looking for a job and want an online presence of your skills, then go to LinkedIn and create an account immediately. This app will help you get job-related notifications wherever you are.
App is available for: iPhone and iPad
Indeed Job Search
Based on the job search site Indeed.com, this is the iPhone app where you can look for jobs wherever you go.
