7 Apps for Tracking Your New Year’s Resolutions

BetterMe

The personal fitness coach app, BetterMe, has been used by 150 million people. The app offers custom workout and meal plans specifically tailored to your lifestyle, goals, and available time.

The workout plans can include everything from boxing to tai-chi and dancing. The app offers daily tips and articles, workout and hydration reminders, fitness tracking, and even personal coaches.

BetterMe even has its own wearable. The BetterMe Band is waterproof, syncs with the app, and includes a heart rate monitor and sleep tracking. It’s currently on sale for $59.99. After a 7-day free trial, subscriptions start at $9.99/week or $19.99/month.

Noom

Noom’s behavioral health experts take a psychological approach to eating and dieting. The aim of Noom is to identify, manage, and change your eating behaviors and emotional relationship with food.

Through Noom, you can receive meal plans from registered dietitians, access simple but healthy recipes, engage with a community, and participate in interactive lessons. Once you’ve achieved your weight loss goal, Noom has a maintenance mode to help you stay there.

Noom users lose an average of 15.5 pounds in the first 16 weeks. After a free trial, Noom programs start at $44.99.

SunnySide

SunnySide labels itself as a “mindful drinking” app. SunnySide’s focus is not on helping you achieve sobriety but rather moderation.

It’s a cutback coach geared toward changing your relationship with alcohol. According to SunnySide, nearly half of the 146 million Americans who drink wish to consume less alcohol.

If you over-indulged through the holidays, SunnySide might help you get back on track by adding more dry days to your life. On average, SunnySide boasts its users drink 29% less each week and avoid 1,500 calories in the first 30 days. A Subscription is $99.99 annually after a free trial.

HeadSpace

Headspace is a mindfulness app that takes aim at reducing stress and anxiety and improving sleep and overall wellbeing. The app uses meditation as the gateway to learning how to relax your mind and body.

Headspace offers short three-minute daily meditations for beginners to virtual group guided meditations. For those who like to sleep with white noise or a sound machine, Headspace also offers calming narrated sleepcasts, ambient nature sounds, and tranquil music for bedtime.

Beyond mediation, Headspace includes at-home fitness courses and guided runs for tension-releasing “mindful movement.” Subscriptions are currently 40% off at $41.99 annually or $12.99 monthly.

Habitica

Habitica helps you play the game of life by turning your daily tasks and goals into a game. It’s designed to be used to hold yourself accountable for minor tasks and chores like flossing your teeth, to more significant New Year’s resolutions like fitness goals.

Habitica allows you to create task lists, track your progress, and receive rewards for accomplishing them. Stay motivated with customized challenges and stay inspired by connecting with the social network within the app. Gamification of tasks can be especially helpful to those battling ADHD. Subscriptions start at $4.99/month.

Productive

Productive is another daily habit tracker that lets you design and set your own tasks and goals through customizable templates.

Track your progress and stay the course with daily tips and motivational prompts. Productive also includes challenges to improve your overall productivity and offers a wealth of expert articles to help keep you motivated. You’ll receive reminders for each habit and even location-based reminders as needed.

Productive also touts itself as an ADHD assistance tool that helps you focus on your daily routine. Subscriptions start at $29.99 annually after a free trial.

Blinkist

Blinkist is a non-fiction book summary app for those who are always curious and eager to learn but short on time. It has over 6,500 titles and adds more each month, reducing each to a 15-minute summary that you can either read or listen to.

The app also summarizes podcasts, and will provide custom curated reading lists based on your selections. Topics include politics, economics, sex and relationships, personal development, education, spirituality, and more.

Over 26 million people use Blinkist, and it’s the perfect app to spark curiosity and learn a little about a lot. Use it in the car or while working in the house or yard. Through a subscription, you’ll also receive discounts on full-length audiobooks, so there’s always the chance to dive deeper. After free trial, Blinkist is $99.99 annually or $15.99 monthly.