3 apps to help you with your New Year’s resolutions

It’s New Year! If you haven’t given up on your New Year’s resolution yet, I have three apps that will help you do it. (I won’t force you if you made a mistake in the first week.)

Whether you’re trying to exercise more, work more efficiently, or change your daily habits, these three apps will help you make 2024 a better year.

3 Apps to Help You with New Year’s Resolutions

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Table of contents:

1. Apple Fitness+
2. Toggle Time Tracking
3. Goal streak calendar

1. Apple Fitness+

If you want to exercise more in the new year (in my case, more than literally nothing) but have no idea what you’re doing, Apple Fitness+ can help. It offers videos of all types of workouts that you can follow. You can play it on your Apple TV at home or play it on your iPhone/iPad at the gym.

There are many different types of workouts on common home equipment: weight training, cycling, treadmill running, and rowing. There’s so much more you can do without any equipment at all: high-intensity interval training (HIIT), core training, Pilates, dance, even kickboxing.

It’s not that intense – end your session with yoga, meditation, or a mindful cool-down.

You can put together videos in advance to build your workout. Each video has three trainers you can follow: one for beginners, one for intermediate levels and one for more intense ones.

Sticking to a New Year’s resolution is easy. Scroll down, click Individual plans and hit Create your plan. You can set the days of the week, your times and the activities you want to do. Tap Review plan and you can even customize the selection of music that will be played.

You can sign up for Apple Fitness+ for $9.99 per month (cheaper than most gym memberships) or the Apple One Premier package for $37.95 per month (along with 2TB of iCloud+, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade and Apple News+).

Download from: App Store

2. Switch

Toggl is an app that will help you be more productive and stay on task. Perhaps you’re working remotely and slacking off too much; Perhaps you’re self-employed, time means nothing to you anymore, and you want to be smarter about how you work.

Toggle is easy. You enter what you’re working on, assign it a category, and start a timer.

You can save the timer on your screen so you always have a reminder. Even if you’re not on a Mac, you can use the Live Activity-enabled iPhone app.

List The view displays your recent activities and you can resume any previous activity by clicking the Play button. Calendar shows your work on a visual graph; you can click and drag to register previous work.

Price: Free for personal use; $9 per user per month for additional features such as rate tracking, subprojects, templates and more.
Download from: Switch (Poppy)
Download from: App Store (iPhone and iPad)

3. Goal streak calendar

If you have some other, more specific goal to develop or break a habit, Goal streak calendar from the developer Emily Cheroske this is a great application for you.

Creating a goal is easy: just give it a name, description and color. You can have just one or create several.

Every day you can check off your goals and write yourself a short note. In the calendar view, you can see how well you are progressing throughout the year. In Settings, you can enable a daily push notification to remind you of your tasks.

It syncs via iCloud so your progress will be available on your iPhone and iPad.

It’s free, has no in-app purchases, doesn’t require an account, and has a completely clean report card on app privacy, so you have absolutely nothing to lose by trying it out.

Price: For free
Download from: App Store