Use These Apps to Track All Your New Years Resolutions
What kind of New Years resolution you make depends on your unique goalswhich means you need a way to track your progress that is just as unique. If your resolution is to cut back on social media use and your friends is to run a faster mile, you wont measure success the same way, right? There are different apps out there that will help you actually reach your goals this year. This story is going to recommend some apps that can help you track specific resolutions. Here's a rundown of the best general progress tracking apps.What are the most common New Years resolutions?Per Statista, the top New Years resolutions among people who have made one or several for 2025 are as follows:To save more money (21%)To eat healthier (19%)To exercise more (17%)To lose weight (15%)To spend more time with family and friends (14%)To quit smoking (9%)To spend less on living expenses (9%)A few from last yearlike reducing work stress and lessening time on social mediadidn't make the cut this time around, but I'm still including some apps for those in case you're interested in carrying on a goal from 2024. Notably, losing weight gained some traction, rising a few spots from last year, and quitting smoking is a new entrant, too. Interestingly, 43% of respondents said they're not making resolutionsif you're thinking of doing the same, consider how easy these apps would make creating and sticking to one first. The best app for saving money: QapitalThere are a bunch of great apps out there that help you budget, but if youre ready to get serious this year and save money in a big way, try Qapital. This one is great for a New Years resolution because it makes you do a little work, unlike some of the AI-powered budgeting apps that use algorithms to set aside money for you. With Qapital, you set your own rules, which means you still have to flex your own self-control muscles and actively strive toward your resolution. For instance, you can set up a rule that says when you buy a coffee, the app also moves a certain amount into savings. You can also program it to round up change on purchases and move it into your savings account. Plus, you can set goals within the app and it will create visual representations of how much youve saved toward them, which is great for people who need to see their progress. Its free for a month, but after that, youll pay $3, $6, or $12 per month, depending on what features you want. A basic plan lets you create unlimited savings goals and transfer money between them, plus partner with another user to save together and track joint spending. More advanced versions get you the option to have a Qapital debit card or track your weekly cash spending.The best app to eat healthier and/or lose weight: MyFitnessPalI am biased, as I'm now going on 13 years of using MyFitnessPal, but the fact that I've returned to this app again and again since college at least proves it has something going for it. What I love most about MFP is that so many foods are already entered into the database, meaning I don't have to actually research nutrition facts and enter them into a spreadsheet. I just type in what I ate and get an immediate breakdown of its various nutrients, calories, and details. I'm also really motivated by anything that "gamifies" my experience, so MFP's daily reminders not to break my streak of food and exercise entries are helpful to me. Your daily nutritional intake is shown on a graph that is easy to understand and ideal for visual learners and even the free, basic version of the app is useful. Still, the premium mode, for either $79.99 a year or $19.99 monthly, breaks down carbs, protein, and fat and allows you to scan barcodes for easy inputs, so it's a better option if you're serious about tracking your nutrients throughout the year.I also recommend this app for weight loss, if that's your goal (like it is for 15% of people compared to the 19% who want to eat healthier). When I've endeavored to lose weight before, MFP has always been helpful, since it helps me see my calorie breakdowns in a way that is very easy to understand. I've tried other apps and programs, like many of us have, and found them too convoluted and not as easy to stick with. The best app to track exercise frequency: StrongIf you want to work out more, it will help you to see your progress with each trip to the gym (or at-home session, or whatever). For that, try Strong, an app that lets you input the exercises you do and creates graphs showing your gradual improvement in weight, sets, body fat percentage, and more. It includes instructions on how to do a variety of exercises, which is nice if you arent really a fitness person (yet) and feeling nervous about trying new moves in front of other people keeps you away from the gym. The free version will save unlimited workouts, but you can only add three custom routines. For everything else, its $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year.The best app for prioritizing family and friend time: CoziIf you want to spend more time with your loved ones, try Cozi, a simple organizer that gives you a clear visual representation of your whole familys schedule. Not only can you see when everyone is free, but you can see how much time you devote (or dont devote) to the people with whom you share the appwhich can motivate you to schedule more time together. Its also free, which is a plus. Use the money you saved to pay for a nice night out with the people you set a resolution to spend more time with.The best app to quit smoking (or any habit): Days SinceA lot of people appear to be interested in quitting smoking this year, but whether you want to do that, quit vaping, stop drinking, or disengage with another habit you don't think benefits you anymore, you should try Days Since. It's a very simple app that does nothing more than track the days since you last did the thing you don't want to do anymorewhich is really valuable for New Year's resolutions, since they're all about creating better habits in the new year. Start on January 1 or, honestly, whenever, and watch the color you assign to your bad habit grow into a visual streak through the app. After a while, you'll really be able to see how much progress you've made and you won't want to break the streak. The nice thing about this app, too, is that you can reset a streak at any time, so even reverting to a bad habit can become a positive, as you can always start right back over. You can even add a note to any restarted streak so you can look back and see what happened, learn from it, and grow your streak longer the next time. Finally, while all of that is free, you can set notifications to ping your phone and remind you how far you've come, keeping you motivated throughout 2025, for an annual price of $17.99. The best bill-tracking app: Rocket MoneySpending less on living expenses gives you more to spend on the fun stuff, which is a worthy resolution. To do it, try Rocket Money, which helps you budget, but also offers services like bill negotiation and income analysis, so you can see where youre spending your money every monthand get rid of recurring fees you dont actually need to be paying. Some of it is free, but if you want to create unlimited budgets, get credit reports, and access the all-important cancellation concierge (which not only identifies your recurring payments, but cancels them for you and even tries to get you fee refunds), youll have to pay. The app offers a sliding payment scale, so youll pay between $4 and $12 per month, depending on whether you want to pay monthly or annually.The best app to spend less time on social media: One SecIt might seem counterintuitive to download another app when youre trying to stay off the apps in the first place, but One Sec really might be the answer. All it does is cause a 10-second delay between when you tap a specific app, like Instagram, and when the app actually opens. It encourages you to take a deep breath, then tells you how many times youve attempted to open that app in the last 24 hoursand determine if you want to proceed. There are other apps out there that straight-up lock you out of your socials, but that removes the accountability from your resolution and cuts you off in a way that will be jarring and hard to stick with. Something low-stakes that doesnt penalize you for being human and daring to open Facebook is much nicer. Its free if youre trying to reduce your use of one particular app, but to tackle them all, youll need to upgrade to a pro version for $19.99 per year or $2.99 per month.The best app for reducing stress at work: MoodfitThere are lots of mindfulness and deep breathing apps out there, but those arent great for seeing any progress, which is what resolutions are all about. Moodfit, on the other hand, gives you not only tools for managing your mood, but insights into your various mood-based patterns. You can track your mood, gratitude, mindfulness, and breathing while seeing your progress in numbers and on a chart. You can even track nutrition, sleep, and medications to see how those play a role in your mood, too. Seeing it all laid out will help you home in on what besides work is affecting you, but also see exactly when and how during work youre getting upset, then make the effort to adjust when necessary to reduce stress. A basic version is free, but its $8.99 to access all the features, including personalized reports and unlimited goals.
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