3 Apps to Help You Finish Your New Year’s Resolutions

Whether you're trying to exercise more, work more efficiently, or otherwise change your

habits in the new year, I have three app recommendations that'll help you get it done

And I know it's already a little bit into January. If you've already slipped up, I won't tell anyone. My app recommendations will get you back on track

If you want to exercise more in the new year, in my case more than literally nothing

and you don't generally have an idea what you're doing, Apple Fitness Plus can help

This service gives you hundreds of videos that you can follow along as you're working out. You

can put it on your Apple TV at home, or you can put it on your iPhone or iPad while you're at the

gym. There's a bunch of different workout types for all the common equipment you might have at

home. Strength training with weights, running on a treadmill, cycling, or rowing. A bunch more you

can do without any extra equipment at all. High intensity interval training, core workouts

Pilates, dance, even kickboxing. It's not all so intense. You can end your session with yoga

meditation, or a mindful cool down. And you can stack up these videos in advance of your

workout session. Every workout video has three trainers that you can follow along

One for beginners, one that's intermediate, and one that's more intense. Building yourself a

schedule so that you stick to your resolution is really easy. You scroll down, tap custom plan

build your plan, then you set days of the week, your time commitment, and which activities you

want to do. Tap review plan, and you can even set the music that you want to listen to during these

videos. You can subscribe to Apple Fitness Plus for $9.99 a month, which is cheaper than most gym

memberships, by clicking here or in the video description using our special link. You can also

get it as part of the Apple One Premiere bundle for $37.95 a month. You get that plus two terabytes

of iCloud Space, Apple TV Plus, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and Apple News Plus. All of that shared

with up to five other people in your family. Number two is a time tracking app called Toggle

Maybe you work remotely from home and you find yourself getting distracted too easily. Maybe

you're self-employed like me, and time means nothing to you anymore, and you want to be

smarter about how you work. Toggle is simple. You just type in what you're working on, give it a

category, and start a timer. You can keep the timer on screen so that you have an ever-present

reminder of what you're working on. Even if you don't work on a Mac, you can use the iPhone app

in standby with live activity support right next to your PC. The list view shows your recent activity

You can restart any previous activity by just hitting the play button. The calendar shows your

work on a visual schedule. You can just click and drag to log previous work. It's free for personal

use with all the features I just showed you, or nine dollars per user per month for tracking

billable rates, sub-projects, templates, and more. Download it from their website on the Mac or from

the App Store on iPhone and iPad. Number three. If you have a more specific goal that you're trying

to accomplish every day, like an old habit you're trying to break, or a new habit you're trying to

start, Goalstreak Calendar by Emily Churowsky is the app for you. Creating a new goal is really

easy. You just give it a name, type in a description, and pick a color. You can have just one goal or

you can add multiple. Every day you can check off your goals and write a little note to yourself if

you want. From the calendar view, you can see how you're progressing throughout the entire year

And in settings, I really recommend you turn on a daily push notification to remind you to fill it

out. It syncs over iCloud so your progress is backed up between your iPhone and your iPad

but best of all, it's totally free. No in-app purchases, no account required

a completely clean app privacy report card, so you have nothing to lose when you try it out

Click here to get it on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. So those are my recommendations

Remember to like and subscribe. I'm Dee Griffin Jones with Cult of Mac