Best New Year's resolutions apps for iPhone and iPad

Another year is upon us and whether you call them new plans, new goals, or new resolutions, the fact remains that we all typically aspire to be a better version of ourselves as a new year begins. However, the hardest part of setting goals is actually figuring out how to accomplish them.

Although nearly 80% of New Year resolutions are abandoned by the end of January this never stops us from continuing to make them. Reasons for abandoning goals set for the new year range from lack of willpower, motivation, or just overall laziness.

The most common resolutions every year include planning to eat healthier, exercise/be more active, and better manage your finances. Since we have survived (are surviving) a pandemic in the past couple of years, new goals have emerged as well such as setting self-care and mental health goals.

Here are a few of the best iOS apps available for maintaining your resolutions throughout the entirety of 2023.

Lose It!

Lose It! is a calorie counting, nutrition tracking, and intermittent fasting app that helps users develop healthy lifestyles to help them achieve their weight goals. With this app available on iOS devices, users can set weight loss goals and track food intake.

The best part of this app is the community support it offers for users who need motivation and support. Lose It! allows users to create challenges within the app and earn badges when completing weight loss goals. Additional features include meal tracking options where users can monitor their meal intake.

Best features of Lose It! include access to nutritional strategies, a barcode scanner, Snap It (food log), Track Nutrients, Milestones, weight goals, access to healthy living articles, Fitness App Syncs, access to Food Library Database-over 50 million searchable foods, intermittent fasting, calorie scheduling, recipes and more.

Lose It! - Calorie Counter is free on the App Store.

MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is noted for being one of the leading nutrition and food-tracking apps available on iOS. Users of the app can track the progress of their nutrition, water, fitness, and weight loss goals all within one app.

MyFitnessPal tracks what users eat and supports weight loss goals, and users have access to over 5 million foods.

Users also have access to a fitness tracker and a community of users for support and motivation. MyFitnessPal claims using the app is like having a dietician, personal trainer, and a nutritional coach at their fingertips.

The best features of MyFitnessPal include access to a food log for tracking meals, Track Fasts to help with progress for fasting periods, customized meal plans for weight gain or weight loss, access to over 500 goal-inspired recipes, access to workouts, community support through active forums for motivation and support.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch apps

MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter is free on the App Store.

Daily Burn

Daily Burn offers at-home workout plans for users looking to lose weight, tone, build muscle, strength, and more. Daily Burn is a personal trainer accessible through your favorite iOS device.

With the Daily Burn app users can improve their physical fitness with access to over 2500 workouts including yoga, strength training, high-intensity cardio, and more. Daily Burn offers live streams of 30-minute workouts daily. Like most fitness apps, Daily Burn also allows you to connect with the community of users within the app, maximising your motivation and support to better complete your goals.

The best features of Daily Burn include thousands of workouts to choose from yoga, cardio, HIIT, dance, dumbbell strength training, etc., connection with the Daily Burn community, and the ability to stream Daily Burn on all your devices 100% ad-free.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and iMessage apps

Daily Burn: At Home Workouts is free to download from the App Store.

MyNetDiary

MyNetDiary claims to be the easiest calorie counter and most effective weight loss/dieting app out there. Users can easily track food and exercise, and complete weight goals while connecting with a global community of users.

App users have access to a food and exercise diary as well as a weight tracker. MyNetDiary also provides access to recipes and meal ideas as well.

The best features of MyNetDiary include an accurate and verified food database with over 1.2 million items, lightning-fast food entry with a free barcode scanner and instant search for logging foods, food and exercise tracking, daily coaching and motivational tips, water tracker, shopping list, and grocery check.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and iMessage Apps

Calorie Counter - MyNetDiary is free on the App Store.

PlateJoy

PlateJoy is an iOS app which serves as a personalized meal planner. Eating healthy meals is simplified when using the PlateJoy app making it easier for users to complete personal health and fitness goals.

Users can create grocery list and receive items delivered within the app and have access to customizable meal plans, personalized recipes and more. PlateJoy allows users of the app to easily create personalized meal plans for any lifestyle.

There are personalized meal plans that are tailored to your lifestyle. Options include meal plans for Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, Paleo lifestyles and more!

The best features of PlateJoy include personalized and customizable meal plans that are tailored to your lifestyle. Meal options include meal plans for Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, Paleo lifestyles, and more, and access to a lifestyle quiz to assess fitness goals, dietary preferences, and schedule.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone and iPad Apps

PlateJoy is free on the App Store.

Fooducate

Fooducate has been around since 2010 with the purpose of helping users eat healthy, lose weight and improve their overall health. Users of this app can receive and trade weight loss and healthy lifestyle tips, and track calories and macros within the app as well.

The best features of Fooducate include a log for food intake and exercise, detailed feedback on the quality of calories, macros count, analysis of sugar intake, tracking for sleep, mood and hunger levels, recipe analysis for nutritional value, seamlessly integrated with Apple Health, enormous food database, and health and diet tips.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone, iPad Apps

Fooducate is free on the App Store.

QuitNow!

Quitting smoking is one of the top resolutions each year. QuitNow is an app that connects users to ex-smokers who have the same goal in mind.

QuitNow is an app designed for those who are finding it hard to quit smoking. For users of QuitNow, the app focuses on highlighting how your quality of life and length of life can be improved by quitting smoking.

The app focuses on four areas including highlighting the user's ex-smoker status (days since smoking, money saved), providing achievement through quit-smoker motivation, access to an ex-Smokers Chat, a community of ex-smokers-support system and information on ex-Smoker Health, body health improvements as a non-smoker.

The best features of QuitNow! include FAQs that provide tips for quitting smoking, the QuitNow bot, recommended books on quitting techniques, and access to the QuitNow community of ex-smokers for support.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch Apps

QuitNow! is available as a free download on the App Store.

Drink Control

Perhaps you are looking to reduce alcohol intake and monitor alcohol consumption in the new year. Drink Control is an alcohol consumption app that not only helps you monitor intake but also helps you save money while doing it.

With Drink Control you can track drink and alcohol expenses and whether your purpose is to reduce alcohol intake, spend less on alcohol or lose weight by reducing alcohol consumption, Drink Control is just the app to help you complete your goal.

The best features of Drink Control include access to drink tracking and spending, drinking history through a calendar, the option to sync alcohol units and alcohol calories with Apple Health, and tools to create a personalized infographic on drinks consumed.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch Apps

Drink Control: Alcohol Tracker is free on the App Store.

Qapital

Qapital is a money management app that helps you rethink how you budget. Qapital replaces spreadsheets, which can often be intimidating to many users, with well-designed money tools to help you better manage your finances.

Qapital allows you to save money, invest and set money spending instantly with every paycheck.

The best features of Qapital include the diverse options available such as tips for saving, investing, budgeting, dream-team, money-sharing tips for couples, debt-wrangler, and cash-back hacks.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone and iMessage Apps

Qapital: Set & Forget Finances is free on the App Store.

SleepWatch

SleepWatch is a robust app available on your favorite iOS device designed to help you sleep better. With SleepWatch users can monitor their heart rate and sleep rhythm and receive customized tips to improve overall sleep behavior. For those looking for a better night's sleep in 2023, SleepWatch will be just the app you need.

SleepWatch allows users to track, analyze, and improve their sleep. Users of SleepWatch should activate their iPhone app or wear their Apple Watch when going to sleep.

When you wake up you will receive a personalized sleep report and customized tips and recommendations on how to improve your sleep.

The best features of SleepWatch include tools to record your sleep sounds, personalized coaching for a better night's sleep, a smart alarm and bedtime for ideal bedtime designed for you, sleep reports, a snore tracker, and a customizable white noise library.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone and Apple Watch Apps

SleepWatch - Top Sleep Tracker is free to download from the App Store.

Sanvello

For users who are feeling anxious, lonely, overwhelmed, or just burned out, Sanvello is the app that says it can "meet you where you're at."

Sanvello is an app that serves as a feel-better toolkit. Users of this app can feel better through therapy, coaching, coping techniques, meditation, and mood tracking designed by experts for the purpose of improved mental wellness.

The best features of Sanvello include a customizable experience through access to emotional tracking, encouragement of self-care, community access to millions of users through active discussion boards and chat groups, therapy-matching with a licensed clinician (check your state to see if this feature is available), coaching, and integration with Apple Health.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone and iPad Apps

Sanvello: Anxiety & Depression is free on the App Store.

Aura

Aura is the all-in-one app for mindfulness and well-being. App users can transform their sleep, well-being and life with this personalized app designed to help users find peace each morning, day, and night.

Aura offers everything from meditation to stories to cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to support your overall well-being.

The best features of Aura include personalized recommendations for your lifestyle each day, access to hundreds of vetted world-class therapists and coaches, and options to receive 1:1 coaching.

Free to download (offers in-app purchases)

Good for: iPhone and iPad Apps

Aura: Meditation & Sleep is free on the App Store.