The Human app has a leader board to promote competition amongst friends (Human)
Human isn’t quite as an advanced tracker as Strava but it's still an excellent motivator. Whilst exercising the app encourages you to go further to make sure you hit pre-set goals. Human also allows you to set up ‘clubs’ with people you know, complete with a leader board to promote some healthy competition.
Simple but effective. MyFitnessPal works out your portion sizes and helps you to track calories, thanks to its database of over six million food items that can be searched for manually or using barcodes. it will also calculate calories you've burned through exercise and will let you know the number of calories you need to consume a day in order to reach your goal weight.
Also a calorie tracker, the Lose It! database claims to have 27 million items to help track your food intake. You can also sync to fitness trackers like Fitbit to incorporate fitness data. The meal plan feature is particularly handy, allowing you to plan food for the week ahead, which should help you work towards a goal.
Ready to stop smoking? Kwit will turn the process into a game, allowing you to unlock achievements as you rack up non-smoking days as well as leader board so you can move up the ranks to become the ultimate Kwitter. You can also share your achievements on social media and encourage friends to get involved too.
A little motivation goes a long way to helping you keep up with your goals
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Whether you’re training for the Tour or just want to cycle more, Endomondo is a great app when it comes to motivation. Pre-set your cycle goals for distance and time and the app will help you stick to them as well as encourage you to go further. There’s even a personal trainer feature which beams encouraging audio messages into your ears whilst you’re on a ride.
If your resolution was to sleep more, SleepWatch will help. If you have a smartwatch, the app will track your heart rate and sleep rhythm to understand how you are sleeping and offer personalised tips on how to improve. If you don’t have a smartwatch, you still use the app and input your sleep times manually.
For yoga novices and pros alike, this app is a helpful way to fit more yoga into your schedule. There are classes for every level as well as the ability to track your progress from different exercises attempted to calories burned.
This is the app for when you don’t want to go completely sober but want to watch your booze. Log and track your alcohol consumption in glasses, pints, shots or whatever else you drink. It then converts these into units, making it easier to track how much you’re actually drinking. It will flag if you’ve gone over recommended guidelines, how much cash you’ve spent and calories consumed too.
The Try Dry app is made by the charity Alcohol Change (TryDry)
While a recent YouGov poll suggests that 3 in 10 brits failed Dry January within the first week, if you're still at it then this app may be for you. Try Dry is a great tool to track units, calories and money saved. You can also set yourself goals and earn badges when you keep track of your progress and there’s the option of support emails for that extra boost of motivation.
An app like My Water Balance is helpful in tracking your water intake
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We can all drink more water. My Water Balance allows you to track how much water you're drinking a day but the best part is that it also lets you log what else you drink to see what contributes or decreases the overall water intake, such as alcohol and caffeine.
Maybe this was your new year’s resolution? We're not judging. This app does exactly what it says on the tin, it allows you to track your bowel movements. It lets you log and track many factors about your toilet habits including consistency, colour, frequency and urgency. It brings it altogether to showcase a breakdown of your poop data and a graph of statistics to help you analyse your stools.
