Improve Your Life and Habits With These Great iOS Apps

Pick Up Good Habits and Drop the Bad Ones

Aside from being active, there are also a lot of other things you can do to improve your life. It's time to start forming good habits that add value to your life, not take away from it.

Find your daily regime and become more productive

Productive - Habit Tracker

For those who want a nice looking habit tracker to stay motivated.

Productive is a simple app that lets you easily create habits to try and stick to. The app makes use of plenty of natural and intuitive swipe gestures and there is quite a bit of flexibility involved when it comes to creating your habits for the morning, afternoon, and evening. Set them to recur however many times you need during the day, week, or month. Once completed, just swipe to mark them as done, or even postpone or skip if necessary. If you end up doing all of your goals, you'll end up with "perfect" days, and you'll definitely want to try for a long streak of perfects. Productive has a gorgeous interface and it is a fun app to use that works with your goals. There are also stats so you can see how you're doing over time. The initial free download only lets you track a certain number of goals, but you can get unlimited for a small one-time purchase. It's well worth it.

Why we love it

Productive has a gorgeous interface that is great on the eyes and it is super easy to use. Keeping track of your habits has never been this good.

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Way of Life - Habit Tracker

Way of Life ApS

For those who want a habit tracking app with flexible reminders and custom messages.

With the Way of Life! app, you can enjoy a wide range of features to help you change and track your habits. The app includes reminders with custom messages, a convenient widget, chains for streaks, note-taking ability, pie and bar charts for trends, and cloud backup.

Why we love it

When you are ready to make a change and want to keep track of your progress, Way of Life! is the way to go.

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Better yourself one step at a time by building good habits

Autohabit

Autohabit is a simple app to use, and it installs with several great habits already available for you to add to your list. These include things like having better posture, performing acts of kindness, and even making better financial decisions. When you add a habit to Autohabit, you're signing yourself up for periodic reminders about that new activity or behavior. You'll be prompted every now and then to record how well you've done with that new habit. Some will ask if you've done it, while others will have you record your feelings. There are also habits that ask how well you achieved them on a scale of one to 10. Once you've signed up for your new habits, you'll get those reminders as push notifications. When one comes in, you can record whether or not you achieved that goal for the day, week, or month. Continuous habits will prompt you at various times throughout the day. You can tap on one of your habits to change its settings, see how you've been doing with it, or delete it altogether once it's become ingrained into your daily routine.

Why we love it

If none of the built-in habits apply to you, all you have to do is create your own. This is a really nice feature, since you can customize the app and its notifications according to what you need to learn to do better. When you create a new habit, you go through a short process of naming it and deciding whether it should be a continuous habit, a daily habit, or judged weekly or monthly. You also pick how to record feedback on the habit. You can leave it as a yes/no, record how well you did on a scale of one to 10, or provide your feelings after completing the habit. All of this comes together in a nice, simple interface that's easy to use. Developing new habits isn't easy, but it definitely comes more quickly when you get the periodic reminders that Autohabit provides. The best feature of this app, hands down, is the ability to customize it. You can even customize the prebuilt habits, changing their frequency to best suit your needs and wants.

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Get Moving for a Better Life

One of the best ways to improve your life and overall health is to become more active. These apps help you track all of your fitness needs and strive for realistic goals.

Runkeeper does more than just track runs

ASICS Runkeeper—Run Tracker

For those who need an app to track all of their activity and workouts, as well as weight.

As one of the App Store’s longest standing activity trackers, RunKeeper has matured quite nicely, progressively refining its appearance and functionality. Plus, its developers have teamed up with other software and hardware developers, including Pebble. Just to give you some insight, the app features various outdoor activity support, spoken action and stat updates, live tracking on a free to explore plain street map, optional goals input and progress display, as well as multiple social network integration and personal feeds. Basically, it’s an amazing fitness assistant, which is only partially helpful when trekking the more brutal back country.

Why we love it

The interface is simple and easy to understand. It also is a complete tracking app that can also track your weight, walks, cycling, workouts, and more.

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Track and map every run with MapMyRun

Map My Run by Under Armour

For those who want to know every detail about their workout activity

If you love to run or walk, this app is a 'must have'. For every mile you go, you’ll get feedback and stats to help you improve your performance. At the end of your workout, it will give you a map of your workout, along with other helpful information. It syncs to your favorite wearable (including Apple Watch) to allow the most accurate information possible. Want some motivation? You can join a community of more than 40,000 runners. Share your workouts, accept challenges, climb the leader board and even win prizes.

Why we love it

Map My Run is easy to navigate and has all the features and information runners need to stay motivated and improve their workout.

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Seamlessly track your physical activity

Withings

For those who want to track their health without the hassle

Health Mate uses your phone's sensors to track your physical activity. See data points such as steps, sleep, and heart rate graphed beautifully (if you've got some of the Withings gear, you can track even more!). The app lets you set goals--such as step-count or weight loss targets, track your progress, and compete with your friends (or politely encourage each other, if that's your jam). And Health Mate provides you with little insights and reminders to push you toward your goals.

Why we love it

This app lets you focus on the activity, rather than the tedium of tracking it.

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Your Own Pocket Coach for Life

Before we commit to some big changes in our lifestyle and habits, sometimes we need advice from others.

Track your goals and get help reaching them

Remente: Self Care & Wellbeing

For those who want an app to help reach their goals in all parts of their life.

Remente - Self Improvement can help you reach your goals. The app includes a daily planner, a life assessment tool, a goal-setting system, and a collection of articles and exercises to get you on your way to better habits. You can keep track of your mood in the journal and make improvements to all aspects of your life with the help of Remente.

Why we love it

Remente - Self Improvement gives you the tools you need to set and reach goals for work, home, fitness, and mental health.

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When you need a little extra push to build good habits and goals

Coach.me - Goals & Habits

For anyone who needs a bit of social motivation to achieve their goals.

Formerly known as Lift, Coach.me is an essential when it comes to meeting your goals. Simply set your goal or goals in this beautiful app, turn on your style of coaching, and achieve it. What makes this app an essential is how you can personalize your style of coaching. Whether you prefer an actual coach, reminders, or just a cheerleader along the way, this app will do it for you.

Why we love it

Coach.me has a gorgeous interface and is super easy to use. Plus, it is always inspiring to get cheered on by others for your own goals and get tips on better habits.

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Bring clarity, purpose and focus to your life with the MastFlow app

MastFlow

For those looking for clarity in achieving their goals

Balance is a key aspect of happiness. By planning different aspects in your life from health, money, work, health, giving to others, self care and relationships: you can see the holes that are important to fill. You'll identify what really brings you joy. This app acts as your own life coach in the comfort of the environment you choose to be in. It holds you accountable to create what it is you wish for. Dates and reminders will give you focus and accountability. The plan creates a pathway to achieving your goals. This app also has a center of core values which allows you to master your thoughts: as your thoughts become your reality.

Why we love it

Amidst our hectic and chaotic lives, this app helps to clarify and focus in on your goals. No matter what it is you are looking to achieve, this app can certainly help you drill down to what's important in your life.

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Quit the Nicotine

Smoking is a bad habit and it should be dropped for the sake of your health. These apps will get you on the right track.

My QuitBuddy

Australian Department of Health

The My QuitBuddy app is here to help you reach your smoke free goal. Whether you’re thinking about quitting, working up to your quit date or ready to quit now, My QuitBuddy can be customised to suit whatever stage you’re at on your quit journey and help you stay smoke free, by keeping you motivated and your goals on track.

Quitting can be daunting so that’s why My QuitBuddy breaks up the journey into more manageable milestones.

Follow your progress day by day as you get closer to your goal to quit smoking for good.

Feel good about how much money you’re saving and how much nasty stuff your lungs are avoiding. Over time, watch the savings and results begin to pile up.

There is an entire community of buddies there to help you out, with success stories, learnings and handy tips.

A quit journey is full of ups and downs, depending on how you’re feeling on any given day. On days when your cravings are strong, games and soothing imagery are just a swipe away, to help you get through.

Quitting can be hard and most smokers try a number of times before they finally quit for good.

My QuitBuddy is with you every step of the way.

Don’t quit alone. Download the free My QuitBuddy app today.

QuitNow!

Fewlaps SL

Are you trying to quit smoking? If you are finding it hard to stop smoking, QuitNow is made for you.

First things first: you know smoking is bad for your body. Even so, lots of people keep smoking. So why should you quit? When you quit smoking, you improve the quality and length of your life and the lives of the people around you. One way to prepare to successfully launch your smoke-free life is to power up your phone with QuitNow.

QuitNow is a proven app that engages you to quit smoking. It aims to avoid tobacco just by giving you a picture of yourself. Quitting smoking is easier when you focus your effort on these four sections:

- Your ex-smoker status: When you quit smoking, the focus has to be on you. Remember the day you quitted and get the maths: how many days are you free of smoke, how much money you saved, and how many cigarettes you avoided.

- Achievements: your quit smoking motivations: As with all tasks in life, quitting smoking is easier when you divide the task into small and easy ones. So, QuitNow offers you 70 goals based on the cigarettes you avoided, the days since your last cigarette, and the money saved. So, you will start celebrating achievements from the first day.

- Community: the ex-smokers chat: When you quit smoking, you need to stay within the non-smoking areas. QuitNow offers a chat full of people that, like you, said goodbye to tobacco. Spending time with nonsmokers will make your way easier.

- Your ex-smoker health: QuitNow offers a list of health indicators to explain how your body improves day by day. They are based in the World Health Organization ones, and we update them as soon as the W.H.O. does.

In addition, there are more sections in the preferences screen that could help you in your way to quitting smoking.

- Frequent Asked Questions: there are some tips to quit smoking, and honestly, we don’t know where to put them. Most quitters look for tips on the internet, and there are lots of fake tips there. We researched in the World Health Organization archives to find the investigations they made and the conclusions they had. In the Frequent Asked Questions, you will find all the answers to those questions you have about quitting smoking.

- The QuitNow bot: sometimes, you have strange questions that don’t appear in the F.A.Q. In those cases, you can ask the bot: we train her to answer those strange ones. If she doesn’t have a good answer, she will contact the QuitNow crew and they will update their knowledge base, so she will learn the best answers to your questions. By the way, yes: all the bot answers are extracted from the W.H.O. archives, as the F.A.Q. tips.

- Books to quit smoking: knowing some techniques about quitting smoking makes the task easier. There's always someone talking about books in the chat, so we made an investigation to know which are the most popular, and which ones can actually help you to quit smoking for good.

Do you have any idea to make QuitNow even better? If so, please do write to us at ios@fewlaps.com

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My last Cigarette Timer

RKon.eu

The app shows you all the values of an ordinary smoking cessation app. Money saved, time since last cigarette, toxins not ingested, health status, etc.

What makes it different from other apps is that it helps you when you want to go back to cigarettes. It suggests you alternatives to smoking when there is a certain situation. It can be a withdrawal symptom, or a habit.

The app is optimized for the Apple Watch and you can also display all data as complications (from watchOS 7) on your watch face. So you always stay up to date.

You can test the app for 2 days free of charge.

Good luck with your goal to become a non-smoker.

quitSTART - Quit Smoking

ICF International

quitSTART is a free app made for people who want to quit smoking. This app takes the information you provide about your smoking history and gives you tailored tips, inspiration, and challenges to help you become smokefree and live a healthier life.

quitSTART helps you:
• Get ready to quit with tips and information to prepare you for becoming smokefree
• Monitor your progress and earn badges for smokefree milestones and other achievements
• Get back on track if you slip and smoke
• Manage cravings and bad moods in healthy ways
• Distract yourself from cravings with games and challenges
• Store helpful tips, inspirations, and challenges in your Quit Kit
• Share your progress and favorite tips through social media

quitSTART is a product of Smokefree.gov, a smoking cessation resource created by the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and input from tobacco control professionals, smoking cessation experts, and ex-smokers.

Smokerface - Quit Smoking

Titus Brinker

Take a selfie and see the effects of smoking on your own face in 3D!

Smokerface uses a photoaging approach to motivate you to quit smoking in an individual way. This smoking cessation app individualizes your quit attempt by reminding you of the advantages of non-smoking and of quitting smoking via a smartphone selfie. As this facemorphing app reminds you, quitting smoking is the best way to improve your outward appearance and to stay beautiful as a non-smoker.