6 Life-Changing Apps That Will Help You Build Better Habits in 2022
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It’s still the beginning of 2022, and it’s a great time to start a new path in your life. Whether you want to accomplish a life-changing goal like losing weight or quitting smoking, or you just want to start with something small like reading every day, there’s no better time to start than now.
Of course, to build a successful habit, one of the things experts recommend is to keep track of all your progress. Not only will that help you have a better understanding of your habits, but you’ll also feel rewarded for all the progress you’ve made. And even though some people like to track their progress with pen and paper, some of us like to use technology a bit more.
Fortunately, there are a ton of apps on your iPhone that’ll help you start building the proper habits and track your progress along the way. There’s an app for everyone, including an app that’ll turn your life into a role-playing game.
Streaks
The Streaks app is both simple and effective. You just need to create your habits, and you’re pretty much good to go.
Streaks lets you create up to 24 different tasks that you can complete each day. After you complete a task, you mark it on the app, and you’ll start building your progress. As you can guess, your goal is to build streaks for every habit you want to build—or get rid of.
There are hundreds of icons that you can use to customize your tasks. You can also use some templates for the already existing tasks or create your own unique apps.
Streaks also has other features available, like reminders and statistics, to help you keep your habits on track. Plus, you can share your tasks with your friends and family to build accountability.
Sure, the app is $4.99, but it’s only a one-time payment. Other apps on the list ask you to join their monthly subscription, which can be pretty expensive. With Streaks, it’s just one and done.
Strides | Goal and Habit Tracker
One of the best apps you can try to start building habits is Strides. Not only will this app help you build good habits—and get rid of the bad ones—but it’ll also help you track your specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound goals, also known as SMART goals.
With Strides, you’ll get everything you need to make your goals easy and attainable. You’ll be able to track your progress and see how far along you are with progress reports and charts that’ll show you your streaks and your success rate on any given goal.
What’s cool is that you can also use it to create your perfect daily routine. You can create unlimited reminders, add notes to remember why you’re doing your goals, and build up your routine from the ground up. Plus, there are over 150 templates you can use, or you can also create your own tracker. Overall, one of the best goal tracking apps for your iPhone.
Way of Life | Habit Tracker
Another amazing app to help you build good habits is Way of Life. Just like other apps on the list, it’s easy to use and amazing to track your progress, but it’ll also help you think of the reasons why you’re building these habits.
Way of Life is filled with a lot of features. You can create chains to challenge yourself not to break your streaks and set up reminders, so forgetting about a new habit is never an excuse.
But one of the coolest features is Way of Life’s journal. You can log your thoughts into the app and start thinking about the reason why you’re building a new habit. Better yet, you can understand if what you’re doing is right or wrong.
The easiest way to build new habits is to understand why you’re doing it, and the Way of Life app will help you achieve just that.
ATracker Time Tracker
ATracker is a perfect app for people who like to track pretty much everything they do in a day. With this app, you can time all your activities and stop wasting time on unimportant tasks.
Atracker isn’t necessarily just a habit tracker, but it has everything you need to track your daily activities.
You can create your perfect schedule for your everyday life and customize it however you want. You can also create and define your daily and weekly goals to avoid losing track of your good and bad habits.
And after you’ve set your goals, you can start timing everything you do. You can track the time of exercises, track your leisure time, or how much time you spend on your hobbies.
After you’re done tracking, you can see all the things you’ve done in a beautiful chart, which is perfect for people who love data. You can also see a goal report to make sure you’re staying on track with your new year’s resolutions.
Coach.me | Goals & Habits
Coach.me is a perfect app if you don’t even know what habits you should start building. This app will help you choose your goals, track your progress, and even talk to specialists.
The app is pretty easy to use, and you can get started pretty much right away. After you set up your goal, you can start building your habit the way you want to. You’ll get to track your progress and get rewarded for achieving your goals.
What’s cool about Coach.me is that you also join a community of people like you. You can ask questions about pretty much anything, and there’s going to be someone who’s willing to help you out. You can even take it one step further by hiring a coach, albeit that’s going to cost you extra.
Another cool thing about Coach.me is that it’s mostly free. As the Coach.me team puts it, “90% of our tools are completely free to you,” meaning you can get started without paying a single dime.
Habitica | Gamified Taskmanager
Whether you’re a hardcore gamer, like to gamify your progress, or just want to build habits with people around you, Habitica is a great app to get you started.
With Habitica, you’ll turn your schedules, goals, and habits into a role-playing game. Meaning you can create your character in the app and start leveling up. Your progress will help you gain experience, find some cool gear to wear, and even collect some awesome pets that won’t necessarily help you in your journey, but they look pretty cool.
But, by far, the coolest thing about Habitica is that you can join quests with other members of the community. You can help each other create new habits as you go on missions to defeat evil monsters.
Overall, it’s a really cool and different way to look at your habits and have fun while you try something new.
