Apps healthier than an apple

Quitting smoking, being more consistent, exercising… These could be part of the typical wish list that many of us make at the beginning of each year. Most of these wishes will fall by the wayside, many will not even deserve a futile attempt on our part. However, as it is never too late if the joy is good, for all of you who still believe that you can handle these new basic principles of life, here is a list of Apps that can help you improve your habits.

To be more consistent, Procraster comes to our screens. It is an App that will help us organize our tasks so that we never forget to do them or, better said, so that we have no excuse not to do them. With this App we can define the tasks to be done, set goals, dedicate time to analyzing our own progress and reward ourselves for our achievements. Another option, much more fun than the rest of the applications for making to-do lists and creating reminders of everything we have to do throughout the day, is YellingMom… you can already imagine what this App is about, right?
An app that could become a clear success, and not just because it is free, is Quit It, an app that empirically demonstrates, with numbers, how good it is to… quit smoking! Money saved, number of cigarettes not smoked, the amount of pollutants expelled from the body, etc. All the data to refute any attempt to light up a cigarette and throw away those titanic efforts you have been making since day 1. First week passed! 😉
Another app that also aims to minimize the effect of tobacco on our lives is Kwitt (iOS and Android, US$ 1.99). Even though you have to pay for it, this app presents us with different challenges in the form of a game to overcome the vice.

Smoking, however, is perhaps not the only undesirable vice that directly threatens our health. Food and following a healthy and balanced diet is also a very typical challenge at the beginning of the year. To give up junk food for good, there are two apps: Fooducate and Diet Point, for iOS and Android. Both are free and offer nutritional guides and personal recommendations for following a diet, as well as the possibility of scanning the barcodes of certain products, checking their calorie content and other nutritional data.

Unfuck Your Habitat is a tool that, with a touch of malice and peculiar language, “forces” you to not neglect household chores. It includes random challenges, programmable challenges, achievements that can be overcome and “rest” bonuses, among others.

There are plenty of apps to help us be more active and get some exercise, but perhaps Nexercise (iOS and Android, free) and Endomondo (iOS and Android, free) are the most widely used. The first is an app that turns exercise into a game, and the second is a community to share the goals achieved (calories consumed, weight lost, progress in certain sports, etc.).

Finally, the list is completed with an App that will help us improve our oral hygiene. When do the two minutes we should spend brushing our teeth end? Well, when the song ends. This is how Brush DJ (iOS and Android, free) presents it to us, an app created by a dentist that will make brushing your teeth really fun.