What sort of New Yr’s decision you make depends upon your distinctive targets—which implies you want a strategy to observe your progress that’s simply as distinctive. In case your decision is to chop again on social media use and your good friend’s is to run a quicker mile, you received’t measure success the identical means. Even in the event you swear 2026 is the 12 months you spend much less time in your telephone (which I’ve sworn each 12 months), faucet into the ability of handheld tech and use these apps to maintain your self on observe.

I like all the finest common progress monitoring apps, however in terms of resolutions, you’re looking at one thing time-bound and particular by its very nature, so you need to strive apps which might be tailor-made extra to what you are doing.

What are the most typical New Yr’s resolutions?

Per Statista, the highest New Yr’s resolutions amongst individuals who have made one or a number of for 2026 are as follows: 

• To train extra (48%)

• To save lots of extra money (46%)

• To eat more healthy (45%)

• To spend extra time with household/associates (42%)

• To drop pounds (31%)

• To enhance job efficiency (24%)

• To do extra for the setting (24%)

• To cut back job stress (22%)

This 12 months’s listing was fascinating to me after I in contrast it to final 12 months’s, the place “save extra money” led the best way with a measly 21%. It was adopted by eat more healthy, train extra, drop pounds, spend time with household/associates, stop smoking, and spend much less on residing bills. Clearly, well being and health proceed to rank excessive, but it surely’s notable that this 12 months’s least-popular decision—scale back job stress—outranked even final 12 months’s hottest. It appears, not less than in response to this supply, that 2026 is the 12 months for making resolutions. I am contemporary off a 12 months of really nailing all my resolutions for the primary time ever and I am wanting ahead to replicating my success. Along with a couple of private tips, listed below are the apps I feel you need to use.

The perfect apps to trace train frequency: Robust and Peloton

Credit score: Robust/Lindsey Ellefson

If you wish to work out extra, it is going to show you how to to see your progress with every journey to the gymnasium (or at-home session, or no matter). For that, strive Robust, an app that allows you to enter the workouts you do and creates graphs exhibiting your gradual enchancment in weight, units, physique fats share, and extra. Prior to now, I’ve solely really helpful this one, and it is nice by itself, because it consists of directions on how one can do a wide range of workouts, which is good in the event you aren’t actually a health particular person (but) and feeling nervous about making an attempt new strikes in entrance of different individuals retains you away from the gymnasium. The free model will save limitless exercises, however you possibly can solely add three customized routines. For every part else, it’s $4.99 per 30 days or $29.99 per 12 months. For my full evaluation, learn extra right here.

Credit score: Peloton/Lindsey Ellefson

This 12 months, I’ve come round to recommending one thing else: The Peloton app, which I evaluation right here (however discuss right here and right here and right here…). I can confidently say that for me, 2025 was the 12 months of Peloton as a result of I acquired so into figuring out on my Bike, utilizing the model’s different class choices, and even monitoring my non-Peloton exercises by means of the app that I am now on a 290-day in-app streak. And that is essential, particularly after we’re speaking about resolutions, as a result of not solely does this present you that all-important each day (or weekly or month-to-month) streak, but it surely presents a lot selection, which is able to maintain you going again.

The perfect app to eat more healthy and/or drop pounds: Lifesum

Credit score: Lifesum/Lindsey Ellefson

Earlier than, I used to advocate MyFitnessPal, which I used fairly persistently from sophomore 12 months of school nicely into my 30s, however this 12 months, I discovered (and reviewed) Lifesum, which modified the sport for me. With its brighter colours, easier interface, and updating “life scores,” it is an all-around extra constructive expertise than utilizing MFP—plus you do not have to pay for an improve to entry nutrient monitoring. It simply does all that with the common subscription, which prices $99.99 per 12 months, $29.99 each three months, or $7.49 per 30 days. It has a useful sequence of widgets you possibly can put anyplace in your telephone, so that you’re all the time reminded to keep it up, and it is by no means shame-y, which I feel is essential for truly sticking with a more healthy consuming plan. It even suggests meals and meals you need to contemplate based mostly on how usually you do (nicely, do not) eat them and what vitamins you is likely to be missing.

My favourite half is that it is really easy to make use of that I do not skip it, even on my laziest day. As a substitute of manually inputting each ingredient into the tracker, I can describe and even {photograph} my meal and let its AI do the work of determining roughly what number of energy and grams of protein are in it. It isn’t excellent, after all, however I respect that, too; after I’ve gotten too gung-ho about monitoring each morsel and getting each gram accounted for, I’ve counterbalanced slightly too arduous and misplaced all motivation, which saved me swinging backwards and forwards between obsession and full disinterest. Lifesum turns monitoring right into a much less irritating, extra constructive expertise you possibly can truly keep on with.

The perfect app for prioritizing household and good friend time: Cozi

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If you wish to spend extra time together with your family members, strive Cozi, a easy organizer that provides you a transparent visible illustration of your complete household’s schedule. Not solely are you able to see when everyone seems to be free, however you possibly can see how a lot time you commit (or don’t commit) to the individuals with whom you share the app—which might inspire you to schedule extra time collectively. It’s additionally free, which is a plus. Use the cash you saved to pay for a pleasant night time out with the individuals you set a decision to spend extra time with. 

I’ve talked about this app as a meal planner previously and suppose it really works nice for that, too. Use it to loop collectively a sequence of your resolutions, from consuming higher to spending extra time with family members. When you’re at it, brush up on how essential stacking your resolutions and habits is for his or her longevity.

The perfect app to enhance job efficiency: Flora

Credit score: Flora/Lindsey Ellefson

Usually, I might recommend FocusPomo as one of the best productivity-boosting app, however I really like Flora, too—and this one has the twin perform of serving to the setting whereas bettering your work, which implies it addresses two of the most well-liked resolutions for 2026.

As I defined in my evaluation earlier this 12 months, Flora is a spotlight timer that locks down your telephone when you work and, in the event you do not mess together with your system and as an alternative settle into deep work, you develop a digital tree to show in your digital forest. Proper there, you possibly can see the worth prop in the event you’re making an attempt to trace your progress: You possibly can see all of the timber you “develop,” which helps you visualize the way you’re doing. There’s additionally an choice to wager precise cash in your capability to finish focus periods, which works nicely for some individuals. (I’m personally an enormous believer in forcing penalties on myself for failing to hold out a decision, and although I do not often wager cash, I see the enchantment of getting monetary stakes concerned.)

Questioning what the app makes use of that cash for? Nice query! It is to fund the planting of actual timber around the globe. Your wager cash or subscription price (must you select to pay between $2 and $12 per 30 days, although it really works high quality in its free model) go towards paying for making the setting higher, which is a win-win.

Credit score: Steppin/Lindsey Ellefson

This is one other one the place I used to advocate a distinct app (on this case, One Sec) however now firmly advocate one other that I’ve gotten extra aware of. To spend much less time on social media (or any distracting apps, actually) strive Steppin, which I’ve reviewed and used for a few 12 months now. Like different app-blocking apps, it locks down whichever functions you blacklist. Not like these, you possibly can earn time to entry your blocklist by strolling round in the true world. You possibly can customise your settings so a sure variety of steps unlocks a specific amount of minutes. I’ve mine set to 25 steps to earn a minute proper now, which often leaves me with 19 or so banked hours by the point my time resets on the finish of the week. Since utilizing Steppin, I’ve discovered that not solely am I extra keen to stroll after I would possibly in any other case Uber or take a bus, however I am much less taken with my blocked apps altogether. I simply acquired used to not having unfettered entry to them and located I do not want them as a lot as I believed I did. Who knew?

Steppin additionally makes use of “streaks” so you possibly can see your progress over time, plus reveals a graph day-after-day of your strolling time vs. your time on the blocked apps. Each of those visible components are helpful in protecting observe of the place you are at. You break your streak by resetting your customizations or overriding a Steppin block when you have no minutes banked.