New Year’s Resolution

Free iPhone Apps

Paid iPhone Apps

Lose weight

Lose It – helps you maintain enthusiasm and motivation by turning calorie counting into a video game

Simple BMI & Body Calc – allows you to calculate your BMI and then analyses the result.

Weightbot (£1.19) – tracks your daily weight and body mass index

Lose Weight! (£1.79) – Do you eat when you are bored or depressed?  This app help you control your portions and manage cravings.

Tone your body and get fit

Fitness Tips – contains useful and practical, fitness and nutritional tips to help guide you towards a healthy lifestyle

FitnessPlan – helps you keep track of exercise you have done and plan future ones

CrunchFu (£0.59) – (for a six pack) this app uses a motion detector to count your crunches

RunKeeper Pro (£5.99) can only be used outside or iTreadmill (£0.59) can be used indoors or outdoors– keeps track of your position, pace, distance etc.

iFitness (£1.19) – a workout encyclopedia containing over 200 exercises with clear photos and instructions.

Save money

Money Tips – gives you the best and most practical money saving tips

My Shopping Assistant – helps you keep track of how much items cost in different shops

Moneywise – simple to use, budgeting tool/expense tracker

Moneytrackin – track your expenses and income easily

RedLaser (£1.19) – use your iPhone as a barcode scanner to compare the price of an item on Amazon and other stores.

Better Buy – Save Your Money (£1.19) – compares the cost of 2 products, no matter what the units are in items, weight or volume, then tells you which one is cheaper

Meter Readings (£0.59) – lets you track your household utility meters such as gas, and then calculates how much you are using.

iXpenselt (£2.99) – allows you to track monthly expenses by category or plan a monthly budget, it even allows you to take pictures of individual receipts to keep as a record.

Help the environment – go green

GoodGuide – ranks products on a 1-10 scale based on how good it is for health, safety, environmental factors etc

iLocavore – a tool for locavores and ‘shop local, buy local’ enthusiasts

Locavore (£1.79) – helps you find fruit and veg that is grown locally or in season

iCarFuelLog (£0.59) – for most people, fuel expenses are high.  Keep a track and monitor your fuel expenses

Socialize and keep up to date with friends

Facebook – lets you connect with friends old and new, and find out what they are doing.  Also allows you to update your profile.

Twitterrific – lets you share short messages between friends, family etc.  Also allows you to view recent tweets, search and review hot topic trends.

Simplify Photo (£2.39) – allows you to connect to your photo library on your computer and browse your photos over the internet.  Also allows you to share your photos with up to 30 other simplify users

Simplify Music 2 (£4.99) – works in the same way as Simplify Photo but allows you to access and share music

MeetMe (£0.59) – can’t decide where to meet your friends or colleagues, give this app 2 addresses and it will shows places where you can meet near the middle mark

Get organised,

wikiHow – gives you advice on everything from how to get rid of stains to putting up wallpaper, find the answer to your dilemmas

reQall – for remembering stuff.  This app will allows you to create to-do’s and adds them to a calendar, best of all it will send you a reminder

Shopper (£0.59) – helps you make organised shopping lists e.g. by food group, aisle, department

Jobs – Time Sheet + Tracking (£1.19) – lets you track how you spend your time.  Add your projects to the app and run the stopwatch for a job whilst you are working on it.

iThoughts (£4.99) – brainstorming made easy.  Create visual sketches of ideas and thoughts using a mind map that can be emailed or shared online.