Today smartphones are known as the biggest distraction. Juggling between work, family time, appointments, and grocery shopping is already a daunting task and smartphones just add to the anxiety.
However, the contrary perspective states that smartphones can help sustain an organized and healthy lifestyle.
Your life is determined by your habits. Habits define your routines and also how successful you can be. For instance, smoking is an unhealthy habit. On the other hand, reading every day and playing mentally challenging games like chess are habits that help you maintain a sharp mind.
They say ‘old habits die hard’ and it is true too. It is not only difficult to let go of a habit, but it is also difficult to adopt a good one.
Your smartphones, however, can help you out in this regard. Following are the best apps that help in the formation of a new habit, modification of old habits and staying dedicated to a healthy routine:
Habitbull
When it comes to sustaining healthy habits, it is hard to stay consistent. The healthy habits you adopt for one week and forget the next week are a mere impression of a healthy routine you deceive your body with.
Habitbull is a generic habit tracker that helps you keep up pace with the healthy habits cycle. The app’s digital incentives help in sticking to health commitments, while the analytics motivates you to develop more healthy behaviors for a better lifestyle.
Available on: iOS, Android
Sworkit
If you’re looking for a clean, easy to use, helpful exercise app that guides you, then Sworkit is a clear winner. Sworkit helps you with achieving healthy habit goals, and develop a workout regime.
Developing the habit of exercising not only helps a person in maintaining a healthy weight, but also improves mood since exercise stimulates the production of endorphins.
However, it is not easy to exercise every day without consistency, but Sworkit can help you with that.
Available on: iOS, Android
Habitica
Sustaining healthy habits is much harder than developing them. The fast-paced contemporary lifestyle has made us extremely restless.
In such circumstances, it’s understandable to not pay attention towards the healthy habits you once aimed to make a part of your life.
Habiticia is an application that helps you maintain and track healthy habits. Besides, Habiticia has a more creative approach towards helping you maintain good habits.
Inspired by RPG video games, Habiticia creates tasks, which when accomplished levels up your customized avatar. This challenging approach gives you an incentive and keeps you motivated.
Habitica is more than just a habit-tracking application. The app has features that let you add more friends and complete quests and missions. So, it is more of a game in itself.
Available on: iOS and Android
Habitshare
As the name suggests, Habitshare is a social networking site that helps you share healthy habits with your friends.
With a messaging option, Habitshare helps you stay connected with your friends so you are more motivated about achieving your health goals.
You also get to motivate your friends in turn and accomplish fitness goals together.
If you’re not willing to use the app for socialization, then you can just disable the social aspect features and keep things private.
Available on: iOS and Android
Streaks
Starting and maintaining a streak is a great way to stay motivated. Due to its unique layout, you can get motivated only by opening the application.
The highly customizable interface supports you in managing the application as per your taste. The good thing about this app is that if you’re falling behind in maintaining your healthy routine, it will send you a reminder to bring you back in the game.
Available on: iOS
Sleep Better – Runtastic
Unlike most of the sleeping applications that just track sleep with accelerometers, Runtastic’s Sleep Better app lets you record external factors that sabotage your sleeping routine. Moreover, it gives you a complete picture of your sleeping habits over time.
The simple application design makes it easier for you to learn more about your sleeping habits. The app has some extensive features, which allow you to specify whether you’re sleeping on your bed or not, whether you worked out or not, ate a late meal, had a coffee or alcohol, etc.
One of the most amazing things that we found in the application is that it lets you create notes about the dreams you had. You can also let the app know whether the dream was good, bad or neutral using the little icons.
Available on: iOS and Android
It is time to adopt a healthy routine
These applications are extremely helpful in maintaining and developing healthy habits. When life’s hectic pace leaves less time for us to care for ourselves, applications like these help in prioritizing self-care.
Isn’t it amazing that just by downloading the right applications you can maintain a healthy lifestyle? However, make sure that you have access to high-speed internet for these apps to work efficiently.
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