Keep New Year resolutions, your phone is watching you

YUTHIKA BHARGAVA

December 31, 2014

An app to help quit smoking

Another New Year, and it’s time for resolutions, many of which, going by experience, are forgotten as the year wears on. Now, however, a set of mobile-phone applications help you stay the course.

These applications function on the simple rule of tracking your progress and motivating you with the success you achieve.

They show how near or far you are to your aim. Most of these apps present things in data format using bar graphs and pie charts.

If your resolution is to quit smoking or lose weight, there are apps that record when you had your last smoke or workout. They allow you to set alarms and reminders to help with the task. With losing weight being one of the most common New Year resolutions, there are applications such as Simple Weight Loss Resolution.

Google Play alone has over a dozen resolution apps — Goal Tracker, Free New Year’s Resolution, Resolutions and so on. From the Windows Phone Store, download “New Year Resolutions” or “My Motive.” BlackBerry users can check out “Resolution Diary.”