Carpe digital: how to take control and use your phone to your advantage
Finance
Spendee: Spendee is a free budget and money tracker app which syncs with your bank and allows you to analyse, organise and budget finances. The app allows you to invite others to manage your shared family or household budgets. Spendee creates clear and concise charts for users to allow them to see where their money is going.
Cook
BBC Good Food: BBC Good Food provides users with access to an extensive database of tried and tested recipes. The app allows users to search for the latest trend-led BBC Good Food recipes and save their favourites. The app allows users to create their own collections of recipes to refer back to. Additionally, users can share recipes with family and friends.
Sleep
Slumber: Slumber provides users with a collection of relaxing stories and meditations designed to induce sleep more quickly. The app allows users to input a set bed time and provides a range of bed time stories and meditations to choose from. Users may select how long they wish the audio to play for while they sleep, anywhere from five minutes to 10 hours.
Health
MyFitnessPal: MyFitnessPal is a free app which allows users to track what they eat, providing the nutritional values of foods inputted, with a barcode scanner which can be used to do this quickly and easily. Additionally, users can use the app to input exercise to see how this marries up with their diet. MyFitnessPal can also be synced with other apps on users’ phones to provide a more comprehensive overview of their health and fitness.
Productivity
Productive – Habit Tracker: Productive is a free app which helps users to build daily routines and create good habits. Users plan habits and schedule these for set times throughout the day. Productive will remind users at the allocated time to complete the task. The app creates statistics to allow users to track their progress.
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