Apps that Can Help You Recover Your Holiday Splurge

During the Holiday season, it's very easy to spend some money here and there and lose track of your budget easily. If you're trying to recover from your uncontrolled spending from the last Christmas season, or you simply want to save for the rainy days, you may want to start monitoring your finances better. But in order for you to accomplish this, using a mobile app that keeps track of your money, and lets you add the smaller purchases on your own should kickstart it off.

Below are some suggested apps for users who would like to automate their financial tracking, enter transactions manually, or just to keep track of details for work.

App	Description	Availability
Spendee	If connecting your bank accounts and credit cards to a mobile app is not your cup of tea, go with Spendee. This app allows you to manually enter all your credits and debits, and offers a host of categories that you can assign to each. If you want to add more categories to select from when entering a transaction, go to Settings, then head to Categories. From there, you can check those categories you would like to use. In this menu you can also adjust the category colors, which makes it even easier to organize your transactions. The Spendee app also offers support for recurring transactions, as well as reminders, which are perfect for paying your rent, car insurance, or your wireless bill. And most of all, you can secure all those data with a four-digit PIN.	Android - free iOS - ($1.99, £1.49, AU$2.49)
Level Money	Level Money is the right app for those who would like to know how much money they can spend on a specific time. It lets you skip manually entering each debit and credit by connecting with your bank accounts and credit cards. When setting up Level Money, you'll be asked to create a PIN to keep your information if in case you misplace your phone. After you provide some little information, you can start tracking your bills, income, and even pick out a savings plan, if you need one. All of these transactions are presented to you in graphic form, making it easy for you to identify where your money is going.	Android - free iOS - free
Expensify	Do you run your own business? Do you travel for work? This app is designed for users who need to detail all of their work-related expenses each month. Expensify supports mileage costs, hourly payment rates, receipt scanning, and also allows you to share reports thru email. If in case you lost connection, this app can save your data until you're back online. And once you do, you can back up your expenses to a number of cloud storage providers.	Android - free iOS - free
Dollarbird	The Dollarbird app enables you to add transactions similar to Spendee, but displays your monthly activity on a calendar form. This is a perfect option if you share a bank account, or just part of the expenses, with another individual. Dollarbird lets you share the calendar, and offers a PIN option to secure your personal data as well.	Android - free iOS - free

While each of these mentioned apps have their own strong and weak points, they all have the purpose to help you determine where you're spending or making the majority of your money each month.

Apps That Will Help You Come Up With a New Year's Resolution and Keep It

We all have our own so-called New Year's Resolutions -- it can be as simple as avoid being late in school or work to something big such as save for a new car or house. But all those short or long term goals comes to end even before the first month of the year ends. So here's a compilation of great apps that you can download and use to help you, along with a full commitment, keep your promise with your New Year's Resolutions.

So without any further ado, here we go.

Lose It!

Lose It! is a free app that will help you set a daily calorie budget, track your food and exercise, and stay motivated to make smarter choices and achieve your goals. According to Kristin Kirkpatrick, a registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic, most people underestimate how much they eat on a daily basis. A food log, which tracks everything you eat throughout the day, helps keep you accountable. If losing weight is one of your New Year's Resolution, Lose It! is the right app for you.

This app is available for Android and iOS users.

Quit It Lite

Sometimes, the littlest things can make the greatest impacts. Quit It Lite is a small, motivational program that encourages and supports current smokers to quit and former smokers to remain, well, still former smokers. This app helps you count all those cigarettes you resisted and rewards you with a tally of all the money you saved, as well as the tar you avoided since you started the quitting program. It also gives you insights on the benefits of smoking and allows you to share your achievements with your friends via Facebook, Twitter, and email. So if you're planning to go with a new, healthy living this year, don't miss this app.

Quit It Lite is a free app for iOS users.

Mint

This is another great app that lets you see all of your balances and transactions together, either on the web or on your mobile phone. It automatically pulls all your financial information and view it in one place, providing a real-time report of your bank, investments, loans, and credit card balances. The Mint app also lets you set exact budgets for each type of purchase, alerting you when you exceed the set amount. One cool feature of the app is the Goals, where you can set a goal for anything you are planning to save for -- be it a new car, vacation, or housing project. Enter the amount you want to save then set a due date. Mint will indicate how much you need to save each month and notifies you if you're falling behind your savings.

This free app is available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

Evernote

Remember things, big and small, easily with this app on your computer, phone, tablet, and the web. Keep all your notes, web clips, files, and images in sync and available whether you are using your gadget or computer. It also lets you save anything that excites or reminds you of something special by taking a snapshot of it, make an audio recording, and then save it. The Evernote app can also house PDFs, checklists, photos, documents, and snapshot of web pages. It's also a great to use when organizing your itineraries, confirmations, maps, and schedules for your travel needs.

The Evernote app is available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Windows Phone.

Lift

Lift is a daily motivational app that serves as a life coach by providing free guidance, motivation, and tracking for thousands of different goals. The app breaks down your goals into simple habits and routines, then prompts you to take regular steps towards achieving your set goal(s). After selecting or creating your own goal, you will be asked each day if you have accomplished one of your goals and keeps track of your progress. Lift also features special Coaching Plans, which provides step-by-step instructions depending on your chosen goal written by trusted experts. So if you want to have long-term goals such as learn to meditate, spend more time outside, or develop a writing habit, these worthwhile habits are within your reach with the help of Lift.

This app is available on Android and iOS for free.

Isn't it exciting to have and keep your New Year's Resolution with the help of these awesome apps?