1. My Pain Diary. The thing we all share is that we have pain. This is one of only two paid apps I've ever gotten and it is absolutely worth the $4.99 is costs. You can track your pain locations, intensity, type of pain, remedy (if any), and weather. It has calendars and graphs and a place for notes. It's a really fantastic app!
2. Sleep Cycle. This is the other paid app I've bought. It was $1.99 and, again, totally worth it. It's really easy: you set your alarm for the time you want to get up by choosing a 30 minute window during which the alarm will go off. Since it's tracking your sleep cycles, it wakes you up (with an alarm of your choosing) at the point in your sleep cycle that's best for you, within those 30 minutes. You can "snooze" and it'll keep going off every five minutes. It keeps a few different graphs: time in bed, quality of sleep, activities during the day correlating to your sleep quality, etc. I highly recommend this app, if for nothing else, the gentle wake-up every morning.
3. MyFitnessPal. Amazing free app to track your food and exercise! You can use a barcode scanner to scan your food so you don't have to enter all the nutritional info. It keeps a graph of your carbs-protein-fat ratio, tells you how many calories you have "left" in your day based on your fitness goals, tracks your exercise, and saves your "favorite" foods if you use them often. I've been using this one off and on for over a year and it's incredibly helpful!
4. Allrecipes. If you're going to track your food with MyFitnessPal, you might as well have a great app that has wonderful recipes. Save your favorites, add your own, and adjust recipes for any amount. While, yes, you can find this on your computer and either print it or just read it from your laptop, I like using my phone better. I hate having my laptop in the kitchen, don't have a recipe holder, and my phones already with me in the kitchen, so why not? The only thing I would caution against is touching your phone while you're baking. My last phone was definitely covered in powdered sugar at one point...
5. Viggle. Now this one is just for fun, but hey, you're mostly at home, so you might as well get something out of it, right? All you do is "check in" to a TV show when it starts and you get points. These points (when you've accumulated enough of them) then translate into real-world rewards: gift cards, discounts, and products. I'm at home most days, but don't watch a lot of TV. With this app, you just have to turn on your TV, let the app listen to the show you're checking into, check in, and then you're set for the duration of the show, and you can turn the TV back off! It's awesome!"Be the change you wish to see in the world." --Gandhi
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