New Year's is a time when everyone hits the gym, vows to eat right, save money and accomplish myriad other goals to make their lives better. But will power alone is hardly enough for most to follow through on New Year's resolutions. That's where these apps can help.

Here are the three best apps to help you get in shape, get your finances in order and accomplish pretty much any other goal this New Year, 2015.

Fitness Goals: Lose It!

There are lots of fitness trackers, dieting and weight loss apps out there -- many with a lot to offer. But when it comes to the day in day out general goal of losing weight and being more active, Lose It! -- for iOS, Android, and the web -- is probably one of the most comprehensive, feature rich, and cross-platform apps out there.

Sure, like Noom, you can set goals and track your diet, and, like Endomodo and many others, you can track your fitness activity. But Lose It! combines food tracking (with a handy barcode scanner), fitness tracking (connected through many, many devices and other apps), social motivation, planning, reminders, tips, recipes, gamification, and even expert coaching (the premium version for $40 per year) into one comprehensive app.

Lose It! connects to top fitness apps like RunKeeper and Nike+Running and activity trackers from Jawbone, Fitbit and Nike. It also works with bluetooth scales like the Withings Blood Pressure Monitor. And (of course) you can log in with Facebook and Twitter, and use the social motivation (some might call it pressure not to embarrass yourself) inherent in broadcasting your goals and progress to actually stick with your fitness and health plan.

Lose It! might not be tailor made for everyone, and some might find it a little bit "much," but the app itself is reliable and as clearly laid out as something this comprehensive can be. After a week of customizing and fiddling around with it, most will probably find that the connectivity and flexibility of Lose It! outweigh (pardon the pun) its learning curve.

You can get Lose It! for iOS and Android, or check out Lose It! online.

Financial Goals: Mint

An app can only go so far in helping you attain your financial goals for 2015: If you shop or gamble your extra cash away every month, perhaps some therapy might be in order, for example; If you don't even make enough money to have that "extra cash," perhaps a raise or a new job search is needed.

But those big life changes aside, a large part of financial stability and growth depends on your awareness of those mundane day-to-day finances -- where and when money is spent or where and when it can be saved.

You know, the type of dull, necessary drudgery that most adults consider to be the worst, enduring form of homework; that perpetual math assignment that you probably wish had vanished as soon as you finished high school (only second to filing your taxes, of course).

That's where Mint can help.

Consider Mint the smartest kid in your econ 101 class, the kid who loves organizing, totaling and graphing out those tedious dust-dry balance sheets so much that she does your work and lets you copy the answers for free. 

It's simpler and easier to understand and use than personal finance standbys like Quicken, yet it does some of the same basic things (it's by Intuit, the same company behind Quicken).

Just plug in your account data for bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios and many other places for online financial data, and Mint will organize all of your financial transactions by category. Decide what accounts should be part of your daily finances and which should be kept hidden, and set up whatever reminders, tips, statements or other notifications you'd like to receive via email or on your mobile devices.

Mint will help you budget for weeks, months and years, and will keep you up to date on your credit score, net worth, and other interesting information many probably never knew how to even track.

You might be wondering, how is this free? Like other Intuit programs, Mint uses your financial information for targeted advertisements -- almost exclusively for other financial services and offers. This isn't as creepy or unpleasant as you might expect, though. After a few months of using Mint, I've seen ads for innovative services that might actually be worth it, along with alternatives to my current bank that could net me more interest over the long run.

The other worry people might understandably have is security. Like other Intuit programs, Mint uses bank-level security, which means the interface is very limited in what it can gain from your input, other than the financial information from the accounts that you decide to connect (using the same authenticated connection protocols you might use to link two bank accounts together online). The free version is also not a financial services platform, so you won't be able to transfer money or pay bills from Mint (and therefore, neither could a hacker).

Mint works on iOS, Android, and Windows phone, but you are advised to sign up on the web first to make setup easier.

Any Other Goal: Lift

If you're like Mark Zuckerberg and you've already gotten your fitness and finances in control, and want to choose something more exotic for your New Year's resolution, there's even an app for that.

Lift -- for iOS and Android -- offers the same kind of planning, reminder, notification, social motivation, and (paid) coaching features as Lose It!, but you can set up any kind of goal within its flexible, groups-driven system.

Just search a goal you might have -- anything from dietary changes to learning a foreign language to practicing an instrument or simply taking time out of your day to do something that makes you happy -- and Lift will find other people who are attempting to reach the same goal.

Lift is like a calendar, to-do list, goal-based social media, and advice app rolled into one. You can set up reminders for practice sessions, or whatever steps you might need to take to reach your goal, on a daily or weekly basis. Your groups will help you with advice, motivation and encouragement, and you can do the same for them.

If you need extra help, Lift's premium version provides personalized coaching in-app for $15 per week, including daily chats with your coach and personalized advice. That can add up, so we suggest you try the free version of it for iOS, Android, or on the web first.