Another year begins, another opportunity to reflect on our experiences and get ready for the adventures ahead. If you’re looking for change, these apps, created and inspired by Vietnamese talents, can get you there.

Forming good habits and breaking out of bad ones are the foundations of long-term personal development, and more than a million people around the world are doing that with Habitify’s help.

The brainchild of the Unstatic team from Hanoi, Habitify is a handy habit-tracking app available on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, letting you easily sync between different devices.

With its Health app integration, you can track statistics such as steps, calories or exercise minutes. The app is also great at helping you stay motivated, offering up plenty of challenges you can join with other users, including your friends, to give you an extra reason to keep up the new routine.

Prolonged exposure to loud noises can damage your hearing health and create mental fatigue, but you may not always be able to tell when noise levels entere dangerous territory.

Made by the Hanoi–based Skypaw team, Decibel X is a powerful noise meter that works across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, alerting to you to excessive noise anywhere. With plenty of features that both casual and professional users will find helpful, this app is even used in academic research on noise and acoustics.

Decibel X can be integrated with the Health app and help you track your exposure to noise over time. It also has a widget and supports Live Activity, so you can have multiple easy access points.

Too many books to go through, too little time to sit down and read? Fonos, founded by a husband-and-wife duo living in Ho Chi Minh City, offers up a huge audiobook library of thousands of books to enjoy on the go, all voiced by talented narrators.

Every book comes with a free-to-listen first chapter so you can try before you buy. And Fonos doesn’t just stop at books either. Its PodCourses offer a wide variety of hard and soft skills to be learned, all taught by well-known Vietnamese entrepreneurs and experts.

Meditation and mindfulness can be very beneficial to your mental wellbeing and ability to control focus and attention. Directly inspired by the teachings from famous Vietnamese Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh, Plum Village’s guided meditations are designed to help you get started and go further on your meditation journey.

The app’s large audiovisual library offers a staggering variety of lessons in different topics, such as exploring your feelings, caring for your body, connecting with nature, qigong exercises, meditation for children and more.

Meditations can be carried out any time, even when you’re eating, walking or doing the dishes. And with the app’s Health app integration, you can always track your mindful minutes, no matter where you’re practising mindfulness.