Ahhhh, November. The month for giving thanks and appreciation for all we have. A whole month given over to feeling grateful! Do you ever need a little help feeling gratitude?

Even with social media being regularly overrun with #ThankfulThursday, #MondayMotivation and #Gratitude Attitude, sometimes it’s hard to remember to count our blessings. I’ve found several apps which can help you make practicing gratitude a part of your daily life. Each of these apps will remind you daily to start your gratitude practice unless you turn the notifications off.

Security Tip: Remember to check to see what personal information the app will track before you download it.

Smartphone apps:

* The Gratitude app has over 17,000 ratings with an average rating of 4.9/5 stars. It uses “Identifiers” to track you. The app gives you a place to write a daily gratitude journal with a prompt if you need one. It can also prompt you with daily affirmations and has daily motivational memes. I like that it lets me start using the app without registering. Gratitude is $30/ year.

* Morning! has 123 ratings with an average 4.7/5 stars. It doesn’t explicitly say what data it uses to track you, but it does link your contact info and “identifiers” to you. They have a place for you to record entries in the morning and at day’s end. It also has a Quote of the Day. I like the simplicity of this one.

* I’m not recommending the Grateful app. It has 2700 ratings and 4.6 stars. It links your purchases, usage data, and identifiers to you. The free version limits you to 15 entries which is not enough time to figure out if it works for you. (Then it’s $15 a year.) When you open the app, you’re prompted to answer a new question each day. When you complete that, you’re asked to sign up again. All my attempts to move around the app to learn more about it were met with repeated requests to sign up.

* When I opened the 365 Gratitude Journal it started asking me a whole bunch of questions; my mood, relationship status, parental status, work, etc., which I found very intrusive. I don’t recommend this app either.

* Five Minute Journal app has 14,000 ratings with an average of 4.8/5 stars. It does require you to create an account before you can use the app. Once you log in, you’re presented with a journal prompt for what you are grateful for, what you plan to do today, and what your daily affirmations are. It gives you the option to add another entry for the evening. I like this one too. This app is $25/year.

Meditation:

If you’re more comfortable with meditation rather than journaling, many of the meditation apps include guided meditations for gratitude in their free versions. I like Calm and Simple Habit.

Old School:

Of course, you could always go old school and just grab a pen and paper. Write down one or more things that you’re grateful for each day

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