The Best Tech Tools to Simplify Your Life in 2025

Below is a list of my favorite products that I've adopted over the past few years to save time, money, and effort.

Too often, I find myself adopting a trending tool someone recommends on Twitter, loving it for 2-3 months, and then never touching it again. These are NOT those tools. I've used the products below for over a year now, so I'm comfortable recommending them to others.

Monarch

Is a great tool for organizing your finances, setting budgeting goals, and tracking investments across multiple accounts and vendors. Think of sites like mint, empower, or personal capital but syncing is made easy and doesn't break all the time. It's especially useful if you have a partner, and want the benefit of seeing everything in one place without having to go through the hassle of combining all of your financial accounts.

I've used it over the past few years to establish budgets, keep an eye on monthly spending habits, view investments across various brokerages, and track metrics like net worth and personal cashflow.

It also connects to all of your credit cards to track recurring purchases, subscriptions, and alert you when payments are due.

1Password

Gone are the days of having to constantly reset your passwords. 1password is a phone app and browser extension that keeps all of your passwords in one secure bucket and transfers them between your safari, chrome, and individual smartphone applications. All you have to do is remember your "one password" to autofill into the site that you're logging in to. Now, you can make all of your individual passwords super secure without the burden of remembering them all.

Send to Kindle

A free app offered by Amazon that allows you to send any PDF to your kindle device. I use it often to quickly send newsletters, free ebooks, reports, and white papers that I stumble across to my kindle device for later reading. It has a phone app, browser extension, and you can also get a unique email to send readings through.