Healthcare, health and wellness information, as well as patient monitoring tools, are now available and accessible with the help of technology.
Health apps now enable smartphone users to get real-time checks, feedback, dieting information as well as symptom assessment.
Some of these mobile applications may or may not require internet access to function and are available on both Android, iOS and Windows operating systems.
I scooped around to choose these eight uber-useful health apps you should have on your smartphone and other smart devices:
#8. MyFitnesPal
MyFitnessPal, just like its name, is your pal when it comes to calorie counting, dieting and exercise.
It currently is one of the most popular health apps available for smartphones.
MyFitnessPal’s biggest utility is its calorie counting functionality.
It helps you keep your diet in check by acting as your personal tracker.
Over 5 million foods are listed in its food database. Interestingly, this health app also integrates nicely with a lot other fitness and health apps.
It contains its own selection of exercise programs, an engaging community, and a progress tracker showing your stats.
The app has a free version which does the calorie counting, however, the other features can only be accessed when you subscribe for the paid version.
MyFitnessPal is available on both Android and iOS.
#7. Fooducate
Fooducate, gotten from a combination of the words “food” and “educate” is basically a dieting and nutrition app for smartphones.
It comes with a nutrition toolbox which you can personalize to suit your unique needs.
The toolbox features a health tracker, a food finder, diet tidbit section and a community section.
The food finder feature is a great tool for learning the nutritional details about the food you are about to purchase or eat.
You simply scan the barcode of any item you want to research, and the app will pull up nutritional facts and an overall grade, with a list of healthy alternatives to match.
With this cool app, you can very intelligently avoid all the high calorie and high-fat foods and consumer products on the market at your favorite supermarket.
Fooducate app is not entirely free, as you will have to pay up to $4.99 per month or $74.99 one off for the pro version, to access all the features.
#6. LifeSum
Similar to MyFitnessPal and Fooducate, LifeSum is a weight-loss health app that works alongside other fitness apps like Withings and RunKeeper.
It gives you a precise assessment of your daily calorie enabling you to monitor and work towards your fitness goals.
The app even features a built-in barcode scanner designed to pull up nutritional data on millions of items, doesn’t matter if you’re searching for data about tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, eggs or oranges.
Lifesum seamlessly combines exercise tracking and diet information with basic guidelines for your favorite meals.
You enter your biodata such as height, weight, sex, and your personal fitness goals, and it goes ahead to give you personalized recommendations to follow.
Although the food info, exercise tracking, and some social features are free the rest of the features require a subscription.
Lifesum is available for Android on the Google Play Store and iOS devices on the App Store.
#5. SworkIt
Sworkit is a free app that provides gym-style personalized, guided workout videos and a calorie tracker that works with your personal schedule.
With the SworkIt app, you ‘re as good as taking your gym with you anywhere as long as you have your smartphone with you.
You can also select the kind of workout or fitness plan you want (whether it is for strength, cardio, yoga, or stretching), the duration you prefer (from 5 to 60 minutes, and also select the part of the body you want to target.
The video trainers on the SworkIt app help you through your selected workout routines by demonstrating how to do each move in the videos.
SworkIt’s free version doesn’t have in-app purchases and suggestions like you’ll find in the paid version.
It is available on the Apple App store as well as the Android PlayStore.Best Fitness and Health Apps For Mobile Devices
#4. RunTastic
Another of my personal favorite health apps is Runtastic. Interestingly, is one of the most popular health apps currently on the market.
This fantastic app has both a web version as well as a mobile version for smartphones and is always on the cutting edge of latest technology.
Apart from its basic fitness community which helps you connect with other fitness enthusiasts like yourself to workout together, it also has a bouquet of associated apps on it.
You’ll find tracking a feature that helps you monitor your pace, heart rate and progress, a map that helps you track your route, an exercise tracking feature, and different stats and graphs.
Runtastic is so cool, it even has a shoe tracker that helps you know when your running shoes are worn out and due for a replacement.
The basic app is free but the premium features require a subscription which is also relatively inexpensive compared to some other similar apps.
The premium version helps you reach your full potential and have fun in the process while making use of unlimited, free Training Plans, advanced statistics and many more features.
It also features music that plays along while you work out and integrates perfectly with other apps like GoogleFit and MyFitnessPal.
The developers of Runtastic also have quite a number of other health and fitness apps:
- apps for tracking (such as RoadBike, MountainBike, and Balance),
- exercise apps (such as Results, PushUps, SitUps and PullUps), and
- a whole bunch of other apps (such as Sleepbetter, Timer, Runtasty, Altimeter, and Heartrate among others).
#3. GoogleFit
Made by Google, GoogleFit is a fitness app that helps you step up your fitness by setting fitness goals, monitoring your progress and getting healthier as you progress.
GoogleFit doesn’t only help you stay motivated, it also helps you track steps, time, distance, and calories to help you measure and achieve your fitness goals.
It automatically detects walking, running, and biking and you can even choose from a list of over 120 fitness activities like badminton, rowing, or yoga to track.
On GoogleFit, you get daily, weekly, or monthly views of your fitness, water intake, calorie intake.
You can also check these across all your devices – your phone, tablet, computer, or Wear OS by Google watch.
The app also connects seamlessly to other health and fitness apps like LifeSum, MyFitnessPal and Sleep as Android.
GoogleFit, however, is exclusively available only on the Android platform on the Google Play Store and on the Web.
#2. Fitbit App
Fitbit is a health and fitness companion that packs personalized insights, 24/7 heart rate monitor, music, apps and over 4 days of battery life into a super lightweight design.
The Fitbit app accompanies the massively popular Fitbit fitness bands, with several variations on the bands to suit your personal taste.
An all-inclusive mobile app, Fitbit app helps you monitor your total health and wellness by tracking your sleep cycles and quality, caloric intake, calories burned, activity levels, and more.
Fitbit motivates you to reach your health and fitness goals by tracking your activity, exercise, sleep, weight and more.
It won the Fitness Tracker of the Year Award for 2017.
Some other interesting features FitBit has include the ability to :
- record workouts,
- track your daily steps, floors climbed, and activity levels,
- compete with friends to compare stats and challenge each other.
FitBit is available for download on the iTunes App Store and on the Google Play Store.
#1. Ada Health
A truly remarkable and very helpful app, especially in situations or places where there is no doctor or health professional close by, is the Ada Health App.
The Ada Health App is a personalized interactive chatbot.
It asks simple, relevant questions and compares your answers to thousands of similar cases to help you find possible explanations for your symptoms.
Developed by a team of doctors, engineers and scientists using Artificial Intelligence, Ada app helps you find out what could be wrong with you based on its unique algorithms and huge, sophisticated knowledge base.
Its knowledge base covers thousands of symptoms and health conditions known to man.
Ada Health gives you reliable health information about your condition after an initial assessment. It suggests what next you could do, such as a visit to a doctor, pharmacist, or specialist, or to seek emergency care.
The Medical Library available on Ada shares patient-friendly medical information created to help you better understand and manage your health.
BONUS HEALTH APP
This particular app is not in the category of fitness, health or nutrition apps like most of the others mentioned in this article, but is very unique.Calm App
The Calm app is a one-of-a-kind meditation and mental health app that helps you meditate, breathe, sleep ease stress and stay calm.
It borrows a bit from eastern philosophy and targets mental health and psychological well-being for users.
Calm app helps you learn to meditate, relax your mind and body with breathing exercises, get more restful sleep and wake up feeling refreshed, and enjoy relaxing nature scenes anytime anywhere.
It also features the Daily Calm, a unique new meditation, and inspiration every day that helps you start your day off feeling calm.
The Sleep Stories feature on the app helps you fall into a deep and natural sleep with stuff similar to your childhood bedtime stories.
Another very interesting feature on the Calm App is the Calm Masterclass.
This features masterclasses by different experts who help you learn simple, yet effective strategies to know when, what, and how to do what you need to do to stay in perfect health.
Now you are familiar with these amazingly useful health apps, you can take your pick and install on your mobile device the apps that best suit your unique health needs.
This article first appeared on Mobomedix.net
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