With the popularity of smart phones and tablets, numerous mobile resources have been created to help you maintain your health goals on the go. We’ve compiled a list of the most popular and well reviewed diet, exercise, and wellness apps. Many of the apps below are from trusted organizations featured elsewhere on the site. We hope that you’ll explore the apps to see which ones work best for you.
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Mobile Apps
Apps to help you make smart eating decisions.
With Fooducate you scan, see, and select your way to better health. Instead of trying to decode nutrition facts labels and ingredient lists, use Fooducate to automatically scan a product barcode, see product highlights (both good & bad), and select better alternatives. Featured in USAToday, NYTimes, WSJ, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and on ABC, FOX, NBC. Available for: Android, iPhone
Lose It! helps you to set a daily calorie budget, track your food and exercise, and stay motivated to make smarter choices and achieve your goals. Lose It! creates a customized weight loss plan based on your goals. Through the app, you are connected to people, devises and food information needed to reach those goals. Lose It! also integrates with the most popular health and fitness devices and apps available. Click to see a complete feature list. With Snap It by Lose It! you can track you food simply by snapping a picture. Available for: Android, iPhone
MyFitnessPal features a fast food and exercise entry combined with a large food database (over 5 million foods). The app comes with a barcode scanner to see the nutrition info for your favorite foods. Calorie Counter also includes over 350 exercises and allows you to track both cardio and strength training, including sets and reps. This app connects with over 50 devices and apps including Fitbit, Jawbone UP, Garmin, MapMyFitness, Runkeeper, Strava, Runtastic, Misfit, Withings, Healthkit, and more! Available for: Android, iPhone
Noom uses the three-color traffic light system to keep you aware and accountable. Just classify your food into Great (green), OK (yellow), Bad (red) categories and off you go. Eat an apple, and you log a green. A coke or candy is red. Not sure what color or size? Then look it up in the Food Search. As soon as you’ve logged a meal, Calorific will give your day a star rating that you can use this to improve your next meal. Other Noom Products include Noom Walk and Noom Cardio which can be found in the app store. Available for: Android, iPhone
Waterlogged helps you to drink more water and track your daily water intake. Available for: iPhone
Apps to get you up and moving.
The NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute developed this popular BMI Calculator. BMI is a reliable indicator of total body fat, which is related to the risk of disease and death. This mobile application provides results right on your phone along with links to healthy weight resources on the NHLBI Web site. Available for: iPhone
Keep tabs on your ticker with Instant Heart Rate. This app requires no external hardware and its accuracy is independently tested by nurses, MDs, EMTs and fitness coaches. Available for: Android, iPhone
Pocket Yoga guides you through three different yoga practice styles with three difficulty levels. Detailed voice and visual instructions guide you through every pose, including each inhalation and exhalation. Available for: iPhone
RockMyRun, as featured by Hoda on the Today Show, provides amazing, DJ engineered mixes designed specifically for running and working out that can automatically sync the music to your body! Use the exclusive myBeat™ technology to change the energy level of the mixes to be in tune with your body at no cost. RockMyRun lets you sort and filter playlists on criteria like workout length, beats per minute, and clean or explicit lyrics. Available for: Android, iPhone
RunKeeper uses GPS to track your fitness activities, including distance, time, pace, calories, heart rate, and path traveled on a map. RunKeeper also provides audio cues, customized interval workouts, manual entry for treadmill and other cardio equipment, integrated RunKeeper FitnessClasses and no advertising. Available for: Android, iPhone
Apps to help you relax and stay healthy.
Brethe2Relax is a portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing. Breathing exercises have been documented to help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. Available for: Android, iPhone
Use Find a Health Center to find a federally-funded health center. These centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford, based on your income. Health centers are in most cities and many rural areas. Type in a ZIP code and click the ‘Find Centers’ button to find health centers near you. Available for: Android, iPhone, Mobile Browsers
Glucose Buddy will help you to stay on top of your diabetes. This app has been featured in Wired Magazine, Diabetes Health, and American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Forecast Magazine. Available for: Android, iPhone
QuitGuide is a free application that was developed by MMG, Inc. for the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This guide was written by tobacco control professionals and cessation counselors with the help of ex-smokers and experts. It can help you prepare to quit smoking and support you in the days and weeks after you quit. It also describes what problems you can expect when you quit smoking. Being prepared can help you through the hard times. Available for: iPhone
With the OSHA Heat Index Safety Tool you can calculate the heat index for your worksite and will display a risk level for outdoor workers. The app also provides recommended precautions to prevent heat illness. Available for: Android, iPhone
PTSD Coach was designed for Veterans and military Service Members who have, or may have, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This app provides users with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help users manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. Users can customize tools based on their preferences and can integrate their own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not. PTSD Coach was created by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology. Also see PTSD Coach ONLINE for desktop use: choose from 17 tools. Available for: Android, iPhone
WebMD helps you with your decision-making and health improvement efforts by providing mobile access 24/7 to mobile-optimized health information and decision-support tools including WebMD's Symptom Checker, Drugs & Treatments, First Aid Information, and Local Health Listing. The app also gives you access to first aid information without having to be connected wirelessly - critical if you don't have Internet access in the time of need. Available for: Android, iPhone