
Health Apps
Here are some of our favorite health and fitness apps:
Cooking
Epicurious
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
This app has recipes, cooking techniques, and shopping lists for more than 30,000 dishes from Bon Appetit, Gourmet, and Self magazines. Each recipe includes ratings.
Dietary
Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker by Calorie Count
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
This app comes with a barcode scanner feature to scan labels and log exactly what you ate.
CalorieKing Food Search
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
This app provides a quick and easy way to count calories, carbs, and fat by giving you access to over 70,000 foods and 260 fast food chains and restaurant menus.
Calories Counter & Diet Tracker (MyFitnessPal)
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
Also allows you to share your diet successes with friends by linking to either Facebook or Twitter
Food Diary and Calorie Tracker by MyNetDiary HD
Cost Varies
Available for: Apple, Android
A comprehensive app that helps you track your weight loss by providing over 430,000 foods in its database.
Fooducate
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
See how your favorite foods score! This app automatically grades (A-, B+, C, etc.) food products by using a scientific algorithm based on nutrition facts and ingredient lists.
URL: http://www.fooducate.com/
Lose It!
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
Lost It! Allows you to set goals and establish a daily calorie budget to assist you in your weight-loss efforts.
URL: https://www.loseit.com/
MyPlate Calorie Tracker
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
This app focuses on fitness first and nutrition second. It contains the breakdown of calories burned for 2,000 fitness activities. User accounts may be linked to the Livestrong website which offers information, instruction, and inspiration.
Superfood HD
Cost: $0.99
Available for: Apple
Discover superfoods and recipes to utilize them
Family Health
Kids' Wellness Tracker
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
Allows parents to track illnesses and monitor child's basic health statistics. Additionally provides symptoms checked and resource library.
Kurbo Health Coaching
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
Kurbo's easy (and fun!) app helps children and teens track what they eat, as well as how much exercise they get each day. Each time your child enters a food, it's classified using a clinically acclaimed Traffic Light system.
Fitness
Cody - Fitness Tracker, Exercise Journal, Workout Community
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
Personal tracker, coach and on-line sharing community.
Fitness Buddy
Cost Varies
Available for: Apple, Android
1000+ exercises, 45+ tailored workouts and 3000+ retina display images make this a fitness-packed journal app
Gain Fitness
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
Get workouts and plans - matched to your fitness level, goals and time constraints - instantly, from the convenience of your mobile device.
Map My Fitness
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple, Android
Track and log over 600+ activities and workouts. User accounts map be linked to Facebook to share with friends.
WellnessFX
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
Review your results. Peruse your practitioner recommendations. Create and keep track of your results. Take control of your health with WellnessFX by adding new goals to help develop and maintain healthy habits.
Mental Health
Stress Check
Cost: Free
Available for: Apple
Provides users with an overall stress score and the user can examine specific areas of life where they experience most stress.