Essential Apps for
Your Health and
Fitness Regime
There are some great health and fitness apps for the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Here’s a roundup of great
apps you’d do well to consider installing and use every day to help keep you in tip-top shape.
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Streaks
Developer: Crunchy Bagel
Price: £4.99, $4.99, 5,49 €
System requirements: iOS 9.0 or later
As well as an iPhone/iPad app with an Apple Watch
component, Streaks also offers stickers for iMessage so
you can set up to 12 tasks that you want to become daily
or weekly habits and the app reminds you. Build a winning
streak by carrying out these tasks on time, but if you forget,
your score reverts to zero.
Clue Period
Tracker, Ovulation
Developer: BioWink GmbH
Price: Free (IAP)
System requirements: iOS 10.0 or later
Track your period, record energy levels and
learn how your cycle affects your fitness
routine. Subscribe for more features.
Runkeeper
Developer: FitnessKeeper, Inc.
Price: Free (IAP)
System requirements:
iOS 10.0 or later
Whether you’re running professionally or
just for fun, this running tracker with GPS for
iPhone and Apple Watch is great.
Calorie
Counter +
Developer: NutraTech Ltd
Price: Free (IAP)
System requirements: iOS 10.0 or later
A calorie-counting app, used for scanning
barcodes, with a database of over 240,000 foods.
After a seven-day trial, it needs a subscription.
Fitocracy – Fitness
Collective
Developer: Fitocracy, Inc.
Price: FREE (IAP)
System requirements: iOS 8.0 or later
One for the competitive keep-fit fans, work out
with the app and join the Fitocracy community
to test youself against others.
Nike Training Club
Developer: Nike, Inc.
Price: Free
System requirements: iOS 11.0 or later
Nike Training Club gives you over 185 free workouts,
covering exercises for strength, endurance, mobility and
Yoga, not bad for a completely free app with a great Apple
Watch component. It can suggest daily workouts that fit
your routine and adjust to your progress with Beginner,
Intermediate and Advanced levels, including workouts
inspired by top-level athletes.
Carbs & Cals
Developer: Chello Publishing
Price: £4.99 / $4.99 / 5,49 €
System requirements: iOS 8.0 or later
If you suffer from diabetes, keeping an eye on the
carbs is very important. This excellent app keeps track
of what you eat, so you don’t go over your daily carb
allowance. It also watches the calories, so you can
lose weight as well as keep your blood sugar in check.
By keeping tabs on what carbohydrates and calories
you’ve already consumed, it can tell you how many
more you can have that day.
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