6 Best Apps For Weight Loss, Fitness & Health If You Need Help Reaching Your Goals
Whether you want to maintain your weight, gain weight, or lose weight, there's an app for everyone!
By Laila Zain — 18 Dec 2023, 06:20 PM
1. Best fitness app: MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal offers a variety of cardio and strength workouts, as well as over 14 million foods in its database, making it easy to track your food and count your calories.
When it comes to logging in your food, you can enter items individually, calculate calories based on online recipes, or even scan your plate with your camera! The app even helps you meal plan in advance.
User-friendly and hugely popular, the free version includes many useful features. For a paid membership, it costs USD9.99 a month or USD50 a year.
2. Best food tracking app: Lose It!
Lose It! is popular for its easy food tracking. The user interface makes it simple for you to add what food you ate for the day by selecting through it's extensive database. You can also take a photo of your meals and the app will estimate the calorie count for you.
It syncs with other devices such as Apple Health and Fitbit, so you're able to fully track your activity. Plus, the additional social features allows you to connect with friends, join wellness challenges, and receive support and motivation.
The Basic version is free, while the Premium version costs USD39.99 a year.
3. Best intermittent fasting app: Cronometer
If you're looking to start intermittent fasting, or are already doing it but tad feeling lonely, Cronometer may just be the app for you.
You can create personalised diet settings, set timers for your fasting, and sync with multiple apps and devices including Fitbit and Apple Health.
The app has a Facebook group where you can connect with others, as well as a blog that includes recipes and nutrition tips.
Cronometer is free to download, but for USD50 a year, you can get the Gold membership that includes custom reports and more.
4. Best meal planning app: Lifesum
Lifesum offers multiple meal plans that can be personalised based on your specific needs. Whether you want to gain weight, maintain weight, or lose weight, it has an option for you. Plus, you can also specify dietary preferences and requirements, such as vegan, keto, and paleo.
Their suggested recipes contain five ingredients or less, and include grocery lists for your convenience.
You can create one-tap habit trackers and create shortcuts to your usual meals and snacks to make things more efficient too.
The app is free but the premium service costs USD8.33 for three months, USD6.67 for six months, or USD25 for the first year. The paid service includes personalised meal plans and more.
5. Best free health app: MyNetDiary
MyNetDiary's free version includes food, water, and exercise tracking, meal and weigh-in reminders, shopping lists, and diet and nutrition blogs.
It also includes guidance and information on a wide range of diets, including low carb, keto, vegetarian, and vegan, so you feel included and supported.
The app scores high reviews from users on both iOS and Android. The premium version costs USD8.99 a month, or USD59.99 a year.
6. Best paid health app: Noom
Topping many 'best health app' lists is Noom. It pairs you with a health and nutrition expert, who then crafts a personalised plan for you. They consider many factors, including activity levels, target goals, and medical history, before providing a comprehensive health plan.
Noom allows you to make small changes over time so your lifestyle can change gradually. This is done by suggesting which foods to eat, or how much physical activity to do, or any healthy habit.
It also includes a good log and calorie tracker. The downside is that it is expensive; the monthly plan is USD60 and an annual plan is USD199.
