Written by Kashish Makker
With polls done on Instagram (got to love technology!), we asked everyone for their favorite health apps they swear on. From HIIT apps to sleep trackers to meditation apps, everyone gave us some fantastic ideas that for sure made me run to the App Store to download.
Activity Trackers:
Nike Run – Run/Training
Nike Run Club has the tools you need to run faster, including monitoring GPS runs; audio driven runs; frequent, monthly and personalized distance challenges; tailored coaching programs for your goals; and your friends’ non-stop inspiration. Achieve the goals and have fun with the Nike Run Club along the way.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nike-run-club/id387771637
Life Cycle – Activities Tracker
The Life Cycle keeps track of your time automatically and shows your life separated into slices. It tells you the things you do every day, the places you go, and who you spend time with. The weekly Life Cycle journal offers customized perspectives and clarity for the week that has passed. Start off with a look back every week. Know where you were and where you are headed for a goal.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/life-cycle-track-your-time/id1064955217
Vizer – Donation Tracker
Vizer is an app rewarding fitness – one activity and one meal donation at a time – to create a healthy and stronger society. Support tackle food shortages and download today’s Vizer!
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vizer-steps-track-donate/id1446006600
Fitbit – Fitness Tracker
To join a group, log basic stats and keep inspired on your walk, use the Fitbit app on your own. Or, to see how the activity, exercises, sleep, diet, and tension all go together, use the Fitbit tracker! Any way, all in one place, you will find the data and motivation you need to achieve your goals.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbit-health-fitness/id462638897
Strava – Activity Tracker
Track your workout with Strava. Record your sprint, map a cycling path and review all the stats for your training – free of charge! Turn your smartphone or GPS watch into a sophisticated tracker with Strava, whether you’re training for a marathon or just enjoy taking your bike out for a ride. Join and meet your health targets for millions of athletes and healthy individuals!
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/strava-run-ride-swim/id426826309
Runkeeper – Running Tracker
With the ASICS Runkeeper app, hit your running goals. Runkeeper will help you track fitness, set measurable targets and see improvements along the way, whether you’re just getting into running, preparing for a marathon or attempting to attain a new personal best.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/runkeeper-gps-running-tracker/id300235330
Food/Weight Loss
Zero Fasting – Tracker
Zero is the most popular app for fasting in the world. The Tim Ferriss Show, The Drive and more, as seen in Women’s Health. Unlock the ability to boost your health and control weight with intermittent fasting. Any of the world’s top physicians and experts are members of the Zero advisory board, including our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Peter Attia, who guides our fasting procedures and content development.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zero-simple-fasting-tracker/id1168348542
My Fitness Pal – Diet Tracker
MyFitnessPal will measure the amount of calories that you have eaten and expended by exercising from food to let you know how much calories you have left for the day to eat. You should reach the weight loss (or gain) you’re aiming for if you stick to your calorie limits.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myfitnesspal/id341232718
Noom – Healthy Weight Loss
Noom’s weight management program, focused on psychology, underwent a big update! A set of 10 mini-courses that you can complete at your own speed is now at the heart of your Noom ride. Each mini-course explores a common subject and will provide you with the expertise, resources, and skills you need to improve your habits, lose weight, and step far beyond the scale.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noom/id634598719
Daily Dozen – Food Tracker
Keep note of Dr. Greger’s recommended foods in his bestselling New York Times guide, How Not to Die, and now his new book, How Not to Diet. A weight tracker is also supported by the 21 Tweaks feature, focused on How Not to Diet. To either store manually inserted weight values or to read weight data from HealthKit powered scales, the weight tracker will use HealthKit.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dr-gregers-daily-dozen/id1060700802
Mental Health
Headspace – Relaxation
For your daily life, Headspace is your guide to mindfulness. Learn meditation and mindfulness skills from world-class professionals like Andy Puddicombe, co-founder of Headspace, and pick from hundreds of organized meditations on everything from stress and anxiety relief to sleep, concentration, and wellbeing of the mind-body. For each level of experience and lifestyle, develop your practice with meditations, including fast, 3-minute sessions that blend effortlessly into a busy schedule.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/headspace-meditation-sleep/id493145008
Well App – Hypnotherapy (relaxation)
Makes hypnotherapy accessible in a mobile format – for example – helps to quit smoking, treat a phobia, or reduce stress, by communicating with your conscience.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/well-feel-better/id1495844237
Calm – Meditation
With organized meditations, Sleep Stories, breathing programs, relaxation exercises, and soothing music, join the millions with improved sleep, lower stress, and less anxiety. Calm is the ultimate beginner’s mindfulness software, but it also contains hundreds of intermediate and experienced consumer services.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calm/id571800810
Talkspace – Therapy and Counseling
The most comfortable and economical way to improve your mental health is through Talkspace. From the comfort of your device, and message through email, audio, and video, get matched with a licensed therapist in your state. The subscription service connects anyone aged 13 and up with high-quality mental health services, and has since been used by over 1 million individuals. At love.talkspace.com, see what they’ve got to say.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/talkspace-therapy-counseling/id661829386
Flo – Ovulation Tracker
Personalize Flo to make it special and important to you, no matter your life stage or reproductive target. Flo helps you reliably monitor your period, fertility, or pregnancy based on advanced AI technologies. You can monitor all-in-one as a one-stop solution for all things female health and well-being: cycle start date and duration, fertile window, peak ovulation days, signs of PMS, flow rate.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flo-my-health-period-tracker/id1038369065
Cure – Chronic Pain Therapy
Your history of pain is special, and it can also be your treatment program. Curable will assist you to conquer fear of movement, minimize health anxiety, calm the nervous system, navigate flare-ups, and more, based on your needs. Curable has been used by hundreds of thousands of patients in pain to help them change their attachment to back pain, migraine, shoulder pain, neck pain, knee pain, arthritis.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curable-pain-relief/id1325784379
10% Happier – Sleep
Would you like to sleep more, be more attentive, strengthen your partnerships, and be just about ten percent happier? This is your app. The directed meditations, videos, discussions, and sleep material will help you develop and stick with your meditation practice (or improve it).
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ten-percent-happier-meditation/id992210239
Simple Habit – Meditation
The health & sleep therapy workshops include guided consciousness & meditation, everyday inspiration, guided sleep sessions and world-renowned professional coaching, tailored for the way you live your life. If you have 5 minutes in the morning, 20 minutes during your commute or need to fall asleep fast, we’re going to make you feel less anxious, get more sleep and be your best self.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-habit-sleep-meditation/id1093360165
Sanctuary – Meditation
Sanctuary is the first-ever astrology app to provide licensed astrologers, tarot readers, psychics and empaths with an immersive birth map and live, on-demand customized readings, including regular horoscopes, a daily tarot draw, and monthly horoscopes.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sanctuary-astrology-horoscope/id1417411962
Insight Timer – Meditation
Driven meditations and discussions conducted by the world’s leading leaders on meditation and mindfulness, neuroscientists, psychologists and students from Stanford, Harvard, Oxford University and more. Tracks of songs by world-renowned musicians. Follow millions in learning to meditate on the Wisdom Timer to help relax the mind, alleviate anxiety, profoundly control stress, sleep and maximize satisfaction.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/insight-timer-meditation-app/id337472899
Fitness
Sweat – Fitness
Work out at home with the world’s greatest women’s fitness group, now with barre and yoga! With SWEAT, the personal training app featuring Kayla Itsines and top female personal trainers, helping you get the fitness inspiration you need.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sweat-fitness-app-for-women/id1049234587
Melissa Wood Health – Low Impact Workouts
The MWH technique is a collection of slow, low-impact, coordinated exercises that blend sequences of yoga and Pilates style to sculpt beautiful long lean lines across your whole body.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/melissa-wood-health/id1488181674
Fit On – Fitness
With unlimited access to free exercises and meditation, the app is designed to help you stay healthy, relieve stress, and feel good. With celebrity coaches, get your sweat on and read articles about how to take care of yourself both emotionally and physically.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fiton-workouts-fitness-plans/id1442473191
Aaptiv – Audio Fitness
Get unrestricted access to certified personal trainers’ audio-based workout courses. With a playlist of music that you already know and enjoy, find the right groove. In a number of categories, including running, elliptical, racing training, weight training, stretching, yoga, and more, you can undergo more than 2,500 exercises.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aaptiv-1-audio-fitness-app/id869058995
Peloton – HIIT
With thousands of live and on-demand courses taught by one of our 30+ world-class coaches who promote you along the way, change your workout routine at home or on-the-go. Get the workouts you need from your iPhone or iPad to fulfill your personal fitness goals, including agility, indoor and outdoor running, swimming, yoga, HIIT, meditation and more.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peloton-at-home-fitness/id792750948
Playbook – Fitness
Playbook is a web marketplace where you share your real-time workouts with your favorite coaches, social media influencers, and athletes. Each trainer/influencer/athlete has its own channel, enabling them to publish their workout programs in real-time directly to you. You just get the last 10 workouts – it’s still different, but it also means you have to keep up with it!
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playbook-created-by-trainers/id1107266414
Alo Moves – Yoga/ Fitness/ Mindfulness
There’s a class or series for you, whether you’re trying to develop muscle, improve endurance, alleviate tension, or learn a new ability. Choose among thousands of high quality videos of yoga, exercise, and consciousness. Alo’s team of expert instructors will inspire you to push past your peak, scale back when you need to, and take a moment for yourself.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alo-moves/id601617403
Le Sweat – Workout Videos
Le Sweat has an expert personal trainer right at your fingertips with fitness videos. Using the most simple methods and strategies for working on your own, get smart and realistic instruction in follow-along video form. Pick total body part fitness videos or compete in one of the Le Sweat challenges. The video is sorted by part of the body (abs, booty, muscles, HIIT, aerobic, whole body) and spans from 5 to 30 minutes.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/le-sweat-tv/id1503734055
Obe – HIIT and Yoga
Obé Fitness is the online fitness app that offers you results while providing enjoyable, streaming 22 LIVE classes a day and you can access more than 5,400 on-demand workouts 24/7. Try the free 7 days and cancel at any time. Anytime, anytime, work out! Obé’s signature lessons of 28 minutes make it easy to blend into your workout.
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/obé-fitness-live-on-demand/id1337083258
Bodies by Rachel – Fitness
You will have links via the BBR App to: Regular workouts with video demos + tips, a full menu guide with a Food Swap App to make quick changes depending on your tastes, fitness tasks for daily attitude, and monitoring tools to track your success + much more!
Link to download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bodies-by-rachel/id1384129370
