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.

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 yourself against others.

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.