Is mHealth Going To Be A Trendsetter In The App Domain?

The growing popularity of smartphones over the years and the escalation of mobile internet has helped social media gain huge traction among the global masses. For several years, social media apps like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have become daily bread and butter for the people. Apart from this popularity, health and wellness apps are also becoming very trendy these days, maybe because of too much focus on fitness by the youths. The market of mobile health apps is increasing steadily with the commencement of innovative technologies, new business models and new workflows.

mHelath app Market For the past couple of years, the popularity of mHealth apps have escalated so much that usage is growing by over 330% and is said to have taken over popular social media apps according to Flurry analytics. It also stated that three quarters of active users opening their health and fitness app at least two times a week, and more than 25% of users access their fitness apps more than 10 times a week. Sometimes back, tech portal Techcrunch mentioned that health app, Sweatcoin where users earned cryptocurrency redeem them for fitness, which then topped the Apple Top 100 apps chart and the Google Play Store – beating out YouTube and Facebook messenger.

Popularity over the years