9 iPhone Apps to Keep You Fit
You may have caught our round-up of iPhone apps for your car from a few weeks ago. Well, it’s time for another batch, so here’s our our list of 9 fitness-related iPhone apps. Once again, each item on the list links to a full review with feature and pricing information. Enjoy!
Nutrition/Weight/Health Information Apps
Restaurant Nutrition
If you eat a lot of fast food, but you’re morbidly curious and you want to know what you’re putting in your body, then this is the app for you. I like it because it helps me eat reasonably well when I’m on the road.
LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker
You probably recognize the Livestrong name from Lance Armstrong’s charitable organization that made yellow bracelets omnipresent. Well, now they’ve given us an app that keeps track of your daily calorie intake/burn.
Weightbot
An adorable robot that keeps track of your weight for you. A great app that’s beautifully designed, in addition to being useful, with nice sound effects, graphics, and animations.
Personal Trainer Apps
iPump Total Body
The perfect app for the meat-heads in the crowd. Not my personal fave when it comes to this category, but it might appeal to people who are just making the jump from more traditional workout aids like videos and DVDs.
iFitness
The best fitness app for general users, since it gives you all the basics, but you can also customize it as much as you need to.
GymGoal Lite
Whether you’ve set a serious goal to meet, or you just want to keep track of your workouts, this iPhone app can help you. Has some nice extras that may or may not suit your particular needs.
Run/Walk/Bike Tracker Apps
RunKeeper
A perennial favorite in the App Store, RunKeeper is definitely more than capable of keeping track of your runs. Good integration with an online site makes it an inexpensive alternative to Nike+ for iPhone users.
FitView
Store all of your aerobic workout information in one convenient, portable location with this app. It might not record the info for you, but it does do a good job of organizing and analyzing it.
Fitnio
Sometimes you don’t want all the bells and whistles, just a clean app that monitors your progress when you’re out for a run. Fitnio fits the bill, giving the casual runner or biker everything they need at a price that’s unbeatable.
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#1 Phil Bowell says:What’s with the RSS spam? Why when you do these kind of posts (which I think are a good idea) do I get nine preceding articles for each individual app (not a good idea)?
It’s a little annoying to have my feed reader get so many articles when they are all summed up and linked to in one articles at the end of it all. Seems a little unnecessary.
#2 Josh Pigford says:@Phil (and anyone else): Shoot me an email and I’ll explain. josh at gigaom dot com
#3 mumie99 says:I like iFitness. I wouldn’t like to do without it,
#4 darek says:Weightbot: the nices app in whole AppStore, but it costs about 3EURO, it’s quite expensive if we look at Weightbot functionality.
#5 Jim says:I have the Nike+ (an older version) and what I really want is some app that will give me splits automatically. In other words, have the trainer voice tell me that I just ran the last mile in a 8:30 pace. Does anything like that exist?
#6 Dgar says:I agree with Phil. 9 consecutive stories about fitness apps on my Google Reader did seem a little unnecessary. Or perhaps I’m just unfit…
#7 david says:No - indication of price for each of these?
#8 Everett says:I have lost 40lbs since July and use Weight Track to track my weight which then syncs to OKC Million (Oklahoma City Weight Loss program, i live in FL but use it just to backup to the “cloud”).
Recommended App: Weight Track
#9 Everett says:BTW, Weight Track = FREE!
#10 smasher says:Here’s my exercise tracker - Workout Buddy:
http://smasher.com/blog/2008/09/23/iphone-program-workout-buddy/
It allows you to define your own workouts, add exercises, sets, and reps, and count out those exercises. It also keeps track of when you performed each exercise and workout, and when it’s time to do it again. Enjoy!
#11 John MAson says:And to think all I do is play games on my 3G!
http://www.anonymity.pro.tc
#12 Josh Pigford says:@Dgar: We published 9 FULL reviews…that’s 9 new articles…that means your RSS feed would show 9 new articles. It’s not “spam”, it’s us publishing content and your RSS reader doing its job.
#13 Seeker says:You may want to also take a look at http://www.gyminee.com... While not actually an application they do have a version of their website optimized for the iphone and ipod touch with many of the features of the programs listed above.
#14 Pat Dryburgh says:Another great app that does calorie counting and weight tracking:
http://countitoffapp.com/
It also allows for tracking online.
I’m not affiliated at all with this app, other than using it daily.
#15 Ryan says:You missed one of the best workout and exercise apps out there, Trainer Mobile. I use it primarily for the exercise videos and descriptions, which are amazing….
#16 Jordan says:I agree with Ryan. Trainer Mobile trumps all those other apps. For the price tag the amount of content is staggering compared to iPump or iFitness for that matter. Couldn’t recommend a better work out app.
#17 Liz says:I totally love Finio!
Thanks for the suggestion, it is way easier to use than the other fitness apps.
I love the simplicity of the application, I can’t wait to show it to my friends.
Thanks again,
Liz
#18 dave marks says:love these apps especially the tracker app great!!
#19 rloughery says:EveryTrail is another good app for outdoor activities. Tracks, distance, altitude, speed and lets you take geotagged pics along the way. http://www.everytrail.com
#20 Benjamin Ragheb says:FatWatch is a weight tracker that allows you to import/export your data to CSV-formatted text files, in case you’ve already been tracking with something else and don’t want to start from scratch on your iPhone.
http://www.fatwatchapp.com/
P.S. I’ve got free download codes I’m giving away.
#21 tim says:This is a pretty good list, but I think that it could use some updating…
I completely agree with the nutrition apps, but I think that the personal training list is a bit weak. I can’t really get what all the hype about iTrainer is about, every time that they add functionality to please the customers that wanted things that should have been there in the beginning, they do so in a very confusing and unthoughtful way. Personally, I am a much bigger fan of Trainer Mobile.
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