15 Best Health and Fitness Apps for Android and iPhone in 2023

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contain ads, offers in-app purchases (Android)

MyFitnessPal is a calorie counter app which contains a 5 million foods database to let you keep a food journal. It offers a free website and mobile apps which lets you make calorie counting and food tracking easy.

Key features:

• 5+ million foods in database including global items and cuisines;

• Quickly add and log recipes from across the web;

• Easy and fast to track your diet and exercise in less than 5 minutes a day;

• Signup for free and web and mobile apps sync diary automatically to keep it up to date.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: offers in-app purchases

Strava is a fitness app with website to help you enhance the sport experience and connect millions of athletes around the world. It works with your mobile phone or favorite GPS device to track your activities and share your efforts with your friends.

Key features:

• Track your activity and performance with key stats including distance, pace, speed, elevation gained and calories burned, etc.

• Workout with friends, stay motivated, get inspired in Strava community;

• Discover your next goal with Strava segments, routes, maps, clubs, challenges and race courses;

• A premium version is available for monthly or annual subscription.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contain ads, offers in-app purchases (Android)

Sworkit is a video workout app which provides video instruction and audio cues to take you through the workout and make it easy to follow along. It contains videos in Strength, Stretching, Cardio, Pilates, Yoga for you to choose.

Key features:

• Offers a huge database of body weight exercises and plans for beginners, intermediate, and advanced;

• Support personalized custom workout design;

• Sync workouts directly to Health, Google Fit and MyFitnessPal;

• With premium version to have unlimited custom workouts saving and exclusive pre-built workouts.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); offers in-app purchases (Android)

FitStar is a fitness app with expert trainers who will coach you through an expansive library of exercises and provide motivation to make you achieve your fitness goal. It makes it easy to get and stay in shape with dynamic programs that continually adjust to your feedback, goals and capabilities.

Key features:

• Provide guided coaching with step-by-step video workout moves, motivation and tips;

• With 7 to 50 minute routines to get fit and add "10-Minute Abs" and "7-Minute Workout" handcrafted sessions;

• Support tracking your fitness progress on the dashboard;

• With Fitstar Radio, you can customize your fitness soundtrack from Pop to Hip Hop.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contain ads, offers in-app purchases (Android)

Lose It! is an effective weight loss program to match your personal daily calorie budget and weight loss plan and track your meal and moves with its food and exercise database and tracking tools.

Key features:

• Have a 7 million+ foods database and restaurant items and brands around the world;

• Support uploading nutritional information associated with food labels by scanning barcode with your phone's camera;

• Track food by snapping a picture;

• With premium version for monthly subscription to provide more functions.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contain ads, offers in-app purchases (Android)

C25K is a fitness program to get beginners from couch potatoes to 5K distance runners in 8 weeks. It is designed for people who are just taking up running. C25K is an 8 week long plan with workout 3 times a week and workout session from 30-40 minutes.

Key features:

• With daily programs which alternate between walking and running until you build strength;

• Compatible with Apple Health Kit and Google Fit to track your calories and distance;

• Audio coach and music is compatible with GPS apps, music apps, Healthkit and MyFitnessPal;

• Support sharing and connecting with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contain ads, offers in-app purchases (Android)

JEFIT is a simple workout app for recording and logging your fitness exercises. With it, you can easily track workouts and progress, create routines and fitness plans from the up to 1300+ exercise database, manage your stats and synchronize your data.

Key features:

• Create your personalized workout routines from JEFIT's extensive database with over 1300 exercises;

• Download over 60 JEFIT Team workout routines or from over 2000 community created plans to start your workout;

• Synchronize all the data, routines and workouts from the app to your computer;

• Keep you on track with your workout by counting down until your next set.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: $2.99 (iOS); offers in-app purchases (Android)

Pocket Yoga helps you to keep up with your practice at your own pace in comforts of your own home. There are 27 different sessions of varying duration and difficulty in it. And Pocket Yoga offers poses with pose dictionary to explain the details of the correct posture, alignment and benefits.

Key features:

• Offer detailed voice and visual instruction to guide you through every yoga pose and get direction on when to inhale and exhale;

• Comprehensive pose dictionary to show you correct posture and alignment, pose description and benefits, etc.;

• Different environments can be picked and new environments will be unlocked in your progress;

• Support wirelessly connecting Apple TV with AirPlay.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contains ads, offers in-app purchases (Android)

Workout Trainer is a fitness program packed with thousands of workouts and custom training led by expert certified coaches. It specializes in bodyweight-only high intensity workouts, quick strength building routines, energizing yoga practices and brutal fitness challenges.

Key features:

• Best move-by-move workouts designed by experts to crush your fitness goals through every exercise with timed, step-by-step audio, photo and video instruction;

• Provide fresh content with Workout of the Week challenges + new programs;

• Find an online trainer in Trainer directory with "Start 1:1 Online Training" function.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); contains ads (Android)

Charity Miles is a fitness app to let you get fit and make an impact by earning money for charity when you walk, run, bike and otherwise track your fitness. It is more like a charity activity rather than a normal workout. You may love its concepts by earning money for charity when you walk your dog, grab a coffee, go for a run and more.

Key features:

• Work like a pedometer, run-tracker, walking timer, cycling meter or running stopwatch;

• Support over 40 world-changing charities like Stand Up To Cancer, ASPCA, Habitat for Humanity and more;

• The challenge term (June 1, 2016 - May 31, 2017) will be paid sponsorship pool (currently $500,000) to charity partners in proportion to the miles done for each charity.

Availability: iOS

Price: Free

Cyclemeter is an advanced iPhone application designed for cyclists with maps, graphs, splits, intervals, laps, announcements, zones, training plans and more. It is built from the ground up for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and iCloud.

Key features:

• Record unlimited number of workouts, view your workouts on a calendar and update your latest data with iCloud ;

• Record heart rate, bike speed, bike cadence and bike power with sensors and track steps all day and cadence during workouts;

• Support cycling, running, walking, skating, skiing and more other activities and analyze your split, interval and zone performance.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free (iOS); offers in-app purchases (Android)

FIT Radio offers you different high-energy playlists every day which will surprise you and keep you moving from genre, workout type, BPM and more. It is dedicated to giving you new music and new coach guided workouts every day.

Key features:

• Pace matching technology will find the perfect playlist to match your stride with running mixes made up of best running songs;

• Playlists are created to give you the right type of song exactly when you need it from 0 to 40 minutes;

• Offer hundreds of quality DJ mixes designed to fuel your workout and new playlists and mixes added daily.

Availability: Android, iOS

Price: Free

J&J Official 7 Minute Workout is designed by Chris Jordan who is the Director of Exercise Physiology at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute. It is a fast, simple and science-based workout app.

Key features:

• Provide dynamic workout views with music, instruction and timer;

• With 72 exercises and 22 workouts you can customize to create over 1,000 variations;

• Track you workout with personalized motivational content, workout reminders and achievement notifications.

Availability: iOS

Price: $3.99

CARROT Fit is not like most fitness apps that will encourage you nicely to lose weight but guides you to your ideal weight through insults and judgments. CARROT Fit employs an anti-Siri to help you reach your goals rather than take your commands and insists you check in reguarly and lose weight, or else.

Key features:

• Employ SCIENCE to compact an hours-long workout program into just 7 sweat-and-pop-culture-soaked minutes;

• Gain weight will make CARROT upset and get mean with more punishing workout waiting for you;

• Claim reward when you lose weight with app upgrades, cat facts and more.

Availability: Android

Price: $Free

Google Fit is a fitness tracker to help you track steps, time, distance and calories to let you measure and achieve the fitness goals. For Google Fit, you need to have a Google account to start up the fitness.

Key features:

• Detect walking, running and biking automatically and be capable to track more than 120+ fitness activities;

• Monitor your progress daily, weekly and monthly with Android devices;

• Support connecting other fitness apps and devices to get a comprehensive view of your health.