Modern technology really has made our lives compact and convenient. One device carries around your pictures, music, videos, mail, messages, and so much more. When it comes to fitness, the smart phone can’t be beat. Forget about the days when you had to carry around a notebook or clipboard. There are hundreds of health and fitness applications waiting to be downloaded to help you reach your goal.

Let’s take a look at the top apps to download to track your workouts and meals for the Android and iPhone platforms.

TOP APPS FOR THE ANDROID

MyFitnessPal

By far one of the most (if not THE most) popular calorie tracking apps for the smart phone, MyFitnessPal offers a user friendly layout that is easy to navigate. Set up the app to determine your required calorie count. After that, all you need to do is input what you eat and what activity you do. MyFitnessPal takes care of the tallying and suggestions.

Highlights:

• Free to download
• Custom calorie plans
• Barcode scanner makes finding specific foods easy
• Over 5 million foods in the database
• Also available on the iPhone and Windows Phone
• Space needed: 14 MB

Calorie Counter

Calorie Counter by FatSecret is another great choice for a calorie counting, exercise tracking application. It’s free to download and offers many of the same features as MyFitnessPal. One of the cool things about Calorie Counter that sets it apart from other apps is the user-friendly restaurant guide. You can search specific restaurants and click once to retrieve all of the nutritional content. Very useful if you’re constantly on the go and needing to outsource your meals.

Highlights:

• Free to download
• Barcode scanner
• Complete restaurant guide
• Space needed: 7.50 MB

TOP APPS FOR THE IPHONE

Weight Loss Coach

This Fooducate application is one of the most popular on the iPhone. According to the website, it’s been rated as the number one app by a number of surgeons, celebrity doctors, and television personalities.

For starters, you can easily track your day-to-day meals. Unlike your average calorie counter, Weight Loss Coach takes into consideration the quality of your calories, not just the number. This will come in handy if you are trying to stick to natural and organic choices.

Another great thing about the app is that you can import your exercise data from a number of other applications. This is really useful if you enjoy tracking workouts on one application but don’t prefer the Weight Loss Coach exercise tracker.

Highlights:

• Free to download
• Guide to nutrition labels
• Barcode scanner with over 250,000 labels
• Special dietary needs (e.g. – gluten / GMO / etc)
• Pairs up with HEALTH (another popular iPhone-based app)
• Compatible with Apple Watch
• Space needed: 20.5 MB

Lose It!

An up and coming application for the iPhone, Lose It! Offers you a way to count calories, track your exercise, and educate yourself on calories, macronutrients, and much more with easy-to-read and easy-to-understand charts.

This is an ideal app for when you make all of your own meals as you can enter in your recipes to get the exact calorie count. Pair it up with one of the many other iPhone health apps for the most accurate read out of your input and output.

Highlights:

• Free to download
• Calorie tracker with custom meal planner
• Nutrition education tools
• Pairs up with a long list of other fitness apps such as HEALTH and NikeFuel (Click here for the entire list)
• Compatible with Apple Watch
• Space needed:55.3 MB

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