In the past two years, it seems like wellness tracker apps have exploded in popularity and numbers. It can be difficult to sort through the countless fitness apps and mood tools to find what works for you. To make your personal health regimen simpler, we have compiled the six best apps to track your physical, mental and overall health.
Whether you’re trying to track workouts, nutrition, mood fluctuations or sleep cycles, our list has the information you need to flourish at meeting your goals. For further reading on wellness, see our blog post on the benefits of massage therapy here.
Top Wellness Tracker Apps for Physical Health
- Fooducate
Fooducate is primarily a calorie tracker app. It also provides healthy recipe ideas and a budget of the quantity and quality of calories you consume. Fooducate also allows you to scan product barcodes into its mobile app for analysis. Once scanned, facts on and alternatives to the product will pop up – turning your phone into a fantastic shopping companion! Try out Fooducate if you want to make long-term changes to how you eat and shop.
2. My Fitness Pal
This all-in-one calorie counter and exercise tracker app allows you to adjust your food and activity levels to meet your goals. It calculates how many macronutrient (carbohydrates, fat and protein) calories you should consume for your activity level and body mass index each day. Look into My Fitness Pal if you’re trying to maintain or reach fitness targets – or if you’re in the market for a reliable calorie calculator.
Top Wellness Tracker Apps for Mental Health
3. Headspace
This wellness app claims to be the only meditation application dedicated to the emerging clinical research on mindfulness practice. It puts guided meditations for a variety of issues, from trouble sleeping to work stress, in the palm of your hands at all times. The app even includes “SOS meditations” for emergency situations, like panic attacks or meltdowns. In addition to mindfulness exercises, it is a mood and progress tracker app for psychological wellness. Try out Headspace if you’re seeking more tranquility in your daily life or dealing with acute stress.
4. Daylio
This tracker app allows you to set personal goals, record moods throughout your day and keep a ‘micro-diary’ of which activities you participated in each day. The app encourages you to check in once a day, reminds you to meet daily goals and rewards you for good streaks. It also lets you select up to five color-coded moods and make unlimited entries each day. Give Daylio a try if your personal wellness goals tie into leading a happier, more productive life.
Top Wellness Tracker Apps for Total Well-being
5. Sleep Cycle
It is common knowledge that sleep is integral to all aspects of your health and wellness. What many people don’t know is that you wake more rested if you wake when you’re sleeping lightly, as opposed to in deep sleep or REM. According to Sleep Cycle, their tracker app records your sleep patterns along a timeline each night and wakes you up in the morning during a period of light sleep. Try Sleep Cycle if you’d like to wake at peak performance and track how much sleep you’re getting each night.
6. The Fabulous
Developed in collaboration with Duke University’s Behavioral Economics Lab, this is no ordinary tracker app. It looks at habits and their impacts over time using timers and statistics. There are suggested activity categories, like meditation and exercise, that the app walks you through while tracking your progress. The app also links you to a community of others on their own wellness journeys who you can group-source information on healthy habits from. The Fabulous is for anyone seeking a supported way to revamp all the little things in their life that make a big difference.
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