July 3rd: iPhone app pulse check: Health & Fitness

Friday - July 3rd, 2009 - 11:46am EST by Brian Dolan | | | |  |

A.D.A.M. Symptom Navigator for iPhoneIn order to get a better sense of which mobile health applications are gaining consistent traction, we’ll be publishing iPhone app “pulse checks” regularly since Apple makes the popularity of their apps public and updates it in real-time. This week, we compiled a snapshot of the top ten most popular paid apps in the Health & Fitness category. Applications in this category typically skew to the consumer side, as opposed to the Medical category, which usually includes applications for health practitioners. 

As you’ll see, the top paid apps in Health & Fitness include a wide array of subject areas — from workout routines and calorie counters to yoga instructions and more. Surprised any of these are the top apps for this week? Remember, people actually paid money for these applications — so this is by all accounts — where the money is this week in wireless health applications.

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  2. Jim Says:

    There are great free online fitness tools, that you can use with an iPhone, but you don’t need to download an app. Holosfitness.com is a free fitness website where you can find new workouts, share workouts with others, and track the progress of your workouts over time.

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