Apps

It’s still relatively early in mobile health, although there are glucose monitors that can be tacked onto iPhones, heart rate and sleep monitoring apps and of course, plenty of exercise and diet-tracking products. Now that many basic product concepts have been laid out, it’s time for iteration. Enter Cardiio, a startup and graduate of the Rock Health incubator. Founded by a team of Ph.Ds out of MIT’s Media Lab, the company has built a $4.99 heart rate monitoring app that doesn’t require you to touch the...

Songify: It turns basic speech into awesome songs. You don't even have to try to sing! Made by the Gregory Brothers, the dudes behind Bedroom Intruder, Auto-Tune the News, Double Rainbow and more hilariously awesome songs, the app pretty much gives you their powers. For example, I recited Gizmodo article titles and the app imposed it on the Double Rainbow soundtrack to create something way more fun than it should be. Google+: Google+ Can it be good? The app is. The home page of Google+ acts as launcher...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Splashtop CamCam (iTunes) Previously $9.99, now $1.99. Splashtop CamCam for iOS lets you monitor your kids, pets, nanny, etc. from a Windows PC webcam from anywhere. Features include high-resolution video streaming and audio streaming, all in real-time. Get it for $1.99. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS Android Windows

In June last year, we reported on an interesting new service called Skin Scan, an iOS app designed with a single purpose in mind – keeping track of the size…

Cutting out bread from your diet can be extremely difficult, especially at first. To keep you on track, the famous carb-cutting diet, the Atkins diet, launched a new app available on iOS and Android devices. The Atkins Carb Tracker App has plenty of carb-watching and meal tracking features to ensure you can avoid the holiday bulge and keep it off in the New Year, too. With the app, you can access the more than 1,600 low carb recipes, and search for acceptable foods for each stage of the program.

Warm weather means shedding your layers, which ignites the great debate on tanning. On one hand, you're probably feeling pretty pasty from hibernating all winter. Studies have shown how dangerous tanning can be, and sunless tanners can be expensive and difficult to apply. What's a self conscious person to do? A swipe of your iPhone will give you the confidence boost in pictures with a little bronzer. Embrace your outer Casper and still get the sunkissed look in photos.

people are about to ascend on Black Rock City, Nevada to join in the Burning Man festival experiment. There’s going to be art galore, crazy events, weird costumes for days, and the brutal Black Rock Desert meting out its hellish punishments on each and every Burner. Making the trip to BRC is easy, but surviving is entirely different, so we’ve found eight great apps that will help you get out of the desert alive:

RunKeeper is one of our favorite techy ways to track your athletic activity. The app's latest update, out today, harnesses the power of the M7 chip to turn your iPhone 5S into an always-watching fitness tracker. Like a personal trainer named Siri....

Quantified Selfers in the Apple community have a new app to download, in the form of lifelogging app OptimizeMe, which recently launched in the App Store. A single iOS app that tracks all of your daily activities, OptimizeMe allows users…

Along with its many other benefits, regular workouts contribute to better mood and energy levels. As a result, I am constantly surprised to see how many fitness tracking apps and wearable devices lack a mood tracking feature.

Two new applications, Drop and Push, want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the topics that interest you. But what makes these two apps different, when compared with news aggregators or other mobile news readers (aka RSS readers), is that they primarily function via push notifications.The apps themselves, once installed…

The Apple Watch won't launch until late April, but a couple dozen apps have already arrived.

Three additional universities launched ResearchKit-based apps, joining Apple's quest to help researchers learn more about diseases and conditions.

These apps can help alleviate some of the stress that comes with caregiving.

Did you promise yourself that 2011 would be the year that you would quit smoking? Are you having trouble sticking to your new year’s resolution? Well maybe there’s an iOS app that will make it a little easier for you. Here’s our list of the best iOS apps that may help you succeed in your quest to quit this year. The apps we’ve selected will help you find the motivation you need to stamp out those nicotine cravings. Quickly calculate how much money you spend on cigarettes each week and see how much you c...

As a daily runner, I use mobile tech to track exercise so I can learn more about what training methods are working compared to those that aren’t. Strava Run, for both iOS and Android, is a mobile application I recently tested. Is it a winner?

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Run Training Pro (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. Run Training Pro for iOS is an all-in-one app that helps you to get up and start running like never before. Complete with a map that allows you to see your route before you begin running, Run Training Pro acts as an assistant to help you get the most out of your exercise. Complete with charts and a calendar that...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Downloader Elite (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Downloader Elite for iOS lets you grab web content easily with tap-and-hold downloading from its built-in browser, and includes players and readers for a variety of formats as well as a file manager. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS

We’re sure you’ve got one in your life — that friend, cousin, roommate that just never sits down. Whether they are a runner, dance…

Suno means “sun” in esperanto, and it is the name that talented Spanish designer Jacobo Ibarrez chose for its alarm clock iOS app. Its slogan? “A dawn at your fingertips.”...

The fitness tracking app RunKeeper has been updated to include new features that allow you to keep track of your own and your friends’ progress in the form of a Social Feed and a new Ranking option to see how well aspects of your run stack up against previous outings....

The fitness app market is crowded. The most popular ones do a great job of logging your performance and connecting you with friends, but what if you want to shave 20 minutes off your half marathon time? One standout is My Asics, from the running shoe maker of the same name. Its adaptive training programs boil seven years of research down to a formula that anyone can use to improve their conditioning. With its latest update for iOS and Android, My Asics is bringing (nearly) the full power of its web app...

A new app called Sickweather alert users in real-time when they enter sick zones, from schools and airports to the workplace.

When I’m not writing about apps, OS X, or iOS, I play roller derby with Boston’s all-star travel team. We’re currently ranked 16th in the world, which is pretty exciting—but it also means practicing and scrimmaging at an extremely high level, three to four days a week. And as anyone who has played a contact sport can attest, your body can get a little beaten up after just a few weeks....

Some of us jokingly say that we’re addicted to our iPhones. A newly released app called “Moment” will show us just how true that statement may be. Designed to promote a healthier balance between our real lives and those lived through the small screens of our digital devices, Moment tracks how much you use your phone each day, helps you create daily limits on that usage…