Apps

There’s no shortage of health and fitness apps out there, ones that help you monitor and manage everything from cycling and gym workouts, to running and what you should be eating....

Lose five pounds, edit your photos, catch up on TV shows, and breathe at some point. Sound like an unattainable amount of multitasking? Not really, if you have this round of the best iPhone apps of the week to assist you.

Your dog is your best, most loyal friend, and you want to make sure he's getting the best care he can get. As technology addresses real-life needs more and more each day, companies and non-profits are creating apps to make sure every Fido, Spot and Princess receives the attention he or she deserves. SEE ALSO: 8 High-Tech Accessories for Your Pet We've compiled 10 of the best apps for dogs in the gallery above.

Back in September last year, we brought you news on the three coolest companies from Microsoft’s Azure accelerator in Israel. One of these was MediSafe Project, a mobile app for families to use to remind each other when medicine should be taken. A family’s apps are synced, with push notifications and even scheduled phone calls enabled to ensure each individual takes their medication as prescribed....

Living an active, healthy lifestyle oftentimes requires some support. Whether it's running a mile each morning or taking a few hours to de-stress, having a friend along for the ride can be good motivation. One app brings the concept of community to a sometimes solitary task: meditation. Insight Timer [iTunes link] combines meditation techniques with a global community of fellow meditators to support the relaxation process.

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. Hasty is a seed-funded stealth startup whose mission is to improve the health of humanity....

Cult of Mac’s vote for the best all-around fitness app for the iPhone is Runkeeper, and it just got a fantastic new update that makes your running preferences more customizable than ever, including a fantastic new ‘night color’ mode which makes the display easier on the eyes even if you are nota night runner.

Glooko, an iOS app and cable adaptor that helps people with diabetes monitor their glucose intake, has added automated glucose averages today to help users better understand and manage their condition....

Late last year we brought you news on RunKeeper’s new iOS app, as it strived to keep its 14 million users running. These updates? A fresh user interface and improving the ability to share photos of workouts....

The terms social and mobile are used together so often, it's easy to forget the most important function of your phone: a modern little black book. It contains everything from your contact info to the notes that five years ago, you would have scribbled on a napkin. And with apps, your phone is capable of so much more.

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.”...

Calm.com, which began as a website that helped busy, information-overloaded web workers take a mental break, is now turning into a real business. The company is today announcing a $415,000 round of funding from a number of notable angel investors, and the debut of a mobile application initially aimed at teaching relaxation.

Keeping up with when to take different medicines can be a chore, especially if you need to take something at the same time everyday. Enter MediSafe, a virtual pillbox that can remind you to take medicines at the right time. If you’re responsible for someone -– for instance a child or elderly parent -– then you can also track their medications. The app launched just a few months ago, and reports that users are taking pills on time 81% of the time.

Bless you in advance, because allergy season is almost upon us. Prepare for the sniffles with WebMD's Allergy app....

Ever noticed you never seem to have a condom when you need one?" asks a new app from Durex that promises to save you from those awkward situations. The SOS Condoms iOS app claims to provide discreet delivery of the protection you're looking for. Just fire up the app, locate yourself, choose the product you need, and a delivery person -- disguised as a pizza delivery man, police officer or tourist (apparently so as not to draw suspicion) -- will deliver it to you for cash on delivery, says the app.

The team behind MapMyFitness has released a batch of new features today including route recommendations, custom splits and advanced heart rate metrics in order to keep pace with some of its health and fitness app rivals, such as Runtastic and RunKeeper....

When you look down at your smartphone and think about how much it's made your life easier and better, you'll probably think about how the Internet is at your fingertips or how you can share filtered photos with friends or send texts without ever having to speak to anyone. You'll probably think that's why the smartphone was invented. You'd be wrong. The reason we have smartphones? For an emergency condom delivery app....

Are behavioral apps really that effective? Read this three-week testimony.

Are behavioral apps really that effective? Read this three-week testimony.

Here's a nice little weekend for you: Do some shopping, get some exercise, and bake an exact replica of the armadillo cake from Steel Magnolias. Sound like a plan? The apps below will help you make all those things happen with minimal effort....

Burgeoning artist? Aspiring yogi? Doesn't matter what you want to be this month, we've got some apps for you in this addition of the best apps of the week....

If you’re trying to lose weight or be more active, a new app launched today called Moves might just be what you need to track your daily activity in a more subtle and useful way....

Moves is a new iPhone app that promises to track your daily fitness activity without any need for a Nike FuelBand, Fitbit, or other physical tracking device. It does this by essentially acting as a pedometer when your iPhone is placed in your pocket. The app logs walking and running activity — and it's also apparently smart enough to recognize when you're cycling. But aside from those data sets, which are already available from dozens of similar App Store offerings, Moves also automatically keeps track...

For those of you who don’t have the disposable income or the obsessiveness of a Quantified Self devotee to try every single smart pedometer out there like the Fuelband, Fitbit or Jawbone Up, there’s an app for you. Called Moves, the free app just landed in the iOS store today. Using just your iPhone, it can track the number of steps you’ve taken per day, and where and when…

Back in September, Glooko announced the release of a new version of its iOS app, a digital logbook which helps people with diabetes track their blood glucose levels from their smartphone. The new app brought support for six additional glucose meters, meaning that Glooko is now compatible with more than 17 different devices — a sign of the headway the startup has made in its march toward meter…