Points to Remember for Fitness App Development

The demand for health and fitness app development proliferated in recent years. Wearables like armbands, wristbands, chest straps, smartwatches, and socks with built-in pressure sensors are used to detect heart rates, foot-landing, and even eating speed. According to the Coherent Market Insights report, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the global sports and fitness apps will be 20.4 percent from 2019-2027.   

Before we explore the key highlights of Fitness app development let’s find out how the trend of wearables app started. 

• Fitbit, Nike, and Jawbone were the first to introduce activity tracking devices in 2007. Later Samsung, LG, Pebble and Apple introduced activity tracking features in their wearable devices. According to the Strategy Analytics report in over 22 million Apple watch devices were sold in 2018.  
• Fitbit claims health monitoring is the core factor that accounts for the increasing adoption of wearable technology. 
• Sports Tracking, measuring step count and heart rate motivate users to purchase wristbands or a sports watch. 

Health and Fitness apps are divided into three broad categories 

• Workout Apps
• Nutrition and Diet apps 
• Fitness and Tracking Apps
• Yoga and Meditation App 

• Activity Tracking- Designed to track user's physical activities including walking, jogging, running, and cycling. Activity tracking apps use smartphone motion sensors to track an individual's activities.
• Personal Trainer- Acts as a personal gym or fitness trainer. It is ideal for users who cannot spare time to visit the gym due to their busy schedules. 
• Diet and Nutrition- Designed for calorie conscious people. Diet and nutrition app enables users to record the number of calories they took. Using the logged details users can calculate carbs, proteins, vitamins, and minerals present in their meals. 
• Yoga and Meditation- Health and fitness apps are designed to cater to the user's physical and psychological wellness. Yoga apps are designed to keep the body in shape and whereas wellness apps relax the mind after a hectic day schedule. 

Points to remember while developing a Health and Fitness app

1. Easy Sign-up: Avoid lengthy and complex registration process. Enable users to link the app with their social media accounts for easy sign-in. Alternatively, you can provide a fill-up form that includes users' name, email id, and mobile number. Keep the user's credentials safe by providing an OTP verification system. 
2. User Profile: It is essential to know about the users of your health and fitness app their personal details age, weight, etc. Provide them with multiple-choice questions that are easier to answer and less time-consuming. 
3. Social Media Integration: Integrate your fitness app with multiple social media platforms to enable users to share their achievements with friends. The fitness app development company indirectly receives publicly when app users share their progress reports on a social app. 
4. Wearable Device Connection: Make sure to make your fitness app compatible with wearable devices. Cross-platform compatibility enables smartwatch users to achieve more accuracy in fitness activities. 
5. Record Tracking: Users are satisfied when they get access to review their previous activity data. Activities enable users to evaluate the progress they made since the day first installed the app. The data should be accessible and easy to understand. It should include calories burned, steps taken, weight reduced, etc. You can also enable users to schedule their food or meal intake.
6. Geolocation Facility: Geolocation facility is the key to the performance of your health and fitness app so never forget adding it. It enables your app to monitor direction and routes when the users go for walking, cycling, or jogging. 
7. Push Notification: Push notifications encourage users to exercise daily. It motivates them to achieve their fitness goals in limited time duration. Users can set reminders for the workout, plan meals, drink water, and go to sleep. 
8. Video Tutorials: Training the users through video tutorials is the best practice to make them accurately perform an exercise. Make sure you add tips to perform each exercise. Do not forget to add benefits of doing an exercise and their impact on a particular part of the body with video tutorials.
9. In-app Purchase: You can offer the option of purchasing fitness equipment and health drinks through in-app purchase features. It makes your fitness app complete and the users do not need to visit some other app or website for buying the equipment or a complementary health drink. This feature can save the user’s time and offers you an opportunity to earn some money.
10. Safe and Simple Payment Options: You can offer premium features or an ad-free version of your app with a small fee. Also, the in-app purchase feature can need payment gateway integration. You need to make sure that the payment options are safe and convenient for the users to get the most from app monetization methods.

Wearable technology will continue to transform entertainment, media, health, and fitness industries. Businesses are now investing in wearable payment apps, messaging wearable apps, notification apps, wearable music apps and more. Also, retail businesses can use wearable technology to enhance the customer experience. 

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