At present, fitness apps are considered one of the most popular healthcare mobile services. These apps have become a significant source of income. A large number of startups have come up with their health and fitness app, and many others are ready to come. If you are also one of them, so before diving directly into the healthcare app development services, first learn what business strategy is being followed here and the types of apps come under this category.

Let’s first discuss the strategy of fitness app development.

In order to develop a fitness app at minimal cost, here are some of the factors that you should consider:

Type of app: There are several types of health and fitness apps already available on the market. You need to decide what type of app you want to develop.

App functionality: the more and complex functionalities you add in your app, the higher will be the cost. In contrast to this, the higher the number of functionalities and features present in your app, the more customers will be attracted towards the app.

Healthcare app development company: To have an effective health app without investing much amount, you need to contact a skilled fitness or healthcare app development company.  

Marketing: Building an app is not enough. It’s necessary to promote it as well.  

Support and Maintenance: Having an app idea, get it launched, and attracting users is one thing and keep app maintained and retain users is another.

Let's discuss what are the different types of fitness apps can be developed.

1. Workout applications

These type of applications are designed for the sports training and are popular among fitness enthusiasts. And workout apps come in different formats:

Personal Workout Applications: These apps are perfect for those people who prefer doing sports at home. It offers exercise sets of varying complexity in different formats such as audio tips, video lessons, text description, and 3D models, and so on. You can go with any of these formats, but ensure to provide an easy-to-use interface to the users.

Workout scheduler applications: to develop an app that completely focus on the gym junkies then go with workout scheduler apps. These apps can provide users with features that help them plan their activities, register progresses, and so on.

Exercise tracking apps: you can go with the fitness tracker apps that would be compatible with the users' devices they can wear while doing the workout. You can build an exercise tracking app to help users track their training progress and control it. Among other things, it’s necessary to synchronize personal devices with the specialized, smart gym equipment, enables gym-visitors to see relevant exercise data on their own screen.

# 2. Healthy Eating applications

This app is better suited to enhance the impact of exercise that is incomplete and ineffective without a proper diet. You can provide this service either independently or with the workout apps. With the help of effective healthy eating apps, users are able to control their water intake, makes up the food menu, counts the calories consumed, and so on.

The cost of app development varies in different cases, depends on the project complexity. For instance, one of the simplest options is to let users enter data regarding food products such as calories, composition etc on their own. Along with that, you can provide an updated database with this and other information regarding nutrition.

Barcode scanner is one of the most valuable features of healthy eating apps, enables customers to analyze what products they are buying. Apart from the higher costs, mobile solution also attracts additional users, means better earnings for you. Now you can decide what would be preferable for you in the long run.

# 3. Fitness activity tracking applications

The main purpose of fitness activity tracking apps is to monitor physical activities, not to control users’ workout process. It includes a sleep quality analysis, pedometer, calorie counter. For the people, who keep a track and look after their health, these apps can be proven as a blessing.