Best Tracking Apps for iPhone: Less Sit Around and Be More Active!

Best Tracking Apps for iPhone: Less Sit Around and Be More Active!

How do you do, guys? Being active is a good way to stay healthy and enjoy our lives. Walking helps us to be more active and it is easy to do. As much as we want our readers to read all of our articles, we want you to stay heathy too. Less sit around and be more active!

Nevertheless, do you wondering whether you have enough steps or maybe you need more steps each day? Our busy day prevent us from taking enough walk. For you who want to achieve some amount of steps a day, you could use your iPhone to track your steps.

The Built-in Pedometer on iPhone

Do you know that the newer iPhone (5S and newer) has built in app to track your steps? You could turn your iPhone into a pedometer and track your walking distance.

Open the Health application on your iPhone. Go to the ‘Health Data‘ tab. Tap on ‘Fitness‘ then enable the device to show this app on dashboard by selecting ‘Walking + Running Distance‘, ‘Steps‘ and ‘Flights Climbed‘ then flip on the switch for ‘Show On Dashboard‘. This app with a heart icon will motivated you to be more active by showing how much you move.

Another Application

If the built-in app do not satisfy you, you could install one of these recommended application:

1. Stepz


This simple pedometer app offer to counting your steps with low battery usage. It uses apple motion coprocessor in the background. Stepz do not share your data to the network without your consent. It store the data on your device. Another plus is this application keep your Apple Health App data. If you have an Apple Watch, you could also use it on that device.

2. Pacer


This second application on our list has simple and unique interface to keep you motivated everyday. Pacer groups people based on their health goal and interest. Set your goal and you could use it by yourself or you could share your experiences with other users. It helps you to achieve your goal by giving you smooth reminder to keep carry on. Your daily steps, distance, active time, and calories that you burn everyday will be automatically recorded by the application. In addition, it has option to syncronize with your other health and fitness application.

3. Wokamon

This pedometer application force you to keep your progress continuously. Raise your virtual pet, wokamon, by walking. Every step you take is counted as energy to feed, clothe, and grow your new pet. The more active you are, the more it grows. You could also play this virtual monster with your friends. Track your activity and check your stats daily. Don’t slack off and do your activities everyday to take care of your wokamon. Additionally, you could syncronize this application with other health app.

Don’t Burden Your Body

Roonby readers, too much exercise could harm you. There are some cases that people get injury because they are too eager to have the result. Remember that you want to be more healthy and fit. So, be generous to yourself. The recommended exercise daily is 10,000 steps. Take fewer steps if you are just beginning to be more active. It also applied to those who take this action to recover from injury.

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