App for a healthy life

The food you eat could be either the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest poison, so warned someone. As fast-food outlets mushroom, Indians are becoming more health-conscious. And, tracking your calories is a tedious effort. Being someone who does not enjoy everything served on the plate and with taste buds difficult to impress, it's always hard for me to finally agree on a delicacy. If that were enough, I then start worrying about calories. The calorie-tracker apps don't help for Indian dishes. That's where HealthifyMe comes in.

HealthifyMe is a personal coach, more than a calorie-counter. Claiming to be the world's first Indian fitness tracker, it can be used even without a wearable device and is available on iOS and Android platforms.

Create your account and enter your height and weight: The app will set a weight goal. To achieve this, each day the user has to enter his diet details. The app's database gives you calorie counts for most popular Indian recipes, by the amount you have had.

If you do not have a wearable tracker, you need to enter details of daily physical activity. At the end of the day, the app gives daily and weekly reports. You can also have personalised trainers, dieticians and yoga practitioners advising you. These experts constantly evaluate your health statistics in real time through the app. However, their services are not free.

Areas where the app does not focus are the methods of cooking and the ingredients used, as this varies from person to person.