The 4 Best Free Health and Fitness Apps of 2012

Staying in shape is a constant struggle, but a slew of apps out there can help you track your fitness.

If you’ve always regarded counting calories as too challenging, try a new app called The Eatery (available oniOS only), which lets you snap pictures of your food and rate the general healthfulness of the meal. You can post images, and ask friends who use The Eatery to comment on them. From your self-reported information, The Eatery gives you insight into where the traps are in your eating habits, and how healthy your diet was for the past week. Looking for a more-specific diet tracker? Calorific for iOSand Android gives you a food library to record your calories, and assigns foods a red, yellow, or green light depending on whether they’re likely to help or harm your health.

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