How to Design Your Fitness Tracking Apps 
Published: 2020-03-18 11:54:14

Do you work out and track your fitness through an application?

Or do you generally come across fitness tracking application ads?

If yes, welcome to the 21st century. In 2015, Apple introduced a new way of fitness tracking via an application. Since then, people dedicated themselves more to health and fitness maintenance.

Fitness tracking apps have changed the trend of working out, especially by motivating people to sweat out. Working out and keeping a digital track of your fitness motivates you on your lazy days. And this tends to grow the fitness app industry. Almost each mobile app development company has a fitness app covering different aspects of health.

The fitness tracking app is a perfect example of ‘What is visible, sells.’

The more people track fitness on a mobile app, the more downloads your app will have in 2020. Hence the money.

You can land into the market of fitness tracking apps and make yourself visible.

But how to develop a fitness app?

Further reading will enlighten you on ways to design a fitness tracking mobile app.

Before investing both time and money into the fitness market app, study, and analyze the growth rate.

Determine which feature of health care app you want to start without these three.
Activity tracking apps – Tracking physical activities on the app during the entire day, starting from the number of steps taken to calories burned.
Diet and nutrition apps – Personal health kit in your pocket. This app monitors food and nutrition habits and tells you to eat healthy to stay healthy.
Workout and exercise apps – Personal fitness trainer in your mobile app, will provide you with desirable exercises from trainers.
Steps for developing a fitness tracking app in 2020
The cost of developing an app varies depending on certain factors. Below are the steps to implement your business model into a fitness tracking app.

Select the monetization model 
To create a profit out of a fitness app, you can choose any.

Paid apps – Purchasing an app where a user needs to pay for the application before downloading.

In-app purchases – Asking a user to make a purchase within an app for features like diet chart or healthy online recipes.

Premium Model – Users will have access to the essential feature of your fitness app, but to unlock the premium feature, they will have to buy a subscription plan.

Ads – This involves both profit-making and branding. Join with other fitness-oriented business either by running their advertising campaigns or asking them to advertise your brand.

Sponsored content – Collaborate with fitness trainers and gyms to distribute valuable content to fitness app users.

Basic mobile app development feature 
To make your fitness app user-friendly, incorporate basic features, apart from unique features.

User profile: A personal account with all information, this would help the user to keep their data intact just by signing into their accounts.

Notification: To notify users with upcoming exercises or updates and reminders about workouts. The key idea is to make app existence in their fitness life.

Social sharing: Sharing achievement among your friends will make the user happy as well as motivate others.

Geolocation: This feature will allow users to see the number of steps and kilometers covered and boost their motivation.

Contact an app development team
A mobile app development company will have app developers to work on your business ideas. Launching an app on different platforms will require developers to work on android app development and ios app development.

Product discovery phase

During this stage, the development team will start with the functional specification development, creation of UX/UI design, and visual prototype of your fitness app to have a clarity of the product.

Technical documents

The technical writer will work on your fitness app’s technical documentation based on the requirements. It includes all the required information for the fitness app that a developer requires to start working.

If you are looking to develop a cutting edge health and fitness app in 2020 for your patrons, contact Sankalp Computer & Systems Ltd., a leading mobile app development company that specializes in developing on-demand apps for iOS and Android.