Now there is another source of less biased information for your fitness app decision making needs. Arc, the app researching group from Applause Analytics recently released a report called The 2016 State of the U.S. Health & Fitness Apps Economy. It’s a long name, but the information it provides is pretty basic–which apps provide the best mobile experience along with the most relevant and accurate information. Out of the 8,000+ health and fitness apps available in Google Play and Apple App stores, the researchers concentrated their study to the top 65 brands with the most popular apps. They chose brands that had more than 10,000 reviews in the app stores, and ranked them based on customer ratings of both Android and iOS apps. Ten apps earned above average app quality scores of 66 or greater based on more than 40,000 reviews: There were definitely some apps that, according to customer feedback, have lots of room to improve. These apps all struggle in the areas of security, stability, elegance and content: This table shows the ratings of the fitness apps the report looked at.
