To celebrate the app’s 5 year run, Nike has made the app FREE today! It is usually available for $2.99 in the App Store. 

Here is a little about the app itself

Map your runs, track your progress and get the motivation you need to go even further. Hear mid-run cheers every time your friends like or comment on your run status, or outrun them in a game of Nike+ Tag.

- Download it on the go and start running anywhere. With this app in hand, you can track every indoor and outdoor workout easily, without a sensor.

- Record your pace, distance and run route using the iPhone’s GPS and accelerometer technology so you can see your progress over time and push yourself to go even further.

- Celebrate your best runs with fun, motivational messages from Nike’s top athletes.

- Get voice feedback during your run on how you’re doing, or tap the map to see where you are.

- Quickly send each run to Nikeplus.com where you can brag to friends, join challenges, set goals and connect with the rest of the Nike+ community.

- Activate personalized PowerSongs to help you blast past your goals and records.

- Broadcast your accomplishments to the world via Facebook and Twitter.

- Keep a record of your best runs and see if you’ve got what it takes to break them.

Grab the awesome runners iPhone app from Nike for free while it lasts. 

Availability:

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Price: $2.99

Reviewed at version: 3.0.1

Developed by: Nike Inc.

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I have reviewed 100 Pushups and 200 situps fitness iPhone apps here before.

SoftwareX is having an Easter sale on all three apps at $0.99 each. For less than the price of a latte, get all 3 apps and get your exercies regiment started.

• Hundred PushUps $0.99 (iTunes link)
• Two Hundred Situps $0.99 (iTunes link)
• Two Hundred Squats $0.99 (iTunes link)

Hope you all had a great Easter! Now, it’s time to lose those extra calories you probably consumed.

100 Pushups, 200 Situps, 200 Squats Fitness iPhone Apps on Sale - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2011/04/25 (RSS)

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RunKeeper Pro brings you the technology found in expensive GPS watch to your iPhone at a fraction of its cost.

Here is a brief description from the App Store

RunKeeper uses the GPS technology found in the iPhone to track your fitness activity, giving you comparable results to an expensive GPS watch at a fraction of the cost. Now, you can also enter your activities manually, including your treadmill runs too!

The intuitive and easy-to-use interface of the app makes it easy to track how far you went, how long it took, what your pace/speed was, how many calories you burned, and the path you traveled on a map.

Once your activity is completed, the data is synced to the RunKeeper website (www.runkeeper.com) where you can view a history of all of your activities, and cumulative totals of all of your vital stats. You can also share your progress with friends by posting your activities to Facebook and Twitter, and creating a profile page that allows people to view all of your public activities.

To celebrate the New Years, the developers of RunKeeper PRO are giving the app away for FREE until the end of January.

The app used to sell for $9.99. So get your free $10 worth of app today even if you have to wait until Spring to start running again depending on which part of the world you are in.

RunKeeper Pro iPhone App Goes FREE (was $10) - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2010/12/31 (RSS)

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When I came across an app titled Family Doctor, I normally would have brushed it aside. But, this app is from the same developers as the Starwalk iPhone app. If you have seen that app, you can naturally assume Family Doctor has to be a quality app. So, I checked it out.

Family Doctor iPhone app is basically like going through a flowchart. It acts as a quick-reference for your health symptoms. You answer a series of questions and based on your answers you will get a diagnosis.

This is so much better than googling for obvious reasons. You can narrow down to your specific symptoms and what you experience than searching broadly and coming across all kinds of results.

The app has charts for children, adults, men and women. It starts out broadly like what you (or someone in your family) might experience – not feeling well, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, etc.
Once you choose the most relevant symptom, you press start and start answering a series of yes/no type questions. Once you go down all the way by answering, you will get a diagnosis on what is possibly causing your symptom. It ends with a possible cause and an action.

For eg. for a headache which gets worse when I bend down it suggests trying steam inhalation. Also, it has information on what are ‘red flag’ symptoms. For instance, if a headache is accompanied by weakness in a limb, blurred vision, etc., call an ambulance.

The app comes with 150 symptom charts and should answer most common symptoms we experience. It also helps identify the symptoms that you should worry about and the ones you can treat with self-help.

You can also easily search for a symptom with the chartfinder in the main menu.

There are times when we may be able to sit and research. But, there are also times when we need a quick answer to take care of a loved one or yourself.

Your iPhone comes in handy and having an app like Family Doctor could be priceless on those occasions.
Family Doctor will cost you a cool $5.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Availability: App Store
Price: $4.99
Developer: Vito Technology Inc.

Your iPhone As a Family Doctor - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2010/10/26 (RSS)

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You can enter the date that you quit smoking in the settings, along with how many cigarettes a day, and how much your cigarettes cost, and Quit it will keep track of: how many days you have been smoke free, how much money you have saved, how many cigarettes you would have had if you did not quit, and how much tar you have not put into your lungs.

It’s been fun to check up on this app after quitting smoking. Whenever someone asked how long it had been since I quit, I would open up the app and tell them, to the day, how long it had been. This app also lists the benefits you should see by quitting, and the messages change with the amount of time you have been smoke free.

You can also connect Quit it to Facebook and let all your friends know how long it’s been since you quit, You can also copy your information to the clipboard or insert it into an email.

The only thing I can think of that would make this app more appealing, is if you were able to track progress from quitting smokeless tobacco instead of, or along with, cigarettes. This app is 99 cents in the Apple app store. I think it’s pretty affordable, as it tells me that I have saved close to $2,000.00 in my year of being smoke free!
Rating: 3 of 5
Availability: App store
Price: $.99
Reviewed at Version: V2.0.2, iPhone OS 4.0.1
Phorz

Quit it -Stop Smoking App Review - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2010/10/09 (RSS)

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EarMeter iPhone app basically is designed to show you, your ear’s biological age.

The app has a scale of different frequencies and suggested age of people who can hear them.

As you tap on different frequencies you can test to see if you can hear those frequencies. The app also has detailed explanation on how your ear functions and the different frequencies.

Mine seemed to be below par for the age range shown in the app. Guess listening to loud music with my Sony cassette player while in college has had its share of damage to my hearing!

The app sells for $0.99 and is a one trick pony. I grabbed it while it was free last week but not sure if i would have paid for it. If you have a need to regularly test people’s hearing causally (don’t know why you would), this is the app for it.

Or just wait for the app to go free again and we’ll tweet about it @TopiPhone.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store

Price: $0.99

Reviewed at version: 1.2

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if you are into strengthening your core with crunches, 200 Situps iPhone app is definitely going to interest you.

Just like the 100 Pushups app, 200 Situps just got a nice UI redesign and I love it. It sports an pleasing-to-the-eye blue colors all over.

200 Situps iPhone App

200 Situps is a 6-week core strengthening workout regimen. All you need is about 30 minutes a week to get to your goal of doing 200 consecutive crunches.

Here’s how you’d use it:

You’d start by tapping the Today’s Programme button. You will be presented with the first rep you are going to do. The top of the screen also shows you the reps ahead. Once you are done with the first rep, tap the button and the rest timer will start. It will again beep when there is 3 seconds left for your next rep and so on.

If you are ready anytime in between, you just shake your iPhone to start the next rep.

And you can always do as many as you can in the final rep and log it.

Once you are done with your reps, you can go back to the main screen and look at the log graph of your progress.

Plus, the Setup screen has a few options. You can reset to a particular day to start over if you are feeling like you are rushing or for any other reason.

Also, if you were doing reps without your iPhone you can also fill the log with the entries. Plus, the app has Facebook and Twitter integration if you are sharing this with your friends to keep yourself motivated.

The $1.99 I spent on this app is definitely well worth it. In fact, I went ahead and bought their 100 Pushups app as well and considering looking at the 200 Squats program as well.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: $1.99

200 Situps iPhone App Review - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2009/11/17 (RSS)

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Hundred Pushups aims at helping you strengthen your core through a 6 week program of scheduled pushups. I was sold at the idea and I started doing it.

How it works is that you get to loosely follow guidelines and you will get to do 5 reps of varying number of pushups. You will be doing that about 3 times a week. You would start slow and build on it.

I used to print the weekly sets in a paper and keep it around while I do it. Then summer came we started traveling more and soon I quit the program in the middle.

That’s when I found that there is an App for that!

Hundred Pushups iPhone App

Hundred Pushups iPhone just got a serious makeover and looks really slick.

Here’s how you’d use it:

You’d start by tapping the Today’s Programme button. You will be presented with the first rep you are going to do. The top of the screen also shows you the reps ahead. Once you are done with the first rep, tap the button and the rest timer will start. It will again beep when there is 3 seconds left for your next rep and so on.

If you are ready anytime in between, you just shake your iPhone to start the next rep.

And you can always do as many as you can in the final rep and log it.

Once you are done with your reps, you can go back to the main screen and look at the log graph of your progress.

Plus, the Setup screen has a few options. You can reset to a particular day to start over if you are feeling like you are rushing or for any other reason.

Also, if you were doing reps without your iPhone you can also fill the log with tho entries. Plus, the app has Facebook and Twitter integration if you are sharing this with your friends to keep yourself motivated.

Now, with my iPhone with me all the time (well most of the time anyways) I have managed to get through to the 4th week starting from the beginning again.

The $1.99 I spent on this app is defintely well worth it. In fact, I went ahead and bought their 200 Situps app as well and considering looking at the 200 Squats program as well.

I see myself using this app for a very long time as even after 6 weeks, I can just start over and keep repeating this program over and over again.

The recent release of this app had a bug that crashed it when tapping the log button but it has been fixed now. But, they have reduced the price to $0.99 this whole week so this is a great time to grab it!

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: $1.99 (on sale for $0.99)

Hundred Pushups iPhone App Review - Originally published in Top iPhone Resource on 2009/10/28 (RSS)

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