By Chris Kirby on January 14th, 2012 This week at 148Apps, we started Health and Fitness Month, reviewed a cool app to keep your kids busy in the car, and investigated Apple's recent category changes on the App Store. Read on, citizen! This week at 148Apps, we took your New Year’s resolutions seriously and started our “Health and Fitness” month. Editor Rob LeFebvre writes, “We’ve already taken a look at some apps that help us all acheive our goals, and we plan to continue that trend for the entire month, with personal stories from our crack writing team, continued reviews, and focused features like our Favorite Four.” $1.99 Released: 2010-05-19 :: Category: Healthcare & Fitness Our apps-for-kids site, GiggleApps, offered a review of Odd Spotting. Reviewer Amy Solomon says, “Odd Spotting, developed by Micromicon Media Limit, is an “odd one out” game with 144 levels, the goal of each being to Read More

iPhone App $1.99 Our Review By Jennifer Allen on January 13th, 2012 Rating: :: ENCOURAGING An app that's ideal for those who are trying to get fit through walking. Developer: Price: $1.99 Version Reviewed: 2.2.2 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4 iPhone Integration Rating: User Interface Rating: Re-use Value Rating: Overall Rating: Two years ago I was unfortunate enough to break my foot rather badly, leading to being laid up for far too long. This also led to a slow rehabilitation period with walking being the only form of exercise I could manage. So I went on a search for an app that would make walking seem more satisfying, which is how I stumbled upon (no pun intended) All-in Pedometer. All-in Pedometer keeps track of every step taken. It doesn’t sound overly exciting when written like that but the huge amount of statistics involves makes it ideal for those in need of Read More

Some of you may have read that I began a new exercise routine – running – thanks primarily to an app called C25K which stands for “Couch to 5K.” Despite traveling and a recently busy schedule, I’ve been able to stay pretty close to the regular routine – even finding myself taking running shoes and clothes to Reno, NV, and Lake Tahoe, CA. When All-In Pedometer submitted a proposal for review, I decided to try it out and found that it’s an extremely powerful app for tacking my progress as I continue my efforts in exercise. There are good points worth mentioning in this oddly named app, as well as some unusual features. As you might see, the positives outweigh the negatives, and, for me, it might be more than I actually need – although I like using it to see how many calories I’ve burned.  I, personally, still use the Read More

...about my Polar watch. Use this iPhone app instead: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/all-in-pedometer-calories/id368180978?mt=8... Read More

May 25 iPhone News   9:25 am      (4) Comments Viaden Mobile, a leading developer of applications for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, today is pleased to announce the release of a professional All-In Fitness Pedometer application in order to satisfy the needs of the growing iPhone users community. All-in Fitness Pedometer 1.0 combines the functions of a hardware pedometer with a bunch of additional fitness and social options ensured by its digital format – so old devices can go to rest right down the drain. Viaden Mobile declares that All-In Fitness Pedometer takes a scientific approach to fitness. It boasts a high-precision step-counting algorithm, just like the one used in hardware pedometers. Thanks to this the pedometer can be calibrated, according to a user’s personal parameters, to recognize walking, running and jogging steps and work in different modes. Viaden Mobile’s All-In Fitness Pedometer not only counts steps, measures pace, speed, covered Read More