NHS Weight Loss Plan

If you're overweight, losing weight has many health benefits. Making small, simple changes to what and how much you are eating and drinking can really help you lose the pounds. NHS Weight Loss Plan is a free app to help you lose weight. It lets you:

• Work out your healthy weight and a daily calorie target.
• See your daily calorie intake, and a diary to track your daily food and exercise, plus weekly weight check-ins.
• Over 12 weeks receive weekly tips and actions to keep you on track.

Google Fit: Activity Tracker

Google Fit is an app to help you track how much you exercise to support your heart health.

Google Fit works by using the sensors and camera in your phone to track how many steps you take and how hard you exercise. The app tracks your heart rate and you can see your progress on a graph. You can set goals to be more active, and connect the app to other health apps. Google Fit is free to download and free to use. 

NHS couch to 5k

NHS Couch to 5K is a 9 week guide to help you start running and run 5km without stopping. It lets you:

• Choose a coach to help guide you during your run.
• Play music while you run and listen to your coach at the same time.
• The app can connect you with a community of runners that are also using the app.
• After 9 weeks of using the app, you may be able to run 5km without stopping.

NHS Couch to 5K is free to download and free to use.

KOKU (Keep On Keep Up)

KOKU is an app that provides tailored exercises and activities for older adults to improve mobility and bone health and optimise healthy ageing.

KOKU includes a fun onboarding, followed by daily exercises with clear demonstrations from the app's guide, Wilf. You can also track progress over time, including ability and confidence levels to personalise the strength and balance exercises for your benefit. You can also play evidence based games to improve health literacy.

NHS Active 10 walking tracker

NHS Active 10 Walking Tracker is an app that counts your steps and tracks every minute you walk fast. Developed by the NHS, Active 10 walking tracker is a free app that helps you to include brisk walking into your daily routine. It lets you:

• Track all your walking and how many minutes were brisk.
• Use a Pace Checker, to see what brisk walking feels like.
• Set goals to keep motivated and help you progress.

Feeling Good - mental fitness

Feeling Good: Mental Fitness is an app that can help support your mental health using music and guides you listen to, it is suitable for adults and children over 16 years old.

To use Feeling Good: Mental Fitness, you need a smart device with speakers or headphones that you can use to listen to the audio tracks. You choose the music you want to listen to, and change it to suit you, you can also listen to guides on topics that may affect your mental health.