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5+ Best Mobile Apps to Reduce Child Obesity Levels

As per the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the age group of 2- to 5-year-old has an obesity prevalence rate of 13.9%.

HealthcareApril 15, 2025

Children and teenagers mostly use smartphones and tablets to play games, listen to music and use social media. So why not use that love of technology to help reduce obesity?

Top Mobile Apps to Reduce Child Obesity

1.

Charity Miles

Rated 4.8
Rated 3.4
  • Tech Specifications

    MetricsAndroidiOS
    Latest Version9.5.08.9.1
    Device SupportedAndroid 6.0 and upiOS 16.0 or later
    SubscriptionFreeFree
  • Top Features

    • Free to use
    • Includes ads
    • Includes up to 40 challenges
    • Easy to make money
  • More about product

    You can use Charity Miles to walk for money that you can earn by setting and completing challenges. The app tracks distance, timer, and more to calculate units of your workout. Accordingly, it helps you in raising money for your charities.

2.

Lose it

4.5
Rated 4.8
Rated 4.7
  • Tech Specifications

    MetricsAndroidiOS
    Latest Version17.3.10217.3.200
    Device SupportedAndroid 8.0 and upiOS 16.0 or later
    SubscriptionFree and in-app purchasesFree and in-app purchases
  • Top Features

    • Barcode scanner<br />
    • Snap and count feature<br />
    • Fitness app syncs<br />
    • Biggest food library database
  • More about product

    Lost IT is one of the best fitness apps for iPhone or iWatch. The app is an ultimate food tracker for weight loss that counts calories and helps you reach your weight loss goal. The app was launched in 2008 and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, CNET, Buzzfeed, and many more.

    You can easily track your food, weight, and activities that can help you reach your fitness goals. The application has a comprehensive international food library database of more than 50 million searchable items. So that, you can track your meals no matter where you are in the world.

    Moreover, you can also simply log your food by clicking a photo from your phone and uploading it to the app. But that’s not all, want to know in detail about the packed food you’re eating? Lose It can help you with that too. As one of the best fitness apps for Apple Watch, Lose It features a barcode scanner that gives you detailed information about the packaged food you’re eating.

3.

Super Stretch Yoga

Rated 2.9
Rated 0.0
  • Top Features

    • Free to install and use<br />
    • Includes animated flashcards<br />
    • Includes yoga stories<br />
    • Inspiring music through yoga poses
  • More about product

    As the name suggests, this Yoga app is designed to train kids in adapting habits of Yoga for their physician and mental wellness. The app includes animations, storytelling, and other such video examples to teach kids yoga. There are several skill levels for kids of different ages. Animated flashcards are also there with kids guiding how to do several yoga poses. Overall, this yoga app is a thoughtful project designed to help kids in living healthier lifestyles.

4.

Habit List

Rated 4.0
  • Top Features

    • Easy to use interface<br />
    • Flexible scheduling<br />
    • Reminders and badges o stay on track<br />
    • Shows streaks to motivate the user
  • More about product

    For anyone to lose weight, they need to form new habits which can be difficult, and this app helps with that. As the name of this app suggests, it’s more about building good habits, and if it’s about weight loss, it helps the same way.

    The app allows the user to keep track of the habit on a weekly and monthly basis. If the user is doing reasonably well, there will be a green light; else it would turn into red.

5.

Positive Penguins

Rated 4.0
Rated 0.0
  • Top Features

    • Teaches children to be resilient and deal with bullying<br />
    • Helps to stay positive on the weight loss journey<br />
    • Help kids to solve problems in a fun playful way<br />
    • Challenge can be sent to teachers and parents as well
  • More about product

    Positive Penguins aim to help children understand their feelings and change their negative feelings which a lot of obese children have. The resilience strategy of the game is based on the idea that negative stories that we know are not wrong, but sometimes they are not true.

    The game starts with four penguins that take the user to an interactive journey, where a positive decision needs to be taken and once done successfully, it leads to a more realistic track.

    Fighting obesity can be a complex problem, but by using a combination of mobile apps to focus on different actions, success is much easier to achieve. An app developer must consider some factors before developing an app for kids. All the above-mentioned apps are crafted for kids and take care of all the nitty-gritty that follows.

    If you wish to learn more about apps that can assist the kids with parental control and top healthcare development companies, stay tuned to MobileAppDaily and keep yourself abreast of all the latest updates of the mobile app industry.

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