Fitness

Featuring exercise videos demonstrated by kids for kids, the application is also looking to teach children love exercise from an early age.

The study has also found that 41% of respondents would not pay for a health app, while 20% would pay a maximum of $1.99, and 22% would pay $2.00 - $5.99.

The year-long study with over 37,000 users has shown that people lose 7 times more weight by combining food logging and weight tracking activities.

FitStar Personal Trainer for Android includes four goal-based programs -- Get Strong, Get Lean, Get Moving and Daily Dose -- as well as Freestyle sessions.

The company will use the funds to speed up international growth for both consumers and fitness professionals, as well as to beef-up R&D activities.

You will need to bring the iPhone along for couple of runs/walks so that the app can calibrate, but after those few times - you are literally free to go/run.

Fitbit has also announced the addition of the Fitbit Corporate Challenges feature to help drive employee engagement; the feature will be available in Q4 2015.

Initially an Android exclusive, the health and fitness application has been downloaded by more than 350,000 users in 15 nations in nine languages.

The application is designed to help individuals find others to train with, participate in local fitness and sporting events, and stay motivated.

Called Lumo Run, it comes with a 9-axis smart sensor you would typically find in an activity tracker to monitor and alert users on their running form.