Wellness Applications: Key Aspects

In healthcare software development since 2005, ScienceSoft designs and builds engaging wellness applications.

Wellness Apps: the Essence

Designed for mobile platforms, wellness applications promote a healthy lifestyle and vary from specialized fitness apps that enable activity tracking, physical and mental exercises, or nutrition management to general wellness monitoring solutions. Using engagement techniques, wellness apps help users adopt healthy behaviors and monitor their physical, psychological, and behavioral state.

Core Features of Wellness Apps

Health state tracking

Automated (using connected wearables) and manual health and activity log (e.g., number of steps, heart rate during a workout, body mass index, jogging speed).
Nutrition log featuring meals’ calories; protein, fat, carbs consumption, etc. (users can either enter the parameters manually or choose a meal from the list in the app).
Mental health and mood journaling (for coping with stress, etc.).
Tracking periods, ovulation, and pregnancy.
Sleep cycle tracking.
User profile with key health information (e.g., age, height, weight).

Analytics

Daily logs analytics and alerting about positive or negative lifestyle changes (e.g., lack of physical activity, dehydration).
Suggestions for adjusting daily habits based on daily logs analysis.
Personalized dashboards with daily activity, nutrition, hydration, etc.

Self-care sessions

Pre-recorded and real-time coaching talks and mindset courses suggested by an app based on the available user information and in-app activity (e.g., stress management).
Meditation sessions.
Workouts, yoga, and stretching exercises.
Breathing exercises.
Relaxing music and stories (to reduce stress and improve sleep).
AI-customized diet plans (based on a user’s body mass index, weight goals, workout plan, etc.).

Communication with experts and other users

Public chats for app users (e.g., for sharing self-motivation tricks, getting emotional support).
One-on-one or group consultations with experts (e.g., coaches, nutritionists) to discuss users’ progress.
Information and notifications on a user’s friends’ sports activity and workout results, peer support.

User engagement

Goal setting (e.g., for the number of steps walked per day, protein consumption).
Competition challenges and marathons for app users (e.g., weight loss challenge, yoga challenge) split into daily tasks (complete a workout session with an instructor, run 2 miles, etc.).
Challenge milestones tracking.
Achievement badges or rewards (e.g., points that can be exchanged for exclusive healthy lifestyle content).
Achievements sharing on social media.
Reminders to perform a planned activity (e.g., go for a run, drink a glass of water).

Wellness education

Articles or Q&As on health and wellness (e.g., about breathing techniques for a mental health app).
Chatbots (e.g., sharing advice on diet improvement).
Health quizzes.
Information on nearby healthcare and sports organizations.

Security

Multi-factor authentication.
User consent on data processing.
Data encryption of user’s personal data to comply with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR).
User data backup.

Billing and payment management

Secure payment gateways (for premium functionality purchase, etc.) to accept payments through different channels (a card, bank transfers, Apple Pay / Google Pay, etc.).
Automated sales tax handling and user invoicing.
Payment failure handling.

Success Story by ScienceSoft

Customer

A Swiss startup that offers apps promoting a healthy lifestyle, physical and mental wellbeing.

Project scope

A set of engaging mobile apps (for iOS and Android) allowing its users to get complete nutrition data for hundreds of foods and assemble a diet plan depending on their blood type.

Project details

The apps provide users with:

Nutritive value information (including calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and Glycemic Index).
Recommendations on a suitable diet depending on a patient’s blood type.
List of color-coded foods (based on their compatibility with the patient’s blood type).

Project highlights

Information availability without access to the internet.

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