5 free apps for exercise, diet and beauty

Download these 5 free apps to track your exercise, how much food you eat, and even assess beauty products.

LoseIt

Log your daily food intake and exercise into this app, which gives you a target calorie limit based on whether you want to maintain your weight, or lose weight on a particular timeframe. Upgrading to $39.99 per year enables the app to work with devices like FitBit and Jawbone Up.

• Extra features: Monitor additional factors like hydration, protein and blood pressure; and create challenges with friends
• LoseIt.com

MyFitnessPal

Track your calories with its built-in food database, or use the recipe calculator; customize goals and view charts of progress.

• Extra features: Also track workouts, and join the online community for moral support
• MyFitnessPal.com

SkinDeep

A reference tool for those concerned about the ingredients in their personal care products—from sunscreen to diaper cream, shampoo to toothpaste. The app has assessments of 72,000 products and common allergens.

• Extra features: Use your camera’s phone to scan the bar code of a product to get a detailed rating
• EWG.org/skindeep/app

RunKeeper

Uses your phone’s GPS to track your distance, whether it’s walking the neighborhood, running on a track or biking on a trail. Offers stats for pace, distance and time, and has built-in audio cue “coaching.” Lets supporters watch live maps of workouts and races with the purchase of the $19.99 RunKeeper Elite Yearly Membership.

• Extra features: Allows you to control music during a workout; and integrates with FitBit, MyFitnessPal and other apps and gadgets
• RunKeeper.com

Fooducate

Use your phone to scan bar codes of foods for a quick analysis of ingredients. It tells you about the good stuff (nutritional info) and not-so-good stuff (fats). Foods are rated, and healthier alternatives offered. Three-month subscriptions with more details start at $3.99 for three months.

• Extra features: You can share scans with friends and family; check out comments from other users
• Fooducate.com