Health & Fitness, by the numbers

Health & Fitness apps sit at a 4.7 median rating and a median size of just 53.1 MB, a footprint that wouldn't turn heads in most other categories. People hand out top marks here without expecting video libraries or offline caches in return. Pricing tells a similarly modest story. Out of 49,912 apps tracked, 47,295 are free and 2,610 are paid, which puts the paid share at 5.2%. Among the apps that do charge, $1-2.99 is the most common price point with 890 apps, followed by $0.01-0.99 (724), $3-4.99 (537), $5-9.99 (303), and only 156 apps priced at $10+. Barely anyone here is trying to charge a premium.

App count and rating share barely relate to each other in this category. PushPress, Inc. publishes the most apps at 195, yet has only 12,564 ratings to show for it, under 0.1% of the category's 66,794,131 total. Sutra Fitness, Inc. (186 apps, 681 ratings), InnoSoft Canada Inc. (181 apps, 1,213 ratings), TeamUp Sports (111 apps, 1,231 ratings), and Trainin (90 apps, 0 ratings) land in the same spot, and Trainin hasn't picked up a single rating yet. Momence, Inc. does a little better, hitting 0.1% off 121 apps and 52,444 ratings. Add up the top three publishers by app count and they still hold less than 0.1% of all category ratings. Cranking out a lot of apps doesn't mean much if nobody bothers to rate them.

So where do the ratings actually pile up? WeightWatchers Program leads with 2,360,426, just ahead of MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter at 2,354,640. Calm (1,977,970) and Flo Cycle & Period Tracker (1,960,172) trail close behind, and Kaiser Permanente (1,076,690), Motivation - Daily quotes (1,068,183), AllTrails: Hike, Bike & Run (1,037,059), and Headspace: Sleep & Meditation (973,873) each clear a million. Not one of these is a gym-management or class-scheduling platform, the kind of software the high-volume publishers above keep churning out. They're calorie counters, cycle trackers, meditation apps, and a health insurer's own app. The lineup says something simple: people rate the habit-tracking and mental health tools they open every day, not backend software built for gym owners. WeightWatchers Program alone pulls in more ratings than PushPress's entire 195-app catalog, and by a wide margin at that.

Median rating and median size line up neatly here, and together they push back against the idea that bigger apps do better. Most apps in this category stay lean: 24,315 come in under 50 MB, and another 22,766 fall between 50 and 200 MB. Only 2,546 apps go past 200 MB, and just 285 crack 500 MB. With the bulk of apps under 200 MB and a 4.7 median rating sitting on top of that, size clearly isn't what's earning the stars.

Maintenance tells a similar story. 34,862 of the category's 49,912 apps shipped an update in the last 12 months, which means this is a category people are still actively working on, not one littered with abandoned trackers.

For anyone picking a Health & Fitness app, the takeaway is fairly straightforward. Publisher size doesn't tell you much: PushPress, Sutra Fitness, and InnoSoft Canada all carry big catalogs with tiny rating shares, so app count alone says nothing about trust. What matters more are the apps clearing a million ratings, from WeightWatchers Program down to Headspace: Sleep & Meditation, since that's where the real signal lives. File size isn't much of a filter either: at a 53.1 MB median, the best-rated apps here aren't the biggest ones. And if price enters into it, the $1-2.99 band is where most paid apps have actually settled, not the $10+ tier that only 156 apps even attempt.