The 'Move Your App' Challenge Finalists: 10 Android Apps To Get You Moving

Jamie Oliver's 2010 TED Prize wish was for people to get behind a movement to combat obesity. "My wish is for you to help a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people everywhere to fight obesity," he said.

Partially as an effort to realize Oliver's wish, Snaptic, in partnership with HopeLab and TED, launched the Move Your App competition, which challenged developers to create an Android app that would "inspire and track physical movement."

A total of 246 developers from twelve countries and three continents registered for the Move Your App challenge. The Huffington Post is pleased to unveil the ten finalists.

These apps, created by developers from places as diverse as Cambodia and Turkey, LA and Seattle, enable people to use their Android phones to get fit.

The ten apps range from an augmented reality game featuring interactive alien enemies, to an experimental drawing app that lets you create art as you walk. Some of the apps use the phone's GPS and accelerometer to track your activity. Others take advantage of geolocation to make sports more social.

A panel of judges will rate the apps according to three factors: 1) Does the app get people moving? 2) Is the app appealing? 3) Does the app have "tech cred?" The winner gets an all expense paid trip to TED Global 2010.

Check out the ten apps below, and vote for your favorite.

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WalkSquare resembles Foursquare, but instead of logging the restaurants, bars, and other establishments you frequent, it logs where you've walked (and how much), so users can share (and show off) their activity with others. The developer, Soe, from Cambodia, explains that the WalkSquare pedometer not only offers a range of workout features (i.e. calorie counter, voice-based trainer), but also includes a social element that could get users "bragging about healthy walks, [...] socializing with like-minded walkaholics, and [...] getting badges to be proud of."

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WalkSquare resembles Foursquare, but instead of logging the restaurants, bars, and other establishments you frequent, it logs where you've walked (and how much), so users can share (and show off) their activity with others. The developer, Soe, from Cambodia, explains that the WalkSquare pedometer not only offers a range of workout features (i.e. calorie counter, voice-based trainer), but also includes a social element that could get users "bragging about healthy walks, [...] socializing with like-minded walkaholics, and [...] getting badges to be proud of."

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[Moore Margee]

10:42 AM on 05/27/2010

Congrats to all the apps that made it this far. Thanks for making apps to promote healthy lifestyles.

Margee
author of the app, Sleeping With the Laundry
www.moxiemom.com
Link if you're interested: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleeping-with-the-laundry/id363440930

[icoramba]

02:42 PM on 05/26/2010

Activity Tracker & Stridepad have to be the best apps shown there....we live in extraordinary times...these tools are so cool.

LR
http://road2riddick.blogspot.com/

[Akira5284]

11:42 AM on 05/26/2010

I was sad not to see my favorite app.

I use Cardiotrainer. It records workouts via GPS and you can set it to a variety of different activities so that it can better gauge your caloric use. It also has great music integration and a voice that gives you periodic updates while you are out doing your exercise. It also has a couple of additional apps so you can race yourself, keep track of your weight and set goals, and even an integrated facebook game in which you have to work out to gain points to get your facebook toon to do stuff,