From colorful jellybeans and gumdrops to your smartphone becoming your handy flashlight at night. Our smartphones have new ways to make our lives easier. Great new apps have astounded us. Now, even apps for losing weight and eating right are now made available. With just one touch of your finger on your screen, you will be able to download a suitable app that is all free and available on most popular Smartphone platforms.

Here are some of the best apps available online to properly lose that extra weight:

Ea Tipster

This app provides one practical nutrition tip each day, and will give you clues about the healthiest sandwich bread or the high sugar content of fast-food fruit smoothies. It is easy to use and was made by Canadian dietitians to give tips that are based on sound science.

BMI Calculator – Ideal Weight

The body Mass Index was developed in the 19th century by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet. A BMI calculator that will allow you to see where you stand weight-wise and where your target lies. With BMI Calculator – Ideal Weight, you will be able to compute your own BMI based on your age, gender and height. You will be able to reach your fitness goals by simply using this app.

Diet Assistant – Weight Loss

If you want to have your personal chef and trainer to keep track of your diet and weight loss, this app is for you. You will be able to get their healthy, personalized diet plans that include shopping and grocery lists. Whether you are a vegetarian, you like low carbs, or anything in between, this diet assistant will provide you nutritional facts, a weight-loss tracker, BMI calculator, diet and weight loss tips and tricks, and so much more.

Lose It!

Dieting is not effective if done alone, but if you know your friends are cheering for you, then you may get through one day of dieting with ease. Lose It! will allow you to add friends for motivation, share your favorite foods, exercises, and recipes, and be able to post your success stories to your Facebook or Twitter.

Just input your current weight and your goal weight, and Lose It! will give a fairly accurate estimate of the calories you will need per day, and how long it would take you to reach your goals. They have also included an online support community where you can join and find people that also need encouragement just like you. You can also scan the barcodes of almost any item and automatically pull calorie and nutritional info from an enormous online database that can be very helpful, especially when you want to stay within your daily budgets.

My Fitness Pal

My Fitness Pal will take your weight, height, goal weight and lifestyle into their system before giving their assessments. After that, the app will break up your goal into smaller goals that will last for a month after you started the app, which makes it a fantastic motivator. You will be able to keep track of what you eat using a database of more than 2 million foods. You will also be able to access calorie counts and nutritional information from local restaurants without the guesswork that involves the amount of your food consumption. This app will also let you keep track of your exercise and be part of a supportive community.

Gym Pact

Gym Pact lets you make a pact with the app’s community of users by motivation and by paying if you do not go to the gym. If you live with your goals, you can earn money, but if you don’t you will have to pay the other users.

This handy app, will also track you so it is not easy to cheat. The app uses a GPS software to know whether you really check-in at the gym, or if you are just watching TV at home. This app also syncs with the Jawbone UP wristband, and will give you a bonus workout if you complete your 10,000 steps per day by the end of the day.

Nike + Running

Nike provides you a running app that promises you to get you moving. The app has GPS and accelerometer to record the distance, pace, and time of the run. The app will tell you when you have completed each mile, and also share your progress with your Facebook friends. You can join group runs with friends, even if your friends are running somewhere else.

Endomondo Sports Tracker

This app has more than 15 million users and counting that will help you track your workouts, monitor your pace and calories burned, and monitor your exercise history. You can also sync this app with your social profiles to find other Endomondo users, which will let you create challenges and audio messages for each other.

Nike Training Club

Another great app from Nike that will help you lose weight when you go to the gym, on the road, or in the privacy of your own home. This app will give you a complete workout from head to toe. Their full-body workouts range from 30 to 45 minutes, 15 minutes for abbreviated workouts or workouts that target only certain areas. You can also save your favorite workouts so that you can find it again easily for your next session.

This comes with 100 pre-loaded custom workouts. If you still want to unlock other workouts from Rihanna’s personal trainer Ary Nuñez and celebrity athletes, such as Hope Solo, Serena Williams and Paula Radcliffe, you will have to upgrade the app. This app includes step-by-step instructions, demonstration videos, and so on.

GymGoal 2

Because of the success of GymGoal, the creators have now come with a better GymGoal. And, this is with GymGoal 2. GymGoal 2 is a combination of both cardio and strength training that is made in one tool. This app is made for beginners, and provides step-by-step instructions and animations to choose from. You can build your own routines from their exercise collection. The app can also automatically calculate what you need based on your current weight, then calculate your repetition maximum.