New York City-based Noom launched a new Android app, a pedometer that tracks steps throughout the day while running in the background and only occupying about 3 percent of the phone's battery life.

With new routes to explore, distance tracking, pace sensors, and social media connectivity that allows you to share your walks with friends, one of these best walking apps can help bring more to your ...

Walking apps provide consistent, objective feedback on one of the most accessible forms of physical activity, says Rohan Khera, MD, a cardiologist at Yale School of Medicine. The key is to use the app ...

People who set daily walking goals for themselves and clip on a pedometer to count the number of steps they take go farther in life than those who don't -- a whole mile farther, in fact. New research ...