Really helpful FREE mobile Apps! Do you know of any others?

I hope this doesn't violate the advertising policy....I didn't have anything to do with creating these apps and I definitely don't get anything for talking about them, but they look like a couple of awesome things to use alongside the MFP app to help keep track of everything involving diet and exercise. You can find both of these by searching your phone's app store or by googling them.

I also don't think either of these come from sites that compete with MFP...and from what I can tell they go together REALLY well. The first is the Endomondo app. It lets you use your phone's gps to keep track of your workouts, and even lets you map out a route online (using Google maps) that you can download to your phone, if there aren't already any routes saved by other people close to where you live. It helps you keep track of distance, time, etc, whether you're walking, running, biking, wind surfing, whatever! You can also compete with a friend on a particular route and keep track of one another's times. The free app has tons of stuff, the pro has a few extras, but not really anything I'd need. Just the fact that it lets me map out my route ahead of time and lets me know the distance and calories burned is awesome! I just found this, and I've already got a ton of cardio in today so I haven't tried it yet to see how well everything works, but it's got great reviews in the market. I have mapped out a couple of courses in town and downloaded them to my phone to try later though.

The other free app I found is Instant Heart Rate. It uses your phones camera lens to take an accurate heart rate. This is way easier than keeping track of your pulse the old fashioned way. I've tried it against the finger-in-the-neck method, and against the heart monitor on my exercise bike and it's incredibly accurate. From what I can tell, the only difference between the free and pro versions is that the pro version lets you save a history so you can keep track of your heart rate over time. But for on the spot checking, the free version works awesome.

If you know of any others to share please do, but to be honest, with these two plus the MFP app, I really can't think of anything else a person could need.

(Also my phone is an android, so I'm not sure if they are available for all others, but I'm sure they make something similar for iphone/blackberry.)