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Nutrition & Diet Planner App Development – Cost & Features

Just some time back our modern world doesn’t use to be this intense as it is today. This has brought up numerous challenges, which our present evolutionary state is yet to cope with. Among them, there are health issues and today we will discuss in this blog about an assistant, which you can even call a guide. It is immensely helpful in concern of diet and nutrition. Yes, a Mobile Application for Diet & Nutrition, through which you can monitor and calculate all things around personal dietary, diet apps as they are known as.

Now as the health & fitness sector is booming at a great pace, so an entrepreneur it is the right time for you to step into the rising health and fitness industry. An exciting and brilliant Diet & Nutrition app is all you need so hiring a top-notch software company for nutrition app development would be the best bet.

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About the fitness and nutrition application

Well, usually a food and nutrition tracking app is a tool helpful in keeping a log of your daily intake of food and liquid, track your daily activities, count the calorie intake/burnt, and capable of doing a lot of exciting and wonderful things which a diary and pen can’t do. All in all, diet & nutrition app is just apt to take care of your body and move ahead towards your goal.

Presently, the kind of options provided by a diet and nutrition app:

  • Hire Nutritionists & Dietitian
  • Calorie counter based on physical activity & food intake
  • Diet Planning
  • Healthy Food Suggestions
  • Water Consumption
  • Food Logger
  • Shopping List Organizers

Meanwhile, it is important to gain knowledge about the aspects which require attention and hence are more crucial to attain success in the arena of nutrition. So, here we present the important sections of diet and nutrition mobile application.

Registration/Sign-up page

This is the page where users sign-up to the app, through either manually or via email login, Facebook login, or entering OTP received on the user’s mobile number. Over here the user is required to enter their details, like age, sex, weight, height, food preferences, allergies, and other information. After acquiring the mentioned data, an App developer utilizes it to the best by sending promotional emails on a timely basis.

Diet wagging/ Food & Activity/ Logger

Food Log is the most integral feature of this kind of app, as it shows to the users the real calories their body consumes on a daily note. Hence, for a nutrition app, it is essential to have a comprehensive calorific value of even a tiny bit of consumable item. Like, the app may present the food’s name and along with that calorific value it holds with each bite.

Diet Suggestion

Now the reason why users download this kind of app is to gain access to a right eating plan that boosts their good health, isn’t it? Thus, a diet-plan suggestion page is a must. An app developer must suggest to the user’s multiple diet plan as per their input of preferred weight & food likings. Live-chat integration that links to a nutrition or diet expert can also be provided by the app makers.

Connectivity Wearable Devices

Wearables like Jawbone, Android Wear, Apple Watch, and Fitbit are prominent digital watches. The best part is they very much match the function of this type of app. i.e. keeps a track on wearer’s health. Integrating this technology has significant benefits for the user as the precise relevant inputs such as heartbeat rate, calorie burnt, per day, running distance, nearby ambulance, and various other essential things are easily captured by the smartwatch.

Apple HealthKit and Google Fit

With the use of APIs, Apple and Google allow other apps to exchange crucial data on the activities of a person. This way, your app doesn’t depend on smartphone’s embedded utilities each time the data is required on the steps taken or maybe calories burnt. Both Google Fit and Apple HealthKit apps have this kind of information already.

Push Notifications

As it comes to a diet & nutrition app, push notifications do wonders by keeping the users hooked to the mobile app. It is kind of motherly care the user receives in the form of push notifications, as they receive reminders to consume the right dosage of lunch or to have a certain amount of nutrition as they exercise.

User-Friendly &Self-Intuitive UX UI

The app should be user-friendly and have a kind of functionality that it can be used by people of all age groups. Like a “Help” or search icon should be inserted to help users find their way through the app to their desired section.

Integrate social sharing feature enabling users to share weekly/monthly achievements with friends on media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

A blog

Blogging is the ultimate way to attract the audience’s eyeballs and more and more app developers are incorporating it into their mobile app. People always crave useful knowledge and via blogs you can make people aware of weight loss methods, fat burning tips & exercises, food diet plans. It’s a sure-shot way to triple-fold traffic level towards your app.

Connect directly to nutritionists

Users might often require the suggestion of a doctor or a trainer prior to following any diet or exercise-regime, owing to particular pre-health conditions, in case they persists. Hence, add this feature to take your app to an all-new level.

Shopping Assistance

App developers can add value to the app by integrating Barcode-scan feature. Scanning the barcode of the products, app users gets to know a brief description that assists them in shopping. Your app can also offer to make a grocery list for people with a budgetary diet plan. This will definitely please the users.

Feedback Sections

Keep this section to receive constant feedback from the users in regard of your app. They can share details like how your app is useful to them, or what features can be added, and a lot more. This paves way for improvisations on a regular basis.

Additional Features:

  • Attract more audience via Loyalty programs
  • Real-time Decision Making via Real-Time Analytics
  • Receive Auto-Medical help based on alerts you receive on wearable devices
  • Feature-rich Admin Panel for Customers, Trainers and App Owner
  • Free & Premium Membership
  • Multiple Payment Gateways & Multi-currency Support
  • Marketing Tools & Advertise Management Modules

Technology Stack

To ensure the app smoothly performs all its tasks, there has to be a strong and effective technical framework. They comprise of:

  • Cloud Environment – AWS
  • Realtime Analytics – Hadoop, Spark, BigData, Apache Flink, Cisco, IBM
  • Database – MongoDB, Hbase, Cassandra, Postgress, Mail Chimp Integration
  • Debian – the Universal Operating System
  • Mandrill – for everything related to emails
  • Datastax – for Data Management
  • GWT – for Powerful Programming
  • Payments – Braintree & PayPal, Stripe, EWallets
  • SMS, Voice, and Phone Verification -Nexmo, Twilio
  • Nutrition Feeds – NutritionX, MyFitnesspal
  • Push Notifications – Twilio, Push.io

Technical Documentation

This is an initial blueprint before the software development and it is followed until development is entirely complete.

Design & Development

As both iOS and Android are having their separate development platforms, hence that you don’t have to worry about it. Now for the registration process, you can go with Facebook SDK or maybe any other login of some other social networking site. Storage space will be required to create a database of calories for every consumable item, and for that nothing works better than Auto Scaling web servers or Amazon Cloud Storage.

Next, to integrate web wearable, open-source platforms like Jawbone UP would be better, or you can go with Garmin API or even Fitbit API. PUSHER API can be used to send push notifications, where for Apple, its own notification service can be used.

Testing & Bug Fixing

Testing is an important step that comes post-development. Once the application is ready, it then needs detailed testing against several complex situations. After all, users would end up annoyed if the app stops mid-way or hangs as they are making payments. Hence, cross-verifying the features and functionality from every aspect is crucial. For this purpose, Google Analytics comes greatly useful.

Cost to develop a diet and nutrition mobile app

To develop an app, a team of professionals is required, like Project Manager, Developers, Designers, Testers and Quality Assessment Team. To ensure the development of quality apps, the app development firm needs to spend a good sum of money on experienced professionals. The entire cost of the app development also comprises of the payment made to these experts, and the rates differ as per the timeline and project’s complexity. Meanwhile, the average development rates in various regions are:

  • S.A. Based App Developers: $50 to $250 per hour
  • Eastern-Europe based App developers: $30 to $150 per hour
  • India-based App developers: $10 to $80 per hour

Now one can choose app development companies as per their region, like they can go with Indian developers or can go with other freelancers across the globe, as per their budget and convenience.

 

Aakash Singh Chauhan

Aakash is currently working as a Business Development Manager with Octal Info Solution PTE. LTD. - Singapore; a company providing innovative, futuristic, sustainable, cost-effective and practical IT solutions to clients across the globe.