This week’s TIME cover story, “10 Ways Your Phone is Changing the World,” examines how mobile phones are changing the way we live our daily lives — from voting to shopping and participating in school. Mobile tech affects how we manage our health too, whether that means checking out our own X-ray on a doctor’s iPad during an appointment or, on a larger scale, being able track and contain diseases via text message in developing countries like Uganda.
For the individual consumer, it also means being able to keep yourself accountable for your own lifestyle choices, by using apps that can motivate and remind you to eat right, exercise, schedule doctor’s appointments and even get enough sleep. Following are our picks for the best apps for staying healthy.