The world's best fitness and health app has just been announced.

It’s official. The world’s top health and fitness app has been announced.

It’s called Glow and it was invented by Max Levchin, a web entrepreneur that’s best-known for his work on Paypal.

Glow is a brilliant app for anyone who wants to get pregnant – or, incidentally, anyone who DOESN’T want to get pregnant. It stores data such as your body temperature and menstrual cycles and tracks your ovulation. It also tells you when your chances of conceiving are boosted or minimised.

There’s one other really cool thing about Glow. It has a crowd-funding aspect where you can donate money each month; after 10 months, the money is split between all the couples who aren’t pregnant yet. Clever.

Glow won the title of best mobile app at the 2014 Webby Awards, which is essentially the Oscars for IT/technology people.

It was up against four other apps, each of which are seriously clever in one way or another.

To choose the top five apps, thousands of web experts sifted through 12,000 entries from all over the world – both Arianna Huffington and Kevin Spacey helped too. Take a look at the other apps, which very nearly won the title:

The Glow app (winner winner!)

Charity Miles (free): This app is actually epic. The more you exercise, the more that corporate sponsors of the app will download for charity. At this stage, they will donate 10 cents for each mile you cycle and 25 cents for every mile you run. There are nine charities you can donate to, such as Autism Speaks and Habitat for Humanity.

Win the hour (free): A Nike app which makes exercise into a really fun game. If you move your butt for five miutes every hour, you win the hour and you get a reward, such as a trophy. And who doesn’t love a trophy – even if it’s just within an app?

Touchfit GSP (free): 500 video workouts, all in one app. That’s the concept behind Touchfit, an app developed by an martial arts fighter named Georges St-Pierre. The workouts are based on gymnastics as well as HIIT. The app also has a fitness/recovery tracker and takes note of your personal scores.

Walgreens (free): Okay, this one isn’t so great for Aussie consumers because we don’t have Walgreens supermarkets here. However, it’s a great concept to bring to Australia. The app lets you chat online with pharmacists and it keeps track of your medications and prescriptions by scanning the barcode and reminding you when to take them/refill them.

And just because sharing is caring, I’ve included some other awesome health and fitness apps that are doing the rounds.

If you download any of the below, your health and fitness will instantly improve. You will immediately develop an insatiable thirst for green smoothies and you will always want to go for a run, even after a 15-hour work day.

Okay… not really. But there are some genius app ideas here:

The Walk: It’s a pedometer that also has fun games so that you’re motivated to walk longer distances. You can save the world (or at least pretend to) as you walk, with more clues being revealed with each step taken.

Pocket yoga: Pocket yoga provides you with 27 different yoga workouts in the one app. Handy for even the shortest of workouts.

Withings: Helps you monitor weight, blood pressure, sleep and activity, so you get a bigger understanding of your overall wellness. And it sends you nice little messages to encourage you to take care of yourself!

Gain Fitness: A personal trainer app that comes up with workout routines for you, depending on your goals. You can also give the app a little inventory of your available equipment and it’ll structure routines around that equipment. And it’ll track your progress!

Allergy Food Translator: Has 62 languages and will translate your allergies so that, wherever you travel, you can show your allergies to a waiter and make sure that they understand.

Pact: With pact, you promise to work out a certain number of days per week. The only problem? You lose money if you don’t work out. Or, if you promise to eat healthy, you lose money if you’ve been stuffing your face with cheeseburgers. The best kind of motivation, because nobody wants to be losing money…

Endomondo: This app can track any outdoor sport and give you exact stats on duration/distance/speed/calories. It can even help out if you’re doing something like running on a treadmill or weight training. Plus they have an audio coach which will encourage you along your super-fit way.

iTreadmill: A pedometer for your iPhone that doesn’t use a GPS, so you can use it wherever, no matter how bad your reception. And you save battery!

Zombies, Run!: For those who wants to add a bit of novelty into their daily workout, Zombies, Run! will do the trick. You get chased. By zombies. Pretty damn fun.

100 push-ups: A six week training program that will work you up to doing 100 push-ups. Pretty good, especially for those who can barely do five pushups. Cough. Me. Cough. (There are also sit-up and squat versions!)

Moves: This app automatically records any activity you do. It’s always on, so it might drain your battery life, but it does put together quite a nice little timeline of all the activity in your day. Facebook just bought the app, so expect to see lots of social media action.

Nike training app: I’m constantly getting people telling me how epic this app is. It has heaps of workouts for you and is essentially like a little personal trainer in your pocket.

Runtastic: This app claims to make exercise fantastic. I am not so sure about this, however, it does track your workout and motivate you to go harder and faster. There are also expert training plans available to help you train.

Fitness buddy: Your encyclopedia for all things fitness. It has thousands of exercises available, heaps of workouts and plenty of illustrations to help you work out exactly which muscle you’re exercising.

Gohogoh: Stands for Go Hard Or Go Home and has spin and treadmill classes that you can do if you’re stuck in the gym trying to motivate yourself to work out… alone.

Noom: Noom is clever in lots of ways. It’s also an exercise and food tracking system, although it’s really encouraging and designed beautifully. It also lets you link with friends who are also tracking their fitness so that you can swap tips and tricks.

Fiteo :A time lapse app for your fitness. You take pictures within this fancy grid thing and watch a timelapse of your progress – awesome if you’re trying to build muscle, tone up or just lose a bit of weight.

Interval timer: Does exactly what it says on the packet – times intervals for your interval training so that you can keep track of exactly how long you’ve been jogging/sprinting/whatever.

My Fitness Pal: A hugely popular app, My Fitness Pal makes it super easy to track your exercise and everything you’re eating/drinking.

Runkeeper: Track all your moment with minimal fuss. It’s not just for runners – there are plenty of workouts available to track, such as cycling and hiking.

Podrunner: If you’re sick of listening to the same playlist when you run, you need Podrunner. There’s a free and a pro version, both of which offer you very decent workout music mixes with a decent tempo for running/cycling/table tennising.

What are your favourite health and fitness apps?

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