With this in mind, EventBoard put dozens of wellness apps to the test to determine which ones are the most powerful for engaging employees in the benefits of a good wellness program.

Here's what topped the Eventboard list:

Keas

A platform designed to put the employee in the driver's seat. They get to set goals, track activities, and indulge in fun games that are subtly improving mental abilities. Keas is highly social, offering sharables like photos, recipes, and workout tips.

Endomondo

The anti-couch potato app. Endomondo helps plan participants track workouts, but it also provides audio feedback on those workouts, with helpful advice. Endomondo's special feature is the facilitation of healthy lifestyle communities, so you don't feel alone in the world of improving your life through healthy living.

Hotseat

This will put you on it. It's an office challenge organizing tool, creating teams that vie for such titles as “most stairs climbed” or “most miles walked.” The hook is that Hotseat sets office workers up to take two-minute activity breaks, in which they choose their activity and track it. Teammates nudge each other along the path of victory — and even the vanquished make progress and have fun.

MyFitnessPal

One of the most popular wellness apps works because it's simple. It helps you track calories of everything you eat and drink, gives you a running total, and also provides lots of good information to help people make informed and healthy choices.

Elevate

Being healthy includes mental as well as physical and emotional health, and Elevate is a response to all the research that shows that a healthy, long-lasting mind needs regular and vigorous workouts. This “cognitive training app” provides a range of mental activities to boost your pronunciation, recall, comprehension, and other mental skills — all wrapped up in fun game-style packages.

Meditation Studio

The brain needs rest, just like the body. This app offers more than 200 guided meditations that can fit into anyone's work or play day.

Power Nap App

The power nap is as old as the hills, but has never had an app before this one showed up. When you tell your boss you want to sleep for 15 minutes in the break room, you might get a cool response. But if you say your wellness plan has an app that everyone is using to get huge productivity boosts, the boss is liable to go fetch your slippers and read you a bedtime story.