Deepak Chopra unveils health and wellness app Jiyo

Jiyo basically tracks users behavior and offers health and fitness suggestions based on their habits.

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Jiyo basically tracks users behavior and offers health and fitness suggestions based on their habits.

Deepak Chopra, who is an advocate of alternative health has launched Jiyo app for Android and iOS platforms. Jiyo is a health app that uses sensors to access data form users smartphones and fitness devices to provide tips to stay fit.

Jiyo, the brainchild of Chopra and co-founder Poonacha Machaiah is being touted as the personal wellbeing companion. It features content, including articles and videos from wellness experts. These include Eddie Stern, co-founder of Ashtanga Yoga New York; Dr Dan Siegel and Dr Mark Human.

Jiyo basically tracks users behavior and offers health and fitness suggestions based on their habits. The app comes up with tasks related to exercise, meditation, relationships and more. It also has a reminder feature.

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According to Tech Crunch, Jiyo is partnering with Gallup to offer a StrengthsFinder that helps users identify and reinforce their personal strengths. It is also partnering with Mindbody to offer access to a wellness-related classes and activities, the website says.

“I’ve always had this idea, I don’t know why, but the idea was that if I could reach a billion people and help them personally transform, we would have social transformation,” Deepak Chopra told Tech Crunch.

Jiyo app, right now is free but users will have to pay for certain services and advises later.