Alongside its new Fitbit Air, Google this week announced that the Fitbit app is dead, to be replaced by “Google Health.” If you’d told me this would happen a few months ago, I’d be worried, but the end result actually seems like an overall win for everyone involved. Let’s take a closer look.
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Ahead of the Google Health app rolling out next week, the company has detailed what Fitbit features are going away or significantly changing.
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Google’s new Fitbit Air tracker is here and comes in a variety of different styles, but the best option might just be the special Stephen Curry edition.
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After months of Public Preview testing, Google is replacing the Fitbit app and launching “Google Health.” It’s meant to bring “together the best of Fitbit’s pioneering spirit with the helpfulness of Google.”
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Google started teasing the Fitbit Air at the end of March, and the screen-less wearable looks to be launching tomorrow.
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Spotify – yes, the music app – is expanding into video workouts in a new partnership with Peloton, and there’s a pretty big advantage over Fitbit here already.
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Google today teased an upcoming redesign of the “Fitbit Community” and “Google Home & Nest Community.”
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In addition to the Sleep Score redesign, Fitbit this week is rolling out version 4.68 of the Android and iOS apps as a sizable update.
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Over the weekend, we reported on the Fitbit Air and Google Health. We now have our first look at the Google Health brand.
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Fitbit Public Preview users are getting a redesigned Sleep Score experience with “actionable advice that will help improve your sleep health.”
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Over the weekend, we first reported the name of Google’s Whoop competitor as “Fitbit Air,” and now more details are coming out, including potential pricing, release date, and colors.
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At the end of March, Google started teasing a screen-less Fitbit band. 9to5Google can now report that this device will be marketed as the “Fitbit Air.”
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Google is working on a new Fitbit tracking band in the same vein as the popular Whoop band, and it’s been hiding in plain sight for some time now.
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After adding water and food logging, as well as making available to free users, the Fitbit Public Preview is now coming to more countries.
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Fitbit is rolling out version 4.66 of the Android app with all the new Public Preview features announced earlier this week.
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Steph Curry is Google’s “Performance Advisor” and the basketball player today teased a screen-less Fitbit band.
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Google is adding a number of new features to the Fitbit personal health coach today as the Public Preview of the app redesign expands to free users.
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Following a few days where Pixel Watch owners would run into wonky step counts and other stats, Google says the issue behind the scenes is now fixed in the Fitbit app.
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Google has confirmed that a fix is rolling out for an error affecting Fitbit calorie goals, while it also seems that stat-counting errors for step counts and other metrics on Pixel Watch appear to be fixed – but there is a workaround if you’re still having trouble.
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The latest Pixel Watch update is causing some hiccups, as users now report that their smartphone is seeing some weird behavior in Fitbit step counts and other stats.
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Fitbit today announced a number of new features coming to the Public Preview, starting with improved sleep tracking.
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As Fitbit continues to preview its personal health coach, the redesigned app is getting interface tweaks that swap out a key Material 3 Expressive component.
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Following the March 2026 update for Google Pixel Watch devices, a number of users are reporting that their SpO2 (blood oxygen) and skin temperature readings have vanished from the Fitbit app.
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After the initial Public Preview in October, Google is bringing its Fitbit personal health coach preview to international Premium users.
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