Google Fit will shut down in favor of Health, migration tool coming later this year

I/O might still be a couple of weeks away, but it’s a big day for new Google announcements anyway. The company announced a rebranding of its Fitbit app to Google Health today, as 9to5Google initially leaked last month, but that still left the fate of the company’s other fitness tracking app up in the air.

Although the soon-to-be-rebranded Fitbit app has been Google’s preferred destination for collecting, tracking, and analyzing health data since the launch of the Pixel Watch, it obviously wasn’t the initial app utilized by earlier Android-powered wearables. That honor belongs to Google Fit, which the company initially announced back in 2014 just as the smartwatch revolution began to really take shape. But after revamps in 2018 and 2020, Google’s attention began to turn to Fitbit in 2022, with the original Fit app closing off its APIs to new developers in 2024 ahead of a planned depreciation sometime this year.

Well, unsurprisingly, the arrival of Google Health is the perfect time to kick this transition off in style. As part of today’s Fitbit Air announcement, Google has given us just a smidge more detail on what current Fit users can expect in the coming months.

As part of our transition to Google Health, we’ll also consolidate our health and fitness offerings. We’ll invite Google Fit users to migrate their data into Google Health app later this year.

That’s not necessarily surprising; again, Google had already effectively announced the legacy Fit app would die sometime in 2026, and that date still remains something of a mystery. We now know, however, that the company plans to provide a proper migration tool for existing data, meaning some of Google’s longest-standing fitness tracking customers won’t need to miss out on a decade-plus of metrics. In a world where plenty of cult hit services — including, frequently, Google’s own — disappear without a replacement, it’s nice to see a process will exist to get everyone onto a single app.

This also reflects the latest in the company’s effort to consolidate its own app library, building on the Pay/Wallet merger from a few years ago, and its RCS-fueled quest to finally solve its messaging woes. In a year’s time, both the traditional Fitbit app and Google Fit will likely be nothing more than memories of Android’s past.