The ability to take an ECG through Pixel Watch is a handy tool for keeping an eye on your health, and that app is now getting a slight revamp with a new icon and, well, the ability to actually work again.
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Google’s reputation would have you thinking it’s incapable of launching a quality first-gen product, but the Fitbit Air proves otherwise. Effectively billed as a Whoop competitor for the masses, the Air is a display-less fitness band that is capable of providing you with baseline health data for just $100. If you’re one of the many, many people feeling overwhelmed by the amount of screens in your life, disconnecting with a band as simple as the Air might be just what the doctor ordered.
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The Google Health app is replacing the Fitbit app, with the update having started rolling out over the past week. As Fitbit Air pre-orders land on doorsteps, Google has confirmed that it has sped up the rollout since it is required to pair the new fitness tracker.
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Google has rolled out version 4.69 of Fitbit for Android as the last update before the Google Health rebrand.
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What should a modern fitness tracker be in 2026? With smartwatches readily available — and for not much more than your run-of-the-mill Fitbit — it’s a tricky proposition, especially for brands like Google that live in both spaces. The Fitbit Air feels like an admission from Google that Whoop, the obvious competitor for something like this, is on the right path, offering a minimalist band that exists to gather data, not to serve as a miniature wrist-based computer. So far, I’m liking what I’m seeing from my time with the device, but not without some unsurprising concerns surrounding its AI coach.
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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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