Fitbit
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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Under Google, Fitbit has been moving away from its traditional standalone accounts, instead pushing users to sign in with their Google account. That will be mandatory this year, but the deadline has been pushed back.
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I’m not really a huge fan of modern AI. For the past couple of years, it’s just been shoved into everything online, and usually not for the better. Google, though, has really hit its stride lately in finding incredible, out-of-the-box ways to use AI to just make things better, and there are a couple of key examples of this.
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Besides the AI-powered coach, the Fitbit redesign introduces Material 3 Expressive to the Android app.
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A widespread issue is causing the Fitbit app’s food log to simply not function, but a fix seems to be in the pipeline.
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As the personal health coach preview gets underway, Fitbit Labs is testing more features: Unusual Trend Detection and Hypertension Study Lab.
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