Fitbit

Following heart rate last week, the latest Fitbit stat pages to undergo a Material You redesign are Body responses & mood, Mindfulness, and Stress management score.

The fitbit.com website will be fully replaced by the Google Store starting next month.

After last year’s revamp, Fitbit has been slowly updating more and more of the mobile app, with Heart Rate stats being the latest redesign.

With the launch of the Pixel Watch 3, Google made the daily readiness score free after previously requiring a Fitbit Premium subscription. This is now rolling out to older smartwatches and trackers with some updates to how it’s calculated.

Google has confirmed that Fitbit as a brand will no longer be making new smartwatches, with the Pixel Watch series taking over that form factor going forward.

Fitness is a key focus of Google’s Pixel Watch series, and now a new leak reveals new Fitbit features for Pixel Watch 3, including a heavy focus on running metrics and tracking.

Fitbit today announced a handful of updates for Fitbit devices, including the Sense 2, Versa 4, Charge 6, and Inspire 3.

Fitbit devices can check for signs of an irregular heart rhythm, or atrial fibrillation (AFib), and Google is now making it easier to share that data with your healthcare provider.

With Google Wallet replacing Fitbit Pay in July, the newer service is rolling out support for American Express cards.

Since the big revamp last September, Fitbit has been updating more and more of the mobile app. The latest example is a Material You redesign of Fitbit app settings on Android.

The fitbit.com web dashboard is shutting down next month with Google going all-in on the Fitbit mobile apps for Android and iOS.

This is the least important part of Fitbit’s absorption into Google — seriously, where is the dark theme — but I hope its logo and brand identity survives. I’m specifically referring to the arrow logo comprised of dots, lowercase “fitbit” wordmark, and soothing green/teal color palette.  

Google has been working on the Fitbit Ace LTE for the past two-three years, and it shows. In my brief usage of the Fitbit-branded device powered by Wear OS, what strikes me the most — as someone outside the intended kid/parent audience — is how much of an end-to-end experience it provides.

The Fitbit Ace LTE is Google’s newest wearable powered by Wear OS and meant to encourage kids (ages 7+) to be healthy through games, while also serving as a parent-child communication and real-time location device. A monthly or annual Fitbit Ace Pass subscription is required for cellular connectivity, the Fitbit Arcade, and other capabilities.

Fitbit’s integration into Google continues with Google Wallet replacing Fitbit Pay on smartwatches and trackers in July.

Following the “Google Fitbit” branding change last month, the fitbit.com online shop is no more, with the Google Store taking over.

In recent days, the Fitbit Dashboard available on the web has been bugging out — by going blank — amid speculation that Google might be shutting down the site for an app only experience.

Earlier this month Fitbit started rolling out a big redesign to the sleep page and, now that it’s widely available, it seems like everyone hates it. So, what do you think?

The Fitbit app is rolling out a major redesign of its Sleep stats page, which we first spotted last month.

Google Design published an interview with the “Google Fitbit UX team” that provides an interesting look at last year’s Material You redesign of the app, which is still taking shape.

The Google Home app has added a new option to read out your Fitbit stats for the day when using routines on devices with Google Assistant.