Google Health (Fitbit)

I miss the fitbit app so much. The google health design is terrible. Can’t find stuff, can’t personalise anything.

Voor Google Health (fitbit) werd je hardlooproute verdeeld per kilometer door witte puntjes op de route die je kon aanklikken. Erg handig voor het bepalen van de tussenafstand en het aanpassen van de route bij een volgende run. Nu alleen nog maar een begin- en eindpunt. Flinke achteruitgang met de Fitbit-app.

After 10 years I switched to Garmin. I’ve bought multiple watches and the Aria but the software is degrading. The Aria isn’t syncing anymore, the connection with MyFitnessPall isn’t working anymore and the new interface is just messy. It’s sad to see Google destroying Fitbit.
Update after Google’s reaction: i’ve tried to fix all the issues, it cost me over 7 hours. I’ve read the support articles, searched on Reddit for solutions and even multiple AI tools offered no solutions. The reaction Google gave on this review and in a lot of other reviews is just disrespectful to everyone who invested their time and money in Fitbit devices and uploading their data. Just actknowledge the problems and fix it.

Cannot keep up with conversations. The answers take so long my screen locks. Very frustrating

i absolutely hate this new app and i miss the fitbit app. i stopped wearing my fit bit because of this app

It’s not bad overall, but it keeps double-counting my calorie intake. I log everything in Lose It!, but for some reason Google Health imports every entry twice, so the calorie totals are incorrect. It’s quite annoying and really ruins the overall experience.
I even asked the Google Health AI assistant about it, but it couldn’t provide a clear answer. I’ve spent the last two days trying every possible synchronization setting across Google Health, Lose It!, and Apple Health, but nothing has resolved the issue. It’s massively frustrating.
I’ve only been using the app for a few days, and I’ll give it about a month before deciding whether to stick with it or switch to another platform.

The only reason I still used fitbit was because of smart scale weight tracking. This new google health app doesn’t support viewing more than a year of weight data at the time - which is ridiculous to me, weight management is a long time game. I’m fed up enough and will finally let go of what used to be fitbit

Feels useless after update, was good and easy to use before, now everything is all over the place and can’t properly track calories. Doesn’t let me put things in grams and just gives a unchangeable “serving size”?
Also can’t track fiber or sugar anymore ?

UPDATE: Inmiddels heb ik 13 paardrijritten geregistreerd sinds de overgang naar Google Health en mijn VO2max wordt nog steeds niet bijgehouden. Uit de documentatie blijkt dat deze functie nu vooral gebaseerd is op buiten hardlopen met GPS. Voor gebruikers die vooral wandelen of paardrijden is dit dus een duidelijke achteruitgang.
Jarenlang een tevreden Fitbit-gebruiker geweest, maar sinds de overstap naar Google Health is de ervaring sterk verslechterd. Scores spreken elkaar tegen en voelen niet meer betrouwbaar. Goede slaap, een hoge herstelscore en toch een lage veerkracht. Waar Fitbit vroeger inzichten gaf die aansloten bij mijn ervaring, zorgen de nieuwe scores vooral voor verwarring. De hardware bevalt nog steeds prima, maar de software heeft voor mij veel waarde verloren.

Die nieuwe AI coach is heel fijn; hij leert je echt kennen en houdt rekening met eventuele kwalen. Stelt een prima doel op voor de week, maar ook per dag. Ik word er echt gemotiveerd van.

The Fitbit air is great, and the data from it looks accurate and helpful. If only the app was, too…
Google, you really need to fix the problems below. This is essential to the app and devices being anywhere close to useful.
Workouts are broken in several ways (that seem to change from update to update):
1. sometimes, gps is not tracked if another app is opened during a workout. You need to switch back again to get gps tracking again, but it misses everything in between. This is strange, because in the workout summary it looks like it tracked everything, just without counting the distance.
2. About 50% of the time, no heart rate or gps info is tracked at all when starting a workout. Or it is? Like, the ai overview seems to have data that is not available to the user? Anyway, if you start a workout and the distance/hr shows a dash and doesn’t update quickly, you need to restart it
3. I can’t update workout types anymore! It just loads for a while, shows a success/confirmation, but doesn’t actually update
4. Workouts seem to auto-pause sometimes (and not auto-resume). I lock my phone, put it in my pocket, and when I take it out, it apparently only tracked for a few minutes. So now I have to check every 10 minutes if it paused for some reason or not. Very often, I find it has paused.
5. If you lock your phone during the countdown, there’s a very large chance that the gps/hr tracking is never activated
6. You can’t change distance for workouts which is especially frustrating given all the tracking issues above
7. When you change values for workouts, these aren’t processed everywhere. For example, if you adjust the duration of a walk because you forgot to turn it off, the average pace isn’t updated. This is just one example.
8. You can’t access the rest of the app if you’ve got a workout running… WHY? Also, while you’re at it, make it a live activity on iPhones
9. If you log a workout manually, without wearing a device, the ai hallucinates claims about pace, bpm, intervals, etc.

After the change to Google health less information, slower, and measurement much less precise.

Since the “upgrade” to Google Health sleep tracking is off every night . I can’t change the sensitivity for the sleepsensoring anymore for the Inspire 3… If you believe the trackers I sleep 3 hours a night. Well if so, I think you heard on the news someone in Amsterdam is roaming the streets telling people he is Jezus, naked..

We werken aan de kwaliteit? Dat is te laat, het had meteen moeten werken. Het is niet overzichtelijk. Ik verwijder deze app hier kan ik niks meer mee! Er had alleen een ander logo en naam gewijzigd hoeven worden verder niets. Balen!

I want the old Fitbit app back this one is bad. I can’t find anything it’s hard to see my stats and I don’t like all the push signals

The move from Fitbit to Google Health has been disappointing. After weeks of use, I still struggle to find what I’m looking, find the prioritization of information in dashboards confusing and the general interface just not intuitive. Please bring back the Fitbit app, which I have been very happy with for many years.

Fitbit air is okay, but for 4 days I dont get any HRV readings. Looking for solutions or I wil invoke warranty.

Going from Fitbit to google health is not an improvement. Food tracking is very important to my health and in the new version so much worse. The clear overviews of nutrition are gone and finding your daily log is almost impossible. A clear workout/activity tracker is gone and your goal load is no longer practical. Seriously considering going back to my fitnesspall for food and exercise tracking.