Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’

More than a decennary since its debut and 5 years aft Google acquired it, the Fitbit app is officially rebranding arsenic Google Health. As portion of the transition, Google besides announced plans to sunset the 12-year-old Google Fit app aboriginal this year, though details astir migrating idiosyncratic information to Google Health volition beryllium released successful the coming months.

Google introduced a melodramatic redesign of the Fitbit app past twelvemonth successful nationalist beta, centered astir a caller AI-powered Health Coach chatbot that tin supply guidance connected thing and everything from your wellness to fitness, adjacent parse your aesculapian records. Now, the Health Coach is officially exiting beta. Fitbit users volition spot an app update connected May 19 that rebrands the Fitbit app into Google Health.

“The concern we've been making the past fewer years is virtually designed for this 1 moment,” Rishi Chandra, Google's vice president for wellness and home, tells WIRED.

Despite the app's sanction change, Chandra says the Fitbit marque is inactive precise overmuch portion of Google's playbook: The institution announced the archetypal caller Fitbit successful 3 years, the Fitbit Air, which you tin work much astir here. Designed arsenic a screenless wellness tracker that's ultra-lightweight and comfy to wear, it debuts alongside the caller Google Health app with simplicity astatine its core. Anyone—a kid, adult, oregon an aged person—can easy recognize the information the instrumentality produces.

“That tying unneurotic of this wearable exertion with the coaching acquisition is what's been missing for the longest time, truthful candidly, we were waiting for the Coach to beryllium acceptable earlier we motorboat caller hardware," helium says. “Now we person the Coach, you should expect to spot much hardware coming.”

The Google Health app is designed to beryllium the one-stop store for each your wellness and fittingness needs. It supports Health Connect and Apple's HealthKit platform, meaning anyone with an Apple Watch tin usage the Google Health app to parse their data. If you bargain the caller $100 Fitbit Air, Google plans to marque it truthful the device's information tin beryllium viewed successful Apple Health arsenic well, though this won't beryllium disposable astatine launch.

The app allows you to upload aesculapian records—you tin hunt for your doctor's sanction oregon code and log successful to the provider's portal, which volition mean humanities and aboriginal records volition sync to Google Health. Plus, you tin log thing you privation done the Health Coach, whether that's what you ate for luncheon to way nutrition, oregon if you broke your limb and privation to reconfigure your play fittingness regimen. Chandra says the app is designed to beryllium shareable, allowing you to stock wellness information with family, friends, oregon a physician.