Google Fit: Activity Tracking

Google LLC

About this app

Get to a healthier and more active life with the new Google Fit!

It's hard to know how much or what kind of activity you need to stay healthy. That's why Google Fit collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to bring you Heart Points, an activity goal that can help improve your health.

Activities that get your heart pumping harder have tremendous health benefits for your heart and mind. You'll earn one Heart Point for each minute of moderate activity like picking up the pace when walking your dog, and double points for more intense activities like running. It takes just 30-minutes of brisk walking five days a week to reach the AHA and WHO's recommended amount of physical activity shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, improve sleep, and increase overall mental wellbeing.

Google Fit will also help you:

TRACK YOUR WORKOUTS FROM YOUR PHONE OR WATCH
Get instant insights when you exercise and see real-time stats for your runs, walks, and bike rides. Fit will use your Android phone's sensors or Wear OS by Google smartwatch's heart rate sensors to record your speed, pace, route, and more.

MONITOR YOUR GOALS
See your daily progress on your Heart Points and Steps goal. Meeting your goals all the time? Easily adjust your goals to keep challenging yourself to achieve a healthy heart and mind.

MAKE ALL YOUR MOVEMENT COUNT
If you walk, run, or bike throughout the day, your Android phone or Wear OS by Google smartwatch will automatically detect and add your activities to your Google Fit journal to ensure you get credit for every move. Want extra credit? Turn up the tempo on your walks by starting a paced walking workout and stepping to the beat. Enjoy a different type of workout? Select it from a list of activities like pilates, rowing, or spinning, and Google Fit will track all the Heart Points you earn.

CONNECT WITH YOUR FAVORITE APPS AND DEVICES
Fit can show you info from many of your favorite apps and devices to give you a holistic view of your health, so you'll never lose track of your progress. These include Lifesum, Wear OS by Google, Nike+, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Basis, Sleep as Android, Withings, Xiaomi Mi bands, and more.

CHECK IN AT ANYTIME, FROM ANYWHERE
See a snapshot of your activity history across Fit and your integrated apps in the redesigned journal. Or, get the full picture in browse, where you can find all of your health and wellness data.

KEEP A FINGER ON THE PULSE OF YOUR HEALTH
Breathing is one of the simplest ways to reduce tension and relieve stress. With Fit, checking in with your breath is easy—all you need is your phone camera. As well as your respiratory rate, you can measure your heart rate to get a better understanding of your body’s wellbeing.

VIEW YOUR DAY'S STATS AT A GLANCE
Add a widget to the home screen of your Android phone or set up a tile and complication on your Wear OS by Google smartwatch.

Learn more about Google Fit and see a list of supported apps at: www.google.com/fit

Ratings and reviews

Not bad but the app needs to connect to a phone's altimeter if available. I just did a 3 km hike with over 600 meters of height change and it gave me 9 heart points and 2500 steps. That means that my steps are over a meter (3 feet) long. I'm 160cm (5'3") tall. I'd have to be split in half and only connected at the neck to have that kind of stride. Yes, I've put in my stride length and the app is set to follow my movements like a lost puppy.

Not a bad app, although the mechanism to bring in data is not intuitive if trying to troubleshoot. And graph autoranging is amateur stuff - scales should not change period to period unless I want them to. Makes showing progress over time cumbersome. Lots to improve. Update: No changes since last review - shows lack of developer interest in product excellence - they just want the data.

Accurately tracked my walks until later last year, after which they are horribly approximated by a few straight lines on the map. It was around that time that the app asked me to review my privacy settings, so if this is Google's way of punishing me for not allowing them to track me all the time, I'm taking my data to Garmin. UPDATE: Now all the walks that I've mapped before March have disappeared and I can't view them anymore. This keeps getting better and better!

What’s new

• Measure your heart rate and respiratory rate using just your phone camera (selected devices)
• Turn up the tempo of your walks with paced walking in Workouts
• Find all of your health and wellness data in the Browse tab
• Minor bug fixes and UI improvement