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

Used to work fine on my Pixel 6. It was easy to use and seemed to be pretty accurate. But since sometime in October (possibly when my phone updated to Android 14, but I can't be sure), the app no longer measures distance accurately and can't generate a correct route map. Something going on with GPS, I presume. I had hoped the November update would fix it. Maybe there will be a December update that fixes it. Until then, the app is pretty worthless.

Used to be good, but I think something has gone wrong with a recent update. Specifically, distance data is completely erratic. One minute it's showing correctly in the app, then it's not. So my 12,000+ steps shows as 8+km (correct), and a few hours later when I check the app again, the steps are still correct, but the distance is showing as about 2kms. I sync Fit distance to another app, so this is really annoying.

I've used this app for years and it has been pretty steady in terms of quality. But the most recent update has made this app fairly useless. The GPS doesn't work correctly And by the looks of it I'm walking directly through neighborhood houses and buildings. If I'm exchanging my data for a free product the product at least needs to be usable on a basic level.

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