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 that 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 that you earn.

CONNECT WITH YOUR FAVOURITE APPS AND DEVICES
Fit can show you info from many of your favourite 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 ANY TIME, 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

This is the most frustrating app I've ever had to deal with. Not only is it inaccurate with step counting (by the thousands), but it consistently deletes steps as well. To the point where it feels hopeless to keep going to reach a goal because every time you get close, hundreds of steps disappear. I have no choice but to use this if I want to participate in the money back program through my insurance, but it's so awful that I may just give up on the program.

Frustratingly buggy UI. Different parts of the interface are frequently out of sync: the step count usually doesn't match what's shown in the graph. Other times, the step count will stop updating entirely for minutes at a time and just fade in and out with no indication about what's happening. I suspect that Fit will be on the chopping block soon, like so many other niche Google products. That's a shame, since it seems like it could be a solid app if it got a bit more care.

The app WOULD be great if I was able to edit or delete an individual meal from the nutrition menu. For example, I accidentally added a meal for 900 calories for today's date, when it was supposed to be for yesterday's date. I tried editing and deleting the nutrient info, as it was a mistake, but the app only allows me to DELETE ALL NUTRITION DATA. So then I had to delete all data and re enter the calories I tracked for a month. It's a huge flaw that many people complain about. Now I use Samsung

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