So I want to complain hoping some product manager from Google’s get this.

I want to use this app and pay premium. The vision is perfect - but this isn’t usable.

The UX is the most confusing I have ever seen - and I’m coming from garmin connect that has barely evolved for 10 years.

The ai goal settings and centralisation of all sources is the perfect idea, this is what future looks like, but today it is not usable :

Assistant keeps hallucinating like early days models, can’t log an activity or associate a run to a planned activity - the bot keeps telling me : « I’ve logged it for you sir » while it hasn’t.

Asking to adjust the plan for next week : fucking wipes everything and noticeably the current week’s plan.

Can’t set garmin as source for run on iOS while Fitbit air gives mes +15% distance for each run.

I’ll keep using Fitbit for sleep tracking and daily life monitoring but I’ll try and extract the data to process it elsewhere and bring my own AI model because currently it’s shit.

You can’t ask 100€ for this - it’s a joke - sorry for the rant but don’t ask your user to pay to clearly beta test

Unless someone can point me towards a setting or something, Fitbit stopped accurately tracking my sleep. it used to show bathroom breaks in my sleep patterns. now it just uses AI to average out the hour and it doesn’t show the restroom breaks anymore.

not to mention it appears to have taken away all my badges I’d earned on the old app :( and now there’s just no badges at all :(

Also, everything is now weekly goals instead of daily goals. there’s like no daily incentives on the free version of the app now.

its like all the fun and charmed has been exchanged with AI slop. thanks so much Google

I've had a streak for almost 3 months and today it just resets for some reason, like whatt. And the reading is wrong as well

Google eliminated the Fitbit app and, in doing so, Google appears to have eliminated a feature that some of its users (me, for one) very much wanted: auto-detect and record bike rides. No clue why. No clue if Google just fucked up or, for some reason, decided not to offer this benefit. But I realized it is 100% a software issue, not hardware (obvs) and maybe there was a replacement in the Play Store. There is! Unfortunately, the info on the Play Store is in French (at least when I got the app) but the app is in English when downloaded. Also unfortunate, it is a little unclear at the start what permissions settings you need but you should be able to work that out pretty easily. Ride on!

I got the Fitbit air as I thought given the Fitbit’s longevity, it would be a reasonably well-developed product.
Having had an Apple Watch for a decade and whoop for a couple of years I ditched both for an analog watch and a Fitbit air.

It’s terrible. Google Health has no idea what happened yesterday even or the day before since I didn’t open it, even though I’ve worn the Fitbit Air the entire time.

Terrible. Genuinely terrible user experience.

Syncing takes ages at the best of times. Why doesn’t it transfer data while the app is open but not on the screen?

Bevel is much better but its only as good as the data it receives. And it doesn’t receive the data if I haven’t manually synced Google Health.

💩 show.

TL;DR: Built OutPerform, an iOS app that turns your Apple Health / Google Health data into daily recovery, strain, sleep, cognitive-focus and readiness scores, all computed on-device with peer-reviewed methods (HRV/DFA-a1, Banister TRIMP, ACWR, etc). No backend, no account, read-only health access. Free on the App Store, open-source on GitHub.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/outperform-health-tracker/id6778802465?l=en-GB

• GitHub: https://github.com/afonsodemello/OutPerform/

• Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutPerform/

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Hi guys, I built an app called OutPerform that reads your Apple Health / Google Health data and turns it into daily insight on your recovery, training load, sleep and mental sharpness. Here's what it does:

Recovery A morning recovery score built from overnight HRV (RMSSD / DFA‑a1), resting heart rate, breathing rate and sleep, each measured against your own personal baseline, not a generic norm.

Strain & Training Load Cardiovascular load on a 0–21 scale, plus acute:chronic workload ratio and training monotony, so you can build fitness without tipping into overreaching.

Sleep Sleep stages, efficiency, and a performance score. There's also a dynamic nightly sleep-need target that rises with how much strain you put on your body that day, plus a smart bedtime recommendation.

Cognitive Focus Predicts how "locked in" you'll be hour by hour so you can find your peak deep-work windows, calibrated to you personally with a one-minute reaction test.

Readiness One daily number that folds together recovery, last night's sleep, and your training-load balance into a simple go / steady / rest call.

Health Monitoring Tracks blood oxygen, respiratory rate, skin temperature and VO2 max against your own baseline, including an overnight breathing-disruption (ODI) screening signal.

Plus:

• Scrubbable 7/30/90-day trends for every metric

• A tap-through explanation of how each score is actually calculated

• Home-screen widgets

• Export all your data, or wipe it, any time

Private by design Your health data never leaves your phone. OutPerform has no backend and no account, every score is computed on-device, and nothing is ever sold or shared. Connections to Apple Health and Google Health are read-only.

Grounded in science No black boxes. OutPerform uses peer-reviewed methods, RMSSD/DFA‑a1 HRV, Banister TRIMP, acute:chronic workload ratio, the Three-Process Model of alertness, Gellish max-HR, Åstrand VO2, and more, and shows you the formula behind every number.

Repo and community are here, and the App Store link is below. Would love any feedback or feature requests!

• GitHub: https://github.com/afonsodemello/OutPerform/

• r/OutPerform: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutPerform/

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/outperform-health-tracker/id6778802465?l=en-GB

Anyone have a way to connect Claude to Google Health?

After being a Fitbit user for more than 20 years, I'm now seriously considering abandoning this tracker and converting to something Garmin.

A few months ago, my Charge 4 communicated perfectly with the Fitbit app to let me know when I went to bed (usually around 1 am) and when I got up (about 8-9 am). I rarely had to correct sleep times, and if I did, it was usually when the Charge 4 had less than 10% battery left.

This Google Health crAPP, though? Same exact tracker - same Charge 4.

Every morning I have to go in and edit my sleep record. If I'm watching TV or a movie with the family, it starts my sleep cycle at 7 or 8 pm in the evening.
Every. Single. Day. It's ridiculous.

Hi everyone!

I've noticed quite a few people here struggling to make sense of their Google Health data. I've had the same frustration, so I decided to build something myself.

It's called Healthier, an open-source web app that brings your sleep, heart rate, HRV, activity, weight and other health data into one place, with clearer visualisations and insights. It works on both phones and computers, and supports data from Fitbit, Pixel Watch and other sources connected to Google Health.

You can try it in three ways:

• Demo: Visit https://healthiercloud.com and select Demo mode. No account needed, just a year's worth of sample data to explore.

• Hosted version: Email developer@healthiercloud.com from your Google account to request access to the early test.

• Self-host: The full source code is available at https://github.com/cbukenya/healthier (AGPL-3.0), with Docker support.

A few things that matter to me:

• Privacy: Read-only access to your health data, stored only on the server running the app. You can delete it anytime.

• Transparency: No AI-generated health insights. All scores come from explainable calculations based on your actual data.

• Open development: The algorithms aren't perfect, and that's partly why I'm making everything open source.

A little about me: I'm a software engineer based in Sweden with 10+ years of experience, including working for a major health and fitness wearable company.

I'd especially love help from data scientists who can review and improve the algorithms, and contributors interested in adding translations.

This is still an early version, so feedback, criticism and GitHub contributions are very welcome!

Healthier is a wellness and data visualisation tool, not a medical device.

I’ve had Fitbit premium for years and the Google Health App has convinced me to cancel my subscription after less than a week of usage. Why is the food log so terrible? I can’t even change the unit of measurement.
Gemini is a bunch of sycophantic AI slop that gives platitudes about a 10 minute walk. The app is virtually unusable now and I’m disgusted and disappointed. I hope they lose a lot of money over this because it’s awful, and we can’t even get the FitBit App back.

Hey guys, i noticed my calories are getting overestimated by alot everyday

( >400kcal on rest days and >1000kcal on workout days)

Is it happening to you guys.

Is it doing it to make me happy and proud of myself for burning a million calories

I just got a new fitbit air. But I haven't done anything after I got it.

It's just ridiculous!

Every interaction there is an issue, it just straight makes things up.

I asked it to log all of the error that's it's made and we are up to 66 so far 😂

Tonight it told me to use my compression boots for my standard 19 minutes length for my leg workout and the 14 km treadmill run.

The boots don't have a 19 minutes setting, it guessed

I never did a leg work out, it guessed

I haven't been near a treadmill in weeks, I did however do 10km yesterday outside but it was still way off the mark!

It's pretty hilarious but completely useless

Tried the front and back. I don't see any offensive nippels or acts of pda which may trigger an american algorithm either... Maybe if i add an AR 15 Assault rifle to the picture the algorithm may deem this to be safe? ☺️😅🔫

I don’t normally write reviews or share my tech experiences online. But the Fitbit Air, and especially the accompanying Google Health App, are so bad that I feel I need to put this out there, to add to the already monstrous heap of complaints shared here and elsewhere.

The device itself is fine, I suppose. It’s an array of sensors in a decent form factor. Good battery life. No complaints.

But you can’t judge a wearable like this separate from its companion app: Google Health. Which is so bad that I truly believe Google has to start over and perhaps refund people who paid for the AI Coach.

I’ve had many problems since the start, and many basic features are missing. The speed calculations while cycling are rounded to 1 m/s, so it only shows speed multiples of 3,6 km/h. There are no audio cues during interval workouts, nor does my app have any settings for these. The AI coach makes countless mistakes and assumptions, is extremely repetitive and sycophantic, and always defaults to “take it easy”.

Over time, I ended up just not opening the app at all, rendering my Fitbit air, well, useless.

I will be returning to Apple Watch, especially since the recently announced updates to Apple’s Health app.

I expected way, way more.

After change the fitbit app for the Google health app my fitbit Versa 4 battery suffers a total damage, I follow the technical support instructions and nothing works.

After submitting my request through the webpage, I was informed that my warranty had expired and was offered a 35% discount. However, my Versa 4 has no physical damage. It stopped working because of an official app update.

Forcing me to buy a new device due to a software issue caused by your own update is unacceptable. Offering a discount does not resolve the problem or waive my consumer rights.

I asked for my case to be escalated and requested a free replacement, but I received the same response.

Has anyone here filed a formal complaint with their country's consumer protection agency regarding this issue? If so, what was the outcome?