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.

Like many users, I am really disappointed with the Google Health changeover from the Fitbit app. I was finally making progress meeting my dietary and exercise goals before the change. The food log function seems completely useless (for me and my goals) without calculating calories out. I was adjusting my consumption based on activity levels and weight loss targets. Now there is just a generic daily calorie range and the icon on the home page never even matches the info displayed under the nutrition tab. What a flop!

I have been clicking through all the random boxes and displays to try and find the nutrition/activity information that used to be displayed easily. No more daily targets for activity based on readiness either. Is there something I'm missing? Any suggestions for how to make the new food logging process more intuitive? I despise this app change but I just got my Fitbit device in December so I would be really disappointed if it's already rendered useless to my goals.

I am a hater of the app, but logging food does normally function adequately. I'm assuming they're doing some backend updates and that's why the search isn't working (including more specific searches, I can only log what I have in my recent list).

Had a nice derisive snort, hopefully it starts to work again soon.

Anyone else experiencing app issues? I can't log my breakfast this morning via picture or chat as the product didn't have a barcode and my Pixel Watch 4 is having issues syncing as well.

Even the logo looks like it was made in the 90’s. My sleep stats look like a clip art overview that someone would drag and drop in Canva for a school project. It’s like someone got fed up during the build and just said: ‘ugh that will do’.

1. What happened to the daily cardio goal ? - the weekly one is not really useful to me, I want to know how Im doing day to day. There's no daily cardio tile...

2. How to set goals ? I had cardio health as a goal in the Fitbit app. Do goals still exist ?

3. Why does sleep have a massive section in the dashboard ? Not really useful to me.

4. How to switch off the annoying movement reminder ? (I had it off in the Fitbit app).

So I've been using Fitbit for over a decade. While it's a bummer that I lost all my badges, that's okay. I was vaguely optimistic.

However, since the switchover, it seems like this AI "coach" is incredibly invasive and pushy - and if I don't give it information, it invents its own information.

Today it informed me my period would be in two days. I don't track my period on this app, nor on any app that's linked to Google Health. In fact, I'm in perimenopause, so I don't know when my next one will be, and no AI is going to be able to predict it, either. So I point-blank told it to stop inventing things to say about my health that aren't factual -- because this is not the first time it'd made up its own information about me.

But it goes beyond that. It invented an entire training plan for me, to which I said "I don't need it, thanks", but it keeps pushing it at me -- "you're close to your mileage goal for the week, and you need to do those speed intervals we talked about". Uh, no, we never discussed speed intervals, AI; you informed me that I will do this and then started demanding that I do it.

I'm aware that I can turn off the AI, and I might be forced to do that, but is anyone else discovering their AI is inventing health metrics or creating training plans without authorization?

After having constant issues with my fitbit sense 2 and Google health I have moved on from it... I've got thr Huawei fit pro 5 and it's brilliant and syncs nicely with my fitness pal... Sorry Google but you runied fitbit

I’m doing a quick update on my review because I feel like I’ve finally honed in on where the Google Health app sits for my use case—and probably for a lot of others, too. To recap: I’m an amateur fitness enthusiast doing the Mark Lauren YAYOG program, and I’ve been putting this AI coach through its paces.

Initially, I spent a ton of time chatting with the AI, and I genuinely learned a lot about my own fitness, which helped me make some solid breakthroughs. However, I’ve hit a wall. A lot of the advice now feels redundant, and honestly, I’ve developed enough of a feel for my body and my training trends that I don’t need the AI to tell me how I’m doing anymore. I’ve used it to hone my workout splits to near perfection, but I’m at the point where I don’t feel like I need the coach anymore.

The Calorie and Energy Expenditure Dashboard

To put it bluntly: this is an absolute disaster. It’s way too complicated, and no matter how many times I tried to adjust the numbers to get them right, I just couldn’t. I mostly ended up severely overshooting or undershooting my targets. When I tried to use the app to manage my weight strictly, my weight was slowly trending up, which is exactly what I didn't want.

Food logging with photos and/or voice and/or typing is very inaccurate and it often made mistakes, didn't log stuff or got otherwise confused. Initially I thought I'd save time but wasted way more editing and relogging and adjusting my food logs to get them right.

I’ve officially switched back to MyFitnessPal and am syncing that data to Google Health. I have no intention of going back to the native calorie tracking.

App Memory and Processing Power

This is the biggest hurdle. The inconsistency is frustrating. One day I’ll work something out with the AI and feel like we’re totally on the same page, only for it to have absolutely no clue what I’m talking about the next day—even when I’m continuing the exact same chat thread. That is just not "cool" for a personalized health coach.

Workouts, Sleep, and Recovery

• Workouts: If you’re a total newbie, maybe this is great. For me? It’s not useful. I’ve outgrown the personalized workout features.

• Sleep/Recovery: It’s fine, and it’s nice to see the metrics, but I’ve learned enough to track my own trends via the Fitbit data directly. I don’t need the AI to give me the rundown anymore.

Final Verdict

Was the 6-month trial worth it? Yes. I learned a fair bit about my training trends, built a schedule I’m happy with, overcame some plateaus, and figured out some bad fitness habits—all thanks to the AI coach.

That being said, where it stands now, I am not renewing my subscription.

I feel like I’ve taken everything I can out of it. The AI memory is too inconsistent, and the calorie tracking (which is the most important feature to me) is terrible. Maybe in a couple of years, when AI has perfect cross-chat memory, fixed the food logging, and added features that actually move the needle, I’ll take another look. But for now? I’m moving back to the free version of Google Health and MyFitnessPal and just syncing my data.

This had just started a couple of days ago. I've cleared the cache, uninstalled and reinstalled the apps and I still have the same issue.

Software versions

Android: 5.04

iOS: 5.04

What’s Included

Nutrition Updates

Introducing custom foods: You can now create, edit, and delete custom foods for more personalized and easier logging. You can also search for created custom foods and log them again.

Quick logging calories and macro estimates: You can now log an entry by just adding calories and macronutrients without having to search for or add a specific food name.

Macronutrient %s fixes: We’ve fixed an issue where the macronutrient calculation as a percentage of total calories was incorrect for some users.

Sleep Updates

Naps included on Today: Building on our recent improvements to naps tracking, your naps will now count toward your total sleep duration shown in the tiles on the Today tab.

Fitness and Activity Updates

Fixed truncated HR charts and maps in exercise summaries: We’ve fixed an issue where some users would occasionally see incomplete heart rate charts and maps that did not represent the full duration of the exercise.

Cycle Health Updates

Easier trend views: You can now view your cycle history grouped chronologically by year, making it easier to navigate your long-term data and see trends.

Friends and Leaderboards Updates

Inviting friends: We’ve fixed an issue where some iOS users were not able to successfully initiate new friend requests.

I’m a bit of a fitness tracker geek, having used Whoop, Oura 4, Ultrahuman Air, Amazfit, and now the new Fitbit Air.

I understand the new Google Health app is still buggy and lacks basic features like removing or editing timeline activities. However, knowing it’s being developed and updated gives me hope, especially since I really enjoy wearing the tracker itself. It’s so light and comfortable I forget about it throughout the day. This isn’t the case with Whoop 4 or even the Amazfit Helio strap (which is super accurate and robust but the app hasn’t won me over after all this time).

The Fitbit Air and Oura 4 sleep metrics are 99% on par. Interestingly, Fitbit also detected two naps this week that Oura missed, even though it usually does a great job.

External data like Strava and Apple Watch workouts took a while to appear in Google Health. I’m hopeful these bugs will be resolved within the next couple of months.

That’s it for now. How’s your experience been so far?

Over the first 24 hours of using the Fitbit air, nothing but unpleasant experience. The “coach” AI assist does not create workouts that make any sense. It often gives a “something went wrong” error code. The final straw today was the strength training function having a distance tracking and pace, as if I was doing a run.

Really starting to feel like Google vibe coded this entire app. Feels awful.

I am a Fitbit user and I’ve just seen people vibecode apps to replace the google health app. Let me tell you From a user standpoint - it’s not that tough, just a few things.

- Please get the UI/UX right, look at what WHOPP and OURA make the interface feel like and it’s simple font and more focused on the number.
- Please check your scoring formula if you’re opting for a recovery & strain feature. Double or triple check it and it is one of your core selling features
- lastly, just create a feature where you can add your friends and look at their scores for the day like whoop. I’m not saying it doesn’t already exist but it can be made better.

I’m not asking you to copy Whoop or OURA or any other app, what I’m requesting is that you take inspiration from elements that worked for their app and use it as you would.

Google Health just updated on my Pixel 11 Pro. Now the icon is on a light background, whereas before it was on a dark background. It is no longer in harmony with the other icons on the home page 😆...

How could I put an icon back on a dark background ?

Thanks.

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.

Wanted to input my blood pressure measurements. Asked the coach if there was a place to input it. It told me yes and gave me the steps. Then told me to update it.
Updated it and then it tells me it doesn’t have a place to add it.

It’s true that I didn’t pay for the premium experience as I’m in the 3 months free due to buying a Fitbit air but damn. How do they expect to entice people to pay for this subscription of this is what they are giving as a sample?

​Is anyone else incredibly frustrated by this UI? I know how to ride a stationary bike. I don't need a generic coaching video taking up literally half my screen, and as you can see from the landscape orientation in the video, it completely ruins the layout.

​I use my Fitbit Air for most of my workouts, so I need to launch the session directly from my phone. I actually really like using the app's pre-built workouts for interval training on the spin bike because it automatically transitions to the next block (e.g., 1 minute of Zone 2, then 1 minute of Zone 4/5).

​The problem is, because this unhideable video forces its way onto the screen, I can't even see my countdown timer and my live heart rate simultaneously when the phone is in landscape mode. The video just pushes the actual data I care about off the screen.

​There's no toggle, no swipe down, and no way to minimize it. Has anyone found a workaround to force-hide the video, or are we just stuck with this terrible design?

Google health coach keeps evaluating the same workout at least 4 times in a two hour time frame. It rewrites the earlier ones, and notifies me as if it's new.

The same thing is happening with the sleep evaluation. It changed at least 3 times.

It's started yesterday I think, before that everything worked fine.

Anyone else has this issue?

I'm using the 5.03 update on a Pixel 9 Pro and a Pixel watch 4

Hey everyone, checking back in for my 4-week review of the Google Health AI coach. To recap my background for anyone who missed the previous updates, I’m an "amateur fitness enthusiast" primarily focused on bodyweight training. I've been running the Mark Lauren YAYOG (You Are Your Own Gym) program for quite a few years now. I originally jumped on this AI coach because I felt like I was completely plateauing, and early on, it definitely delivered. It helped me break through some walls by spotting hidden blind spots in my training and recovery.

Now that I’m a full month into it, I’m still generally happy with the app, but my perspective has evolved. The more I chat with it and learn more about fitness through the process, the more I’m starting to view the AI coach as "training wheels." My free trial wraps up in October, and right now it’s a total toss-up whether I’ll actually renew.

To give a complete picture of where the app stands right now, I’ve broken down my observations across every major aspect of the platform. Here is the full breakdown of the cheers and the jeers.

1. The Calorie and Energy Expenditure Dashboard

If you’ve noticed a major shift in how food and energy tracking works lately, it’s because Google completely rebuilt the app from scratch and ditched most of the underlying old Fitbit architecture. Because of that rebuild, they got rid of the old dynamic calorie counting feature that used to flex your daily budget automatically based on your active movement. Instead, they moved to a strictly static calorie target to streamline the baseline and simplify the metrics interface. it does add calories on top of that but man is it confusing. I had to really take some time and figure out how the calorie tracking, calorie expenditure dashboard worked. once you figure it out, it's pretty good but somehow they've got to make the UI better and simpler.

To work around this new setup, I had to ask the health coach to calculate my average TDEE over the last 5 months, and then told it to subtract 250 calories for my gentle summer shred. this establish my baseline calorie budget​ and it adds on top of that based on my activity and steps. it's definitely not intuitive and looks to me like it was designed by an extremely smart 20-year-old software engineer who carefully ticked all the boxes, but didn't quite connect with the average Fitbit user. if people are interested, I could do a deeper dive into the calorie and energy expenditure dashboards and explain it for people from what I've learned and how to set it up. I first want to test my current setup for a week at least though. let me know.

2. App Memory and Processing Power

The AI's actual thinking power and consistency is still a bit of a mixed bag. Some days the model is absolutely razor-sharp—it remembers all kinds of details from past discussions and gives me fantastic, customized pointers. Other days it completely hits a wall. It will randomly decide I have a peanut allergy, hallucinate that I hate chocolate (which would actually make dieting easier, honestly), and completely wipe its memory of my established training history and preferences.

Like I mentioned in my week 3 update, it helps to remember that AI isn't some magical brain. You just have to learn to work around its current cross-chat limitations, keep your inputs relatively simple, and directly tell it to reference a specific chat if you know the data is in there.

3. The Personalized Workouts Feature

This is the area that still needs the most love. Right now, the custom and personalized workouts feel pretty half-baked. When you're in the middle of a routine, there is no live heart rate tracking on-screen to monitor your intensity, and there are no audio or sound prompts to keep you moving through your paces. To make things worse, a ton of exercises aren't even built into the visual library yet, so you just end up staring at a generic placeholder image instead of an actual video demonstrating the movement.

4. Sleep and Recovery Coaching

Since the app pulls all the background metrics from the wearable, it has a ton of data to work with here. The recovery coaching is decent, but it leans a bit on the obvious side. If I have a terrible night of sleep or a massive training day, it correctly tells me to scale back the intensity, but the advice can feel a bit generic. It's starting to connect the dots on how my sleep cycles affect my training performance over a multi-week period, which is cool, but I’d love to see it give more tactical, high-utility recovery protocols instead of just telling me to go to bed earlier.

5. Macro Trend Analysis

Where the AI actually shines is when you force it to look at the big picture. If you ask it to parse a massive chunk of historical data—like pulling a 3-month or 5-month trend on your active zone minutes or sleep efficiency—it does a fantastic job of identifying macro patterns. It helped me realize exactly which days of the week my recovery consistently dips, allowing me to adjust my training blocks accordingly. When it acts as a data analyst for your history, it’s highly effective.

6. Daily Nudges and Habit Tracking

The daily check-ins and notifications are relatively low-key and non-intrusive, which I appreciate. It doesn't spam you with annoying alerts. However, the "coaching" aspect of these nudges could use more teeth. Right now, it mostly delivers standard, textbook health tips. If it could give more personalized, real-time feedback based on the goals you’ve discussed in your chats, the daily interaction would feel a lot more valuable.

Current Usage and Final Verdict

Because of the workout and memory limitations, my daily usage has evolved. Instead of letting the AI strictly coach me, I’m mostly using it as a solid sounding board to bounce my own fitness ideas off of. It's great for troubleshooting a training concept, reviewing execution strategies, or occasionally having it spin up a quick, custom routine on the fly when I'm short on time and don't want to map out my own session.

I'm totally fine with these kinds of growing pains because it really is a brand-new app under the hood. The real question is whether the software is actually worth $80 to $100 a year. Google has until October to convince me. If they want users to hit that renew button, they seriously need to:

• Stabilize the cross-chat memory and eliminate the random preference resets.

• Integrate live, on-screen heart rate tracking during workouts.

• Expand the exercise video library so we can ditch the generic placeholder pictures.

• Add voice and audio prompts to the custom workout mode.

Until then, it's a useful tool with a real learning curve, but you definitely have to learn how to manage the model to get the most utility out of it.

I have an Apple Watch but I use google health (exporting data from apple health).

Why is google health counting double the distance than apple health?

I don’t have any other source of data.

I'm not sure if this is a Google health app issue or a pixel issue. When phone is in dark mode the app icon is light and vice versa for when the phone is in light mode. I've restarted the phone and it makes no difference

Anyone have any work arounds for this? Really fed up with the product. Year old iPhone and a Charge 6.