Fitbit app gets major update to version 5.0 and is now called Google Health
Google is rolling out update version 5.0: The Fitbit app becomes the Google Health app and receives a redesign and new AI features based on Gemini.
With the update to version 5.0, the Fitbit app becomes the Google Health app with a new design and new features. Google has removed some old features.
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With the update to version 5.0, the Fitbit app becomes the Google Health app, including the redesign announced last year and all sorts of AI features based on Gemini. The new app version thus closes the public preview released in Germany in April 2026 and is being rolled out to all Fitbit and Pixel Watch users.
Fitbit becomes Google Health App
According to Google, the Google Health app offers “all functions for tracking sleep, activity, and health data.” With the paid subscription Google Health Premium (formerly Fitbit Premium), which costs just under 9 euros per month, users gain access to the AI-based Google Health Coach, which includes the “Ask Coach” function, proactive notifications, adaptive training plans and summaries, and “multimodal/conversational logging.”
According to the company, this Gemini-based fitness coach is capable of consolidating all fitness, health, and important medical data, including cycle tracking, to provide users with a comprehensive overview. The AI coach is somewhat reminiscent of the one Whoop introduced a while ago. For example, it explains how training and sleep affect the body and, based on the data, advises whether one should rest or complete another hard training session.
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The free version of the app includes tracking of activities such as steps, calories, distance, cardio load, and daily readiness. It also offers sleep analysis, including sleep index, sleep times, sleep duration, and sleep phases. It also tracks heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, blood oxygen (Sp02), and other data. However, it lacks more detailed data analysis and the AI coach.
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Some known features are removed
In addition, Google has removed some functions with the new app: The previous sleep profiles and associated sleep animals, which are intended to describe sleep types, are gone. Furthermore, the estimated oxygen variation (EOV) is no longer available; instead, SpO2 data is now displayed. Social elements such as friends and leaderboards are also gone, as are badges. Additionally, there is no longer an “endurance fitness score”; this is now the more common VO2max score. New and much better than before is the homescreen widget, which, depending on its size, displays more than just steps.
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Since the new Google Health app is a prerequisite for using the screenless Fitbit Air fitness band, the update rollout should be largely complete by May 26, the market launch of the new wearable.
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