This app is intuitive and easy. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 only because I would love 1 additional feature… on the My Activity tab (I’m using an iPhone) looking at the full month view of both the Heart Points and Steps views, it would be nice to have the color of the circle change to a different color instead of just changing hues when you reach the goal for a day. Or even a check mark over the day like on the Week view. I still like the app and will continue to use it- it would just be nice to have a quick visual to see how many days during the month that I met the goal.
Excellent. Pure and good, period. This is a gift to us. Yet, some people have still complained: "Until it magically aligns with my Sparkle Pony Unicorn heartbeat ratio index, measures perspiration sodium levels (aligning with my home-based lab testing), and adds a drop-down choice for bi-weekly underwater hot Tai BocChi lacrosse sessions so I don't have to do so manually (THE HORROR), I'm giving it only half a star..." Seriously, folks. Get a problem. Like heart disease. Have it in your family? You must not. Most folks who DO have heart disease, know someone with heart disease, or lost someone they love very much to heart disease aren't complaining about something so positive in the fight against this beyond-crappy death monger. We are every-day thankful for the genius, hard working souls at the AMA and Google (and Apple - thanks for the app, yo!) who joined forces in the magical Google Fit to make the world a better, healthier place so we don't lose even more people we love to this horrific, extremely preventable disease. Thanks to every heart disease Avenger who is fighting for our lives. We are so fortunate to have you walking with us.
Impressed on Positive Heart Health, Not Impressed with Functionality
I was hoping this would bridge the gap between my WearOS powered fossil smartwatch and Apple Health so I could get more use out of the health data and the Google Fit functionality of the watch. Unfortunately no such features. The app has read only permissions with Apple Health so it only organizes data from that app into Google’s. It does not link with WearOS so data from the smartwatch does not go directly to Google Fit’s app so that is still a problem for me. I like that it puts the focus on heart health in a “weight watchers” kinda way— points instead of steps or calories to get a bigger picture view of how to improve overall health. But I’m not getting my progress counted from my smartwatch anyways. Overall, Google Fit just organizes information that already exists in a new way. I’m intrigued but probably won’t keep it.
Works as a basic list. Needs ability to edit workouts after posting, option to remove step count tracking completely (I track workouts like HIIT, elliptical and strength training but I don’t worry about my steps), diversify and add ability to change metrics based on exercise type (eg resistance and incline for elliptical), add recovery activities (stretching, etc). Not all yoga is the same - yin is primarily recovery and other forms are much more intense - this should be reflected in exercise list or offer a metric within yoga to specify the type. Heart rate log is not useful as it is only one snapshot. Better to add ability to sync with heart rate apps when logging specific exercises and perhaps show how much exercise time is spent in different HR zones.
I use this app to track my steps throughout the day. It seems to do a good job keeping track of my steps. I don’t have a watch or fitness tracker so I keep my phone in my hand while I’m walking. This seems to work well but my main problem is as I walk and keep a check on my number of steps, I notice at some point every day I loose heart points. I was up to seven heart points as I was walking to 2000 steps and as I looked to see what I had, my heart points dropped back from 7 to 3. This happens at some point every day. I would like to know why this happens. I don’t slow dawn my pace or change my stride or the way my arms swing as I walk so I don’t know why this happens. I would like an explanation as to why this happens every day during my walk.
Fit worked great for nearly 3 weeks, and then it completely desyced from Health, losing roughly 2000 steps every walk. Threads about this get locked by Google claiming it’s Health’s fault, however their troubleshooting doesn’t work. It’s a pull issue with Fit and it gets confused. Refresh doesn’t work. Needs a manual sync option. Daily goals are meaningless if this doesn’t properly keep track of things. There are enough complaints about this to be a priority issue, but Google refuses to acknowledge it’s an issue with their app. Update: it still just inexplicably breaks. You need to uninstall and reinstall to get it to sync. It’s crazy how they will deflect this problem as an apple health problem when clearly it has something to do with fit just ignoring the data after a while.
Wanted to see what the Google fit app was like as someone on the Fitbit forum stated Google appeared to have bought Fitbit and took all the good features and put them in the Google app. For background, the fitbit app received an update that took away many great tracking features and enraged 1000s of customers. Apparently you can’t connect the Fitbit app or a Fitbit device to the Google fit app. Really absurd in my opinion, and settles my decision to get a Garmin tracker or watch that is 1/2 the price of whatever garbage watches Google is putting out these days. Looks like Google bought out yet another company, did nothing good with the tech they acquired or weren’t intelligent enough to do anything with it, and then trashed the app in an attempt to increase their market share.
I am an iPhone/watch user and for me this app fills in important gap which is that it provides one number to evaluate the quality of daily exercise, i.e. the Heart Points. This is something which Apple health is missing as step counts, exercise minutes, etc. don’t do the job. So I’m excited about this! What is needed now is a widget and an Apple Watch app with a complication… It would be perfect to be able to see the heart points whenever you look at the watch. Add those features and I’ll go five stars.
I love using Google Fit to track my workouts and check my health stats. I have been very happy with it syncing with my Watch Ultra but within the last several weeks I have noticed I am losing Heart Points after my workout. Today for instance when I left the gym and synced my data to the GF app I had 25 heart points. A bit later it now is reduced to 18 heart points?? I had been checking to see if the app needed an update and while it didn’t show as needing one when I searched for the app to leave this review it showed as needing to be updated. Hopefully this was the issue?
The app in question is a very strong reliable app it is free ( unlike some competitors ). links to your google account. and helps get you working out. Although it does have its problems I wish it could link up to your fit bit and I also wish it could have instructional daily workout videos. All the “problems” with the app aren’t necessarily problems but could add to it. To sum it up more people should know and use this app
Google = Microsoft 20 ago - Fat big dying dinosaur. This app is so crappy and it doesn’t provide the correct step count for my daily power walk. Today, I did more than 5100 steps already but only record 2800 steps. The same issue has been happening for the past 2 months. I do consider Google product inferior product which is not really for prime time. If Google has no interest to make a good product in Apple App Store, please just leave and don’t bloat the Apple eco system for this crappy software. pS. It ignores power walking , jogging, hiking and running step counts so you can only use it for walking but not other exercises.
I enjoy the google fit app. However, I wish I could edit a workout after I complete it. For instance, I used my watch to record my workout and accidentally chose walk instead of run and started it ten minutes into my run. I’m unable to fix this now that it’s entered and although I realize it’s my mistake for entering it wrong I feel like it’d be easy enough for them to make it so I can adjust the time I started and the type of workout it was so I could get more accurate feedback.
I love Google Fit. Been using it for years.. but lately for the past two months. It has not been accurate on my miles. I use it for my mileage for machine exercises. However. When walking, it’s not giving me the right miles. I also use the apple tracker and the numbers from the GF is behind. This needs to be fixed. I also noticed that the numbers sometime retract back too.
I loved this app when I first started using it! It would track directly from my Apple Watch series 6 so I never forgot to enter a workout and I loved the weekly reports. Then, data started to just disappear from my workouts every day! I would earn 26 heart points with my Tai chi workout then thirty minutes later it would drop to 7! Or my Tuesday 26 points would be completely gone when I looked on Thursday!! Not just frustrating, it literally makes this app useless for any serious tracking. Very disappointing.
I love this app. I wish I knew earlier about this app, my workout would have been more easier. Before I used to workout more or less and had no tack of it. But this app made it so easy to keep my record and tells me exactly how much I need to walk or run today. It makes me crave more everyday to workout more and more. So thankful for this app. Highly recommended
I use a Wear OS smartwatch (like it more than the Apple Watch) but Google Fit doesn’t have a way to sync data between itself and Apple Health. That means my watch is tracking steps, my phone is tracking steps, and if I forget one of them for an hour or two I don’t have a way to reconcile them together. Google can read from Apple Health but not write to it. To summarize: if you’re firmly in the Google ecosystem, Google Fit is great. If you’re split across the two (like me) or dipping a toe into Google, this app doesn’t do anything for you.
Apple health has a thing where if you track your period consistently, it can tell you a guesstimate of when your following 3 or 4 periods should begin. It’s a great tool when planning vacations or hoping a certain visitor isn’t making an appearance. Basically… do something similar to what they did and you have me 100% on board.
App seems to no longer have the ability to track a workout, only has the ability to add a workout after it’s done. I loved the track feature since I could keep an eye on my distance as I was running. Additionally, it seems like it no longer keeps track of my steps automatically. I have the most updated version, but nothing is being tracked. It always says 0 steps and 0 heart points even after a run.
I am frustrated that Google Fit will alert me that I have reached my steps goal and my heart points and then the tracking ring would suddenly move backwards and deduct heart points and about 1,300-2,000 steps. I walk the same distance, same pace, and the same time duration but there are days that wouldn’t show that I’ve reached my goals. Sometimes, I would see that I have reached my steps and heart points goals for the week but would see some days with incomplete rings the following day.
This app hasn’t been updated in two months Google. What’s going on? I’m running into syncing issues with my WearOS watch now that I never had before. I love this app and use it every day, but the lack of continuity between watch and phone has become increasingly frustrated. My phone is still two workouts behind my watch and I did those workouts earlier this week. Please fix this issue, it is incredibly frustrating as a user.
Absolutely useless. Replaced my old FitBit with a new smart watch that uses WearOS and Google Fit to track activity. I love the watch, but I HATE HATE HATE this app. FitBit offers SO many more things than this one does, nutrition tracking and period tracking among them. And often my watch won’t track my steps or other activity despite the fact that I have it synced with my phone. So I’m reduced to using my watch as a really high-end timepiece instead of the stuff it’s actually intended for, and using my FitBit for actual health tracking.
Hello, I love the Google Fit app, but there was a change I didn’t like. Now users can only log a workout after you’re done. It would be great if we could have the track while you workout option back especially for short periods like doing jumping jacks or push-ups.
I want to track my blood pressure, but you have to click through several screens and search for the tracker every time. Also, there isn’t an option to change my gender in settings, so when I hit the “+” it prompts me to track my period; I’m a male. My google profile says male, but I guess it doesn’t pull data from our google profile, which seems dumb. The “+” on the main screen needs to have a settings editor to what I want to track or do. Basic stuff.
The whole point of having an app on the phone is that you can track what you’ve been using on your personal fitness device (smart watch, heart rate monitor). For over a week now the app on the phone will not record my workouts that I’ve started from the watch and thusly isn’t syncing the data from watch to phone. Idk what the problem is but it needs to be fixed. First time anything like this has happened on a google device for me
Overall a good app. A good way to keep track of your workouts. I have this app synced with the exercise app "fiton" and it does not always record my workouts accurately. For example, for some workouts, Google fit says I've only done 1 minute of exercise, when in fact it was 30 minutes! Good app overall but it's not always accurate.
Poorly done app. Opened it up one my iPad and it was small with poor graphics. Looks like maybe the first app ever designed. Gives two choices at start up, to track steps or track heart points. I am doing neither, I am trying to track actual workouts, and calories burns. Did not give it much of a chance beyond this since there are so many activity trackers out there that are better designed. Had better hopes for this having the Google name
I would like to say it’s helped me become more aware of how physically active I am, I would love for it to track my heart points better though. I ran about 3 miles and it didn’t record any of my running, it’s a minor problem but still frustrating trying to track my progress.
I really liked the app before this new update where the move points were switched with steps. I don’t have the luxury to walk around a lot . At most, I get about 2,000 steps a day. I found it more motivating to log my move points, because it counted for any work out I did. I think steps and move points to be an option and let the user pick which one works best for their fitness lifestyle.
Seriously I would use this if developers take away the move minutes. I shouldn’t have to add 15-20 minutes to my exercise just to get the right calorie count. When I put in I have been doing XYZ exercise for 45-60 minutes, I have been moving those entire minutes. It’s entirely discouraging to have my workout dialed back from what I know it was and makes the app unreliable to use.
Eventually it stops responding, especially on my watch
Works for a while flawlessly, then the heart monitor will start to not respond , after getting that to work , later on the workout feature starts to give a similar message… cannot start xxxxx and my only option is to reset… eventually it gets redundant… so it’s a useless app for me , as I’ve installed it after updates thinking those issues will resolve … oh well… when it works , it works nicely …
This is another great Google app, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. Sometimes it doesn’t sync from Health, which is annoying. Also, you can’t add steps manually. Overall I like it but I expected more functionality and less bugs.
I truly appreciate this app and the hard work that goes into maintaining it. Keeping track of my daily steps is extremely important to me and when the Google Fit app rolls back or does not count my steps accurately it can be a bit frustrating. :(
Only successfully measures my heart rate about half the time, if I’m being generous. I also don’t like that I can’t edit workouts after entering them, and that I can’t choose to not have a steps goal since steps aren’t what I’m into fitness-wise. Overall it’s ok for tracking workouts and I like when the heart rate monitor works, but I’d like more options and consistency.
Suggestion introduce Google Fit Rewards take part in health related Market Research like track your steps, track heart rate, and other research to earn points that can be redeemed for PayPal cash or gift cards for stores and restaurants all this data can be used for Market research activities thank you
Generic note for the day? Journal could inc diary notes
I was hoping when I click the + in an activity I can notate anything that I want and such as medication or how I’m feeling that day. It looks like it’s attached to an activity in terms of expelling energy. Would love to see a generic note/diary addition to this app. Super easy to do!!!
This app is doing a fine job of tracking/syncing everything in the Apple Health app on my iPhone except sleep data. My steps, distance, workouts, etc. all all fine, but none of my sleep tracking is recognized. I have all of the settings on correctly, I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling the app, refreshing the app…everything. Please fix and/or provide guidance.
It’s inconvenient for iOS users to have to use both Google fit and Apple health. Users should be able to consolidate into a single source. Allow option to write sleep data to Apple health please. Not only read data from Apple health into Google fit… especially with your upcoming subscription fee for sleep.
Sleep time data won’t import to Fit from Apple Health unless you manually logged the time (sleep schedule logs it automatically and it’s the useful data). Steps data, on the other hand, is different from Apple Health. I don’t want to lose all the data registered in Apple Health so, until we can import all the data reliably from Apple Health, I cannot migrate to this app.
It’s great and all, but, there is one thing that should definitely be added… a link between apple health and this app, if it could link to apple health it would be able to save everything so that no data is lost
Last year this app was my life line and helped me lose weight. I redownloaded it only to find the “track workout” button missing. It no longer creates maps of your runs or bike rides. If this was fixed I’d be over joyed but at the moment I’m very disappointed. If it’s user error on my part I’d love some help.
Thought Google Fit would sync with Fitbit but there’s no easy path; only a half baked one from Apple Health. Can’t see a reason to use this app if I have to manually add things other apps do automatically. Doesn’t seem to be any added value from data or interface either.
I’m taking a beta blocker to treat afib and my resting pulse is about 20 bpm lower than it was before I started. Exercise for me doesn’t hit a level high enough to trigger “exercise” on the Apple Watch or heart points here. Please consider asking users during setup if they are taking beta blockers and adjusting the threshold down a bit for earning heart points for us who are. Thanks.
For me it is the same. I wish that they would make it so I could edit my journal entries in the app. I don’t have my problem so far in regards to tracking time, HR, or with the activity itself. But I want to edit it so I can put in the distance I rowed on an ergo meter or the distance I biked in a spin class. That’s really the only thing.
I about died mowing the lawn in the Texas summer. It took me about an hour in the 95* heat that feels like 107*. I wore my Fossil smart watch that’s supposed to pair with this app. My phone told me I took about 500 steps while my watch told me I only took about 1000 steps. Another app usually tells me I walk about 3500 steps. My heart rate went up to 145bpm and I scored no heart points. Yup. Disappointing
I have walked the same park for the first two days. Each day it gives me different readings. I walked to the post office yesterday and it didn’t register any steps for the first three blocks. I’m doing this for work. I’m not an avid walker. After the work program ends I won’t continue using this app. I won’t recommend it either.
I really like the layout of the app but it won’t sync with Apple health. I’ve done all the troubleshooting to get the app to sync with Apple health. It works right for a couple days and then it starts lagging behind. The only way I can get it to come up with the right numbers is to delete the app and add it again and I don’t have time for that. Otherwise it doesn’t want to keep up.
I enjoy the app most of the time, but my historical metrics ( i.e. the ‘Heart Points’ ) oddly change after the fact and sometimes days later. For example, I earned 31 Heart Points during this morning‘s workout but then when I checked again hours later, the 31 points dropped six points to 25.
It has been a regular sync issue with I-devices in terms of capturing activities. And always it misses to track, not something overcasting the data. I would expect dev team will look into it. Otherwise, my kind of users may lose interest in using it.
Where’s the “Track workout” option? “Add activity” just isn’t accurate or detailed enough, it’s basically just an estimate unless you have some type of other device tracking the calories for you. And I just noticed that it’s not even accurate in tracking my miles. Every morning I walk my dog and then go on a 3 mile walk, google fit only read 1.69 of those miles today. My calorie counter is all off now.
Get to a healthier and more active life with 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: SEE YOUR WORKOUTS Get insights and see stats such as heart rate, speed, pace, route, and more for your runs, walks, and bike rides. MONITOR YOUR GOALS See your daily progress on your Heart Points and steps. Meeting your goals all the time? Easily adjust your goals to keep challenging yourself to achieve a healthy heart and mind. MAKE EVERY MOVE COUNT All physical activity can help you lead a healthier life, and with Google Fit you can track it all in one place. Working with your favorite fitness apps and devices, Google Fit builds a journal of your activity. And to make sure Fit never misses a workout, you can manually add any activity your other apps didn’t track - from Aerobics to Zumba! CONNECT WITH YOUR FAVORITE APPS AND DEVICES Google Fit can show you info from many of your favorite apps and devices that are compatible with Apple Health to give you a holistic view of your health, so you’ll never lose track of your progress. These include Lifesum, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Headspace, and more. CHECK IN AT ANYTIME, FROM ANYWHERE See a snapshot of your activity history across Google Fit and your integrated apps in your journal. Or, see the full picture in browse, where you can find all of your health and wellness data. Learn more about Google Fit and see a list of supported apps at: https://www.google.com/fit
