TL; DR
- Google has officially rebranded the Fitbit app into Google Health.
- The new Google Health Coach uses Gemini AI for personalized fitness, sleep, and wellness guidance.
- Google is also introducing improved sleep tracking, conversational food logging, menstrual health insights, and a redesigned app experience.
Google has officially renamed the Fitbit app to Google Health, marking a major shift in how the company wants to handle fitness, sleep, and wellness tracking going forward. The new app combines Fitbit’s tracking system with Google services and Gemini AI features.
Google Health Coach
The biggest addition is Google Health Coach, an AI-powered coaching system built on Gemini. It creates workout plans, tracks recovery, adjusts schedules, and gives suggestions based on your daily activity, sleep, and health data.
The system starts by asking about your goals, routine, and preferences. After that, it builds a personalized plan and keeps adjusting it over time. For example, if you travel, skip workouts, sleep less, or get injured, the coach changes your recommendations automatically. Google says the coach also looks for patterns across your data, like how sleep affects workouts or recovery.
Ask Coach
There’s also a new “Ask Coach” option where you can directly ask questions about your data or health habits. Google showed examples like asking when you last ran 5 kilometers, requesting low-impact workouts for knee pain, or checking for sleep-related insights.
Google says it worked with health experts, researchers, and real users while developing the coach. The company also mentions its SHARP framework, which focuses on safety, helpfulness, accuracy, relevance, and personalization. Stephen Curry and his performance team also worked with Google during development.
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Sleep tracking gets a major update too. Google says its new machine learning models improve sleep tracking accuracy by around 15%, especially for interruptions, naps, and sleep stage detection. The Sleep Score system has also been redesigned with more detailed insights.
The app now includes better menstrual cycle tracking with predicted periods, fertile window estimates, symptom tracking, and AI-generated insights. Nutrition tracking has also changed. You can now log meals conversationally through the AI coach or upload photos of your food instead of manually typing everything.
Privacy
Google says health and wellness data will not be used for Google Ads. Users can also disable AI features, export their data, or delete everything directly through account settings. Data remains encrypted, and two-factor authentication is supported as well.
The redesigned Google Health app is rolling out now. Google Health Coach will require a Google Health Premium subscription.
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