Google is rebranding the Fitbit app as Google Health, with the name change rolling out to users on May 19, 2026. Alongside the rebrand, Google announced plans to shut down its 12-year-old Google Fit app later this year, though details on migrating user data to Google Health will be released in the coming months.
The transition comes more than a decade after Fitbit’s debut and five years after Google acquired the company. The Google Health app — previously introduced in public beta — centers on an AI-powered Health Coach chatbot that can answer questions about health and fitness and parse medical records. The Health Coach is now officially out of beta.
Rishi Chandra, Google’s vice president for health and home, told WIRED the recent years of development were aimed at this moment. “The investment we’ve been making the last few years is literally designed for this one moment,” he said. He added that new hardware will follow now that the Coach is ready: “You should expect to see more hardware coming.”
On the hardware side, Google also announced the Fitbit Air, the first new Fitbit device in three years. Priced at $100, the screenless health tracker is designed to be lightweight and easy for users of any age to understand. Google plans to make Fitbit Air data viewable in Apple Health in the future, though that feature will not be available at launch.
The Google Health app supports both Health Connect and Apple’s HealthKit, meaning Apple Watch users can also use the app to view their data. Users can upload medical records by searching for a provider and logging into their portal, syncing both historical and future records. The app also allows logging of food intake, fitness changes, and other health data, and is designed to be shareable with family, friends, or a physician.
For existing Fitbit app users, the transition to Google Health will arrive as a standard app update.
Source: WIRED