Google Fit will shut down in favor of Health, migration tool coming later this year
Source: 9to5Google
Background
I/O might still be a couple of weeks away, but it’s a big day for new Google announcements anyway. The company announced a rebranding of its Fitbit app to Google Health today, as 9to5Google initially leaked last month, but that still left the fate of the company’s other fitness‑tracking app up in the air.
Although the soon‑to‑be‑rebranded Fitbit app has been Google’s preferred destination for collecting, tracking, and analyzing health data since the launch of the Pixel Watch, it wasn’t the initial app used by earlier Android‑powered wearables. That honor belongs to Google Fit, which Google announced back in 2014 as the smartwatch revolution began to take shape. After revamps in 2018 and 2020, Google’s attention shifted to Fitbit in 2022, and the original Fit app closed its APIs to new developers in 2024 ahead of a planned deprecation later this year.
Migration to Google Health
As part of today’s Fitbit Air announcement, Google provided a bit more detail on what current Fit users can expect in the coming months:
“As part of our transition to Google Health, we’ll also consolidate our health and fitness offerings. We’ll invite Google Fit users to migrate their data into the Google Health app later this year.”
Google had already indicated that the legacy Fit app would be retired sometime in 2026, but the exact date remained unclear. The new information confirms that a migration tool will be offered, allowing long‑standing fitness‑tracking customers to transfer a decade‑plus of metrics to Google Health instead of losing them.
Consolidation Strategy
This move reflects Google’s broader effort to streamline its app ecosystem—building on past consolidations such as the Pay/Wallet merger and the push to unify messaging via RCS. In a year’s time, both the traditional Fitbit app and Google Fit are likely to become memories of Android’s past, with Google Health serving as the single destination for health and fitness data.
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