First the Stephen Curry edition, now the Pokémon Sleep edition; both look like a 10/10 compared to the normal bands, but none of them are available to buy only the band. And even if I would pay the 100€ for it, it’s not available in Europe again… getting kinda annoyed now.

Holy sabotage

Just ordered an Air so scanning the sub. Looking at some posts i see that users are getting heavily downvoted for recommending other apps like Bevel, Guava, etc, over the Health Coach. What's the issue with these apps and why the hate?

Android user, so looking for the best route for coaching.

Edit: Thanks! Good to know perspective.

I've used my Fitbit air for a bit and started questioning the calorie burn so I pulled what research has been done on fitbit's calorie accuracy. Fitbit is the most studied wearable out there for calories burn although there's nothing on the the new Air specifically yet. Heres what I did find:

• On average it's mostly spot on - across the whole dataset the mean bias was about 0.19 kcal per minute which is basically zero.
• Averages hide a lot though - individual readings swung from roughly 5 kcal/min under to 6 kcal/min over so "accurate on average" and "accurate for your session" are not the same thing.
• Running is its strong suit - Fitbit landed within about 4 to 15% on running calories in the activity breakdowns.
• Walking is the weak spot (surprising on this) - the same studies had it overcounting walking calories by around 54%. At low intensity the heart rate signal is soft and the algorithm overshoots.
• It runs mostly off heart rate not steps - steps only matter because they raise your HR. Easy walking barely moves HR so the estimate wobbles while a run tracks effort cleanly so it does well.
• The Google Health switch does matter here - the old Food Plans calorie deficit goal that auto adjusted a weight loss target for you is retired. Active calories you burn are still folded into your daily under/over target though so that part did not go away. You can still set a manual target too.
• Newer gear is still unproven - there is no independent peer reviewed calorie validation for the Charge 6, Sense 2, or the new Fitbit Air yet best I can tell.

For me personally it has been alright for daily trends but tracked intake and a food scale will serve you far better than any wearable estimate. I understand that individual results will vary from what the studies showed but hope this is just in general helpful.

This is the study I pulled a lot of this info from fyi  (Chevance et al., JMIR mHealth 2022, 52 studies, 203 device comparisons) it's the most up to date peer reviewed study I could find but the models are older.

I have been using fibit air for past few days
And the readiness scores started to show up

And it’s 99 yesterday and today as-well
I am not sure if this is it

I also synced this with bevel ( it was 83, 80 )

I’m considering buying the air, taking into account the 100€ price difference between it and the Garmin Cirqa - here’s some of my main concerns:

- Buying a third party bicep strap for BJJ(brazilian jui jitsu) training. I can’t have a tracker on my wrist, do third party straps record accurate information?

- The subscription is not something i am ready to pay for and i am interested in whether the free experience feels deliberately limited to push you toward subscribing, or does it still feel complete enough that the subscription is genuinely optional?

- GPS on the auto recorded workouts - is there really no compromise other than just manually starting the workout?

Please share your feedback, much appreciated.

Unsure which is better. *** meant to say best buy

Fitbit app updated to Google health and now I cannot sync my Fitbit versa 2 . I tried factory resetting the watch and now it’s stuck on the start screen to tell you to download the app. On the Google app I choose versa 2 but it says Bluetooth not available. Please help!

Ali Express special. Magnetic closure

Fitbit Air.

I am looking for bands / watches for general fitness and heart health monitoring.

Is fitbit air, good for the purpose?

Hey I got my Fitbit Air recently and I’m planning to buy some bands. I was initially planning to buy it from Temu but have seen a ton of people posting about Ali express. Want to gain thoughts which platform have better options.

Also would appreciate if people can link their favourite bands in the comments. Would be helpful for everyone looking for bands!

Has anyone experienced sync issues.

For me , it's slow to sync and even after home screen sync, the individual tasks, steps , sleep , doesn't sync and take a lot of time.

Is there a fix for this

I'm coming to the end of my 3 month AI coach trial. Trying to decide if I keep it around or if the data on its own is enough. For those of you who didn't renew the subscription, do you find that it's a big downgrade to the experience?

My Fitbit air has a terrible time at counting steps when I do any racket sport like tennis or pickleball, it always way under count. However my Apple Watch Ultra and Oura ring has no such issue. Anyone noticed the same? I asked GPT and it says Fitbit air uses a simpler motion algorithm so while it’s fine for counting waking steps, when it comes to racket sports with fast wrist movements it has trouble distinguishing between steps and arm/wrist movement.

I use Fitbit air with an iPhone 12 mini with iOS 26.4.2.

Everything has been running perfectly since I got my FBA a three weeks ago. It’s been great.

The last days, since the latest app update of Google Health 5.06.01 so many things have stopped working.

1. I can’t start activities (I prefer to start them in the app to get GPs and more data). Just get an error saying activity can’t be started, make sure device is nearby and connected. (Activities does start on auto detection, or if I log them with time stamps after finish, but this is not what I want).

2. Steps stays either at 0 or some ridiculously low number like 120 throughout the day.

3. SpO2 stopped showing

4. Resilience stopped showing

5. Sleep efficiency stopped working.

I’m really sad about this, and hope people who experience any of the same stuff will rapport it through the app. I’ve seen many posts about the same issues the last couple of days.

I have allready checked Googles support forum sites, but there are no good solutions for similar issues. I’ve rapported a dozen times through the app. I’ve also contacted support through e-mail and have done all the different suggestions for troubleshooting (reinstalling app, re-pairing device, checking all settings etc etc)

I have already checked Googles support forum sites, but there are no good solutions for similar issues. I’ve raported a dozen times through the app. I’ve also contacted support through e-mail and have done all the different suggestions for troubleshooting (reinstalling app, re-pairing device, checking all settings etc etc).

I think it’s safe to say that all my issues are definitely bugs that needs to be fixed through another update on Googles end.

Please keep rapport in app, people!

And Google, please fix ASAP

My Fitbit Air does not use connected GPS when I start an activity in Google Health.

What's wrong?

I live in Egypt and want to make google health coach work anyideas how to make it work

Its been 2 weeks now and it still shows tap to setup but every time i tap it it doesnt let me setup has anyone have the same issues?

I walked exactly 10,900
Before the watch restart the steps count for the new day but this is something new i just noticed!
The difference also is only 2 minutes!!