There’s finally a way to sync your Fitbit data with Apple Health
Fitbit famously made the decision not to integrate with Apple’s Health platform, but there’s good news for users: It’s now possible to get the wearable’s data synced up with the hub.
A new app called Sync Solver for Fitbit — available for $0.99 in the Apple App Store — takes the information collected via Fitbit wristband trackers and automatically syncs it to Apple’s Health app. This means steps, weight, sleep cycle details and other data can be pulled in from Fitbit and work alongside other third-party apps, like weight loss and nutrition programs, that are hooked up to the Health app, too.
The app works with other Fitbit products in its ecosystem too, including the Fitbit Aura scale. However, it doesn’t include intraday data granularity due to restrictions with its API developer tools.
Some fitness wristband companies like Jawbone already work with the Health app, but Fitbit — which maintains 69% of the wearables marketshare, according to NPD Group — says it is “evaluating” the platform to see how it will help its user base. But this news likely did not sit well with Apple: Soon after, it pulled Fitbit devices from its online store and it’s rumored they will be pulled from its brick-and-mortar stores soon.
“It’s unfortunate about the news of not being sold in their stores, but at the end of the day, we are in 37,000 retail outlets and we’re comfortable we will have broad-scale distribution even if we’re not sold in their brick-and-mortar stores,” a Fitbit spokesperson told Mashable at the time. “We will very much still work with them as a company — we are the number one fitness app with Apple today and a lot of our users use Apple products, so we’ll have to have a strong working relationship with them.”
Fitbit recently added three devices to its lineup: the Fitbit Charge (a reboot of the Fitbit Force), the Fitbit Charge HR (which comes with heart-rate monitoring) and the Fitbit Surge, a device specialized for runners (with some smartwatch capabilities).
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