Google Health integration with FitnessSyncer FAQ

The easiest way to get started is to follow our Getting Started Guide, which will walk you through how to exchange data between Google Health and many other services!

Are you looking to get more out of our Google Health integration? Check out our How It Works, which will walk you through how to unlock the full power of FitnessSyncer.

They share a name but work in completely different ways. Google Health Connect runs on your Android phone: our app reads the data already on your device and sends it to us. Google Health is a connection between our servers and Google’s, so it works without a phone and keeps syncing when your phone is off.

You can use either, or both. If you already sync through our Android app, you do not have to change anything.

Start the move to Google Health. It walks you through your Fitbit and Google Fit sources and destinations, shows what each one will be able to sync afterwards, and lets you choose which to move.

Everything that identifies a source is kept — your history, your name for it, your filters and your settings. Only the connection changes, and any Destination tasks using it keep working.

Your existing connections keep syncing until Google switches the old APIs off, so there is no rush, but moving sooner means nothing to do later.

Before you start, your Google account needs a Google Health profile. Without one, Google will not let us read anything and the move cannot finish, so the next question is worth reading first.

Google Health is a profile you create once, separately from your Google account, and we can only read your data after it exists. Until then Google tells us the account is not linked, whichever way you connected, and the source has nothing to read.

Create your profile at fitbit.google.com using the same Google account you connected with, then edit the source and connect it again. If you are moving across from Fitbit or Google Fit, do this first, so everything you move lands on a connection that works.

Google Health does not offer blood pressure at this time. Instead, you can use our Android app and Google Health Connect for this data.

Ovulation test results, in both directions. Google Health’s web connection has no place for menstrual flow by level, basal body temperature or cervical mucus, so FitnessSyncer does not send those or read them from it. Our Android app and Google Health Connect sync all four.

Yes. ECG recordings taken on a Fitbit or Pixel Watch can be read through an ECG source. FitnessSyncer reads them but does not send ECG recordings to Google Health.

Google Health’s web API lets us read your route but gives us no way to write one — there is no permission for it to ask you for. So an activity FitnessSyncer sends to Google Health arrives with its distance, duration, calories and heart rate, but without the map.

This is not something you can grant or change, and nothing is lost: the route is still on the activity in FitnessSyncer, and any other destination that supports routes still receives it.

The other direction is unaffected. An activity FitnessSyncer reads from Google Health keeps its route.

Google asks you to approve each kind of data separately, and you can approve some and decline others. Anything you declined simply will not appear; everything you approved keeps working normally.

To change what you approved, edit the source and choose to grant access again. You can also review what FitnessSyncer may see from your Google account permissions page.

Your daily summary can report either every calorie you burned including those your body uses at rest, or only the calories from activity. Which one you see is the ignore daily calories setting on the source, and moving to Google Health keeps whatever you had chosen.

If the number changed, check that setting on the source in question.

• Open the move to Google Health wizard. If you are not signed in, it asks you to sign in first and then carries on.
• Choose which of your Fitbit and Google Fit sources and destinations to move. The wizard tells you what each one will be able to sync afterwards.
• Sign in to Google and approve the data you want us to see.
• You are returned to FitnessSyncer and everything you chose is already moved.

Nothing is deleted along the way, and you can return to the wizard whenever you like to move the rest.