Fitbit app sees another big redesign for all iPhone and Android users

continues to be a very popular app for both and owners thanks to the longtime success of Fitbit fitness trackers and smartwatches. Since 2009, the brand has produced several excellent wrist-based devices that track basic steps, distance and movement, right up to full-on smartwatches that can take calls, do contactless payments and track running routes using GPS technology.

Google acquired Fitbit back in 2021, and for a couple of years not much change was made to the Fitbit app, but that is slowly changing. Google decided to use the Fitbit app to serve as the health tracking portal for its own Pixel Watch line as well as all existing and new Fitbit branded watches, which has seen the Fitbit app evolve recently to have a new look and feel.

Many Fitbit fans have been saddened to see some of the upheaval. Google decided to ditch the famous leaderboard and challenge sections of the app that allowed users to add friends and family with Fitbits to see their daily step counts in a league table and to challenge people to fitness competitions.

Having lost that social element, Google has tuned some of the app to look more like its Material Design design aesthetic familiar to users of its Pixel smartphones and the . That has meant that some sections have been updated, but oddly, some have been left looking like the older Fitbit app version.

As spotted by , new updates have just landed for the Health metrics section that completely overhaul the design. Whereas before the interface hadn't been changed for several years, the new version for iOS and Android changes the colours and font to match the Google-ified green and white feel of most of the rest of the app post-acquisition.

Now when you tap into Health metrics, the UI is cleaner, showing breathing rate, blood oxygen, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and skin temperature variation averages based on your Fitbit data.

You can then tap further into individual stats, with totally new pages revealing interactive charts that you can use to view data by week, month and year.

I've been testing out this new version and have been finding it a solid improvement, with easier to read data and clearer explanations as to what the data is actually showing and why.

It means most of the app is finally all looking uniform, although Google has still not updated the Food tab, which still works but has an ageing design that would have been used prior to the acquisition.

It is notable that it has taken so long for Google to update this app with its preferred design language. While the firm has clearly pumped the brakes on releasing new Fitbit hardware, confirming last year , all its Pixel Watch users have to use the Fitbit app. It's been a messy ride with parts of the Fitbit app being outdated for so long despite Google pushing a premium experience on the Pixel Watch.