healthkit to fitbit

Fitbit has no plans for HealthKit support

Fitbit has no plans yet to use HealthKit and associated Health app for iOS 8. This was told by an employee of the company on the Fitbit forum. At this moment the company sees yet no way HealthKit can improve the user experience. The reaction of Fitbit will be a disappointment for some iOS 8 users. Integration with HealthKit would make it possible to collect data from Fitbit activity trackers into the Health app. The information would also be available to other apps. Fitbit, however, didn't close the door completely: although there are no plans to integrate HealthKit, users are…Read more

Sync Solver app can synchronize Fitbit data with HealthKit

Fitbit can automatically measure workouts

Fitbit can now automatically recognize when you're exercising. This is possible thanks to the SmartTrack feature, which automatically detects whether you're just out walking or running, cycling, playing basketball, tennis, soccer, kickboxing, or dancing. Fitbit: automatic measuring sports You do thus not press a button to start the measurement, but you must have the correct Fitbit device, because it only works on relatively new models: the Fitbit Charge HR and Fitbit Surge, two fitness trackers that you wear on your wrist. A software update adds the new functionality. Both Fitbits can measure your heart rate but have a very different…Read more

Million Fitbit Alta and Blaze- fitness trackers sold in first month

Fitbit has sold already a million Fitbit Blaze and a million Fitbit Alta fitness trackers within a month after the launch of the two devices. A resounding success.Read more

These are the Fitbit Charge 2 and Fitbit Flex 2

Fitbit will soon announce two new fitness trackers. It is about the Fitbit Charge 2 and the Fitbit Flex 2. Both have been leaked in pictures.Read more

Sync Solver Brings Your Fitbit Data to Apple’s Healthkit

iOS: We've covered some of the apps that send data to iOS 8's Healthkit. Fitbit doesn't directly talk to Healthkit. Sync Solver fixes that problem. The ...

Fitbit says no to Apple's HealthKit for now | Macworld

Users of Apple’s Health app in iOS 8 will have to get by without Fitbit integration for now. Responding to questions on its forums, Fitbit says it has no ...

Don't expect Fitbit to integrate with Apple HealthKit ...

Fitbit, a leading maker of wearable activity trackers that count steps and track sleep, isn't saying much about its ongoing dispute with Apple. Earlier ...

Apple unveils HealthKit to integrate health and fitness ...

Some developers already choose to provide APIs for other developers to use that data—so, for example, my Fitbit steps can show up in the Pact app. Apple ...

Fitbit Won’t Work With HealthKit Because It’s Building ...

A few weeks ago, Fitbit publicly admitted that it had no plans to follow the growing crowd of fitness trackers and apps that are rushing to integrate with ...

Fitbit Users Are Furious Over Its HealthKit Diss - ReadWrite

ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. In June, Apple executive Craig Federighi unveiled ...