Meet the AI coach that tracks your moves, your moods, and maybe your excuses.
Fitbit is stepping into a new era of personal wellness with the public preview of its AI-powered health coach, built on Google’s Gemini technology. The feature, called Coach, is designed to act as your fitness trainer, sleep advisor, and health companion, all in one app.
According to Andy Abramson, Fitbit’s head of Product, the new experience aims to help users “be their best.” He explained in a Google blog post that the feature is being released in preview form “to make sure it works well for everyone,” noting that Fitbit will collect user feedback and “add, change or improve features and capabilities” over time.
How ‘Coach’ works
When users open the updated app, they’ll begin with a short 5-10 minute conversation with their AI coach, either by text or voice, to outline their goals, routines, and preferences. From there, the system creates tailored fitness plans, sleep insights, and health recommendations.
The preview includes four key sections — Today, Fitness, Sleep, and Health — redesigned for easier navigation.
- The Today tab provides quick updates on daily progress
- The Fitness tab tracks weekly performance, workout plans, and cardio load
- The Sleep tab analyzes sleep quality and consistency, while
- The Health tab collects key vitals, including heart rate variability, breathing rate, and blood oxygen levels.
For ongoing guidance, users can tap the “Ask Coach” button to chat with the AI at any time, whether to request a new workout, analyze sleep patterns, or explore how stress or training load affects recovery. The new coach runs on Google’s Gemini AI, the same powerful technology behind many of the company’s recent generative features.
Rollout details and future plans
Currently, the AI Coach is an opt-in experience for those with a compatible Fitbit tracker, smartwatch, or Pixel Watch and an active Fitbit Premium subscription (priced at $10 a month or $80 a year). Users in the preview can easily toggle between the old and new app designs to compare and provide feedback, which Google says is essential for shaping the final product.
While certain features like nutrition tracking and menstrual cycle logging aren’t available yet, they are on the roadmap.
The rollout began this week with eligible Android Premium users in the US, with the company confirming plans to expand to iOS users soon. Google has indicated that a full, wide release of the Gemini-powered health coach experience is expected sometime next year.
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