It works ok, but the map of the route that you walk or run is really crude, not really worthy of the Google name. Doesn't even include your start and end points. Sad actually. Latest update: doesn't show steps or heart on the main display. Days there, but no display. Still very sad. Gotta find am app that works Update: the GPS use in this app is completely broken! The distance walked in this version is way off! As in 2 times the actual distance. Worthless as anything but a step counter.
This app work decently well, however I will only give 4/5 stars. I ain't sure if it's just me or if it's actually the app but I've redownloaded a few times to see if I could fix it ( which obviously I couldn't. ) . It counts my steps decently and well correct but the cals it says I've burned is completely off. For an example, if I walk just a tiny amount of steps like 18, it'll say I've burned 800 cals. That's completely incorrect and I don't know how I can fix it?.
Reliable steps tracker, not great as an exercise journal. I find that Google Fit does a great job tracking my physical activity on its own, like when I go out walking or hiking. However, it does a weird thing when I enter data from third party sources: it modifies my entries! If my treadmill says I jogged three miles, I enter three miles of jogging; this app revises that distance (and time!) downward for no apparent reason.
I just want to say, so far, outstanding. I have seen Fitbit charge a crazy price for their "premium" services when it's mostly the same as this app! I can manage my Fitbit data through here with the fit to fit app, though that app still needs help. This app only needs the ability to sync data between third party apps possible! Add that, and possibly a mental health section as well, since you have meditation and whatnot, why don't we add an actual journal? Or a health journal? Just an idea.
There needs to be the option to pause step count cof when people are on the road. They also need to have the option to restart data, since it'll still keep progress from moths ago (I left the app for a while). I wish it would take a more Samsung Health approach, even though seeing the calories burn away (both by being active and also just hanging around) is really, really nice
Stops registering my movement all the time and I have to uninstall and reinstall all the time. If it wasn't the only app that works with pkmn go I wouldn't use it at all Recently it will even show I've gone a certain distance and then later in the day that distance is shorter somehow 😡 constantly thinks i'm riding a bike even when I specifically tell it, over and over, that i'm walking
Was working really well with tracking my walks and runs but it's been glitching a lot lately. It's not recording all of my steps and distance. I use markers and even check the app randomly during my workout to make sure it's recording my data. At this point it's a 3. Maybe once the problem is resolved, it can be a 4 again.
I'm using a Google pixel 3 and sometimes it just stops counting steps in the middle of the day. I've tried clearing the cache and restarting the phone and changing the battery settings, but it still regularly malfunctions. Based on the troubleshooting topics, I'm not the only one.
They really need better step tracking. It'll fall a couple hundred below my actual step count, and then randomly jump a couple hundred above my step count. The apps they are connected to, I would just like it to match up properly, and I don't know why it can't if it's connected to my correct data
Updating this comment to specify that it now works with the pixel watch. I wish there was better integration between Fitbit and Google as far as one consolidated program, especially since Google owns Fitbit, but I think that's going to take a much longer time as is probably not on their map.
It's a pretty good app, I like tracking my steps and my workouts and weight all in one place and I like that it connects to other apps. However, two issues: when tracking a workout, I wish it were easier to log what workout you're doing. It gives you a drop-down menu and you have to scroll through the whhhoooolllleee thing every single time. I wish you could search your workout and save a minute between sets. Also, I wish it were easier/faster/more efficient to track water directly on the app.
Wish there was a way for the step counter widget to update in real time. Especially at the end of the day when I'm trying to reach my target goal. And most of the time when I open the app it still takes 30 seconds or more for it to update the count. And sometime it won't update at all. Frustratingly, sometimes the app will decrease the amount of steps or heart points that you have earned. If you are trying to maintain a streak of days where you've made your target this can be very demotivating.
Much of it works as a basic tracker of steps, heart points, and mileage but unfortunately it deletes distance randomly. Today it read 2.01 miles and I watched as it changed to 1.29. It does this every day but at different times during my walk. This seems like something that could be fixed but I see it has been a problem for a while that has no solution.
For a long time I had an issue where at some point during the day, after I had hit 10,000 steps, the number of steps would start going down and I could never get it back over 10,000. That seems to have been fixed, but now the mileage has that same problem. The other day I hiked 5.4 miles. Later, it showed 4.2 miles and by the end of the day it was only showing 2.8. When I look at the source data, whole sections of active time seem to be disappearing. But, it's a free app ...
I am a little disappointed in this app. Very inaccurate in counting steps. I have 3 step counting apps on my phone. While the other two are showing over 6000 steps, Google Fit is within 4000 steps. Bit then sometimes, randomly, it will show the same step count as the other apps. That's ridiculous. And syncing is nore more working with my other fitness app.
I love this app! It's simple, tracks any number of different types of activity, and includes "Heart Points," which no other fitness app I've seen does. The interface is a pleasure to use, and looks really nice in dark mode as well. Two problems: Google wants to end the app at the end of 2024, which is very unfortunate because there's no good substitute, and the replacement is not an actual tracker, either. Problem two seems unique to me in that some days the tracking does not start. Restart ph.
Overall, it does what it's supposed to. I debate the accuracy, but my one real complaint at this point is that if I am looking through the data for previous days, there is no way to see the total distance traveled that day. You can add the distance for each recorded activity set, but that's an irritating waste of my time. I would like to be able to calculate average distance per day more easily.
Sync across devices on same WiFi network is random and can't be relied on. All in all the app is regressing and getting less useful. I will be happy to help you fix it. Today app erased 20 heart points. Latest update shows and then rolls back heart points. This is May of 2024. The app still has problems syncing with other machines in my house on the same Wi-Fi network. It is now started in the last couple days. No longer being able to calculate hardpoints. I just did a walk and it What is wrong?
Decent app, however the tracking is way off. I run around a large set of blocks, staying on the outside, but it says I've been running in people's yards, through blocks etc. instead editing the miles ran in a worout, let us edit the path that we ran so it can edit and update our miles travel automatically based on the trail we chose since the tracking is so bad. Im also in a small town, so their is a path through someplace that I run. let us edit our personal map to add a trail.
I really love tracking my dog's walk but the location tracking is not very accurate. Our 2.12 mile route is the same every time but the map results are always different, sometimes by .2 of a mile. Sometimes it shows us on the sidewalk and other days we walk through a building at the exact same place. I really wish it was more accurate so we could clearly track our stats without doing the math. (I would also love to be able to sync a dog pedometer.)
