Fitbit's health coach gains new features, including nutrition and cycle tracking

Fitbit released a Gemini-powered personal health coach back in October, giving users chat-based health and wellness insights. Now, Google has announced a few new features coming to this health coach.

The first notable addition to the personal health coach is support for cycle health functionality. This lets you log your periods and symptoms via the calendar. This also seems to be available to free users, although Google notes that personalized cycle insights are a Premium feature.

Google and Fitbit are also bringing Mental Wellbeing functionality to the personal health coach:

Track mindfulness sessions and log your moods for deeper insights. You’ll also be able to better understand your body’s response to stress with an updated stress management score called resilience.

The personal health coach is gaining nutrition and water logging functionality. This will let you log meals, track calories and water intake, and set calorie targets. Google also promises “personalized macronutrient ranges” to manage your nutrition.

Google also announced that users no longer need Fitbit Premium to access Public Preview. That means you can try the redesigned Fitbit app free of charge, but you’ll need to pay for the personal health coach, Ask Coach functionality, and custom fitness plans. We actually uncovered these Public Preview changes back in January via an APK teardown.

These new features come weeks after the personal health coach gained support for continuous glucose monitors. This integration meant you could ask the AI coach how eating certain foods could impact your glucose levels. It also comes a couple of months after Google expanded the personal health coach preview to the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Needless to say, we’re glad to see more improvements coming to the health coach.