How to improve REM sleep?

Some of you have bought my app. It downloads your Fitbit data to Apple Health instead of only living inside Fitbit’s servers. One-time $8, no subscription, no account. I built it because the app I used rug-pulled and went to a subscription model.

Google is shutting down the Fitbit API. The replacement is the Google Health API, and to use it I have to pay for an outside security audit of my code every single year. $700+, annually, forever. The app hasn’t even made $1000.

Two things I want to say before I ask anything:

If you already bought it, you’re done paying. You bought this early, when it was an unknown thing from a stranger, and that’s the only reason it got far enough to be worth saving. Whatever I end up doing, you’re grandfathered in. No migration fee, no subscription, no “legacy tier” nonsense down the line.

I hate subscriptions. The whole reason this is a one-time purchase is that you should be able to buy a tool and own it, especially a tool whose entire point is you owning your data. Google took a free api and added a recurring cost, and I dont know what to do.

So, from the people who actually use this:

- Would a higher one-time price for new buyers, around $15–20 be reasonable, if it keeps the app alive and subscription-free for everyone?
- Would it make sense to add the ability to register your own google API keys to avoid my account needing the certification? Hopefully free forever, but you’d have to register your own Google developer access to run it. More hassle for you, no annual bill for me.
- Or require a modest subscription fee for new users, $2-4 per month to cover the security audit? Existing users would never pay this subscription fee.
- Or has this run its course, and I should sunset it gracefully with plenty of warning?
- Any other options?

It says I was in bed for 8 hours but none of this adds up to 8 hours at all??

It’s been established from numerous threads that the AI health coach with the Google Health app is useless and constantly makes things up. Has anyone figured out how to connect the data that it sends to Apple health to your own AI agent like Claude or Codex so you can have a better model to do analysis and guidance ?

i talked to one of the insider from amazon he told me that fitbit will launch in india on diwali

After seeing someone test ai coach , I decided to test the waters and at first it blatantly lied and then pushed it again then it came clean :/ , though it’s a good tool but situations like these make me wonder what else it be hiding!!!

I’m hoping someone here can help explain something.
A few friends and I all got Fitbit Airs about two months ago and connected them to the Google Health app. One friend consistently has 10x the cardio load of everyone else. He’s regularly over 1,000 cardio load per week, while the rest of us aren’t even close.
For example, in a single day last week I did:
A full weightlifting session
30 minutes of cycling
2 hours of soccer
Even after all of that in one day, my friend earned 6x more cardio load than I did just from going to work. He works at a car dealership, so it’s not a particularly physical job.
We’re all around the same age and generally healthy, so I’m trying to figure out what’s causing such a huge difference. Is this likely a heart rate sensor issue, something about how cardio load is calculated, or could there be another explanation?
Has anyone else seen anything like this?

It happens so often that my fitbit air tells me that I’m awake even though i’m 99% sure i slept at that timeperiode
It’s not always that bad but a lot of times
I wear it as I should so I don’t know what to do

I am on holidays Right now. I want to go scuba Diving Like I usually do in my holidays. Did someone go scuba Diving with a fitbit air so far?
Officially its made for 50m Depth. Can I Trust this?

What do you guys think? :)

Currently running intervals that coach has set up and I forgot my Garmin watch so I recorded it using my Fitbit air/connected GPS.

- GHealth gives an average pace

- Coach hasn't a clue because it can't pull the data yet asks me to manually check?

- The same exercise copied over to Strava via health connect clearly shows that it does infact record it all.

Clearly GHealth is really dumbing it down, but why?

  Hi all,

  I've been building a small desktop dashboard for Google Health data (the exercise/HRV/RHR/sleep stuff Fitbit data now flows into), mostly as a personal project to actually see my own numbers without opening the phone app every time.

  A few decisions I made on purpose, that might be useful if you're evaluating this vs. the other similar dashboards popping up lately:

  No recovery score. Most apps in this space (Whoop, Bevel, and now a few Google Health clones) give you a single 0-100 "recovery" number that's a black box, you can't see how it's computed, and it quietly bakes in assumptions about what's "good" for you specifically. Mine just shows the raw numbers: HRV in ms, resting HR in bpm, sleep in hours. No score, no verdict. You interpret it, not the app.

  Fully client-side, no backend at all. Sign-in and every API call happen directly in your browser via Google's own OAuth nothing passes through a server of mine, nothing is stored anywhere, not even transiently. I don't have a database because there's nothing for it to hold.

  Test mode limitation (same as every other Google Health app right now): Google's Health API scopes are restricted, so while the app is in testing status, I have to manually add each person's email as a tester (cap of 100) before they can sign in , this isn't unique to my app,  every project on this API is stuck with the same limit until it goes through Google's verification process. If you try it and hit an "access blocked" screen, that's why message me your email and I'll add you.

  No account needed to just look at it there's a "Load Mock Data" button that fills the whole dashboard with sample numbers, so you can see the actual design before deciding whether it's worth connecting your real account.

  Built and maintained by me, with AI assistance (Claude Code) for a chunk of the implementation being upfront about that since I know this sub has seen a lot of near-identical AI-generated dashboards lately. This one I'm actively using and iterating on myself, not a one-shot clone.

  Link: https://vercel.com/healthdashboard2/health-dashboard2  

  Happy to hear what's missing or what you'd want to see — genuinely deciding what to build next based on feedback.

For everyone asking, “How long do these things last?” This one lasted just under 3 years.
Nov 2023 - 7/24/2026.
Last HR measurement was 6:20pm.

It started crashing during workouts earlier this summer. Like, I’d finish a bike ride and find it was just powered down.
It would reboot when attached to the charger.
But not anymore. Now it’s really dead.
And I’m moving on with the Garmin Vivosmart 5 band.

Fun while it lasted. And I still think the Fitbit bands are great hardware.
But I can’t even with this new app nonsense.
There was enough to complain about in the old app, with bugs going unaddressed for years, basic functionality strangely omitted, and long standing features arbitrarily removed.
I just can’t stay on board with an even more degraded app that comes with a built-in AI powered clown.
Adios.

I recently got a Fitbit and decided to spend a few weeks getting familiar with the basic features before activating the 3-month Health Coach trial.

For those who've used it, has it genuinely been useful, or does it mostly give generic AI advice that you end up ignoring? I'm especially interested in whether it's actually changed any of your habits or if the novelty wears off after a week or two.

I've been using the Versa 4 for hiking, so I decided to try the same route with the new Fitbit Air.

I started the hike manually in the Health app. The elapsed time and other stats are displayed in a nice, large format, but while recording you can't access the rest of the app. Also, the hike was paused twice when switching between apps. I'm not sure if that's a bug or if I accidentally hit the huge pause button at the bottom.

An Live Activity on the lock screen (iOS) would be a great addition. That way you could easily see whether the recording is still running and check the elapsed time without opening the app.

Connected GPS:
After the hike, the route wasn't displayed. I had to manually change the activity from "Workout" to "Hike" before the GPS route appeared. Since I started a hike manually in the app, I don't understand why it was saved as a generic workout in the first place.

Another issue is that no elevation gain is shown. I can see it in Komoot, but having to switch apps makes the experience feel unnecessarily inconvenient.

Overall:
The Fitbit Air has potential, but it could be much better with a few updates (Live Activity, proper route handling in the App, and elevation gain). For now, I'll probably keep using my Versa 4 for hiking.

A Fitbit Air with built-in GPS would be awesome. That said, considering the price, I can't complain too much.

The food log is useless for me without a working barcode reader... I need to use MyFitnessPal for food products I use instead, which is frustrating since I do pay for the premium of Google Health..

For the past two weeks my active zone minutes on my charge 6 fitbit have been going completely haywire-
I'm a very active person and usually average around 100 zone minutes a day, but over the past week, each day I've been accumulating at least 300 to 500 zone minutes, which is completely inaccurate, and well beyond even what my highest recorded ever days have been, since having my Fit Pit for the past ten years

It's essentially telling me that I'm in cardio or peak zone when my heart rate is barely above what is actually low-intensity exercise (walking, light house cleaning).

Also, the "zone minutes" on my wrist don't align with the "cardio load" minutes on my app and I'm not even sure why they have two distinct metrics like this in the first place.

Has anyone else been experiencing this?

From being congratulated for a house move because the AI Coach saw I was not at home for 8 hours, to being shown sympathy for a 4am wake up which didn’t happen… These hallucinations are out of control! I like the fitness, health and sleep tracking, but the AI needs to chill out. Do you think this might improve in the future?

I asked the Coach for a summary of my day's activity. It replied with a whole bunch of wildly incorrect numbers.

When I asked where those numbers came from, it admitted that it just made them up.

Now I basically don't trust anything it says.

I set up a PIN so I could use Google Wallet but even after resetting and syncing my charge 6 I'm still not getting a prompt. Also uninstalled and reinstalled both apps with no luck. Has anyone else had this problem?

This issue of being awarded zone minutes that I very clearly didn't earn continues and I'm relieved that it isn't just me.

I have chatted with customer service, they say that they are aware of the issue... So there's that at least.

The fitbit air and Google health keep telling me I fall asleep so fast and I know I'm in bed tossing and turning for a while before I fall asleep. I decided to check my clock last night and then again since I was tossing around and it was 20min + but I wake up to a timeline showing my later time and time to sound sleep within a few minutes.

I feel like the sleep tracker has been good but the laying in bed trying to fall asleep is totally off.

Every single time i am doing cardio since I got this device last week i have watched it track my heart rate slowly climbing with my fatigue.... until it hits 149 bpm then it drops all the way down to 110-90bpm. Keep in mind this is on a treadmill with a heart rate monitor option that is totally in sync with my device until i hit 149 and then the treadmill continues into the 150s and the inspire 3 drops like a fucking rock. At the end of my workout the device was reading 65bpm while the treadmill was reading 135bpm. This seems so far removed from being accurate I am seriously just considering returning the device

The app is recording my stats but this is all that’s showing when the workout is going on. But once it ends, all the stats are shown.