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Heala vs Fitbit
Fitbit built the category of wearing something that counts your day. The gap it leaves is the same one every tracker leaves: counting is not coaching.
- Steps and active minutes
- Heart rate and sleep
- A long history of the basics
- Comfortable, affordable hardware
- What to train today
- What to eat against it
- A programme that progresses
- Body composition in 3D
What Fitbit is good at
Passive measurement over long periods. Steps, heart rate and sleep, on hardware people actually keep wearing, at prices well below the premium end.
Its history feature is genuinely valuable — years of baseline data is worth something no new app can offer you.
What it does not do
Food, in any serious way. Fitbit has logging but the category has moved past it.
Strength programming. It counts a gym session as active minutes rather than tracking that you squatted 100 kg for five.
Body composition beyond a weight and a bioimpedance estimate from their scale.
Using both
Keep the Fitbit for measurement. Heala reads its steps, heart rate and sleep through Health Connect or Apple Health, and adds the food, the programme and the body scan on top.
Questions
Does Fitbit sync with Heala?
Yes, through Health Connect on Android or Apple Health on iOS.
Do I need to keep my Fitbit?
If you like it, keep it — Heala uses what it measures. If you do not own one, Heala works phone-only.
The quiz is free, takes about four minutes and needs no card. It ends with your calorie target, your macros and a training week you can look at.
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