Fitbit OS 3.0 delivers an upgraded on-device dashboard and goal-based
exercise modes to Fitbit Ionic, Fitbit Ionic: adidas edition and Fitbit
Versa, along with new popular brand apps and clock face
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Fitbit
(NYSE: FIT), the leading global wearables brand, today announced
advancements to the on-device Fitbit user experience for its popular
smartwatches:
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Starting today, Fitbit OS 3.0 for Fitbit
Ionic, Fitbit
Ionic: adidas edition and Fitbit
Versa smartwatches lets you see even more personal data
at-a-glance, including sleep and expanded exercise view, plus adds
quick logging for weight and water intake, so it’s easier than ever to
take action based on data right from your wrist.
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10 new popular brand apps across health, fitness, smart home and
lifestyle brands were announced, including achu health, Couch to 5K,
Genius Wrist and MySwimPro. Others like FitBark, GOLD’S AMP™ for
Fitbit, MINDBODY, Noonlight and TRX are coming soon to the Fitbit App
Gallery, offering more tools to help maximize your health and simplify
your life.
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New Fitbit Exercise API and open-source developer tools provide
Fitbit’s global developer community with faster, more efficient ways
to build complex and innovative health and fitness apps and clock
faces for Fitbit smartwatches; new developer apps Alpine Snow and
Skateboard launch starting today.
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Female Health Tracking trends will arrive in the Fitbit app in early
2019, offering a comprehensive view of menstrual cycle data including
symptom trends, over time.
“We are excited to announce these software and app updates as they
provide Fitbit smartwatch users with more ways to take action based on
their personal data to achieve their health and fitness goals,” said Jon
Oakes, Senior Vice President of Product at Fitbit.
Take action right from your wrist with more health data and quick
logging
The Fitbit OS 3.0 update delivers an expanded on-device dashboard to
easily view additional and expanded stats and data, including sleep, log
water intake and weight, with expanded exercise stats, heart rate and
hourly activity, allowing you more ways to take control of and manage
your important personal health data right from your wrist. Goal-based
exercise modes have been added to Ionic, Ionic: adidas edition and
Versa, so you can set a goal for calories burned, distance or time for
15+ exercises, including running, biking, swimming and more, and see
real-time stats, progress and celebrations when goals are reached.
New health and fitness apps from popular brands
Fitbit is expanding its Fitbit App Gallery with 10 new popular brand
apps to deliver enhanced health and fitness experiences and provide you
with more unique ways to simplify your every day. These apps integrate
with Fitbit data to offer guidance and insights to help track your
progress and motivate you along your health and fitness journey.
Available starting today in the Fitbit Featured App Gallery are four new
popular brand apps and clock faces:
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achu health: This clock face transfers
your Fitbit data to achu’s illness prediction technology to help you
evaluate potential illness, providing alerts when your body show signs
of sickness before it happens.
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Couch to 5K: Pulls your Fitbit data
including distance and calories burned to provide you with insights
and training programs for races ranging from 5K to a marathon.
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Genius Wrist: Features four apps (Gym
Genius, Gym Time Pro, Workout Builder and Workout Genius) which
provide structured on-device workouts, productivity and visualization
tools, offering different ways for you to view your Fitbit data and
workout anywhere, anytime.
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MySwimPro: Offers custom guided swim
workouts, training plans and video coaching for all levels, using
real-time heart rate from your Fitbit device to help you improve your
swim performance. Post-workout analytics pull personal workout data to
track progress and measure improvement.
“We are partnering with some of the most popular health and fitness
brands to develop apps that leverage Fitbit data to offer unique
experiences and deliver more valuable and personal insights to help our
users to live healthier lifestyles,” said Tim Rosa, Chief Marketing
Officer at Fitbit. “For example, apps like achu health pairs your Fitbit
data with illness prediction technology to help you manage signs of
sickness, and MySwimPro helps you improve swimming performance with
personalized coaching plans based on your heart rate data during
swimming workouts.”
Additional third-party apps coming in early 2019 include:
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Charity Miles: Syncs with your Fitbit
activity data to raise money for 40 of the world’s top charities for
every mile logged.
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FitBark: Helps you and your dog get
healthy together by showing your daily Fitbit stats such as activity,
distance and calories burned alongside those of your canine companion.
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GOLD’S AMP for Fitbit (Gold’s Gym):
Experience a variety of cardio and strength workouts designed for your
wearable by expert Gold’s Gym Coaches. Receive guidance through every
step of your workout, including visual demos, a countdown timer and
interval cues with vibrating alerts.
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MINDBODY: Keep your fitness and wellness
top of mind with the ability to check the schedule at your favorite
studios and view your upcoming MINDBODY classes from your wrist.
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Noonlight: Protects and comforts you with
advanced safety features that you can activate from your wrist, making
it easier than ever before to get emergency assistance.
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TRX
®: Guided workouts coach
you through quick and effective TRX Suspension Training® workouts that
track biometrics using your Fitbit data, helping you get stronger and
reach your fitness goals.
Advanced developer capabilities and innovative new apps
Since Fitbit launched its App Gallery in late 2017, its growing global
community of more than 44,000 developers will now have access to more
advanced capabilities, including a new Exercise API that makes it faster
and easier to create, build and innovate more complex, high-quality apps
for Fitbit smartwatch users. A new Scientific API helps developers and
researchers perform advanced data processing through a more efficient
collection of math, statistical and digital signal processing functions.
Developers can now utilize their own algorithms when building health and
fitness apps, in order to create more intricate apps in less time, and
can easily record custom exercise sessions on the Fitbit platform. This
allows developers to design Fitbit smartwatch apps for more complex
activities like snowboarding, skiing and skateboarding, so you can keep
track of more specific activities that aren’t necessarily step-based.
For example, starting today are two innovative developer-created apps
leveraging the latest APIs that will appear in the Fitbit Featured App
Gallery:
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Alpine Snow: Take your Fitbit device on
the slopes with the ability to track distance travelled, number of
runs, speed, altitude, weather conditions, calories burned and heart
rate in real-time, with the session available to view in the Fitbit
App along with your GPS route.
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Skateboard: Track your speed, heart rate,
calories burned, and distance traveled while you skateboard, based on
your Fitbit data.
All new popular brand and developer apps will be available in addition
to the existing suite of 15+ Exercise Modes and more than 1,200 apps and
clock faces currently accessible to Fitbit smartwatch users.
Period trends coming to Female Health Tracking
Last, Female Health Tracking, a highly engaged feature by women in the
Fitbit app1, will introduce menstrual cycle trends in the
Fitbit app, allowing you to see your menstrual cycle data, logged
symptoms and trends all in one place no matter what Fitbit device you
use.
About Fitbit
Fitbit helps people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them
with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals. As the leading
global wearables brand, Fitbit designs products and experiences that
track and provide motivation for everyday health and fitness. Fitbit’s
diverse line of innovative and popular products include Fitbit Charge
3™, Fitbit Alta HR™, Fitbit Alta®, Fitbit Ace™, Fitbit Flex 2®, and
Fitbit Zip® activity trackers, as well as the Fitbit Ionic™ and Fitbit
Versa™ smartwatches, Fitbit Flyer™ wireless headphones and Fitbit Aria
2™ Wi-Fi Smart Scale. Fitbit products are carried in over 39,000 retail
stores and in 87 countries around the globe. Powered by one of the
world’s largest social fitness networks and databases of health and
fitness data, the Fitbit platform delivers personalized experiences,
insights and guidance through leading software and interactive tools,
including the Fitbit and Fitbit Coach apps, and the Fitbit OS for
smartwatches. Fitbit Health Solutions develops health and wellness
solutions designed to help increase engagement, improve health outcomes,
and drive a positive return for employers, health plans and health
systems.
Fitbit and the Fitbit logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Fitbit, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Additional Fitbit
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the
meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that involve risks and uncertainties
including, among other things, statements regarding the future
availability of certain third-party apps in the Fitbit App Gallery and
certain features and functionality described in this release such as
Female Health Tracking trends. These forward-looking statements are only
predictions and may differ materially from actual results due to a
variety of factors, including the effects of the highly competitive
market in which we operate, including competition from much larger
technology companies; any inability to successfully develop and
introduce new products, features, and services or enhance existing
products and services; product liability issues, security breaches or
other defects; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk
Factors” in our most recent report on Form 10-Q filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements
contained herein are based on information available to us as of the date
hereof and we do not assume any obligation to update these statements as
a result of new information or future events.
1 Based on Fitbit data of women who have added the feature,
August & September, 2018.
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Jen Ralls, 415-941-0037
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