Google is expanding Fitbit’s personal health coach with a fresh set of wellness features, and for the first time, some of them are available without a Premium subscription.The update, rolling out now in Public Preview, brings three new tracking areas to the platform: cycle health, mental wellbeing, and nutrition. Users can log periods and symptoms directly from the calendar, track mindfulness sessions, and log meals against a calorie target—all within the coach interface.Premium subscribers get more out of each feature. That includes personalized cycle insights from the coach, macronutrient ranges for nutrition, and a deeper layer of stress analysis through a revamped metric called the resilience score, which tracks how the body responds to stress over time.
The free tier now gets a meaningful slice of the action
Until now, Fitbit’s health coach was largely a Premium-only experience. The new rollout changes that—non-Premium users can join Public Preview and access health, fitness, and sleep tracking through the coach. Features like Ask Coach and custom fitness plans remain behind the paywall, but the baseline offering is noticeably more useful than before.The resilience score is worth keeping an eye on. Fitbit’s existing stress management score has been a somewhat blunt instrument, and repositioning it around resilience—how well you recover, not just how stressed you are—suggests a more nuanced approach to the metric.Fitbit has been quietly rebuilding its app experience since Google took over, and this update is one of the more substantial ones in recent memory. Whether the AI coaching layer is actually useful day-to-day remains to be seen, but the feature set is starting to look like a genuine competitor to what Apple and Samsung are doing in the health tracking space.