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If you’ve got a Fitbit, and you use an iPhone, there’s a acceptable adventitious you’d like to accompany the stats from your Fitbit with the Apple Bloom app you’ve heard so abundant about.
There’s one acclaimed problem: Fitbit (see disclosure) doesn’t let its abstracts accompany with Apple Health. In fact, Apple Stores don’t advertise Fitbit trackers anymore. But Apple Bloom affiliation is one of the best requested appearance on the Fitbit Forums — clearly, there is a ample cardinal of bodies who would adulation to use their Fitbit accouterments with Apple software.
That’s a acceptable question! The Fitbit app and websites are appealing solid.
The basic acumen you’d apparently appetite to apply this workaround is that you’re planning to acquirement an Apple Watch back it launches ancient in aboriginal 2014 and you’d like a bit of chain to your bloom stats. You adeptness additionally adopt Apple’s interface to Fitbit’s.
You adeptness additionally altercate that if you own a Fitbit, you should own the abstracts — not artlessly the adeptness to admission Fitbit’s band of services.
You’ll charge a $1.99 app alleged Accompany Solver. You apparently already have the Fitbit app on your iPhone.
From there, it’s straightforward. First, accompany the Fitbit app with your Fitbit tracker to get your abstracts into the system. Then, accessible up Accompany Solver. It will alert you to acceptation the abstracts from your Fitbit app by logging in, and it will automatically accompany it with the Apple Bloom app.
You charge to accept both apprehend and address privileges on the Accompany Solver app. Sync Solver can advice acceptation steps, distance, beddy-bye analysis, alive calories burned, and weight from Fitbit.
One aberration is that the alien abstracts in the Bloom app will accept a Accompany Solver figure abutting to it, as against to the Fitbit logo, but I haven’t noticed any problems with accurateness or missing entries.
Sync Solver isn’t absolute — it doesn’t accept admission to Fitbit’s Partner API, so it can’t do intraday syncing, and it’s absurd to accretion that adeptness because some of its features, like abstracts exportation, attempt anon with Fitbit’s exceptional subscriptions.
There are a few added apps for iOS accurately advised to arch Fitbit and Apple Health. One is alleged Wristband Manager, but it doesn’t accept about as abounding reviews as Accompany Solver and it additionally costs $1.99. SyncFit promises to do the aforementioned affair for $0.99, but the reviews say it doesn’t work.
Unfortunately, you can’t use a chargeless app like My Fettle Pal as an Apple Bloom intermediary. It would assume as if you could — My Fettle Pal can accept abstracts from a [company]Fitbit[/company], and it can additionally interface with Apple Health.
But the botheration is that it won’t accompany accomplish or afar logged to Apple Health. Some people, however, accept appear that if you’ve got the Fitbit Aria scale, it’s accessible to acceptation that weight abstracts into Apple Bloom through My Fettle Pal.
The best accepted botheration that users face is that their accomplish are bifold counted. Because Bloom can use a newer iPhone as a footfall counter, sometimes back application a workaround [company]Apple[/company] Bloom will calculation both the accomplish from both the FitBit and your iPhone.
To fix this, cross to Bloom Abstracts > Fettle > Accomplish > Share Abstracts in the Bloom App. In the corner, tap Edit and move Accompany Solver up to the top of the account of Abstracts Sources — which will accent it over the accomplish apprehend by your iPhone.
Finally, you accept to accompany manually or on a circadian base application these types of workarounds. It’s because these apps don’t accept official Partner admission to Fitbit’s API, and that’s absurd to anytime be accepted because Fitbit not syncing with Apple Bloom is a business decision, not an oversight.
Sometimes, it’s aloof not account the accomplishment to angle a artefact into alive a way it wasn’t advised to work. It adeptness be asinine that Fitbit can’t accompany with Apple Bloom (or Google Fit) but there are several trackers that do assignment with both. Jawbone’s UP band of wristbands can accompany with Apple Health, and so can the Misfit Flash or Shine.
And finally, Fitbit’s software is appealing abundant and adeptness be a bigger fit for you than Apple Bloom is at the moment. Fitbit’s app presents advice in a way that’s accessible to understand, and it’s got appearance for arduous you and allowance you accumulate up with friends.
And if none of these workarounds assignment for you, the Apple Watch will be out afore long, and that’s affirmed to assignment able-bodied with Apple Health.
Disclosure: Fitbit is backed by True Ventures, a adventure basic close that is an broker in the ancestor aggregation of this blog.
