Fitbit adds nutrition tracking and expands coach preview beyond Premium
Fitbit is expanding its Personal Health Coach preview with food and water logging, cycle health tools and a new resilience score for stress. In the bigger shift, the Public Preview is now opening up to users without a Premium subscription.
Fitbit adds food logging and a new resilience score
Let’s start with the additions. Users can now set calorie targets, log meals and track water intake directly in the Fitbit app. Fitbit is also introducing personalised macronutrient ranges, which should make the feature more flexible than a basic calorie counter.
This is something users in the community have been asking for. At the moment, this appears to be a phased rollout.
Alongside that, Fitbit is adding mood logging and mindfulness tracking as part of its mental wellbeing push. The more interesting change here is the updated stress management metric, now called “resilience”. Rather than focusing purely on stress in the moment, this sounds more like a longer-term view of how well the body is coping and recovering.
Cycle health gets deeper integration
Another new feature is cycle health tracking. Users can now log periods and symptoms directly from the calendar view.
For Premium subscribers, Fitbit is taking this a step further by adding personalised cycle insights through the AI coach. This is clearly part of the wider strategy of using Gemini-powered insights to turn raw data into more context-driven guidance rather than simply displaying charts.
Public Preview now extends to free users
Perhaps the bigger story is access.
Fitbit says users without Premium can now join the Public Preview to access the refreshed interface and track health, fitness and sleep data. Premium still keeps the more advanced features such as Ask Coach and custom fitness plans.
From a product strategy point of view, this makes sense. Fitbit appears to be using the broader preview rollout to get more users into the redesigned ecosystem, while reserving the deeper coaching tools as the subscription upsell.
As is often the case with Fitbit app updates, availability does not seem instant. Some users on iOS and in Canada reported updating the app but not yet seeing food logging or the new tools. Others say the upcoming sleep metrics mentioned last week are still not live and are expected over the coming weeks.
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