Google Replaces Fitbit App With Terrible AI Garbage And Is Now Being Massively Review Bombed

Google recently updated the Fitbit health app and replaced it with a new Google Health app. This new version of the app lacks all of the features of the Fitbit app, is reportedly buggy, and is stuffed full of AI features. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people who were happy using the Fitbit app for the last few years are now very mad, and are flooding the app store with negative reviews as Google tries to calm everybody down with a roadmap.

On May 26, after months of beta testing and previews, Google officially killed the old version of the popular Fitbit app that let people track and log various health-related stats and data. Technically, this wasn’t a sudden, unexpected change. For nearly a year now, Google has been preparing to make this switch. But for a lot of Fitbit users who aren’t following Google’s plans closely and are just normal people living their lives, when the update went live yesterday and swapped the old Fitbit app with the new, clinical-looking Google Health app, it was a complete shock. Once many users dug into the new app, they hated it, which you can easily see via all the new negative reviews for the updated app on the Google Play Store.

Many of the hundreds and hundreds of new 1-star reviews are complaining about inaccurate sleep and workout tracking, two of the most popular features of the old Fitbit app and some of the main reasons people buy wearable tech in the first place. That’s no good. Others are complaining about errors, a layout that hides useful info, missing data and features, and of course annoying AI integration. Many reviews call out the fact that the biggest button within the app now is for the AI-powered health coach.

“Why is the biggest button on the screen for AI questions? You’re a fitness app; the biggest button should be to add an activity. Stay in that lane,” said a recent one-star review.

Kotaku‘s own Rebekah Valentine woke up to discover the Google Health app suddenly providing her with unwanted and unasked-for AI sleep summaries. She is now ending her paid subscription and looking to find a replacement app. And she’s not alone. Many of the 1-star reviews being posted on the Play Store are suggesting they are done with Google Health/Fitbit and will move on to something else.

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As of May 27, there is no way to revert to the old app, and Google seems unwilling to provide the original Fitbit app to customers. Congrats, Google, you took a popular and successful brand and, in less than five years, turned it into something people hate and which will never be popular again. Good job?

Seemingly in response to all the negative reviews and yelling, Google has posted a roadmap for its new Google Health app and promised to fix a lot of the issues and bugs people are sharing. It’s a bit odd that Google didn’t try to, uh, fix or listen to people over the last year as they were testing and previewing this new app and are only now seemingly rushing to make things better. But then again, I’m not surprised.

This is big tech in 2026. It is no longer about building cool apps, useful devices, or worthwhile services. Instead, all big tech can do is desperately take things that worked and slap new coats of paint on them endlessly while shoving in more AI features, ads, and paywalls in a desperate attempt to convince shareholders that they are making big changes as they do whatever it takes to make that number go up.

There was a time when tech companies found success by solving problems or delighting people with new products. Those days are gone. Enjoy your AI slop. And if you don’t enjoy it, get fucked, loser! We own everything anyway. Enshittification, baby! Everything gets worse. Nothing gets better.