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Via Health Connect · Android

Use a Fitbit With CalorTracker

CalorTracker does not connect to a Fitbit account. On Android, Google's Health app can write your steps and exercise into Health Connect, and CalorTracker reads them from there.

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What syncs

What CalorTracker reads through Fitbit and Health Connect
DataWhat CalorTracker does with it
StepsThe Google Health app writes steps to Health Connect; CalorTracker uses them for your daily step count.
Workouts (exercise sessions)It writes exercise; each session becomes one activity entry.
Active caloriesGoogle lists active calories burned as read-only for its app and writes total calories burned instead. CalorTracker reads only active calories, so Fitbit's own calorie figure does not arrive; workouts get CalorTracker's estimate from type and duration.

Before you start

  • An Android phone running Android 9 or higher, and the CalorTracker app on it.
  • The Google Health app signed in with an adult Google Account, which Google requires for this sync.
  • Health Connect, built in on Android 14 and newer and installed from Google Play on older versions.

Set it up in 5 steps

  1. 1. Turn on Health Connect in the Google Health app

    In the Google Health app, open Connections, then Partner apps, set up Health Connect, and choose the fitness data to share. Google's help page gives these steps.

  2. 2. Open Health Connect in CalorTracker

    In the CalorTracker app, open Settings and tap Health Connect (or open Activity and tap Connect Health Connect). If Health Connect is not installed, the app offers an Install Health Connect button.

  3. 3. Tap Connect Health Connect and allow access

    Android shows a permission sheet for exercise, steps and active calories. Allow all three. CalorTracker only reads them.

  4. 4. Wait for the first import

    CalorTracker imports the last 30 days. The dialog then shows what it read today: steps, active kcal and workouts, and the app those numbers came from.

  5. 5. Choose what to import

    Switch workouts or daily steps and calories off if you only want one of them. From then on CalorTracker syncs when you open the app and when you come back to it, and Sync now refreshes by hand.

Only steps and workouts carry over. Heart rate, sleep and the other measures a Fitbit records stay out of CalorTracker, which does not read them. Google's help page says data from other devices in Health Connect does not sync back to a Fitbit device.

If it does not work

I connected, but nothing shows up. Why?
Health Connect is a hub, not a tracker. It only holds what other apps write into it, so your band or watch app has to be set to write steps and workouts to Health Connect first. Open that app, allow it to write, wait for it to sync, then tap Sync now in CalorTracker.
The app says a permission is missing, or the permission sheet does not appear.
Android stops showing the permission sheet after a couple of refusals. Open the Manage permissions link in CalorTracker's Health Connect dialog (it opens Health Connect's own settings), allow exercise, steps and active calories for CalorTracker, and sync again.
Why does my step count differ from my watch?
Your phone and your band can both count steps, and Health Connect combines overlapping records using the app priority in its own settings. CalorTracker's Automatic setting counts your band or watch on every day it recorded and the Health Connect total otherwise. Once more than one app has written steps, a Source of truth list appears in the dialog where you can pin one app to count only that one.
Why do my workout calories differ from the watch?
CalorTracker reads active calories. Google's Health app writes total calories burned to Health Connect, and total includes the energy your body burns at rest, so that figure is not read. When a workout arrives without active calories, CalorTracker estimates them from the activity type and duration.
I see one workout twice in Health Connect. Does it count twice?
No. A workout recorded by more than one app is merged, and the dialog says how many it merged.
Do imported calories change my daily calorie goal?
Only if you turn on the option to add activity calories to your budget on the Activity page. Otherwise they appear as activity and leave your target alone.

Privacy

  • Read-only. CalorTracker never writes, changes or deletes anything in Health Connect.
  • This data is never sold, never passed to data brokers or advertisers, and never used for advertising.
  • If you use an optional AI feature after allowing AI data sharing, a summary of up to the last 7 days of activity figures (type, duration, steps, calories) can go with the request. Raw records and the names of the apps or devices that recorded them are not sent.
  • You can revoke access in Health Connect’s settings, or turn sync off in CalorTracker, and it stops reading at once. The full wording is in section 6 of the privacy policy.

Sources and last verified

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  1. Google Health Help: How do I use Health Connect with the Google Health app?: https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/14506680

Your activity, next to your food

Once your steps and workouts are in, CalorTracker shows the calories you burned beside the calories you ate.

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