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Sync Health Connect With CalorTracker

Health Connect is Android's hub for health data. Connect it and CalorTracker imports your workouts, steps and active calories from the apps that write there, so your activity and calories burned fill in without typing. It only reads.

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What syncs

What CalorTracker reads through Health Connect
DataWhat CalorTracker does with it
Workouts (exercise sessions)Each completed workout becomes one entry on your Activity screen, with its type, duration and calories.
StepsYour daily step count, and the steps that belong to each workout.
Active caloriesThe energy burned in each workout and across the day. Resting energy is not read, because your calorie target already includes it.

Before you start

  • The CalorTracker app on Android. Health sync is in the mobile apps, not the website.
  • Health Connect, which is built in on Android 14 and newer and installed from Google Play on older versions.
  • An app that writes your steps and workouts into Health Connect: your band or watch app, or a workout app.

Set it up in 5 steps

  1. 1. Make sure an app writes to Health Connect

    Open your band or watch app and allow it to write steps and workouts to Health Connect. Health Connect holds nothing of its own until an app does.

  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.

CalorTracker does not read heart rate, distance, routes, sleep or weight from Health Connect, and it never writes anything back. If a workout arrives without calories, CalorTracker estimates them from the activity type and your duration.

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, which leave out the energy your body burns at rest, so a watch face that shows total calories reads higher. If an app writes a workout without any 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.

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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