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Via Health Connect · Android

Use Samsung Health With CalorTracker

CalorTracker does not talk to Samsung Health directly. Samsung Health writes your steps and exercise into Android's Health Connect, and CalorTracker reads them from there. Your Galaxy Watch data takes the same route, through Samsung Health on your phone.

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What syncs

What CalorTracker reads through Samsung Health and Health Connect
DataWhat CalorTracker does with it
StepsSamsung Health writes steps to Health Connect; CalorTracker uses them for your daily step count.
Workouts (exercise sessions)Samsung Health writes exercise sessions; each becomes one activity entry.
Active caloriesCalorTracker reads active calories. Samsung's documentation lists its calories as total calories burned, which CalorTracker does not read, so a Samsung workout may arrive with CalorTracker's own estimate instead of Samsung's figure.

Before you start

  • The CalorTracker app and the Samsung Health app on the same Android phone, both up to date. Samsung Health has synced with Health Connect since version 6.22.5.
  • Health Connect, built in on Android 14 and newer and installed from Google Play on older versions.
  • A Galaxy Watch needs its own Samsung Health app updated too; its data reaches Health Connect through the phone.

Set it up in 5 steps

  1. 1. Let Samsung Health write to Health Connect

    In Samsung Health, open Settings, tap Health Connect, and grant the permissions, including the ones that let Samsung Health write steps and exercise. Samsung asks you to open Samsung Health once after granting permissions from Health Connect's own settings.

  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.

Health Connect runs on the phone and does not support Wear OS devices, so a watch never writes to it directly. Samsung syncs the watch to Samsung Health on a schedule set to save battery, so a workout can take a while to appear. Open Samsung Health, let it sync, then tap Sync now in CalorTracker.

If it does not work

CalorTracker shows only my phone's steps, not my Galaxy Watch.
If CalorTracker warns that no band or watch app is sharing steps, your watch's data is not reaching Health Connect. Open Samsung Health, go to Settings, then Health Connect, and grant the permissions, including writing steps and exercise. Let the watch sync to Samsung Health, then tap Sync now. Samsung Health then shows up as a source you can pick.
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.
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.
Why do my workout calories differ from the watch?
CalorTracker reads active calories and not total calories, which include the energy your body burns at rest. Samsung's documentation lists its calories as total calories burned, so Samsung's own figure may not reach CalorTracker. When a workout arrives without calories, CalorTracker estimates them from the activity type and duration.

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

What each maker says about its app on this page comes from the maker’s own pages below, read on . Apps and menus change, so check the maker’s page for your device. Next review due by .

  1. Samsung Developers: Accessing Samsung Health Data through Health Connect: https://developer.samsung.com/health/blog/accessing-samsung-health-data-through-health-connect
  2. Samsung Developers: Health Connect FAQ to Access Samsung Health Data: https://developer.samsung.com/health/health-connect-faq.html

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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