Health & Fitness Tracking Features for Your Smartwatch | Android
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Smartwatch health and fitness features with your Wear OS watch.

2023.12.07

Smartwatch health and fitness features with your Wear OS watch.

You’re putting in the work every day to create the best version of yourself. Your smartwatch powered with Wear OS by Google can track health and fitness activities like steps taken and calories burned,1 helping you develop a deeper understanding of your wellbeing with round-the-clock insights into your heart rate, sleep patterns, and more.

Be your best self.

Your Wear OS watch is an all-in-one health and fitness tracker, offering a wide selection of smart features that help keep you going. You can use your Wear OS watch as a workout tracker, step counter, and heart rate monitor.2 By pairing your watch with your Android phone, you can view the health and fitness data tracked by your watch directly on your phone. 

And you have access to even more health and fitness apps on the Google Play Store: 

  • Track your meals and make your calories count with MyFitnessPal.

  • Map out your next run, hike, or bike ride with Strava.

  • Manage stress with Calm meditation and relaxing techniques.

  • Get more restful sleep with SleepCycle.

 

In addition to these, your Wear OS watch also allows you to 

  • Receive important notifications from your phone on your watch while working out.3

  • Send a quick text or control the lights in your home, using just your voice.3

  • Control your music playback to give you that extra boost for your last gym set.3

  • Easily pay for healthy shakes, nutrition bars, and other essentials using your Google Wallet.3,4

With a Google Pixel Watch, you’ll enjoy the unique benefits of the first smartwatch to bring Google and Fitbit together.5 The Fitbit experience on your Pixel Watch offers features like Pace Training, which gives you real-time feedback on your runs so you can achieve your personal best. And you can customize your experience to see the information that’s most important to you, including heart rate zones and Active Zone Minutes. 

The Galaxy Watch6 lets you monitor your wellness, your way with Samsung Health. Enjoy a better night’s rest with Advanced Sleep Coaching,6 stay on top of heart health with ​​Continuous IHRN,7 and get to know your body better with BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis).8

Improving your health and fitness is a journey, and your watch powered with Wear OS by Google is right there with you every step of the way.

Make your watch uniquely yours, inside and out.

As you advance on your health and fitness journey, you’ll have more confidence to express yourself in different ways. Your Wear OS watch is a stylish fitness tracker that gives you the power to experiment with new styles, offering unique bands, watch faces, and tiles. It all starts with your choice of a variety of watch designs from brands like Samsung Galaxy, Pixel, Fossil, Montblanc, and TAG Heuer

If you enjoy the power to change your style to match your mood, your Wear OS watch lets you flex your creative muscles. Pixel Watches are available with more than 25 different styles of band, letting you switch from a two-tone leather band for work to an active sport band for your workout. And you can pair your band of choice with any number of unique watch faces, which are available on Google Play for all varieties of Wear OS watches. 

You can also personalize your Wear OS watch with customizable tiles and complications that show you the information you most want to see at a quick glance. With tiles and complications for the step counter, heart rate monitor, and other smart health features, you can easily track your progress on the day’s fitness goals right on your watch face. And your customizable interface allows you to easily navigate to messages, maps, music, and more.

Be more productive with Google apps on your wrist.

Your Wear OS watch isn’t just your convenient health and fitness tracker, step counter, and heart rate monitor all rolled into one. It also helps you be the best total version of yourself with features that let you track the other things that matter in your life. You can use Wear OS to check your schedule with Google Calendar, set a date to go on a run with a friend using WhatsApp, ask Google Assistant to check the forecast, and get notifications while you’re out enjoying the sunshine. 


Wear OS by Google helps you get the most out of your day, every day. Your Wear OS watch is your health and fitness tracker, step counter, heart rate monitor, and productivity tool—and it’s a fashion statement. It puts the power to do more in your hands. Or, more appropriately, on your wrist.

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1 Feature set may vary depending on device and installed apps.

2 Setup of the health and fitness app that comes on your watch may be required. Third-party apps installed from the Play Store offer additional features that do not come with the watch OOTB.

3 Some Google apps and services require LTE or a paired phone within Bluetooth range of your device and are not available in all countries or languages. Data rates may apply.

4 Google Wallet setup required

5 Some features require Fitbit mobile app.

6 Requires smartphone with Android 10.0 or later, 2GB or more RAM and Samsung Health app version 6.22 or later.

7 Requires Samsung Galaxy Smartphone with Android 9.0 or later, and Samsung Health Monitor app (available only at the Samsung Galaxy app store).

The Samsung ECG Monitor Application with Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification is an over-the-counter (OTC) software-only, mobile medical application for informational use only in adults 22 years and older. The app analyzes pulse rate data to identify episodes of irregular heart rhythms suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib) and provides a notification suggesting the user record an ECG to analyze the heart rhythm. The Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification Feature is not intended to provide a notification on every episode of irregular rhythm suggestive of AFib and the absence of a notification is not intended to indicate no disease process is present; rather the feature is intended to opportunistically acquire pulse rate data when the user is still and analyze the data when determined sufficient toward surfacing a notification.

The ECG Monitor App is not intended to replace traditional methods of diagnosis or treatment. The ECG app is not intended for users with known arrhythmias other than AFib or users under 22 years old. Users should not interpret or take clinical action based on the device output without consultation of a qualified healthcare professional.

8 The Samsung BIA is a body analyzer that uses bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) technology to track body composition based on weight, body fat, body mass index (BMI), skeletal muscle, body water, and basal metabolic rate (BMR) measurements. It is not intended to specifically diagnose or treat a medical condition.