Google kicked off May with a pair of major announcements that signal the company is getting serious about owning your health data — and your wrist. The new Fitbit Air is a sleek, screen-less fitness tracker priced at $99, and the Fitbit app is getting a major rebrand to "Google Health." Together, the two moves represent the most significant evolution of Google's fitness and wellness platform since it acquired Fitbit in 2021.
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Meet the Fitbit Air — and the Stephen Curry Special Edition
Google's new Fitbit Air is a minimalist fitness tracker built around a small pebble-shaped module that slots into a band of your choosing. Weighing just 12 grams with the strap attached (5 grams without), it's designed to be worn all day and night without the bulk or distraction of a full smartwatch. Battery life stretches to seven days, and a five-minute fast charge delivers enough power to last a full day.
Despite its minimal footprint, the Air packs in a robust sensor suite: 24/7 heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen (SpO2), skin temperature, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stage tracking, and automatic activity detection. It carries an IP68 water and dust resistance rating — more rugged than you might expect at this price point. The one notable omission compared to pricier Fitbit devices is an onboard screen, meaning all your data lives in the companion app rather than on your wrist.
The Fitbit Air starts at $99, but the version that's turning the most heads is the Stephen Curry Special Edition at $129. NBA champion and four-time title winner Stephen Curry serves as a Performance Advisor for Google's Fitbit brand, and this collaboration goes well beyond a logo stamp. The Curry edition features a fabric performance band with a raised interior liner that promotes airflow and a water-resistant finish that dries quickly after intense workouts. The color palette — a striking orange and grey — stands apart from the more muted standard options, and the inside of the band includes Curry's wordmark and signature motivational phrase, "#LockIn." Whether or not you're a basketball fan, if you're planning to put the Fitbit Air through serious workouts, this is the version built for it.
The Fitbit App Is Now Google Health
Alongside the hardware launch, Google officially confirmed that the Fitbit app is being rebranded to Google Health. After months of quiet testing in a public preview since October 2025, the full rollout begins May 19 and will be complete before the Fitbit Air hits store shelves on May 26. Existing users will simply receive an app update; the transition is designed to be seamless.
The rebrand is more than cosmetic. Google Health is a genuinely redesigned experience, organized around four core tabs: Today (a customizable metrics dashboard), Fitness (activity tracking and weekly plans), Sleep (detailed data and an updated sleep score), and a Health tab for broader wellness data. One of the most notable additions is support for Apple Health data, making the Fitbit Air — and the Google Health platform — a rare cross-platform play from Google. Users on iOS can sync their Apple Health data alongside data from Android wearables, and in the US, the app can also integrate medical records including lab results, vitals, and medications for a holistic picture of your health.
The Fitbit brand isn't disappearing — Google has been clear that the name lives on for hardware. But all software and services now fall under the Google Health umbrella, reflecting a deliberate push to position health and fitness as a core Google product rather than an acquired side project.
AI-Powered Health Coaching, Now Global
Google Health Premium (the renamed Fitbit Premium) gets a meaningful upgrade in the form of Google Health Coach, an AI assistant built on Gemini. The Coach adapts in real time to your metrics, learns your preferences, available equipment, and routines during setup, and provides proactive insights across sleep, fitness, and overall health. It can summarize medical records, build adaptive fitness plans, and now supports multimodal logging — meaning you can log a meal by snapping a photo of it, speaking aloud, or typing.
Google Health Premium is priced at $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year, and it's now bundled into Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscriptions across 30+ countries. The Fitbit Air comes with a three-month trial of Google Health Premium included.
One caveat worth noting: the AI Health Coach currently works only with Google devices like Pixel Watch and Fitbit Air. Galaxy Watch users and owners of other third-party wearables will need to wait, though Google has hinted that broader compatibility could come down the line.
What Happens to Google Fit?
The arrival of Google Health also puts a clock on Google Fit, the company's original fitness app dating back to 2014. Google confirmed that Fit will shut down in 2026, and a migration tool will be provided later in the year so that longtime Fit users can transfer their data — potentially a decade or more of health metrics — into Google Health before the doors close.
The Bottom Line
Google is making a clear statement: health is no longer a Fitbit product bolted onto its ecosystem — it's a Google product. The Fitbit Air is an interesting hardware bet, especially at $99, and the Stephen Curry edition raises the bar for workout-focused wearables in this category. But the bigger story is the software. Google Health consolidates wearable data, medical records, Apple Health, and Gemini-powered coaching into a single app available in over 200 countries. Whether it can compete with Apple Health and its deep iPhone integration remains to be seen, but Google's platform ambitions have never been clearer.
The Fitbit Air is available for pre-order now at $99 (standard) and $129 (Stephen Curry Special Edition), shipping May 26.
Sources: 9to5Google, Wired, Thurrott, Android Headlines