Is Fitbit Premium's New Ai Coach Worth The Subscription? Try It Now And See

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways 

• Fitbit Premium's nationalist preview is disposable October 28. 
• Adult Android users tin effort it retired successful nan US. 
• The AI coach tin reside sleep, activity, and wellness concerns. 

Fitbit is getting an AI-powered facelift, but earlier its wide rollout, nan institution is letting eligible users trial nan redesigned Fitbit Premium. 

The caller Fitbit Premium emphasizes an individualized and personalized fittingness and wellness coach experience. Powered by Gemini, Fitbit Premium tailors exercise, slumber recommendations, diet, and much to nan individual user. 

The coach anchors its recommendations successful nan accusation a Fitbit personification provides done nan first survey. The Fitbit squad encourages group to supply arsenic overmuch item arsenic imaginable astir their routine, schedule, workout preferences, and much during this intake to get uber-personalized recommendations.

In a demo, nan Fitbit squad showed nan app providing recommendations for a personification who loves to skis and way tally and leads an progressive lifestyle, but pinch a engaged activity schedule. The app past generates exercises for building spot and endurance for these activities. 

The coach tin besides build customized workout routines and ping nan personification connected nan days erstwhile they scheme to activity out. Additionally, users tin talk their scheme pinch nan coach to update connected advancement and make adjustments long-term. Let's opportunity a Fitbit Premium personification wants a caller wellness challenge: The personification tin punctual nan coach to create one. The coach tin besides creation a workout nether a user's aforementioned constraints, for illustration a 20-minute precocious assemblage workout utilizing dumbbells aliases interval training for a user's first marathon. 

Fitbit Premium's coach doesn't conscionable connection workout advice. It tin besides merge various aspects of a user's health, for illustration slumber and wide health, and exemplify nan connections betwixt nan two. Users tin punctual nan coach to look for patterns successful their sleep, aliases make connections betwixt a biomarker, for illustration bosom complaint variability, and their activity load. They tin besides inquire astir wellness conditions aliases symptoms. 

Several features -- specified arsenic menstrual wellness logging, precocious moving metrics, and sharing features for illustration messages and badges -- won't beryllium disposable successful nationalist preview. 

Fitbit says nan accusation it provides connected nan app is unafraid and grounded successful science. It plans to yet see citations for its responses, though users won't spot nan coach citing its sources successful conversations successful nan preview. 

Reddit users nether nan r/fitbit subreddit opportunity that paying for Fitbit Premium isn't worthy it. Fitbit devices travel pinch six months of Fitbit Premium free, and users say that's nan only clip they've utilized it. Three abstracted Reddit threads connected nan taxable consequence successful users firmly agreeing that nan paid tier is nary different than nan modular tier. 

The AI-powered redesign and its caller domiciled arsenic a sleep, wellness, and fittingness coach could bring much worth to nan Premium tier and get much Fitbit members to salary nan $10 monthly subscription interest (or $80 annually). 

Adult Fitbit Premium users successful nan US pinch a qualifying Fitbit aliases Google Pixel Watch tin effort retired nan redesigned app starting October 28. Android users get nan preview first, and Fitbit is expanding entree to iOS users soon. Users tin move backmost from nan nationalist preview to an older type of nan app if they truthful choose. 

"This is simply a marque caller experience, truthful initially, location will beryllium immoderate gaps, but you'll spot regular improvements and connection from america erstwhile we add, change, aliases amended features and capabilities," Fitbit's squad writes successful a blog post. 

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