Can I connect Galaxy Fit or Samsung Health app with the Fitbit app?

[Carameluvr]

Can I sync a Galaxy Fit with the fitbit app or can I sync my Samsung Health app w the fitbit app?

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[RicardoFitbit]

Hi @Carameluvr, welcome to the Community Forums!

Thanks for your post and question. Let me share with you that at this moment it's not possible to connect a Galaxy Fit with the Fitbit app, our app is designed to work with Fitbit products only. Also, we do not have a partnership with the Samsung Health app, therefore, you cannot connect your Samsung Health app with the Fitbit app to share information between both apps. 

Let me know if you have any additional questions. 

[Carameluvr]

Thanks for your response. I was able to get the answer previously through other sources. Due to the inability of the 2 programs, I have decided to stay with my Galaxy watch and the S Health app. So once again, thanks for your response but good-bye Fitbit.

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[Rich_Laue]

To the best of my knowledge neither have chosen to link up with Fitbit, or talked to Fitbit about options. 

There is a third party app, I'm not sure of the name?; but has been mentioned, that links Fitbit to google fit.

Cant blame Fitbit for what they dont want.

[Carameluvr]

Hey Rich, thanks for the response. But from what I've been reading, IDK if that's necessarily the case because if Fitbit was trying to link the apps they would have let us know they have been but so far unsuccessfully due to the unresponsiveness of Samsung, Apple or whomever. And then that would be up to the users to put pressure on our smartphone makers.

I realize this is all about the almighty $$ and everyone just wants us, consumers, to purchase their product/s, and since Samsung provides more than just a watch and/or a health app for me, I'll stick with them. So like I said earlier, I will just stick to my Galaxy Fit watch and my S Health app. 

[Rich_Laue]

Fitbit does not setup connections to third party apps.

Fitbit has already setup an API that will allow third party apps to link up with fitbit.

Fitbit let's third parties decide, but encourages them, to link up to fitbit.

Can you really blame Fitbit for their decision? They probably have there reason for not linking up to Fitbit. Maybe it is because they sell competing hardware.

You said it yourself, because Galaxy doesnt want to play with Fitbit, you will stick with Galaxy.

If they did play with Fitbit, they would have lost a sale

[Carameluvr]

Actually they wouldn't, I would have simply linked the Fitbit app with
either my Galaxy Fit watch or the S Health app, whichever is applicable.

But it doesn't matter anymore, I'm fine with what I have. I was just trying
to do this so all of us who exercise together could be on the same
platform. But I'm good, we're good.