Widgets/tiles for Fitbit web application

[floridawalk]

There's a bunch of things (e.g., health metrics, for my recently-acquired Sense, replacing a Charge 3) that are available in the phone app. But not on the web app. (Full disclosure: I am in Android world, so maybe those in iPhone land are not so affected.) For example, the sleep tracking times by sleep type are available via a tile/widget on the web app, but it doesn't show sleep scores as the phone app does. Most of the other health metrics, e.g., RHR, SPO2) don't seem to have any widget/tile options at all? Am I just missing out on "secret sauce" instructions to get the web app to do what I can do on the phone? Or is it just inherent that the phone app is always going to be better than the web app?

[LZeeW]

@floridawalk   There is no "secret sauce" and you aren't missing anything.  The sleep score has been around for  while, but it has always been a mobile app feature only.  Fitbit added the Health Metrics and Stress Management scores after it starting releasing devices that require the mobile app.  As a long time user and observer of Fitbit's evolution, I don't think these features will be added to the web dashboard.

[floridawalk]

Thanks for the confirmation. I figured it was just that Fitbit has a
strategy, expressed or implicit, to neglect website functionality in favor
of the phone apps. If I were in Fitbit sales/mktg I might be a little
unhappy about that, since (annoyingly for us customers) if you use the web
app you have to march past the adverts, sometimes twice, on a re-login, to
get to your dashboard. A defect for those of us who don't want to see ads
twice, or even once, but still are of the generation that sometimes wants
to use a computer browser and not a phone app so put up with it. I would
think this comes across as a feature to the sales/mktg folks in the
company. And, really, how hard can it be to extend some functionality to
the web version once perfected for iOS and Android? (OK, not necessarily
easy to make anything work across a range of browsers, even if sticking to
most current versions of the usual suspects -- Chrome, Firefox, Safari, ...
or even the dreaded Edge.)