Best Google Fit alternatives (2026)

Quickstart

Google says it will invite Google Fit users to move their data into the Google Health app later in 2026. To choose for yourself, Samsung Health, Pacer and Kinoku count steps and log workouts on Android, and OpenTracks and Strava record GPS workouts. Groups follow what each app’s own pages name, and each group runs A to Z.

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What has Google said about Google Fit?

Google Fit’s own listing describes a simple daily habit: “See your daily progress on your Heart Points and Steps goal.” It records your “runs, walks, and bike rides” with a phone or a Wear OS watch, and it can show data from apps such as Strava and MyFitnessPal next to its own.

Google has said two things about Fit, and they are about different parts of it.

1. The Google Fit APIs, the links other apps use to read and write Fit data: Google’s migration guide says “The Google Fit APIs will be supported until the end of 2026.” Its developer page adds that since May 1, 2024, developers cannot sign up to use them.
2. The app and your data: Google’s blog post that introduced the Google Health app says “We’ll invite Google Fit users to migrate their data into Google Health app later this year.” A second Google post from the same day says Google “will begin migrating Google Fit users into the Google Health app.”

None of these Google pages gives a date on which the Google Fit app itself stops working, and this page does not guess one. What follows is for anyone who would rather pick where their steps and workouts go next, and Google’s own route is on the list too.

Which Google Fit alternatives count steps and log workouts?

Google Fit did two jobs, a step count and a workout log, so the six apps here split by how many of those jobs their own pages name.

• Steps and workouts, both named: Google Health, Kinoku, Pacer and Samsung Health. Pacer’s listing says its step counter “will track your steps automatically if your phone is with you”, and Samsung Health lists “daily steps and activity time” next to running, cycling and swimming. Google’s blog names friends’ “steps and cardio load” on Google Health’s leaderboards, and Kinoku counts steps next to its run and gym logs.
• GPS workouts, with no step counter named: OpenTracks and Strava. OpenTracks “Records as you go running or walking”, and Strava records running, cycling, walking, hiking and yoga. Neither app’s listing mentions counting steps.

Side by side

Each cell rests on a sentence from the app’s listing or its own site, and “Not stated” means no page we could open covers it.

Each app, in its own words

Google Health

Best for: Google Fit users who want Google to move their data for them.

Google Health is the new name for the Fitbit app, and it is where Google says Fit users are headed. Its listing opens with “The Fitbit App is now Google Health”.

• What it does well: Its listing says you can “Sync Google Health with your Fitbit, Pixel Watch, your favorite health tracking apps, and your medical records (available in select countries).” You can “Log your metrics and track patterns, like sleep, workouts, nutrition and menstrual cycles.” Google’s blog says it “works with hundreds of your favorite apps and devices, whether integrated through Health Connect, Apple Health or the Google Health APIs”.
• What its pages say about limits: “To use Google Health products and services, you need a Google account.” Its listing says “Some features require Google Health Premium subscription (sold separately)”. Without a Fitbit or a Pixel Watch, the help page says you “will see a focused experience with the Today, and Health tabs.”
• Where it is the better pick: A Google Fit user who wants the move handled for them, above all one who already wears a Fitbit or a Pixel Watch.
• Where Google Health differs: It swaps Fit’s daily goal for “a personalized weekly cardio target”, and its coach is “Available in certain countries with Google Health Premium”. Official listing: Google Play.

Kinoku

Best for: Android users who want steps, runs and lifts in one record with no account.

Kinoku is a private training app for Android that keeps steps, GPS runs and gym sets together on the phone, with no account to create.

• What it does well: The phone counts steps for free, with a goal ring, streaks, records and a consistency heatmap, and with its notification on, the live count changes color as you speed up. GPS runs are free with pace, splits, a route map and audio cues, and the free Wear OS app starts a run from the wrist. The same history holds your gym sets and routines, so a week of walking, running and lifting reads as one record.
• What its pages say about limits: Hour-by-hour movement, step trends and step insights are Pro. The map needs a connection to load its tiles, the weather line is a call you switch on, and Android’s own device backup can copy the record to your Google account when that backup is on. Steps and workouts that Kinoku writes to Health Connect can also be read by other apps you allow there.
• Where it is the better pick: Someone who used Fit for steps and runs, also trains in a gym, and wants all of it in one record on the phone.
• What Kinoku does not do: Kinoku is an Android app today, and its iPhone version is in the works. It has no Google Fit importer. Its Health Connect sync brings workouts from the past week and daily step totals from the past 30 days, or the past year if you allow older reads, so anything before that stays behind. It has no Heart Points, no feed and no sync between two phones.

Pacer

Best for: Walkers who want a free phone step counter with no login.

Pacer is a pedometer app built around daily walking.

• What it does well: Its listing says “Our free step counter app will track your steps automatically if your phone is with you”, and “No website login needed.” A “GPS activity tracker tracks outdoor fitness activities on a map”. You can “Create walking groups to burn calories together with friends & family” and follow “Daily exercise plans designed by pro trainers”.
• What its pages say about limits: The listing carries the Contains ads label and the In-app purchases label. It says “Pacer Pedometer syncs with Fitbit, Garmin, Google Fit, Samsung Health and other step counter apps”, and it does not say how the Google Fit link changes when those APIs end.
• Where it is the better pick: A walker who wants the quickest start, with groups for company, and who does not mind ads.
• Where Pacer differs: Its listing does not mention Health Connect, a watch app of its own or weight training. Official listing: Google Play.

Samsung Health

Best for: Galaxy owners who want steps, workouts, meals and sleep in one app.

Samsung Health is Samsung’s own health app, and it is also listed on Google Play.

• What it does well: You can “Easily add and edit the items that you want to manage such as daily steps and activity time.” It can “Record and manage your fitness activities, such as running, cycling, swimming, etc.” With a Galaxy Watch you can “Monitor your sleep patterns in more detail”, and you can log meals, watch coach videos and challenge friends through Samsung Health Together.
• What its pages say about limits: Samsung’s support page says “With the Samsung Health app version 6.15 and later, you must sign into your Samsung account to use Samsung Health.” The listing says “Tablets and some mobile devices are not supported”, and some content needs an optional paid subscription.
• Where it is the better pick: A Galaxy phone or Galaxy Watch owner who wants one app for steps, workouts, meals and sleep.
• Where Samsung Health differs: Its data moves between phones when “you just need to sync your Samsung Health profile with your Samsung account”. Samsung’s developer page says steps and exercise sync with Health Connect, so other apps can read them. Official listing: Google Play.

OpenTracks

Best for: Privacy-minded walkers, runners and riders who want an open-source GPS log.

OpenTracks is an open-source GPS recorder for walks, runs and rides.

• What it does well: Its listing calls it “A sport tracking buddy that respects your privacy.” It “Records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling.” It reads Bluetooth heart rate and cycling sensors, and it exports each track as a GPX file or in two other track formats.
• What its pages say about limits: The homepage says OpenTracks and its companion dashboard app “have no cloud integration” and “do not use Google Play Services”. The listing says “No ads.” It is free on F-Droid, and on September 26, 2026 the Google Play copy was a paid download [67]; we print no price.
• Where it is the better pick: Someone who used Fit mostly to record walks, runs or rides and wants open-source software that keeps the tracks off any cloud.
• Where OpenTracks differs: Its listing and homepage name no step counter, no Health Connect link and no weight training. Official listings: F-Droid, free, and Google Play, paid.

Strava

Best for: Runners and riders who want a friends feed and segments.

Strava calls itself “the free app where building community meets fitness tracking”, and it records workouts with GPS.

• What it does well: Its listing names “Running, cycling, walking, hiking, yoga” plus over 40 other sport types. You can “Race against others on segments to the top of the leaderboards”, and “Your Strava feed is filled with real efforts from real people.” Its Wear OS app “includes a tile and a complication you can use to quickly launch activities.”
• What its pages say about limits: “Yes, Strava is a free app, and there is no cost to record and share your activities.” The listing adds that “Strava includes both a free version and a subscription version with premium features”, and it puts the Training Log in the subscription. Its privacy policy says your information will be “stored in the United States.”
• Where it is the better pick: A runner or rider whose friends are already on Strava and who wants segments and a feed more than a step count.
• Where Strava differs: Its pages name no step counter, so a Fit user who watched daily steps would pair it with another app. Its support page says it sends “time, distance, and calorie data from GPS-based activities” to Health Connect. Official listing: Google Play. Versus page: Kinoku vs Strava.

Moving your Google Fit history

Google has named one route for your Fit history, and its help centre names a second one you control. How much comes across depends on which one you pick.

1. Google’s migration: Google says it will invite Fit users to move their data into Google Health. If you accept, Google does the move, into an app that needs a Google account.
2. An archive you keep: Google Fit’s help centre points to Google Takeout: “To keep your records or transfer your data to another service, you can create an archive.” None of the other five apps here states that it reads that archive, Kinoku included.
3. Health Connect, for what comes next: Fit’s help page shows how to “turn on Sync Fit with Health Connect”, and it mentions “past data written by Fit into Health Connect”. Apps that read Health Connect can then see what Fit writes there, though Google’s page does not list which kinds of data those are.

Kinoku reads Health Connect in two passes. On the first sync, daily step totals come in from the past 30 days, or from the past year if you also let Kinoku read data older than 30 days, and the Steps screen fills in its last week. Runs, walks, rides, hikes and swims come in from the past seven days while Import Workouts from Health Connect is on, which it is by default. Later syncs fill in the days missed since the last one, and nothing older than that year comes across.

What can you take with you if you switch again?

Leaving Google Fit is a good moment to ask how you would leave the next app. The answer is a file you can open without that app, and the six differ on whether their pages describe one.

• Kinoku: Export to CSV writes a ZIP of plain tables, one for each kind of record, such as workouts, sets and routines. A full backup writes one ZIP that a new phone restores, with no account to sign in to, and both are free on every plan. Kinoku’s code is not public, so the files are how you check what it keeps.
• OpenTracks: Its listing says “Export data as tracks either as KMZ (incl. photos), KML, or GPX.” Its code is open source, so anyone can read what the app does with a track.
• Strava: Its help centre says “Strava provides the option to export the original version of the activity file from any of your activity pages.” For everything at once, “Strava provides the option to export an archive of your account”, sent by email as a download link.
• Google Fit itself: Its help page points to Google Takeout, where you can create an archive of your records to keep or to move to another service.
• Samsung Health and Pacer: The pages we opened do not describe an export file.

A file only helps if the next app reads it. Kinoku’s importer reads Strava archives with GPX or TCX tracks, and it does not read a Google Takeout archive.

When is Google’s own app the better pick?

Google’s plan is the simpler path in three cases, and Google’s own pages give the reasons.

• You want the move done for you: Google says it will invite Fit users to migrate their data into Google Health, so the move is Google’s to run.
• You wear a Fitbit or a Pixel Watch: Google Health syncs with both, and with one connected the help page says the app shows four tabs, Today, Fitness, Sleep and Health.
• You want a coach to talk to: The listing says you can “Ask your coach follow-up questions to get a deeper understanding of each insight”, and the coach comes with Premium.

If you use only a phone, the help page says Google Health shows the Today and Health tabs, and that is where the other apps on this list are worth a look.

How this list was checked

Every fact about Google and the other apps comes from a page the company itself publishes, first opened on September 26, 2026 and checked again on October 17, 2026.

• Google’s statements: Each sentence about Google Fit and Google Health is quoted from a Google developer page, a Google Help page or Google’s own blog, and each one is numbered in the sources.
• Other apps: Each app fact is a sentence from its Google Play listing, its support site or its homepage. No emulator test was run for this page, so every cell is a quote or “Not stated”.
• Kinoku: Kinoku’s facts come from the app’s code and its feature pages, including which Health Connect data it reads and how far back it looks.
• Order: The apps are grouped by whether their pages name both steps and workouts, and sorted alphabetically inside each group. Nobody paid to be here.

Frequently asked questions

Is Google Fit shutting down?

Google has said two separate things. Its developer pages say the Google Fit APIs will be supported until the end of 2026. Its May 2026 blog post says Google will invite Google Fit users to migrate their data into the Google Health app later this year. None of the Google pages we read gives a date on which the Google Fit app itself stops working, so this page does not give one.

Where will my Google Fit data go?

Google’s blog says it will invite Google Fit users to migrate their data into the Google Health app later this year. For a copy you keep yourself, Google Fit’s help centre points to Google Takeout, which lets you create an archive to keep your records or move them to another service. None of the other five apps here states that it reads that archive.

Can Kinoku import my Google Fit history?

Not directly. Kinoku has no Google Fit importer and does not read a Takeout archive. It reads Health Connect instead: runs, walks, rides, hikes and swims from the past seven days, and daily step totals from the past 30 days, or a year if you allow older reads. Google’s help page says Fit can write data into Health Connect without listing which kinds, so older Fit history does not come across.

Which of these apps work with Health Connect?

Four of them say so. Samsung’s developer page says steps, exercise, heart rate and sleep sync between Samsung Health and Health Connect. Strava sends time, distance and calories from GPS activities and reads weight. Google’s blog says Google Health works with apps through Health Connect. Kinoku reads steps, sleep and body readings, and writes steps and finished workouts. Pacer’s and OpenTracks’ pages do not mention it.

Which Google Fit alternatives have a watch app?

Samsung Health pairs with a Galaxy Watch, and Google Health with a Fitbit or a Pixel Watch. Strava’s listing describes a Wear OS app with a tile and a complication. Kinoku has a free Wear OS app for workouts, runs and steps. Pacer’s listing names syncing with Fitbit and Garmin rather than a watch app, and OpenTracks reads Bluetooth sensors such as heart rate straps.

Are these Google Fit alternatives free?

Each has a free way in, with a different paid edge. Pacer calls its tracking free and carries the Contains ads label. Strava records for free and sells its Training Log in a subscription. Samsung Health keeps some content behind an optional subscription, and Google Health puts some features behind Premium. OpenTracks lists no ads and is free on F-Droid, while its Google Play copy is a paid download. Kinoku counts steps and records runs and lifts for free, and Pro adds step trends and deeper analysis.

Does any of these apps keep Heart Points?

Heart Points are Google Fit’s own measure, and none of the other pages we read uses the name. Google Health’s help page says the app now uses a personalized weekly cardio target instead of a daily goal. Kinoku shows a daily step goal and your brisk time, and Samsung Health lets you set goals that suit your own level. None of them converts old Heart Points.

Which Google Fit alternative suits someone who also lifts weights?

Kinoku logs gym sets, reps and routines in the same record as steps and GPS runs. Strava’s listing says strength sessions from another device or strength app show up with their sets, reps and weights, so it displays lifting that another app recorded. Samsung Health and Google Health describe workouts and plans without a set-by-set gym log on the pages we read.

What does Kinoku not do that Google Fit does?

Kinoku has no iPhone app yet, no Heart Points, and no heart rate or breathing check through the phone camera, which Fit’s listing describes. It does not link to other apps’ accounts the way Fit’s partner list does; it reads what they write to Health Connect, plus files you import, such as a Strava archive. Kinoku keeps no copy on a server, so it has no sync between two phones either.

Is there a Google Fit replacement that works offline?

OpenTracks says it has no cloud integration and does not use Google Play Services, so it records walks, runs and rides without either. Kinoku counts steps and records GPS runs and gym sets with no connection and no account, though its run map needs a connection to load the map tiles. The other four apps’ pages do not say how they behave offline.

Is there a simple step counter to replace Google Fit?

Pacer is the one built around walking: its listing calls it a free step counter that counts automatically when the phone is with you, with no website login, and it carries the Contains ads label. Kinoku counts steps for free with a goal ring and streaks, next to its run and gym logs. Samsung Health also counts daily steps, with a Samsung account.

Is there an open-source Google Fit alternative?

OpenTracks is. Its listing calls it libre software, and its homepage says it has no cloud integration. It records walks, runs and rides and exports each track as a GPX file, but its pages name no step counter and no gym log. Kinoku is not open source, and it keeps steps, runs and lifts on the phone with free CSV export and backup.

Related pages

• Best privacy-focused fitness apps for Android: Google Fit’s own label lists eight data types; this page sets it beside ten more apps.
• Best Strava alternatives: GPS run apps for people leaving Strava’s feed or subscription.
• Kinoku vs Strava: The feed, the subscription and the archive, side by side.
• Best workout apps without an account: Trackers you can start without signing up.
• Which Android fitness app works without a smartwatch?: Nine apps checked on what each one counts, records and logs with just your phone.
• Steps: How Kinoku counts steps, and what the free and Pro views show.
• Health Connect: Every kind of data Kinoku reads and writes, and the workout import.
• Free workout trackers with Health Connect: Ten apps, and what each one reads from and writes to Health Connect.
• Best Samsung Health alternatives: For Galaxy users who want no Samsung account, a gym log, or a second app beside Samsung Health.
• Workout apps that track your menstrual cycle: Google Health, Samsung Health and Kinoku again, this time for cycle tracking next to your workouts.
• Best Fitbit alternatives: Six apps for people leaving the Fitbit app or band, grouped by whether you need a new band at all.

Which one fits you

• Choose Google Health if you want Google to carry your Fit data across, you wear a Fitbit or a Pixel Watch, and a Google account is fine.
• Choose Kinoku if you want steps, GPS runs and gym sets in one private record on an Android phone, with no account.
• Choose Pacer if you mostly walk, you want a free step counter that starts with no login, and ads are fine.
• Choose Samsung Health if you own a Galaxy phone or watch and want steps, workouts, meals and sleep in one app, with a Samsung account.
• Choose OpenTracks if you record walks, runs or rides, you want open-source software with no cloud, and you do not need a step count.
• Choose Strava if you run or ride, your friends are on Strava, and a feed and segments matter more to you than a step count.