If you wear a Fitbit or a Pixel Watch, your data lives in your Google account. Since Fitbit accounts moved to Google this year, that’s true even if you’ve worn a Fitbit for a decade. Voke reads it from there. Here’s what to expect when you connect.
Keep your watch and its app
Voke doesn’t talk to your watch. Your watch syncs to the Google Health app, the Google Health app sends it to your Google account, and Voke reads it from your account. So keep the Google Health app on your phone and let it sync as it always has. You can stop opening it once Voke has your data.
Connecting
In Voke, open Sources, tap Add a source, and choose Google Health. Voke sends you to Google’s sign-in page.
Two things you’ll see there:
- A warning that Voke is still in testing. Voke is in beta and hasn’t been through Google’s review yet. Choose Continue to carry on.
- A list of data types with checkboxes. Leave them all ticked if you want the full picture. If you untick some, Voke still connects, and tells you a few metrics will be missing.
Voke only ever asks Google for read-only access. It can’t change or delete anything in your Google account.
What comes over
Voke brings over the last 365 days from your Google account, plus everything new from then on. That covers:
- Sleep: each night with its stages, naps, and time in bed.
- Heart: heart rate by the minute, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and time in heart rate zones.
- Overnight vitals: blood oxygen, breathing rate and the nightly temperature change.
- Activity: steps, distance, active calories, active minutes, Active Zone Minutes and time spent sitting still.
- Workouts: each exercise session.
- Weight, if you log it.
If you have more than a year of history in Google, the older part stays in your Google account. Voke doesn’t fetch it yet.
If you also connect Apple Health, Voke reads all the history Apple Health has. And if the same night or walk shows up from both, Voke counts it once.
Your first sync
Voke doesn’t fetch the year in one go. It starts with the last 30 days, so recent days fill in first, and it fetches sleep and the overnight numbers before anything else. Minute-by-minute heart rate comes last, because it’s the biggest by far. Once the last 30 days are in, Voke goes back for the rest of the year.
Google limits how fast any app can read your data, so a full year can take a while. You don’t need to keep Voke open. The work happens on our server.
While it runs, you’ll see “Still syncing your history” on the Feed, and a short note on any card that’s still waiting, like “Last night is still syncing”. Days appear as they arrive, without a refresh.
After the first sync, new data shows up in Voke a few minutes after your watch syncs to Google. Google tells Voke when something changes, and Voke checks on its own every 15 minutes as well, for the few data types Google doesn’t send notices for.
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October 4What looks different
- Scores. Fitbit’s own scores, like Sleep Score and Daily Readiness, don’t come over. Voke works out its own readiness score from your sleep, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, temperature and blood oxygen, so the number won’t match what Google showed you.
- One timeline. The Feed lays your day out in order: last night, the morning walk, the afternoon nap, the workout. Tap into Sleep, Heart or History for the detail.
- Sharing. Google Health lets friends see a weekly step count or cardio load. Voke lets you share a whole night, or just a daily number, one category at a time, with the people you pick. Here’s how sharing works.
What Voke doesn’t do yet
We’d rather you hear these from us than find them yourself:
- Some Google data types don’t come over yet: VO2 max and cardio fitness, ECG readings, irregular rhythm notifications, blood glucose, body fat, height, floors and altitude, swim lengths, and food and water logs.
- Only one year of history. See above.
- iPhone only. There’s no Android app.
- No disconnect button for a source. To stop Voke reading Google, remove its access in your Google account’s security settings. The data Voke already has stays until you delete your Voke account.
- No export from the app. Email us and we’ll send you a copy of your data.
- During the beta, Google may end Voke’s access after a week, because Google signs apps in testing out sooner. If that happens, Sources says the source needs to be linked again. Link it and Voke picks up where it left off.
- No logging. You can’t add food, water or a manual workout in Voke. Keep logging those wherever you do now.
Direct connections for Oura, WHOOP and Garmin are on the list. If something you relied on in Google Health or Fitbit is missing, tell us at [email protected]. It helps us decide what to build next.