Re: For privacy, what is a suitable alternative to the Google FitBit app on Android?

On 2025-01-02 21:49, VanguardLH wrote:

As for receiving notifications, their app is running on the same phone
where you are getting calls and texts.  You don't need their app telling
you that your phone got a call.  When I go to the gym, I don't take my
phone: don't want to damage it, don't want to wear it while exercising,
and don't want it stolen.  I won't be taking calls or reading texts
while exercising, anyway.  Without the phone, the Fitbit device isn't
going to notify you of anything happening on your phone.  With the
phone, the Fitbit app is superfluous for notifying you of calls or
texts.

I find that useful. I get a wasap, the wrist thing vibrates, I just make the movement on my arm like going to read the time, the screen illuminates and I see who texted me, and a bit of the message. I can decide fast whether to actually read it now, or if it can wait.
I don't go to gyms. I find it useful to track my walks.
Some of the gym machines apparently have BT and connect to the watch. My elliptical bike doesn't, so the watch only logs my heart rate, not how many steps I took. It should log them, my arm does a rhythmic movement.
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Cheers, Carlos.