Fitbit Premium used to be a requirement if you wanted access to the company’s full suite of health metrics within the app. And in fact it’s currently still required if you want access. But Fitbit is changing things up. This week, Fitbit announced that it would be making its full health metrics dashboard available to those are not subscribed to Fitbit Premium. A service which costs $9.99 a month. The full health metrics dashboard isn’t the only thing Fitbit Premium offers of course.
So there will still be reasons to subscribe to it. Premium subscribers will still be the only ones getting more than 200 video and audio workouts. As well as hundreds of mindfulness sessions, access to Calm, and much more. If all you’re really interested in is the health metrics though, soon you’ll no longer have to pay for it. Both non-Premium and Premium subscribers will end up with access to the full dashboard. Which includes things like skin temperature, breathing rate, oxygen saturation and more.
Fitbit will open up health metrics trends to non-Premium users later this month
Fitbit doesn’t give an exact time frame but it does say that the full dashboard will be coming to free users sometime later this month. You will still need a compatible device though. For instance not all Fitbit devices will be support checking blood oxygen saturation levels or skin temperature. As they won’t have the sensors to record that kind of data.
Compatible devices can include the Sense 2, Charge 5, and Versa 4 just to name a few. Also worth keeping in mind is that some users will have a device that supports some of the features in the full health metrics dashboard but not others. You should still have access to those without needing Premium. Once Fitbit pushes everything out. The month is half over, so those features should be opening up for free users pretty soon here.