Google is giving Fitbit’s personal health coach a pretty meaningful upgrade, and the best part is that more of it is now available even if you don’t pay for Premium. The new tools lean heavily into everyday health tracking — not just steps and sleep — with fresh features for cycle tracking, mental wellbeing, and nutrition.

First up is Cycle Health, which essentially plugs proper period tracking directly into the health coach experience. You can log your periods and symptoms on a calendar, and if you’re a Premium user, the coach can surface personalized insights around your cycle patterns over time. For anyone already wearing a Fitbit every day, this means one less app to juggle and a clearer view of how your cycle ties into things like energy, workouts, or sleep.

Google is also pushing harder into mental wellbeing, an area where wearables have been slowly circling for years. Within the coach, you can now track mindfulness sessions and log your moods, which helps build a history of how you’re actually feeling — not just how many calories you burned. Fitbit is updating its stress management score into what it calls “resilience,” a way of showing how your body responds to stress over time instead of just flagging that you had a rough day. The idea is that you don’t just see spikes of stress, you see whether your overall ability to handle stress is trending in a better or worse direction.

The third big piece is nutrition and water logging, which turns the coach into more of a lightweight daily diary for what you eat and drink. You can set a calorie target, log meals, and track both calorie and water intake, and the coach can give you personalized macronutrient ranges so you’re not locked into rigid numbers. It’s less about bodybuilder-level macro counting and more about giving regular users a flexible framework to understand whether they’re roughly in a balanced zone.

Crucially, Google is widening access to the personal health coach overall. You no longer have to be a Premium subscriber just to get in the door; users without Premium can now join the Public Preview and use the coach to track health, fitness, sleep, and these new data points in one place. Premium still unlocks the more advanced bits — things like Ask Coach and tailored fitness plans — but the baseline experience is clearly being positioned as something any Fitbit user should at least try.

For Google, these additions move Fitbit further away from being just a step counter on your wrist and closer to a daily health companion that understands multiple dimensions of your life. Cycle data, mood logs, stress resilience, calories, and water intake all feed into a single coach that can nudge you with more context instead of generic tips. If Google keeps layering this kind of breadth on top of its existing sleep and activity tracking, Fitbit starts to look less like a basic tracker and more like an accessible, all-in-one health diary for people who don’t want to live inside a spreadsheet.