At launch, there will be numerous health and fitness apps from Fitbit itself within
the Fitbit app gallery, including the Fitbit Coach app and a couple of third party app partners will also be on board too, including Strava and Accuweather.
Of course, the watch otherwise features everything that the original Ionic did, including its five - day battery life, impressive GPS features, and access to more than 400 apps and clock faces in
the Fitbit App Gallery.
Apps designed for the Ionic will be downloadable from
the Fitbit App Gallery which is expected to offer a limited number of tools once the device launches but should expand its portfolio with time.
In some instances, this severely limits the utility of some of the third - party apps that are currently available through
the Fitbit App Gallery — Ionic's app marketplace.
It runs on the all - new Fitbit OS and includes the app store called
Fitbit App Gallery where the users can find all the available apps and clock faces.
Instead, the Ionic is running FitBit OS, which means that apps will be available through
the Fitbit App Gallery.
Fitbit OS will include the all - new
Fitbit App Gallery where you will be able to download watch faces and other apps from Fitbit like Fitbit Coach, Relax, Timer and other.
Plus,
Fitbit App Gallery will feature third - party apps that can be downloaded directly onto your wrist.
This is just the start - along with future enhancements to the Fitbit OS, we have an extremely engaged global developer community excited to continually bring even more unique offerings to our users via
the Fitbit App Gallery.
Fitbit stated it will continue to add new apps and clock faces to
the Fitbit App Gallery throughout 2018 and beyond.
Still, its «leading partner apps» at launch include Pandora, Strava, Weather from AccuWeather, and Starbucks, with any developer welcomed to use
the Fitbit App Gallery - designed Software Development Kit starting next month.
With Fitbit OS 2.0, notifications continue to be an afterthought, and while there are more apps on
the Fitbit App Gallery than when Ionic came out, there's little reason to use them over their smartphone equivalents.
Not exact matches
Once you're happy with the result, you can share your
app with anyone via a private link or submit it to the
Fitbit Gallery so it'll be available for public download.
The software powering the Ionic and at the root of
Fitbit's planned
app «
gallery» is based on what Pebble created, which is why the bugs of the Ionic are so surprising.
The company will also have an
app gallery within
Fitbit's already existing mobile
app, according to the report.
Outside of the big three,
Fitbit's
App Gallery provides users with a well of compatible
apps like Amazon Alexa, MyFitnessPal (powered by Under Armour), and Weight Watchers, among many others.
This isn't a problem right now, because there are only a handful of
apps in
Fitbit's
App Gallery, but it could be cumbersome as more
apps come to the Ionic.
Fitbit has an
app store now, called the App Gallery, that launches from within the Fitbit a
app store now, called the
App Gallery, that launches from within the Fitbit a
App Gallery, that launches from within the
Fitbit appapp.
While the so - called
App Gallery will be sparse at launch, with just a handful of
apps including Starbucks, Strava, Pandora, and Weather Channel, there will be plenty of others by year's end, thanks to the upcoming
Fitbit SDK.
The
Fitbit Ionic will run on the
Fitbit OS which will feature an
app gallery that will include various fitness and health
apps, like the new
Fitbit Coach, as well as third - party partner services such as Strava.
The
Fitbit Ionic runs on the
Fitbit OS, which will include an
app gallery that users can go to in order to select
apps and clock faces.
The
Fitbit Ionic runs on the
Fitbit OS, which offers various clock faces, as well as an
app gallery that will feature health and fitness
apps like
Fitbit Coach and third party partner
apps like Strava.
These seem to go along with
Fitbit CEO James Park's statement to investors in a recent earnings call that the smartwatch will launch with an
app gallery.
Park also made a point to say that
Fitbit users will find third - party wearable
apps through an «
app gallery» in
Fitbit's current mobile
app, not an «
app store» as Park had previously described it.
Fitbit chief executive officer James Park says that the company's upcoming smartwatch will have an
app platform and an
app gallery ready to go when it launches, despite reports (including our own) that
Fitbit's smartwatch woes have extended to its software as well as its hardware production.