Connecting your Fitbit Data with Thryve

Access continuous activity, sleep, and heart rate data from Fitbit devices via Thryve’s secure API. Build personalized health, wellness, and prevention solutions powered by Fitbit’s global ecosystem.

Effortless Fitbit Data Integration

With Thryve’s Fitbit integration, you can seamlessly retrieve biometric and lifestyle data from millions of Fitbit users across smartwatches, trackers, and smart scales. Our API normalizes data across Fitbit devices—including Charge, Inspire, Sense, and Versa models—so you can focus on delivering personalized insights, not parsing device-specific formats.

Power Personalized Health & Wellness Products

Digital Health Apps: Access real-time steps, heart rate, calories, and sleep metrics to fuel personalized coaching, goals, and risk scoring.

Chronic Disease Management: Use heart rate, activity, and sleep regularity to monitor lifestyle patterns and detect deterioration early.

Employee Wellness & Rewards: Track verifiable activity and recovery patterns to fuel step challenges, incentive programs, or wellbeing dashboards.

Behavioral Health & Research: Analyze continuous sleep and heart rate variability trends to support stress reduction, fatigue studies, and digital phenotyping.

Compliance-Centric and Consent-Based

Thryve’s Fitbit integration uses secure OAuth-based authentication and de-identified data flow. All integrations are GDPR- and HIPAA-compliant, built with privacy-by-design principles. End users maintain control over which Fitbit data they share and for how long.

Scalable SDKs & API Architecture

Thryve supports developers with a robust, unified API and Fitbit-specific integration layer. You’ll benefit from:

  • Secure, user-authorized Fitbit data access
  • Normalized health metrics from all Fitbit devices
  • Real-time or batch data retrieval options
  • API and SDK support for fast deployment
  • Interoperability with Apple, Garmin, Withings, Polar & 500+ other sources
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions:
Connection Essentials

  • How can I access Fitbit data through my app?
    • Fitbit supports OAuth2-based access via its Web API. Thryve manages the token flow and harmonizes the incoming data, so your app can begin using Fitbit health metrics within minutes.
  • What is Fitbit?
    • Fitbit is a wearable technology platform that tracks health, activity, and sleep. Devices include fitness bands, smartwatches, and scales, with millions of active users worldwide.
  • What data can I retrieve via Thryve’s Fitbit integration?
    • You can access:
      • Steps, calories, and activity levels
      • Resting heart rate and HRV
      • Sleep stages and duration
      • Stress, mindfulness, and skin temperature (select models)
      • Weight and body composition (with Fitbit Aria)
  • Why choose Thryve instead of direct Fitbit API integration?
    • Thryve simplifies development with one harmonized API for Fitbit and hundreds of other data sources. You’ll reduce development time, ensure data consistency, and meet health data compliance standards out of the box.