Sports watch and fitness tracking giant Polar has opened its data up to Apple and Google's new health platforms.
Essential reading: Best Apple Watch apps
The company behind the Polar M400 and Polar Loop fitness tracker is enabling its data to be viewed using the new Google Fit platform and also Apple Health – which is a large part of iOS 8.
Anyone who uses Polar Beat will be able to integrate their data with the Google Fit app from this week, while Polar Flow will sync up with Apple Health from next week.
Essential reading: Essential guide to Polar Flow
Both services merge health data from a range of fitness apps and devices in one place, bringing together information from various sleep trackers, blood pressure monitors, smart scales, running watches and activity monitors. In the future this data could be transferred to your doctor for a more complete picture of your health.
Marco Suvilaakso, Director of Product Management at Polar said:
“It made perfect sense to us to ensure these services are compatible with Google Fit and Apple HealthKit – two important one-stop ecosystems for everything health and fitness.
“We're sure our users will value this additional connectivity as they use Polar Loop, Polar M400, Polar V800 or Polar Beat."
Essential guide: How to use Apple Health
Are you an Apple Health fan? Or is your app somewhat lacking usable data so far? Let us know in the comments below.
How we test
James is the co-founder of Wareable, and he has been a technology journalist for 15 years.
He started his career at Future Publishing, James became the features editor of T3 Magazine and T3.com and was a regular contributor to TechRadar – before leaving Future Publishing to found Wareable in 2014.
James has been at the helm of Wareable since 2014 and has become one of the leading experts in wearable technologies globally. He has reviewed, tested, and covered pretty much every wearable on the market, and is passionate about the evolving industry, and wearables helping people achieve healthier and happier lives.