Keep your history when you change watches
Bring steps from Apple Health, Health Connect or a readable archive. The history you import stays on your phone when you change watches.
Steps · Streaks · Lifetime miles
Your walking life,
never lost to a brand.
Keep your steps, badges and lifetime distance together on your phone. Bring the walking history your devices can export, and keep it when you change watches.
See how an archive becomes a timeline ›
Free to startNo account requiredExport everything, free, forever
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Why this exists
Fitbit badges are no longer supported. They are no longer generated, and historical badges are being removed.
Google HealthChanges to features
in the Fitbit app
19 May 2026
Summarised,
not quoted
in the Fitbit app
19 May 2026
Summarised,
not quoted
Health metrics it may read — steps, distance, floors climbed, exercise minutes
Read scope
4
Analytics events sent while your history is being rescued — no event type exists to send one
On-device
0
Price of a complete CSV + JSON export of everything, forever — no account, no watermark
Free tier
$0
Export what Google still holds
Takeout still copies walking data that remains in the Google account. Unmigrated Fitbit accounts may already have been deleted.
Who arrives here
Three ways people find this.
Emberstep hasn't shipped, so there are no customer testimonials on this page — and there won't be any until there are customers. These are the three audiences the product was specified for, written in the first person from that spec.
I paid for Premium for six years. The badges are gone, the challenges are gone, and the dashboard I opened every morning isn't there any more. I don't want a better badge. I want the nine years back.
Leaving a retired systemPriority 1 in the product spec — the archive importer was built for this person first.
Three watches since 2017. Every switch cost me the record — the new app just opens at zero, as if the years in between never happened, and I stopped bothering to look.
Switching brandsPriority 2 — multi-source stitching, with the seam labelled and the count continuous.
My band cost thirty dollars and its app gives me nothing to come back for. I want the streak to mean something without paying a subscription to look at my own steps.
Walking with a cheap bandPriority 3 — the free tier is the whole foundation, and it stays free.
When real users arrive, their words replace these — named, dated, and never trimmed to fit.
History Rescue Moment
Keep the walking history you still have.
Import the Fitbit or Apple Health archive available to you. Emberstep rebuilds a timeline from the days it can read, with gaps shown on the receipt.
1
Bring your archive. A Fitbit Takeout zip or an Apple Health export. Export your Fitbit walking history covers the request.
2
Get an honest receipt first. Exactly how many days were recovered, which years they cover, and what was genuinely damaged — gaps stated, never smoothed over.
3
Watch it come back. Your first year on record, your biggest year, then the whole arc — replayable in your Vault, shareable as a card.
History rescue · act I of III
2017
The year your record begins.
2.41Msteps
1,813km
312days recovered
Parsed on-device. Sleep, weight and workout details in the archive are skipped by design — we only read steps, distance, floors and exercise minutes.
Why Emberstep
Built for the long walk.
A streak that forgives
Hit your daily goal and the day gets its mark. Every 7 days earns a freeze token — free, up to 3 — so one sick day holds the count instead of resetting it.
Badges built like heirlooms
Wax-seal collectibles for 10k days, hundred-floor climbs, and lifetime miles — like walking the length of Japan, or a quarter of the way around the equator.
Inside the app
Two themes. One fire.
A dark warmth for the night, a bone-white paper for the day — every screen ships in both, and these three are cut straight out of the running app.
Screenshots from a rendered build, cropped to the part that carries the point. The data is a seeded demo history.
What still has
your 2019 in it.
Five routes out of a retired badge system. Two of them have names, because the dates below came from the company that set them.
Emberstep
The Fitbit app,
after May
after May
A Google Takeout
archive
archive
Your next
watch's app
watch's app
Generic step
counters
counters
Hands imported years back after you leave Fitbit
Badges dated before 19 May 2026 are on the screen
Two watch brands read as one unbroken timeline
Opens without an account
Reads four numbers and nothing else
Stopping the subscription costs you nothing you already had
Fitbit dates are summarised from Google Health help: badges retired 19 May 2026, deletion of data tied to removed features began 15 Jul 2026, and the legacy Fitbit Web API switches off 30 Sep 2026. Takeout still copies data that remains in the Google account; unmigrated Fitbit accounts may already have been deleted. See Export your Fitbit walking history. The last two columns are shelf categories, not any one product.
Pricing
Two plans. No traps.
The free tier is a real product, not a funnel. Premium buys depth — never your own history back.
Free
$0
the whole foundation, forever
- Apple Health & Health Connect reading, both archive importers
- Full data export (CSV + JSON) — free forever, no watermark
- 12 core badges · streaks with free auto freeze tokens
- Complete History Rescue ceremony, receipt & replay
- Backdated badges for the most recent year
- 2 share-card templates · monthly recap summary
Premium
$44.99/year
7-day free trial on yearly
$6.99/month · no trial
- Everything in Free
- Full badge collection, including backdated full-history grants
- Manual freeze & sick-day cover, 2 per month
- All share-card templates
- Full monthly recap + December Wrapped
Sold only on the App Store and Google Play. No weekly plan, no web checkout, no lifetime upsell.
The fine print, up front
Six promises we can't take back.
Export is free. Forever.
One tap sends your entire history as CSV + JSON to the system share sheet. No account, no payment, no watermark.
No account required.
Your steps, badges and history stay on your phone.
Earned is earned.
A badge once granted is never revoked — not by a lapsed subscription, not by anything.
Lapse ≠ loss.
If Premium expires, paid features pause. Your entire history stays visible and exportable. Your data is never the hostage.
Four numbers, nothing more.
We read steps, distance, floors climbed, and exercise minutes. Sleep, weight, calories, and workout details are never requested.
Motivation, not medicine.
No readiness scores, no health claims, no data sold or used for ads. Just streaks, history, and small fires kept alive.
Questions
Asked by walkers like you.
I'm coming from Fitbit. What exactly do I need?
A Google Takeout zip of your Fitbit data. The app includes a guided walkthrough for requesting it, then parses the archive on your phone — damaged or partial archives are recovered as far as honestly possible, with the gaps stated on your receipt.
Which watches and phones work?
iOS and Android, via Apple Health and Health Connect. Any watch or band that writes steps into those hubs counts. The connection is read-only.
What happens to my data on Android?
Apple Health and Health Connect data stays on your phone. Emberstep does not sync your history to a web dashboard in this version.
What if I cancel Premium?
Paid features pause; nothing else changes. Your timeline, badges, and streaks stay right where they are, and full export remains free — that rule is in the product constitution, not a promotion.
The use of information received from Google Health API and/or Developer Tools will adhere to the Google Health API Developer and User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Full privacy policy.