How does my Fitness Tracker work?

Find out what data syncs from your health and fitness app or wearable and when.

When you join a Tracker Challenge you’ll need to connect a tracker device that records your activity. Playwaze will automatically collect your activity data and load it into your Challenges.

We collect activity data in the 2 following ways:

Daily 📅

These are activities that are recorded daily e.g. the number of steps in a day. Our data sync for dailies runs overnight and will sync daily totals for the previous day. So you’ll see your daily data in Challenges the following day.

Workouts 🏋️

These are activities that have a specific start and end time e.g. a run or a cycle ride. This data is either synced through an overnight or automatically as you finish the workout. See the tracker sections below to see how it works for your activity tracker.

🍎 If you are using Apple Health for Daily or Workouts the sync runs every time you open your Playwaze app. Daily totals and Workouts will be synced from your last workout back to the time you last synced (opened your Playwaze app).

See below what data collection applies to the fitness tracker you are using:

Apple Health 

Opening your Playwaze app triggers data synchronisation.

Garmin

Workout data is automatically synced when you submit your workout on your device.

Fitbit

Workout data is collected daily.

Strava

Workout data is automatically synced when you submit your workout on your device.

 Google Fit 

Workout data is collected daily.

ℹ️ We’ll only sync your activity data for live Challenges. Once your Challenge finishes we’ll stop syncing data with your tracker device. We only read activity data from your tracker device – never write to it.