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Recently, Google launched the Fitbit Air as a direct rival to the Whoop screenless fitness band, rebranded the Fitbit app to Google Health, and released a Gemini-powered AI coach. Exactly one day later, Whoop has responded with on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians for US users.
The contrast is hard to ignore. While Google is betting on AI as your general health advisor, Whoop is doubling down on real, licensed doctors, and making the case that they can serve its fitness-focused users considerably better (via CNBC).
Whoop has launched an in-app consultation feature that starts with a comprehensive review of your continuous biometric data collected by the device.
If you have recent blood work or medical history available through the HealthEx records integration, that gets factored in too, giving the clinician a fuller picture of your health before the call even begins. Whoop has confirmed the feature is designed to complement existing healthcare rather than replace a primary doctor or emergency services.
Whether clinicians will be able to issue prescriptions remains unconfirmed. The live video consultation will come at an additional cost beyond the standard membership. Pricing and availability will be confirmed this summer.
Whoop’s existing subscription, starting at $199 per year (with free hardware), already provides a host of health-tracking features beyond continuous heart rate monitoring, HRV, and sleep stages. Subscribers get daily recovery scores, strain coaching, sleep performance analysis, and monthly health reports with long-term trends.
Google Health Premium, by comparison, costs $99.99 a year and leads with its Gemini-powered Health Coach, which reads your biometric data, medical records, and meal photos, and generates personalized recommendations. The difference in approach is what might make users stick with Whoop.
Instead of relying on an AI drawing inferences based on data, Whoop is offering access to a medical professional who can ask follow-up questions, identify nuances in your health records with experience, and, most importantly, carry professional accountability that comes with a medical license.
For a while, I had convinced myself that my next iPhone had to be a Pro. Not because I had genuinely thought about what I needed from a phone, but because the marketing slowly wore me down. The triple cameras, the titanium build, the ProMotion display, the idea that it could handle absolutely anything — it all created this lingering feeling that choosing the regular iPhone would somehow mean compromising. Like I would be missing out on the “real” experience. Then I stopped looking at spec sheets and started looking at my actual usage. And honestly, the entire argument for buying a Pro quietly fell apart.
Apple really knows how to make you doubt the regular iPhone
The kind of work I do involves constant file sharing, and with iPhones, Android phones, and a MacBook all part of my daily rotation, moving files between them used to be far more exhausting than it should have been. Something as simple as getting a photo or video from an Android phone onto my MacBook often turned into a mini process of its own. Most of the time, I had to upload files to Google Drive, wait for them to sync properly, and then download them again on the other device. It sounds manageable when you describe it once, but when you repeat that cycle several times a day, it starts feeling like a tax you pay with your time and patience.
This was mostly the result of ecosystems spending years building walls around themselves. Apple’s walls were obviously the tallest, but Android had its own barriers too. For the longest time, it felt like nobody was particularly interested in making these devices cooperate gracefully. But somewhere along the way, that started changing. And honestly, the difference it has made to my everyday workflow is much bigger than I expected.
Safari might finally be getting a feature that every tab hoarder secretly needs. And yes, Apple is apparently using AI to clean up the mess.
Could Safari in iOS 27 finally organize your chaotic tabs automatically?
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