Samsung Health

Samsung Health Review: Free and Deep, but Its Best Tools Need a Galaxy Phone

No Galaxy phone? What Watch9, Galaxy Ring and iPhone owners lose

Google Play installs the app on Android 10 or later phones from any brand, though not on tablets. Without a watch, the phone counts steps, maps GPS workouts and logs meals. Galaxy Watch9 and Watch Ultra2 pair with other Android phones, but Samsung's August 2026 note reserves ECG, Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification, sleep apnea detection and Running Coach for Galaxy phones, and its footnotes add Heart Health Score and Vitals. A Galaxy Ring on a Pixel or Motorola loses Energy Score insights and Wellness Tips. iPhone owners get a separate App Store app whose compatibility list ends at Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Fit2, the last device it added, in December 2020. Samsung states that Galaxy Watch4 does not work with iOS, and the Ring has no iPhone support.

Vitals and Heart Health Score: version 7.0's best idea, unevenly shipped

Version 7.0 reached phones in June 2026 and splits the app into Activity, Sleep, Vitals, Mindfulness and Nutrition tabs. Vitals watches five signals during sleep (heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, skin temperature and blood oxygen) and flags changes from a personal baseline built over 7 of 28 nights. Heart Health Score folds sleep, activity, BMI and vascular load into one daily number after 24 hours of wear. Samsung labels both as wellness tools, not diagnosis. Testing with a Galaxy Watch4, Android Authority's Andy Walker found Hearing, Fitness Index, Daily Cardio Load, Heart Health, Vitals and Vascular Load widgets on the dashboard by default, and none worked with his watch. Recent Play reviews add that sleep sessions can no longer be edited or deleted and the step-counter pause is gone.

$9.99 iFIT workouts, promo banners and a July 2026 AI-training toggle

Tracking, Together step challenges and Health Connect sync cost nothing. iFIT gives one free video a month in each of seven categories, then costs $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year in the US, and some Mindfulness meditation content needs an optional subscription; prices are regional and may change. Since 7.0, users report promotional banners in the Discover section, and Samsung's replies to Play reviewers acknowledge the promotional content. On Galaxy phones released after August 2016, Knox adds hardware-backed encryption keys, and the app refuses to run on rooted devices. Yet the Play Data safety form lists health and fitness info among data that may be shared, with advertising or marketing among the purposes. In July 2026 a consent toggle let Samsung use health data for AI training with human review; Samsung later said opting out keeps account sync working.