Fitbit Sense and Versa lose third-party apps later this month

Google will stop Fitbit Sense and Versa smartwatches from installing or updating third-party apps and clock faces from November 28, 2026. After that date, the Fitbit App Gallery will only carry apps and clock faces made by Fitbit and Google.

The change covers the Sense, Sense 2, Versa, Versa 2, Versa 3, Versa 4, and Versa Lite, along with the recalled Fitbit Ionic. Developers face the same deadline, as Google will stop accepting new apps and clock faces and will block updates to existing ones.

Third-party apps and clock faces already on a watch will keep working after the cutoff. Any that a user deletes or loses through a factory reset cannot be installed again. Sense and Versa watches can hold up to five saved clock faces at a time. Google has also asked owners to update to version 5.12 of the Google Health app, which replaced the Fitbit app in May, to keep its own apps working as expected.

The Sense 2 and Versa 4 never supported third-party apps, so owners of those two models lose access to outside clock faces only. Owners of the older Sense and Versa models lose both.

Google's help page gives no reason for the change. In 2024, the company removed third-party apps and clock faces for users in the European Economic Area, citing new regulatory requirements.

Google still sells the Sense 2 and Versa 4. Both are discounted in its Black Friday sale from November 19, nine days before the cutoff, with the Sense 2 at $199.95 and the Versa 4 at $159.95.