clock menu more-arrow no yes mobile

Filed under:

Fitbit Gets Even More 'Fit' by Acquiring FitStar Personal Training App

Health-and-fitness hardware maker Fitbit has acquired FitStar, a personal training app that creates customized workouts with celeb athletes like NFL star Tony Gonzalez and yogi Tara Stiles. While FitStar has a small user base, operating solely on iOS and claiming only two million registered users, the app brings to Fitbit a more personalized training experience that Fitbit hasn’t really achieved through its own mobile app. Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park says the company also plans to expand FitStar to other platforms. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for Vox Recommends

Get curated picks of the best Vox journalism to read, watch, and listen to every week, from our editors.