It took some time, however the Peloton app is lastly out there for Android smartwatches. If you’re sporting the Pixel Watch or Samsung Galaxy Watch 4/5 and are a Peloton subscriber, test the Play Store to put in it.

The Peloton app replace hit over the weekend and is suitable with smartwatches working Wear OS 3 and up. Once put in, you need to use it to trace your coronary heart fee throughout a Peloton exercise. But that’s it: the watch solely presents information from lessons began on the cellular app. It doesn’t presently sync with the Peloton bikes, which most people have been hoping for with the Wear OS replace. Peloton launched the power for the Apple Watch earlier this 12 months.

At least some monitoring is on the market, which is healthier than absolutely the nothing that Android smartwatch customers had earlier than. If you observe a category taken by means of the app, the stats will sync with no matter third-party integrations you could have arrange. I took a five-minute meditation class that synced my worryingly excessive coronary heart fee with the Peloton app. When I completed, Peloton pushed the numbers out to Strava, which I had arrange beforehand, and which I take advantage of as a unifier of my varied health information.

Writing this was an important reminder that I’ve a Peloton Bike amassing cobwebs within the storage. I’m additionally relieved as a result of this implies extra performance for the sensible bike after I feared it might face obsolescence earlier than I had the need to experience it once more. Sales haven’t been one of the best for the model.

This additionally provides Wear OS slightly push ahead into being thought-about a fitness-minded platform. That’s what Google and Samsung want so as to promote extra watches—and what I have to justify sticking with this platform to trace my train.

Annoyingly, I nonetheless should log a separate exercise on the Peloton with my Samsung smartwatch and enter the info manually after a experience. Here’s to hoping the Apple Watch-like integration comes before later.