Samsung Health
An application that helps us manage health
Nowadays, with the improvement of living standards, people are paying more and more attention to their health management. Many people begin to exercise, because only with a healthy body can we better enjoy life and create value. However, for the public, sometimes the way we exercise is not so professional, and we don’t know ourselves very well, so at this time we need an application that helps us exercise and understand our physical condition.
Samsung Health is an application launched by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to help us manage our health. This app can automatically record many activities, so creating a healthy lifestyle is easier and simpler than ever. Samsung Health helps us record and manage various fitness activities, such as running, cycling, swimming, etc. In addition, users of Samsung Galaxy Watch wearable devices can connect to fitness equipment that accepts Life Fitness, Technogym, and Core health, which promotes us to exercise more effectively. Through this application, we can also manage our diet and sleep, provide comprehensive guidance on our health, and see and share the exercise status of our friends and family from the circle. In this case, we can promote a healthy life together.
What are the characteristics of Samsung Health?
As our personal health management application, Samsung Health takes into account multiple aspects. Samsung Health helps us record and manage various fitness activities, such as running, cycling, swimming, etc. All kinds of exercise data can be checked in Samsung Health, which is convenient for us to understand our exercise situation and prevent insufficient or excessive exercise which affects the body. We can use Samsung Health to develop healthy eating habits, by recording three meals and snacks each day. Checking the "nutritional balance" of the vitamins and nutrients you consume every day can help you develop a balanced diet. Record the daily water intake can ensure that we drink enough water. A new day starts with good quality sleep, which is the key to a good day. We can use a matching smartwatch to monitor sleep patterns in more detail. Samsung Health is the application that can improve our sleep quality through sleep level and sleep score, so that we may feel more refreshed in the morning. At the same time, Samsung Health also has lots of exercise courses. We can do muscle exercise and various stretching exercises at home, shaping the perfect body shape. There are also some themes such as meditation, bedtime stories, music, etc. We can fully enjoy the healthy life brought to us by this healthy housekeeper.
Does Samsung Health charge?
Samsung Health is a free download and uses software, but it contains some advertisements.
Samsung Health user feedback
So far, Samsung Health’s downloads on the Google Play store have reached 1,000 million+, and more than 1.3 million people have given a score of 3.2. From the data of review, its downloads are indeed amazing, but user feedback is quite ordinary. Possibly there are still some details which need to be updated.
Start healthy habits for yourself with Samsung Health.
Samsung Health has various features to help you manage your health. As the app allows you to automatically record many activities, creating a healthy lifestyle is easier and simpler than ever.
Check various health records on the Samsung Health home screen. Easily add and edit the items that you want to manage such as daily steps, activity time, and body weight, simply by long pressing the screen.
Samsung Health helps you record and manage your fitness activities, such as running, cycling, swimming, etc. Also, Galaxy Watch wearables user can now exercise more effectively through Life Fitness, Technogym and Corehealth.
Develop healthy eating habits with Samsung Health, with which you can record your meals and snacks every day.
Work hard and always maintain your best condition with Samsung Health. Set goals that work for your own level, and keep track of your daily condition including your activity amount, workout intensity, state of sleep, heart rate, stress, oxygen level in the blood, etc.
Monitor your sleep patterns in more detail with Galaxy Watch. Make your mornings more refreshing by improving the quality of your sleep through sleep levels and sleep scores.
Challenge yourself against your friends and family to become healthier in a more fun and interactive way with Samsung Health Together.
Samsung Health has prepared videos of expert coaches who will teach you new fitness programs including stretching, weight loss, endurance training, and more.
Discover powerful meditation tools on Mindfulness that will help you relieve stress throughout your day.
(Some contents are only available through an optional paid subscription. Content is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Korean.)
Women's health offers helpful support in menstrual cycle tracking, related symptom management and personalized insights and contents through your partner, Glow. The Galaxy and other wearables are now ready to support the women we love every step of their way.
Samsung Health protects your private health data securely. All Samsung Galaxy models released after August 2016, Knox enabled Samsung Health service will be available. Please note that Knox enabled Samsung Health service will not be available from rooted mobile.
Tablets and some mobile devices are not supported, and detailed features may vary depending on the user’s country of residence, region, network carrier, model of the device, etc.
Requires Android 8.0 (Oreo)or later. Supports over 70 languages, including English, French, and Chinese. An English language version is available for the rest of the world.
Please note that Samsung Health is intended for fitness and wellness purposes only and is not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.
The following permissions are required for the app service. For optional permissions, the default functionality of the service is turned on, but not allowed.
Required permissions
- Phone : Used to confirm your phone number for Together.
Optional permissions
- Location : Used to collect your location data using the trackers(exercises & steps), Used to display a route map for exercise, and to display the weather during exercise.
- Body Sensors : Used to measure heart rate, oxygen saturation, and stress. (HR&Stress : Galaxy S5~Galaxy S10 / SpO2 : Galaxy Note4~Galaxy S10)
- Storage : You can import/export your exercise data, save exercise photos, save/load food photos.
- Contacts : Used to check if you are logged into your Samsung account, and to create a friend list for Together.
- Camera : Used to scan QR codes when you add friends using the Together, and to take photos of foods, and to recognize numbers on a blood glucose meter&blood pressure monitor. (Available in some countries only)
- Physical activity : Used to count your steps and to detect workouts.