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November 2026

Smoother Pace Charts

  • Hide standstills on an activity’s pace and cadence charts is now Smooth out stops. Besides the stops themselves it leaves out short near-stops and the slowing down and speeding up around them, so a run with the dog or with traffic lights reads as a steady line. Your choice is remembered in your browser
  • New Steady pace and Steady cadence figures show your pace and cadence without stops and the slowing around them, next to Moving pace

Car Rides Left Out of Best Efforts

  • When your watch kept recording in a car, the ride no longer gives you impossible best efforts. A clear car ride is left out by itself and the activity page tells you, with a way to include it again. When FitKeep isn’t sure, the activity page asks you, and the best efforts from that activity get a small car mark on the Best Efforts page until you answer
  • A ride that is left out also comes off the activity’s distance in Longest efforts and its distance rank, so a walk with a car ride at the end counts for the walking only. The activity page still shows the distance your watch recorded

Choose What Counts as a Best Effort

  • Edit an activity and switch on Exclude from best efforts to set it aside, for example a run with a faulty footpod. The activity stays in your list, but it no longer counts in best efforts, rankings, records, your longest activities or goals. Switch it off to bring it back

Best Efforts at a Glance

  • The Best Efforts page has a card for every standard distance, each in its own colour from short to long, and a Showing: line of chips for your filters that you can open with Change. All activities by distance lists every activity by its distance

Activity Page On Laptops

  • The activity navigator on an activity page can be collapsed to one line, and your choice is remembered in your browser. On laptop screens the map is shorter and the Selection card is always within reach

October 2026

A Calmer Design

  • Maps now follow the dark theme, and charts, cards and tap targets are more consistent, with larger buttons on phones
  • Sign out moved into the account menu at the top right on desktop. On phones it stays in the menu
  • The theme is chosen under Settings → Appearance; the toggle in the footer is only shown when you’re signed out

Training Plans (Early Access)

  • Train toward a goal with a plan the AI Coach drafts with you: phases and weekly targets up to your goal date, and sessions for this week and next. Open Plan in the navigation to start one
  • Your runs are matched to the plan’s sessions automatically, with a check of whether each was on target. Runs outside the plan still count toward the week
  • Edit the plan yourself at any time, or ask the coach. The coach only proposes changes, and nothing changes until you confirm
  • From Thursday, Plan next week asks the coach to draft the week after next
  • Training Plans are part of the AI Coach, which is switched on per account. See Train with a Training Plan

One List of Goals

  • Goals now have a purpose: a total distance, a race, finishing a distance, improving a time, or staying fit, all in one list on the Goals page
  • Every goal counts from a start date. Set it earlier to count runs you’ve already done. To improve a time, FitKeep compares your best since the start date, so after a break you can aim for what’s realistic now
  • Your existing goals stay as they were, as total distance goals

More Private by Default

  • Coach conversation titles are now encrypted at rest, like the messages inside them
  • FitKeep no longer stores the IP address or browser details of your sign-in sessions, and expired sessions are deleted every hour
  • Deleting your account now also disconnects Garmin, revokes FitKeep’s access to your Google Drive, and cancels any of your activities still waiting to be processed
  • Our privacy-friendly page analytics no longer record page titles, search terms, or the full address of the page you came from. See the Privacy Policy for details

Smaller Fixes

  • The activity list and dashboard now show the time and pace your device recorded, so they match the activity page instead of counting the clock time from start to finish
  • Dialogs can be closed with the Escape key and keep keyboard focus inside them, and more of the app works with a screen reader

September 2026

Processing Happens on Our Servers

  • New activities are processed in the background on FitKeep’s servers, so you no longer need to keep a browser tab open while an upload, Garmin sync, or Google Drive import finishes
  • If processing fails, FitKeep retries automatically. Activities that still fail are marked Failed in your activity list, and the activity page has a Try again button

Search Your Activities

  • A search box on the activity list finds activities by name, original filename, or device

Best Efforts by Period

  • Filter best efforts by all time, this year, the last 12 months, one of your recent calendar years, or a custom date range
  • Each distance page now leads with your personal best, followed by your next-best times and how far each is behind it

AI Coach Can Plan With Your Goals

  • The coach can compare your training week by week or month by month, for questions like “Am I getting fitter than last year?”
  • Ask it to create, adjust, or archive a goal and it drafts the change for you to review. Nothing changes until you confirm
  • New conversations start with a few suggested questions, and the coach shows how many questions are left in a conversation

Dark Mode

  • FitKeep now has a dark theme. Choose Light, Dark, or System from the footer of any page or from Settings → Appearance
  • System follows your device’s setting. When you’re logged in, your choice is saved to your account

Other Improvements

  • Settings → Applications now shows the MCP address to paste into your AI assistant
  • Lap cadence for runs and walks is now shown in steps per minute, matching the cadence chart

August 2026

AI Coach (Early Access)

  • Chat with an AI coach about your own training at Coach. It looks up your activities, best efforts, and goals to answer, and links back to the ones it mentions
  • The coach is an early-stage upgrade that is switched on per account. If you’d like to try it, email hello@fitkeep.cloud and ask. We’re opening it up gradually, so not every request can be granted yet. See Chat with the AI Coach

Add FIT Files from Google Drive

  • Connect Google Drive and pick the .fit files you want to add, without downloading them first
  • FitKeep can only read the files you pick, nothing else in your Drive. See Add FIT Files from Google Drive

Connect FitKeep to Your AI Assistant (MCP)

  • FitKeep now has a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so you can connect Claude or another MCP-compatible AI assistant directly to your FitKeep data
  • Ask your assistant about your activities, best efforts, and goals in plain English, or have it pull a written summary of a specific activity — access is read-only and scoped to your own account. You can see and revoke connected assistants under Settings → Applications
  • Any FitKeep account can connect for free — see Connect an AI Assistant with MCP to get started

Best Efforts Grouped by Sport

  • The Best Efforts page now buckets your activities into sport groups (foot, bike, swim, winter, other) so a fast bike split no longer dominates every distance next to your running efforts
  • “All activities” is still available as an explicit choice, and the dashboard’s best-effort cards now show which sport each PR came from

Garmin Activity Types, Split and Refined

  • Garmin activity types are now split into a primary sport and sub-sport (for example, “Running” and “Trail Running”), giving more precise filtering across activities synced from Garmin
  • Activities generated with AI assistance now show a small icon in the activity list

June 2026

Duplicate Activity Detection

  • FitKeep now spots activities that slipped past the usual deduplication check — if two uploads share the same start time, they are flagged on a new Settings › Data review page
  • Compare the activities side by side and delete the copy you do not need
  • Inspect an on-demand raw diff between two FIT files to see exactly what differs

Help Center

  • A new help center is available with step-by-step guides on activity details, best efforts, Garmin sync, goals, heart rate zones, and your data

Activity Editing

  • Edit an activity’s name and type directly from the activity detail page using the pencil icon next to the title
  • Best-effort distance links now take you straight to the corresponding best efforts page

Faster Activity Charts

  • Activity charts now load noticeably faster for long outings — a multi-hour trail run with tens of thousands of GPS points that previously froze the page for several seconds now renders immediately

Step Length Chart

  • Running activities now include a step length chart alongside pace, cadence, heart rate, and elevation

Goal History & Date Filtering

  • Goal detail pages now show a recurring history chart so you can see how many weeks or months you have hit your target in a row
  • The best efforts page now has a date range filter so you can compare efforts within any time window

May 2026

Richer Activity Details

  • New pace profile chart shows how your speed changed throughout the activity
  • Hide standstills to focus on moving time, with stats that match what you actually ran
  • The map now stays in view as you scroll on desktop, and a full-screen map is a tap away on mobile
  • Click or hover a lap to highlight that segment across every chart and on the map
  • Heart rate, pace, and elevation charts now share selections, so zooming into a section lines everything up
  • A new navigator strip lets you brush across the activity to drill into any range

Your New Dashboard

  • Your dashboard now opens with a 7-day activity chart so you can see how this week compares to last week
  • Lifetime stats front and centre: total activities, time in motion, elevation climbed, and your longest effort
  • New to FitKeep? A quick checklist guides you through connecting a device or uploading your first file
  • Personal records and ranking badges now surface right on the dashboard
  • The homepage has been refreshed with a clearer feature overview, a how-it-works guide, and a privacy section

April 2026

Rankings, Badges & Goal Tracking

  • Every activity now tells you how it ranks against your own history. Top 10%? A new PR? You’ll know
  • Earn badges for hitting milestones and setting personal records
  • Set personal goals and track your progress from the dashboard
  • Pacing insights show whether you’re on track mid-effort

March 2026

Customization

  • Customize your activity list to show exactly the columns that matter to you
  • Set your max heart rate once and get personalized heart rate zones across all your activities. Zone 5 is now uncapped
  • Not sure what your max heart rate is? A tooltip suggests a starting point based on your age
  • AI analysis is more reliable with fewer timeouts and better answers

February 2026

New Login Option & Faster Garmin Sync

  • Sign in with email and password, no Google account required
  • Garmin sync is faster: connecting now pulls the last 30 days of activities rather than your full history

January 2026

Heart Rate Zones, Trail Charts & Best Effort Deep-Dives

  • Heart rate zones now break down on every activity so you can see exactly how much time you spent in each zone
  • A new elevation chart syncs with the map as you hover, perfect for trail runs and hikes
  • GPS and elevation data is now smoother, with noisy spikes filtered out for cleaner charts
  • Tap any best effort distance to open a dedicated page with your full history and progress for that distance
  • Connect your Garmin account and FitKeep syncs activities automatically, no manual uploads needed

Easier Uploads & Mobile Support

  • Drag and drop FIT files directly onto the upload page
  • Upload a ZIP archive to import multiple activities at once
  • Activity list now shows a map thumbnail for each route at a glance
  • FitKeep is now mobile-friendly and the layout adapts for phones and tablets

December 2025

New Look

  • New logo and a refreshed visual design across the app

November 2025

Your Data Encrypted

  • All your activity files are now encrypted at rest to keep your data private

August 2025

FitKeep Launches

  • Upload FIT files from any fitness device and FitKeep takes care of the rest
  • Best efforts calculated automatically for standard distances, from 400m to the full marathon
  • All your best efforts in one place
  • Each activity gets a full detail page with a route map