Fitbit founders launch Luffu, a method to combine your loved ones’s well being knowledge

Fitbit’s founders have a brand new startup. Two years after leaving Google, James Park and Eric Friedman introduced a brand new platform that shifts the main target from the person to the household. They are saying the Luffu cell app “makes use of AI quietly within the background” to gather and manage household well being data.

“At Fitbit, we targeted on private well being — however after Fitbit, well being for me grew to become greater than simply serious about myself,” Park said in a press launch. The app is especially targeted on the “CEO of the household” — the one who manages appointments, prescriptions and different health-related duties.

However the definition of household is not restricted to folks elevating youngsters. The corporate sees its instrument as particularly worthwhile for caregivers of their 40s and 50s who could also be managing the wants of each growing old mother and father and children. It even tracks pets’ well being habits.

“We’re managing care throughout three generations — youngsters at residence, busy mother and father within the center, and my dad in his 80s who’s residing with diabetes and nonetheless needs to remain fiercely impartial,” Friedman wrote. “And the moments that matter most are sometimes probably the most chaotic: a late-night fever, a sudden pressing care go to, a physician asking questions you may’t reply shortly as a result of the main points are scattered.”

The corporate claims the app’s AI “is not a chatbot layer.” Fairly, it serves as a “guardian” — proactively monitoring for modifications silently within the background. The AI then gives insights and triggers alerts when one thing is out of whack. You can even ask the app well being knowledge questions utilizing plain language (so, there may be some sort of chatbot) and share knowledge with relations.

The corporate clearly needs to make coming into knowledge as straightforward as doable. Luffu permits relations to log data utilizing voice, textual content or photographs. It integrates with well being platforms akin to Apple Well being and Fitbit. And the corporate finally needs to increase right into a {hardware} ecosystem — presumably, gadgets that make well being knowledge assortment even simpler.

Talking of information assortment, Luffu says, “Customers are at all times in command of precisely what’s shared, with whom, and privateness and safety are paramount for all household knowledge.” As well as, the corporate told Axios that customers can select whether or not their knowledge is used to coach its AI. However, Massive Tech has repeatedly proven that its most egregious data-collection practices are at all times wrapped in comforting language. So, on the very least, I might take their pitch with grains of salt and, most significantly, make sure that every member of the family is aware of precisely what they’re consenting to. In any case, it is a for-profit firm, and we don’t but know its monetization technique.

Luffu is at present taking waitlist sign-ups for a forthcoming restricted public beta. You may be taught extra and join the waitlist on the company website.

Replace, February 3, 2026, 1:14PM ET: This story has been up to date to notice that the Luffu public beta hasn’t began but, however you may join a waitlist to finally get entry when it begins.