Use your smart watch, fitness tracker, and other bluetooth devices without the vendor’s closed source application and without the need to create an account and transmit any of your data to the vendor’s servers.
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
The real draw is freeing your fitness band or smartwatch from the vendor’s app, so you can use the hardware without an account or data uploads to the manufacturer. The catch is compatibility: Gadgetbridge supports a specific list of devices, and your particular watch may be fully supported, partially supported, or not at all. Check that list before you buy or commit. For anyone who resents being forced into a closed companion app to read their own step count, this is the open-source escape, with the usual rougher edges.
Website at a glance
gadgetbridge.org
D score 35
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Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 13d ago
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