Overview
- Withings now requires accounts created on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, or later to subscribe to Withings+ to enable automatic syncing of device data to third‑party apps such as Apple Health and Google Health.
- Existing accounts created on or before October 12, 2026, keep automatic third‑party syncing for free and that entitlement is tied to the account creation date rather than to specific devices.
- Withings disclosed Withings+ pricing at $9.95 per month or $99.50 per year with a one‑month free trial that allows syncing during the trial and pauses syncing after the trial ends without deleting data already in third‑party apps.
- Customers have voiced strong complaints on Withings forums, while developers and health‑data engineers are publishing step‑by‑step workarounds that pull data from the free Withings API and rehydrate Apple Health to avoid per‑user fees.
- The change could force startups and research projects that relied on the free Withings↔Apple Health bridge to rework ingestion pipelines, use exports or self‑hosted sync layers, and consider alternatives that still offer free syncing.