--- title: "Ship It: a fitness-app survival game" canonical: "https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it" markdown: "https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it.md" type: "game" last_reviewed: "2026-10-31" description: "Pick a fitness app and its data stack, then survive the real, dated API changes of 2025–26, from Oura's token deprecation to the Fitbit Web API turn-off." publisher: "AIFitnessAPI — funded by KinesteX; first-party pages disclose it" cite_as: "\"Ship It: a fitness-app survival game\", AIFitnessAPI, https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it" --- # Ship It: a fitness-app survival game > Ship It is a three-to-five-minute browser game about getting a fitness app to launch through the API changes of late 2025 and 2026. You pick a product and up to 3 data stacks, then every real, dated event that hit those stacks plays out, from Oura deprecating personal access tokens in December 2025 to the Fitbit Web API turn-off on November 2, 2026 and Google Fit’s end of support at the end of 2026. Each card quotes the page on this site that sources it. The weeks and users you spend are game rules, not estimates. - Canonical: https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it - Last reviewed: 2026-10-31 - Publisher: AIFitnessAPI (https://aifitnessapi.com) - Cite as: "Ship It: a fitness-app survival game", AIFitnessAPI, https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it --- *[Interactive: the game, in the browser at https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it; not reproduced in this mirror.]* ## Every event in the game 15 events, in date order. A run only meets the ones that hit the stacks it picked, and a few apply to one product only. The date is the vendor’s where it gives one; for a standing rule it is the day the rule’s page was last updated or read, and the card says which. The full record, graded confirmed or reported, is the [changes and deadlines tracker](https://aifitnessapi.com/changes). ### Oura deprecates personal access tokens December 2025 · Deprecation · Oura > “Oura deprecated personal access tokens in December 2025 — scripts and internal tools built on PATs need the OAuth flow instead.” This site's change log (not the vendor's words), via [Oura PAT deprecation fix](https://aifitnessapi.com/fix/oura-personal-access-token-deprecated) ### Health Connect apps need a Health apps declaration March 10, 2026 · Approval or review gate · Health Connect > “must be completed for all publishing requests, both for a new app that has not been published yet, or when updating an existing, already published app that now uses a different set of data types.” Google, on the Health apps declaration, via [Google Play publishing requirements for Health Connect apps](https://aifitnessapi.com/compliance/google-play-health-connect-publishing-requirements) ### Strava's API Policy bans AI use of its data June 1, 2026 · Policy rule · Strava · one product > “in connection with the development, training, evaluation, or operation of any AI Application” Strava's API Policy, on what Strava data may not be used, via [How to integrate the Strava API](https://aifitnessapi.com/integrate/strava-api) ### Strava data may be shown only to its athlete June 1, 2026 · Policy rule · Strava · one product > “Strava Data from a user may be shown only to that user, even data that is public on Strava.” This site's summary of Strava's API Policy (not the vendor's words), via [How to integrate the Strava API](https://aifitnessapi.com/integrate/strava-api) ### HealthKit data meets the employer reward (guideline 5.1.3) June 8, 2026 · Policy rule · HealthKit · one product > “provided that the app is submitted by the entity providing the benefit, and the data is not shared with a third party.” Apple, App Review Guideline 5.1.3(i), via [App Store guideline 5.1.3: Health and Health Research](https://aifitnessapi.com/compliance/app-store-guideline-5-1-3-health-research) ### HealthKit apps: no personal health information in iCloud June 8, 2026 · Policy rule · HealthKit > “may not store personal health information in iCloud.” Apple, App Review Guideline 5.1.3(ii), via [App Store guideline 5.1.3: Health and Health Research](https://aifitnessapi.com/compliance/app-store-guideline-5-1-3-health-research) ### Strava removes its club endpoints September 1, 2026 · Turn-off · Strava · one product > “Club Activities, Club Members and Club Admins endpoints removed” This site's table of Strava's changelog (not the vendor's words), via [How to integrate the Strava API](https://aifitnessapi.com/integrate/strava-api) ### Fitbit Web API support ends September 30, 2026 · End of support · Fitbit Web API > “support for the Fitbit Web API ends. The API will continue to operate, but Google will no longer fix bugs or provide API support.” Google, on the Google Health API page, via [Fitbit API shutdown center](https://aifitnessapi.com/fitbit-api-shutdown) ### Health Connect throttles background reads harder October 3, 2026 · Documented limit · Health Connect > “background rate limiting is stricter than foreground rate limiting.” Google's Health Connect rate-limiting guide, via [Health Connect rate limit fix](https://aifitnessapi.com/fix/health-connect-rate-limit) ### Strava apps start in single-player mode October 17, 2026 · Approval or review gate · Strava > “All new applications start in single-player mode” Strava's getting-started guide, via [How to integrate the Strava API](https://aifitnessapi.com/integrate/strava-api) ### Strava's rate limits meet your sync job October 17, 2026 · Documented limit · Strava > “a new app gets an overall limit of 200 requests per 15 minutes and 2,000 per day” This site's reading of Strava's rate-limit page (not the vendor's words), via [How to integrate the Strava API](https://aifitnessapi.com/integrate/strava-api) ### Garmin access still starts with an approval October 2026 · Approval or review gate · Garmin > “your request has been approved, you will be granted access to the Garmin Developer Portal and can get started on your integration right away” Garmin's developer program FAQ, via [Garmin API approval](https://aifitnessapi.com/fix/garmin-api-approval) ### The Fitbit Web API is turned off November 2, 2026 · Turn-off · Fitbit Web API > “The Fitbit Web API and Fitbit OAuth endpoints will be turned off and will no longer function or sync data to or from Fitbit users.” Google, on the Google Health API page, via [Fitbit API shutdown center](https://aifitnessapi.com/fitbit-api-shutdown) ### Terra's legacy widget endpoint is deprecated November 3, 2026 · Deprecation · Terra > “keeps working today, with deprecation planned for 3 November 2026” Terra's documentation, via [How to integrate Terra](https://aifitnessapi.com/integrate/terra-api) ### Google Fit reaches the end of its support December 2026 · End of support · Google Fit > “The Google Fit APIs will be supported until the end of 2026” Google's Fit migration guide, via [Google Fit shutdown hub](https://aifitnessapi.com/google-fit-shutdown) ## How the game is scored (game rules) These numbers are invented to make the choices trade off against each other. They are not estimates of real engineering time or user churn. The game starts on October 6, 2025 with 10,000 connected users split evenly across your stacks, and a launch planned for January 11, 2027. Every week of slip moves the launch a week. More than 8 weeks and the money runs out; lose every user and there is nothing to launch; keep 60% or more and you survived. | Kind of event | Act now | Hedge | Ignore | |---|---|---|---| | Turn-off: The endpoints stop working on a published date. Ignoring it loses every user on that stack; acting costs a re-consent round. | 3 wk, 10% of that stack’s users | 5 wk, 0% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 100% of that stack’s users | | End of support: The API keeps running without fixes or support. Acting early is what makes the later turn-off free. | 3 wk, 10% of that stack’s users | 4 wk, 0% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 10% of that stack’s users | | Deprecation: An old path is closing. Cheap to fix, expensive to ignore. | 1 wk, 5% of that stack’s users | 2 wk, 0% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 50% of that stack’s users | | Approval or review gate: Nothing ships past it without the vendor's yes. The workaround keeps most users; skipping it keeps none. | 3 wk, 0% of that stack’s users | 1 wk, 20% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 100% of that stack’s users | | Policy rule: A rule in the vendor's terms. The game counts shipping in breach as losing the integration. | 2 wk, 0% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 50% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 100% of that stack’s users | | Documented limit: A documented limit. Ignoring it costs failed syncs, not the whole stack. | 1 wk, 0% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 10% of that stack’s users | 0 wk, 25% of that stack’s users | Acting or hedging at the Fitbit end of support counts the later turn-off as already handled, because the migration it starts is the one the turn-off forces. Nothing else carries over between events. ## After the game The real versions of these moves are the [migration guides](https://aifitnessapi.com/migrate): start with [Fitbit Web API to the Google Health API](https://aifitnessapi.com/migrate/fitbit-web-api-to-google-health) and [Google Fit to Health Connect](https://aifitnessapi.com/migrate/google-fit-to-health-connect), or the shutdown centers for [Fitbit](https://aifitnessapi.com/fitbit-api-shutdown) and [Google Fit](https://aifitnessapi.com/google-fit-shutdown). To hear about the next dated change before it reaches your app, use [API change alerts](https://aifitnessapi.com/alerts). ## Questions ### Are the events in the Ship It game real? Yes. Each of the 15 events is a dated change or a documented rule that this site has already sourced, on its changes tracker or on a guide, and the card quotes the words the source page carries, with a link to that page. Where the quote is this site's summary rather than the vendor's own sentence, the card says so. A build check fails if a quote or a date stops appearing on its source page, so an event cannot outlive its evidence. [Permalink](https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it#faq-1) ### Are the weeks and user numbers in Ship It estimates? No. They are game rules: 10,000 starting users, a 8-week runway and a fixed cost for each kind of choice, all invented to make the trade-offs playable. They do not estimate how long a real migration takes or how many users a real app loses, and the scoring table on the page prints them as rules. [Permalink](https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it#faq-2) ### Why does acting at the Fitbit end of support make the turn-off free in the game? Because Google gave two dates. Support for the Fitbit Web API ended on September 30, 2026, while the API kept operating, and the turn-off, after which requests fail with HTTP 410 Gone, follows on November 2, 2026. A team that started its Google Health API migration at the first date has nothing left to do at the second, so the game marks the turn-off as already handled. [Permalink](https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it#faq-3) ### Why is Google Fit marked as existing projects only in Ship It? Google closed Google Fit API sign-ups for new developers on May 1, 2024, before the game's kickoff, so a team in the game can only be on Google Fit if it already had a project. Google's Fit migration guide says the Google Fit APIs will be supported until the end of 2026 and publishes no switch-off date, which is why ignoring that event costs fewer users than ignoring a turn-off. [Permalink](https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it#faq-4) ### Does Ship It send my choices or results anywhere? No. The game runs in your browser from data shipped with the page. The share card is drawn on a canvas in the tab and the share text is copied to your clipboard only when you press the button; nothing is uploaded or stored, and the page has no server code behind it. [Permalink](https://aifitnessapi.com/play/ship-it#faq-5) A game from AIFitnessAPI, built on the [changes tracker](https://aifitnessapi.com/changes). More at [free tools for health-app builders](https://aifitnessapi.com/tools). ## Next step Turning this into a choice of API: - [The Best Wearable Fitness & Health-Data APIs (2026)](https://aifitnessapi.com/fitness-apis/wearable-data-apis) - [The Best Wearable Health-Data Aggregator APIs (2026)](https://aifitnessapi.com/fitness-apis/health-data-aggregator-apis) - [How Much Does a Fitness API Cost?](https://aifitnessapi.com/pricing/how-much-does-a-fitness-api-cost)