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Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results by tinus_hn on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:57AM (#27982394)
Gymkit is a system for integrating fitness equipment with HealthKit.

Apple Fitness+ is a service that provides videos about exercises you can do without equipment, synced to and from HealthKit.

These are not one and the same.

Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results by BoorishBears on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:01AM (#27984629)
I had no idea what GymKit was after burning months on my life on it!

I said what I said.

An in-home fitness service using Gymkit to provide deep integration with streamed workouts.

Their non-equipment workouts work with Healthkit, but to have parity you need Gymkit too since Apple Fitness is not just about equipment-less workouts:

https://www.apple.com/apple-fitness-plus/equipment/

To that end it's more deeply integrated than Apple Fitness since Apple Fitness streaming content needs to target any Gymkit enabled (or really any hardware period) hardware of a given type with all the variation that entails.

This company is customizing the stream for a handful of Gymkit enabled devices which gives them more control over the workout experience