11 Best Smartwatches (2025): Apple, Wear OS, Hybrid & Kids’ Watches

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Other Smartwatches to Consider

The fig of smartwatches connected the marketplace is staggering. Here are a fewer different options I like.

Tag Heuer Calibre E5

Tag Heuer Calibre E5

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TAG Heuer Connected Calibre E5 for $1,900: I got a accidental to effort TAG Heuer's caller luxury smartwatch for a fewer days, and it's slick. The Calibre E5 feels similar thing else, with premium materials similar sapphire crystal and ceramic bezels; it has a bully heft to it. TAG has switched from Google's Wear OS to its ain proprietary operating strategy (TAG Heuer OS), truthful you won't beryllium capable to entree the accustomed apps connected this smartwatch. However, it works with Android oregon iPhone, routes your notifications through, and tin way basal fittingness activities. A bundle update volition besides bring slumber tracking. We'll beryllium putting it done its paces soon, but if you person different TAG oregon luxury watches successful your collection, you mightiness not caput having 1 that tin besides beryllium a small much functional.

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Withings ScanWatch 2 for $370: The ScanWatch 2 has been connected the marketplace for respective years now—one of the fewer analog smartwatches that discreetly offers a robust suite of health-tracking features. While Withings has introduced caller versions of it successful caller styles (like the Nova), the hardware is mostly the same. Thankfully, the bundle precocious got a large revamp. In the autumn of 2025, Withings released a caller operating strategy called HealthSense 4, and you don't request to bargain a caller ScanWatch 2 to person it. The wellness tracking algorithms are much accurate, determination are much predictive features, and you adjacent get longer artillery beingness (35 days!). I retested the ScanWatch 2, and overall, I enjoyed my clip with it; the information is laid retired nicely successful the Withings app. The tiny show is inactive a problem, but I tin get the gist of incoming connection notifications, and it's casual to scroll with the crown to rapidly glimpse astatine bosom rate, steps, slumber data, and adjacent commencement a workout. What is frustrating is that immoderate semblance of penetration into your information is paywalled down the Withings+ subscription ($8 per period oregon $99 a year). My slumber information was much close connected the Apple Watch and Pixel Watch 4, though the different metrics are connected point. If you privation a nice-looking analog ticker to way basal wellness data, the ScanWatch 2 is solid, but I deliberation it's clip for caller hardware.

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Apple Watch Series 10

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Apple Watch Series 10 for $392: Thanks to watchOS 26, the 2024 Series 10 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has galore of the aforesaid features arsenic the caller Series 11, similar hypertension notifications and Sleep Score. It has a thinner and lighter plan with a larger surface than anterior models, and it adjacent got humor oxygen sensing backmost via a bundle update successful August 2025. It's excessively atrocious this 1 inactive has the 18-hour artillery life. Avoid paying anyplace adjacent to MSRP for this watch. If you tin find it for nether $300, snag it.

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Google Pixel Watch 3.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

Google Pixel Watch 3 for $270: The Pixel Watch 3 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is seeing immoderate steep discounts present that the Pixel Watch 4 is here. It's a large smartwatch, with the caveat that it's not repairable. (The newer exemplary addresses that.) It features loss-of-pulse detection—cleared by the FDA for usage successful the US—which tin beryllium captious successful redeeming someone’s life. Google besides focused its fittingness updates connected running, enabling users to make customized runs and travel AI-powered tally recommendations portion getting feedback connected cardio load—how hard your bosom is moving and whether it's due for your body. I powerfully urge you spell with the 45-mm model, which doesn't adjacent consciousness that big. It simply delivers amended artillery life—just astir 24 hours with the always-on show oregon a small much if you person it turned off.

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Apple Watch Ultra 2.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

Apple Watch Ultra 2 for $763: The Watch Ultra 2 is inactive worthy considering, conscionable don't wage anyplace adjacent MSRP; otherwise, you whitethorn arsenic good bargain the caller Watch Ultra 3. It tin past respective days of use, and has galore of the aforesaid large features arsenic the latest model, including amended mics to prime up your voice, an 86-decibel siren to alert your presumption to anyone nearby, and precise GPS to amended way your hikes (plus assistance you find your mode backmost with the Backtrack feature). The surface tin show topographic maps, but you cannot presumption offline maps without an iPhone.

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Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025 for $570: The 47-mm Galaxy Watch Ultra (7/10, WIRED Review) is the company's Apple Watch Ultra and Garmin competitor, and it's a coagulated archetypal introduction into the satellite of pricey, feature-rich, and almighty smartwatches designed for nonrecreational athletes. This is technically the 2025 model, which is identical to the 2024 mentation but comes with 64 GB of retention and successful a caller bluish color. It lasts a small implicit 2 days connected a complaint due to the fact that it's a large 47-mm ticker and tin battalion a beefy battery. There's a titanium lawsuit and sapphire solid face, positive it's rated to 10 ATM and IP68, truthful you tin submerge it up to 100 meters underwater. The bosom complaint tracker is remarkably accordant with the Apple Watch Ultra 2, and the dual-band GPS delivers close mapping. The bundle isn't arsenic intuitive, and a fewer features are lacking erstwhile compared to different show smartwatches, but this is simply a bully commencement if you're successful the satellite of Android. If you don't attraction for the bluish oregon the other storage, you tin bargain the 2024 exemplary for hundreds less.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch7.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

Samsung Galaxy Watch7 44 mm for $274: Samsung's Galaxy Watch7 from 2024 is simply a small plain. This exemplary debuted Samsung's Energy Score and added updated slumber tracking capabilities. You besides get FDA-cleared slumber apnea detection, though this isn't a diagnostic you'll crook connected each the time—it takes 2 nights to track, and afterward, you'll get a enactment saying whether oregon not you amusement symptoms. This feature, on with the electrocardiogram and irregular bosom bushed notifications, is lone disposable erstwhile paired with a Samsung phone. Otherwise, this ticker functions good with immoderate different Android. You tin take from 2 sizes, positive Bluetooth-only oregon LTE. I tested some sizes and recovered artillery beingness frustrating compared to its predecessors. With the always-on display, I struggled to deed 24 hours with 2 tracked activities and slumber tracking overnight. With it turned off, things fared a small better, but I was inactive hardly hitting a afloat day. You'll person to babe the artillery and utilize the power-saving modes. If you don't attraction for the latest and greatest, you tin prevention a batch of dough with the Watch7.

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GPR-H1000.

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Casio G-Shock Master of G Rangeman GPR-H1000 for $500: It's not for every event, but the Master of G-Land Rangeman (GPRH1000RY1A) looks large connected my wrist, and I emotion that I lone request to complaint it astir erstwhile a week. This is simply a G-Shock archetypal and foremost. It has a durable, heavy lawsuit and a comfy strap. It's a big watch. It besides has six sensors and a built-in GPS. Connect the ticker to your smartphone via Casio's app, and you tin get elemental notification alerts, heart-rate tracking, enactment tracking, and slumber tracking. That's without mentioning different features similar humor oxygen monitoring, compass, satellite time, altimeter, and barometer. I've compared the results to an Apple Watch Series 10, and for the astir part, halfway metrics similar bosom rate, measurement tracking, and slumber are similar. I person had immoderate information not amusement up successful the Casio app for a fewer days, and galore of these functions are dilatory to load connected the watch. This would not beryllium my archetypal prime if I wanted a fitness-focused wearable—get a Garmin instead—but I similar the quality to look astatine and way immoderate of these metrics whenever I want. More importantly, I similar having a G-Shock astir my wrist.

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE for $175: The Galaxy Watch FE is simply a good fund Wear OS smartwatch. The 40-mm Galaxy Watch FE has a smaller surface that doesn't get arsenic agleam and sports a slower processor and a smaller artillery compared to the Watch7 series. The wellness sensors are astir the same, and I got close results with bosom complaint and slumber tracking. The artillery lasts conscionable astir a day, if not a small less.

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OnePlus Watch 2.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

OnePlus Watch 2 for $245: This is past year's OnePlus smartwatch, but it's inactive available. The 46-mm OnePlus Watch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) runs Wear OS and lasts astir 3 days connected a azygous charge, a small much if you alteration immoderate power-saving settings. The wellness capabilities are lacking—there's nary autumn detection oregon electrocardiogram—but there's slumber tracking, and it's beauteous accurate. Some features, similar heart-rate tracking, region traveled, and steps, person mixed accuracy successful my testing, which means you shouldn't bargain this smartwatch if you're chiefly utilizing it for those functions. Also, see the OnePlus Watch 2R, which you tin snag for little cash. The differences are mostly astir physique quality. The surface doesn’t get arsenic bright, it has an aluminum lawsuit alternatively of stainless steel, and there’s nary sapphire crystal protecting the screen, truthful it’s little durable. However, this makes it lighter and much comfy to wear.


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