14 Best Fitness Trackers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

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Garmin Instinct 3 for $400: Garmin's Instinct enactment doesn't person arsenic galore high-end features arsenic the Fenix 8, but it's fashionable due to the fact that it's cheaper and it has a cool, chunky retro aesthetic that I love. This year's updates see the built-in flashlight and a caller reinforced bezel, which is bully considering that I inactive managed to bang up the Fenix and Epix watches rather a bit. For much information, cheque retired our usher to the Best Garmin Watches.

Coros Apex 4 for $429: Coros is the king of affordable watches for utmost sportsmen (and women), and the Apex 4 is the company's alpine ticker that Killian Jornet precocious utilized successful his States of Elevation project. The artillery beingness lasts forever; it has 5 specialized climbing modes, vertical GPS, and tin auto-detect climbing routes. I emotion this ticker for climbing.

Coros Nomad for $349: Coros besides has an angler-specific athletics ticker with athletics modes for fishing. A caller diagnostic called Adventure Journal besides lets you grounds dependable memos and pin locations arsenic you're hiking and moving truthful that you tin retrieve wherever bathrooms, campsites, oregon truly large berry-picking spots are.

Apple Watch Ultra 2 for $699: I don't urge past year's Watch Ultra 2 anymore due to the fact that I deliberation the vastly extended artillery beingness (up to 42 hours from 36 hours) positive outer communications is capable of a crushed for immoderate outdoorsperson to conscionable get a Watch Ultra 3. You decidedly shouldn't bargain it astatine afloat price. But it is compatible with WatchOS 26, truthful if you tin find it importantly connected sale, I won't deliberation you're dumb for going for it.

Garmin Venu X1 for $800: Garmin's Venu enactment straddles an unusual niche. It has a polymer case, a nylon strap, and an tremendous AMOLED show that is 2 inches across, which is large for displaying built-in maps. It has speakers and a mic for taking calls, and overmuch of the fittingness functionality of the Fenix, but without the classy, durable metallic bezel oregon insane artillery life. It works fine; it's conscionable hard to look astatine it and not deliberation that it's integrative and costs doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic the Apple Watch.

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OnePlus Watch 3 for $300: My kingdom for a smartwatch that tin past much than a day! The OnePlus Watch 3 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) tin past for 5 days connected a azygous charge. OnePlus present includes galore by-now modular wellness features, similar autumn detection, a tegument somesthesia sensor, irregular bosom complaint notifications, and an electrocardiogram. This is different large prime if you privation a smartwatch that's besides a bully fittingness tracker.

Suunto Run for $249: I emotion however airy and slim this ticker is (36 grams), particularly successful the present sold-out Lime. It has a agleam AMOLED screen, 2 weeks of artillery life, and close dual-frequency satellites. But Suunto's bundle is clunky and hard to navigate erstwhile compared to Garmin's, Coros's, oregon Apple's. Offline maps are besides not supported.

Amazfit Bip 6 for $80: Amazfit's trackers are improving truthful quickly! Like the Active 2, the Bip 6 is simply a gorgeous small watch, with a brilliant, big, and responsive AMOLED screen, good implicit a week of artillery life, and 140 athletics modes. I inactive find the tracker and the Zepp app to occasionally beryllium laughably inaccurate, but it's inexpensive and comfy and works well. However, for lone $20 more, I'd conscionable get the Active 2 instead.

Xiaomi Smart Band 9 for $45: I was shocked by however overmuch I liked this affordable small fittingness band. The 1,200-nit show is wide and bright, and the touchscreen is responsive. The aluminum lawsuit feels sturdy, and it tracks your steps and bosom complaint with tenable accuracy. However, there's conscionable nary comparing the idiosyncratic acquisition of the Mi Fitness app versus Fitbit's, particularly astatine this price. (Yet.)

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra for $380: Your eyes person not deceived you. Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra (7/10, WIRED Review) is simply a nonstop rip-off of the Apple Watch Ultra, but for Samsung telephone owners. It adjacent has the Quick fastener (which Apple calls an Action button) and the Double Pinch diagnostic (which Apple calls Double Tap). Apple's ticker is better, with much sports, a amended interface, and amended broad algorithms similar Training Load and Vitals. However, what the Galaxy Watch Ultra does, it does well, and Samsung has the resources to drawback up quickly. It has a sapphire solid look that's rated to 10 ATM, an IP68 rating, and the quality to withstand elevations arsenic precocious arsenic 9,000 meters and temperatures arsenic precocious arsenic 130 degrees. It besides has backcountry navigation features, dual-band GPS, a compass, and breadcrumb navigation, which Samsung calls Track Back and which Apple calls Backtrack (this is getting silly). The artillery beingness is inactive conscionable an capable 2 days and change, though. This is the 2025 model, which added much retention and a caller color, but you tin bargain the 2024 exemplary for adjacent less.

Buyer Beware

Amazfit Balance 46mm wristwatch with achromatic band

Evie Movano Ring for $269: Evie announced an upgraded mentation of the Movano, with a medical-journal-trained AI chatbot and improved slumber and bosom complaint tracking. I tested it and unluckily did not find capable connected connection to rescind my erstwhile sentiment (4/10, WIRED Review). The astute ringing marketplace has exploded since then, and galore caller rings person explicitly women-centered features. It simply doesn't connection capable features to beryllium an charismatic merchandise close now.

Nowatch B for $399: This beauteous tracker purports to measurement your accent responses each minute. Unfortunately, that uses a ton of artillery power; you person to complaint it for 3 hours and recharge it each different day. This is ridiculous, particularly since a Fitbit monitors your accent comparatively quickly. We've been successful interaction with Nowatch and volition re-test erstwhile the institution has refined its algorithm.

Amazfit T-Rex 3 for $280, Amazfit Helio Ring for $200, and Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro for $400: We person tried everything crossed Amazfit's lineup, including the astute ring. I person thing to kick astir regarding the physique quality—the Balance is simply a dupe for the Samsung Galaxy Watch if you don't look excessively hard—both WIRED reviewer Simon Hill and I recovered functionality somewhat limited. Reviewer Brent Rose besides recovered the T-Rex 3 Pro to beryllium a hilariously atrocious dupe for a Garmin Fenix 8. The Active 2 is the lone Amazfit ticker I similar close now.

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Fitness Tracker vs. Smartwatch

The categories tin overlap significantly, but fittingness trackers arsenic we see them present are, well, focused connected health. I'm little acrophobic with whether a fittingness tracker tin replicate each diagnostic connected your smartphone than if the suite of wellness features is robust and accurate; if it tin way aggregate activities; and if it stays connected and is unafraid portion doing aggregate fittingness activities. We besides see fittingness trackers that aren't wrist wearables, which includes the Whoop, astute rings, bosom complaint monitors, and humor sweetener monitors.

Some wrist-based fittingness trackers volition diagnostic the quality to work emails and power music, but the screens are often smaller and little bright. However, the artillery beingness is often overmuch better, which makes a difference, particularly if you're tracking your slumber implicit time. If, however, you're much funny successful the enactment to entree apps without having to propulsion retired your phone, you mightiness privation to deliberation astir getting a smartwatch. (If you privation nary notifications astatine all, get a astute ringing instead.) Don't spot thing that's precisely your benignant here? Check retired our Best Smartwatches guide.

My Tracker Doesn't Work! What Should I Do?

Here are conscionable a fewer ways you tin easy cure what ails you (or your device):

A survey published successful December 2024 recovered that galore smartwatch wrist bands incorporate precocious levels of PFHxA, which is simply a “forever chemical” that tin impact your immune, thyroid, kidney, and reproductive systems. How bash you cognize if your set has PFHxA?

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