2024 the best fitbits review

Price: $109.99
(as of Nov 28, 2024 07:19:09 UTC - Details)

Fitbit inspire HR is a friendly heart rate and fitness tracker for every day that helps you build healthy habits. This encouraging companion motivates you to reach your weight and fitness goals and even enjoy the journey with 24/7 heart rate, workout features, calorie burn tracking, goal celebrations, sleep stages and up to 5 days of battery life. Large fits wrist 7.1" to " 8.7"" in circumference. Small fits wrist 5.5" to " 7.1"". Syncs with iPhone 4s and later, iPad 3 gen and later, Android 5.0 and later and windows 10 device.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.18 x 3.94 x 8.94 inches; 0.71 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ FB413BKBK
Department ‏ : ‎ unisex-adult
Batteries ‏ : ‎ 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. (included)
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 7, 2019
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Fitbit Inc
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MSYTQNM

Utilize 24x7 heart rate to accurately track calorie burn, resting heart rate & heart rate zones during workouts
Track all day activity, including steps, distance, hourly activity, active minutes and calories burned. The Fitbit inspire band is made of a flexible, durable elastomer material similar to that used in many sport watches, and fastens with a peg and loop
Automatically track sleep plus due to the heart rate feature and get more insights into your light & deep sleep stages
Enjoy up to 5 days of battery for daily progress without constant charging. Varies with use and other factors. Charge time (0 to 100 percent): 2 hours
Automatically and conveniently record workouts like walks, swimming & bike rides in a snap with smart track. Stores heart rate data at 1 second intervals during exercise tracking and at 5 second intervals all other times
Radio transceiver: Bluetooth 4.0. Fitbit inspire and inspire HR are water resistant to 50 meters. We do not recommend wearing inspire or inspire HR in a hot tub or sauna. Operating temperature: 14 degree to 113 degree Fahrenheit. Maximum operating altitude: 28,000 feet
Reviewer: Advantius
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 5 stars overall, but there are things that you should know. **UPDATE**
Review: Written in March 2021 - purchased in May 2020. I wear this fitbit almost every single day, even while I sleep.Pros:-The heart rate, step count, exercise detection, and calorie burn tracking features have been revolutionary for my awareness of and adherence to personal fitness. When combined with a calorie counting app, they make it relatively simple to make adjustments to stay on target for weight loss/maintenance/gain goals.-Heart rate tracking during exercise is great for adjusting your preferred level of challenge and knowing when you're really pushing your limits.-Hyper-comfortable. Having never worn a watch before, it took a very brief adjustment period before I simply didn't feel it on my arm anymore. Sometimes I have to feel or look to doublecheck that I actually have it on.-Sleep tracking is a great reality check for bad habits regarding sleep, giving you a decent ballpark of how much you ACTUALLY sleep (hint: you're probably sleeping less than you think). If I'm unusually tired, I can usually track it back to getting 6 hours of sleep multiple days in a row. No more throwing my hands up and assuming I'm just plagued by some soul-sucking fatigue monster.-Calorie tracker app integration makes it relatively simple to deduct your calorie output (metabolism+activity) from your calorie input (food).-Battery life is fantastic. Wearing it all day nearly every day and checking it off and on, I can go more than a week before having to charge it. The idea of having to charge my high-falutin' Apple watch every single day just sounds strange and obnoxious to me now, so, it's probably ruined the concept of full-blown smart watches for me.-Resting heart rate information is an interesting fitness metric to watch rise and fall as you fall in an out of exercise patterns. After I hadn't been working out for a few months and then got covid-19, my resting heart rate had managed to creep from 54 bpm to 66 bpm. A couple weeks into a new exercise program and it's back in the 50's.-Durable.-Easy to clean.-Never used a screen protector and the screen has held up great.Cons:-Heart rate tracker is not always reliable, even when placed on your arm exactly as directed by the instructions. My favorite is when I can stick my finger to my neck and count off a heart rate around 130 bpm and my watch is telling me that my heart rate is EXACTLY, UNERRINGLY 84 bpm. There's absolutely nothing I can do except wait for it to take its sweet time to start tracking my actual heart rate. I feel like its accuracy was a lot better when I first bought it and not even a year later I'm starting to have serious issues with inconsistency.-Battery performance is just beginning to degrade at 10 months. When I charge it to 100%, as soon as I take it off the charger it will then drop to around 90%. Battery life is still great, but I'll wager I get another 6-ish months before it starts to be a real problem. That would line up with it having a 1-year warranty.-Doesn't sync smoothly with every food tracking app. I have to Force Sync it (basically a one-time manual sync) to the LoseIt app every time I want to factor my latest steps or exercise against my calorie intake.-Online integration. The app apparently stores your data online instead of locally, so if you try to scroll down into your historical data, it has to download it. It sure is fun, sitting there looking at a blank heart rate chart as it chugs along trying to download all your data on a crappy signal. Exactly how much storage space would it cost to just keep a local copy on my phone, anyway? 10MB? Fitbit, please.-Premium ads. Fitbit watches are vehicles for selling you a subscription service. They will poke and prod and remind and ask and notify you until you pay up. "Try the trial!" they implore you... every single day. Good God. Imagine buying one of the $200 fitbits and have it basically beg you to buy premium the entire time you have it.That said, I absolutely do not regret anything about this purchase. Overall, it's been fantastically useful. As a data-driven person I find that its informative value empowers me to control my fitness level with enhanced accuracy and motivation.**UPDATE**It's now May 2024 and I've learned a lot about these devices. When I initially bought the Inspire HR, I expected absolutely perfect heart rate tracking, and that's not what I actually received, so I gave the Inspire HR to my wife and ended up trying a couple more FitBit products, the Inspire 2 (functionally the same as the Inspire HR), and the Charge 5 (basically a higher-end/sturdier version of the Inspire line). I also received a free Polar Vantage M ($270 fitness tracker) from my employer and tried that out. Here's what you need to know:-Four years later, the Inspire HR I purchased on Amazon is still working despite constant use.-DO NOT LET THE BATTERY STAY DEAD. It has an extremely long life, but if you put it in a drawer and forget about it for months, the battery will not work the same when you pull it back out again.-Tightening the band (a lot) during cardio seems to help with heart rate accuracy. This is true of all of the optical heart rate monitors.-Optical heart rate monitors just plain CAN'T handle sudden heart rate bursts - they seem to use a sort of long-interval averaging, which means they take a minute to catch up to sudden changes, and they'll never be as accurate as electrical heart monitors. But for an inexpensive consumer-grade device, I'm satisfied with its capabilities. If you need every single beat perfectly accounted for, then you need an ELECTRICAL heart rate monitor - preferably a chest strap. That's pretty overkill for most general fitness enthusiasts or people seeking to be more active.-FitBit probably overestimates your steps and calorie burn by 10-20%. The more you move, the bigger the gap. Be wary of basing dietary decisions on its estimates. Its projections are better for analyzing your overall physical activity trend.-FitBit's device integration and data syncing capabilities make Polar look stuck in 2005. It took days of re-attempts over multiple months to get my Polar watch to even pair to my phone, only to eventually discover that Polar's software is essentially useless for what I need. The Polar Vantage M is a $270 device; that it's getting dominated in ease of use and data accessibility by a $60 plastic FitBit is inexcusible. I have a massively increased respect for the Inspire HR, Inspire 2, and Charge 5 after my experience with Polar.Four years later, I have no regrets and wholly endorse FitBit's non-smart fitness watch lines.

Reviewer: L. Eldred
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great device with a little bit of a learning curve
Review: When the battery in my large smartwatch recently wore out I did a lot of research to select its replacement. I considered the new model of the same smartwatch and many of the Fitbit models. I decided that I didn't need the extra watch features and would save some money and get something that fit my needs more closely.I've now had my Inspire HR for two weeks and have been very happy with it. It is much lighter than my smartwatch was and I frequently have to check and make sure that I'm still wearing it. Here are some of my thoughts after those two weeks.Charging: My first charge lasted 5 days and my second charge lasted a full week. Due to a lot of rain during my normal walking time I did less walking during the second week so the tracker had to do less talking to my phone and other things that use more charge.GPS tracking: This worked more reliably when I manually started an exercise session on the phone (swipe up, tap on exercise, swipe to "walking", tap to start...) The automatic exercise detection didn't work as well for this.Sleep tracking: I was initially frustrated with this. It would miss several hours of my sleep time, i.e. record 5 hours of data for an 8 hour sleep period. The problem turned out to be that I was wearing the watch too loosely for the heart sensor to get a reliable signal. By snugging up the band a little I was able to get it to work great and track all of my sleep.Watch band: My old smartwatch came with a silicon band that I did not particularly like and quickly replaced with a nice metal band. I assumed that I would react the same to the stock Fitbit band and ordered a replacement at the same time as I ordered the tracker. But, due to the lower weight of the watch and the reduced width of the band, the Fitbit silicon band was actually pretty nice. It has a reliable buckle (not standard on a lot of earlier Fitbit models) and was very comfortable. The replacement band I got was one of the metal mesh bands with a magnetic closure. The new one is also very comfortable and the magnets make small adjustment in tightness for comfort and sleep tracking easier. I have stayed with the metal mesh band but would be happy with the stock silicon band as well.Misc: A week after getting my Inspire HR, I also replaced my phone. So I had to reinstall the Fitbit app and move the pairing to the new phone. I initially had a problem that the app wouldn't let me log into my existing account because my email was already in use. A few hours later when I had time to try to debug the issue it had disappeared and I was able to move my pairing over. Everything is working fine now.

Reviewer: Ximena
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Me gustó casi todo, muy cómodo y fácil de usar solamente que aún no se como bien como funciona lo del ritmo cardiaco y tampoco se como guardar el ejercicio que hice por ejemplo si hago pesas como guardarlo para después agregar el tiempo que hice de cardio y así sacar el total de tiempo y calorías cuando termino de hacer ejercicio.

Reviewer: Rebecca Nield
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Works well, looks great, light and exactly as advertised.My one real criticism would be that working a desk job where you move your hands a lot (like filing or stapling packages together) does count steps. Make sure you go into the settings and set the watch to your dominant hand so it knows to filter out some of the movements. Or, pick one day you to almost no steps and find out how many steps are counted based on moving your hands around, and then up your daily goals to include that discrepancy.The fitbit app you need to use the fitbit is easy and detailed. And you can get even more detailed activity reports by logging in online. I would recommend to anyone who wants to track their day to day activity. You can set goals and notifications, and quick access options if you tend to run/bike/swim rather than other activities.I would suggest turning of the progress notifications if you're just using it day to day. They can be a little distracting.

Reviewer: Mark Chisholm
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I was rather sceptical about these fitness trackers for some time but over the last couple of years have really found them to be an excellent motivator and thus, a useful thing in life.My first type was the Samsung smart watch which, I liked a lot until an upgrade somehow screwed up some of the functions. After that I realised that I had not been wearing my far more expensive watch which simply sat in a draw in my bedroom so instead decided to buy a smaller fitness tracker and use my real watch for it's intended purpose not as a bedroom ornament.So, I've had a couple of these things and now this Fitbit which, is by far the best I've had.Firstly, it's small so can be worn on my right wrist - I'm right handed - whilst my traditional watch is on my left and not look like Del Boy trying to flog a Chineseium knock off in the market.It has all the functions I want plus a few I don't use. My requirement is heart rate and steps both of which are remarkably accurate.I've checked the distance and steps against my wife's tracker and against Google maps and it's remarkably close to actual distance and steps.Heart rate compares favourably with my Omron BPM reading so pretty good.There are other functions of course such as time, sleep etc. Nice to haves but not my primary focus.The App is intuitive, easy to install and works flawlessly. It gives my more information than I need and asks for more than I can be bothered to input such as water consumption. I mean, who goes to those lengths? I was a marine engineer on a steam ship where the temperatures were often in the upper 50's C and we didn't worry about water consumption. We got thirsty and we drank until not thirsty.The App has a premium section which is behind a paywall. I'm a bit suspicious of that because once you get tied into something ending up wit a regular payment can be incrementally sneaked in. If that happens I'll be off to another fitness tracker.What else. Oh yes. You get two straps with this, small and large. The small one works for my petite 5'2" wife and the larger is great for me and I have large wrists thanks to many years in a ships engineroom and also working out in gyms.Power is good for at least five days. I reckon I've gone nearly seven days before it died so keeping it charged is not a problem. Apart from the actual charger that is.The charging USB cable is pants. It's the one downside of this tracker because it's not a hard fix onto the charging points and the cable tends to catch the strap and not sit securely. I ended up buying a 3rd party charger with a stand which, is far better. See the link.https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QL1B4SH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1Overall a great fitness tracker and if you want a smaller one so you can still use your normal watch then this would be a good option.

Reviewer: Federico
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Parto dal presupposto che questo non è uno smartwatch, come ho letto in altri commenti.Si tratta di un orologio Fitness Tracker con Display B/N Touch Screen.E' un orologio sportivo con rilevazione della pressione sanguigna sistolica e diastolica, oltre al classico monitoraggio cardiofrequenzimetro.La confezione con la quale viene consegnato il tracker non è delle migliori (molto minimal) ma c'è di peggio. Diciamo che non è una cosa utilissima la scatola esterna, ma ha il suo perché.L'orologio è leggerissimo (meno di 20gr) con varie funzioni tra le quali, Accelerometro; Rilevatore battito del cuore; contapassi; conteggio calorie (molto accurato, provato anche con un Apple Watch nello stesso periodo di utilizzo)Il collegamento Bluetooth è praticamente immediato (provato con iPhone 8 e con H.Lite8).L'App da scaricare è la famosa (e ormai collaudata) "Fitbit", in perfetta lingua italiana, frequentemente aggiornata e facilmente scaricabile dal Play Store/AppleStore.La batteria (dopo intensi attività di utilizzo) posso affermare essere molto duratura: prima fase di scarica/carica è durata 5 giorni (doveva ancora assestarsi), dalle ricariche in poi è durato 10 giorni abbondanti (se si dovessero disattivare alcune notifiche, può arrivare anche alle 2 settimane di utilizzo).PERCHE SÌ:1. Spedizione rapida con Amazon Prime.2. Ottima connettività Bluetooth.3. Buoni materiali.4. Durata della batteria.5. Applicazione ben fatta.6. Facilità di utilizzo.7. Comodità di utilizzo (ricezione notifiche)9. Assistenza Amazon in caso di guasti.10. Rapporto qualità/prezzo.PERCHÉ NO:1. Avrei preferito avere un braccialetto di riserva in dotazione (essendo comunque plastica, potrebbe rovinarsi con l'utilizzo). Ne acquisterò senz'altro un altro.2. Non presenta monitor con colori (solo B/N).3. Non sempre si attiva lo schermo "girando il polso" .Spero che la mia recensione possa esservi d'aiuto qualora foste in dubbio sull'acquisto.Consigliato!

Reviewer: Krishna S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Have been using for 5 months now. Really satisfied with the Fitbit HR. Battery lasts for 5+days. The auto detect feature for games, exercise is great. Only negative is that the sync with mobile takes long and multiple tries.