Are you looking for help to switch to a healthier lifestyle? Look no more, these smartwatches help you switch to a healthier lifestyle by tracking all your activities and telling them in numerical values to help you gain your fitness goals quickly while also adding more normal goals for you to achieve better health. These smartwatches are easy to wear, light, and can help track and schedule your steps, sleep schedule, rest time, and energy spent in a day, and also keep a watchful eye on your heart rate.
1. Samsung Galaxy Watch 6
This watch can track up to 90 different and even the most complicated exercises. It also tracks your heart rate, location, blood oxygen, heart rhythm, bioelectrical impedance, skin temperature, and blood pressure. You can also add third-party apps to this watch as it is built on Wear OS. It has good durability and battery life which is helpful for long-term use.
2. Amazfit GTR 3
A great smartwatch with a low cost, this watch provides features such as GPS, accelerometer, and gyroscope, and comes with a Bio Tracker 3.0 optical sensor, which helps analyze heart rate, stress, and blood oxygen level. It has a slim body, a large battery backup that can last for weeks, and many fitness-tracking features for all your needs.
3. Garmin Venu 2 Plus
This device, while not the best looking out there, can fulfill all your fitness tracking needs with features such as sleep/stress tracking/ animated exercises to follow, activity levels, heart rate, up to 9 days of battery life, GPS, and easy-to-follow strength, yoga, and high-intensity interval training. It could be a pricier option to choose from.
4. Google Pixel Watch
This Google watch can help track several activities you do throughout the day, monitor steps you take, calories, and GPS data, and track activities like running and weightlifting. It also provides you with the option of Active Zone Minutes, which can determine your heart rate, tell you how much fat you are burning, and if you’re getting enough exercise done for the day or have rested enough.
5. TicWatch E3
The TicWatch E3 is a budget buy smartwatch. A few features this watch can provide are the ability to track your heart rate, blood pressure, exercises, stress, sleep, steps, blood oxygen saturation monitoring, and high-intensity exercise training. It has a 2-day battery backup and good fluid performance.
6. Fitbit Sense 2
The ideal choice for casual fitness enthusiasts, it provides you with a bit of guidance on your daily exercise goals. It has features to track your temperature, stress, and blood oxygen levels, track your activity, offer breathing exercises, and have a week of battery backup. You cannot install third-party apps to this watch, unfortunately. It’s more for fitness tracking as it can track up to 40 exercises than a smartwatch.
7. Apple Watch Series 8
This watch offers many built-in features for fitness and health enthusiasts and also comes with great third-party apps such as Runkeeper and Nike Run Club. It tracks heart rate levels, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature deviations, overnight respiration, sleep, and rest time. It can also tell if you have a higher than regular heart rate, or a lower heart rate. It’s best for Apple device users as it needs iPhone 8 or later models that run iOS 16 or higher to function, you cannot use it with an Android device, and it does have a lower battery backup of 18 hours only.
8. Fitbit Charge 5
This watch offers you fitness features such as heart-rate monitoring, your body’s response to stress, and monitors an irregular heart rhythm. You have a built-in GPS to record all your runs, automatically track walking and running exercises, and provide you with workout data post exercises. It can also track your sleep schedule, respiration, skin temperature, and heart rate variability while you’re asleep. You can review your sleep status when you wake up and take proper measures to increase the quality of your sleep. It comes with a battery life of 1 week.
9. Samsung Galaxy Watch 5
It is one of the best watches for tracking body fat and snoring at night. It can read your heart rate and take an ECG test, it can also do a BIA scan and a BMI scan, which tells you your skeletal muscle mass, fat mass, body fat percentage, and body mass index. It can also track body water mass and metabolic rate. It can listen to your snoring at night and even record it. It supports up to 90 different workouts and records different sleep stages you might have at night, all with a 50-hour battery backup.
10. Polar Ignite 2
It tracks your activities, heart rate, sleep, and recovery and offers daily workout help to maximize your training time and breathing exercises to help with stress. It supports up to 20 sports profiles on the device and offers 100 tracking options in case of exercises. It provides up to 3 days of battery backup.
11. Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5
It can track up to a dozen workouts, can track your heart rate, has GPS trackers, and can measure blood oxygen levels. It doesn’t have a good sleep-tracking function, and its Google Assistant remains silent. It could be a bit bigger on smaller wrists, but it makes it up due to its lower price and various functions available.
12. Garmin Lily
This watch is designed specifically for women. It can track your health stats like calories burned, energy levels, heart rate, respiration, sleep, stress, rest, and workouts. It has a few smart features like phone notifications, music controls, and calendar and weather widgets with a battery backup of 4 days. The minus point is that it doesn’t have a GPS function.
13. Oura Generation 3
For those who do not prefer wristwatches but would still like to be able to track your fitness, this ring-shaped fitness tracker is perfect for you, can monitor your heart rate, body temperature, HRV, respiration rate, and sleep rate. It can feel inadequate when it comes to activity tracking, it’s expensive, and has requires a membership fee to access most features. Water resistant up to 328 feet, so you can casually wear it to swim and it has a battery backup of 6 days.
14. Fitbit Versa 3
This watch is one of the best budget-friendly watches for fitness tracking in the market. It provides functions of 24/7 heart rate monitoring, and breathing exercises, and recognizes exercises automatically. It has a GPS function for distance tracking and also measures oxygen levels in your blood while you sleep. However, it doesn’t track stress, and skin temperature, and can’t provide low and high heart rate notifications. The touch screen is also known to be a little late to respond. The battery life lasts 6 days.
15. Fitbit Inspire 3
It is one of the best products for a beginner fitness-pursuing individual at affordable prices. It can provide you with features like tracking your steps, monitoring your heart rate, calories burned, sleep quality, and respiration while you sleep with very low accuracy issues. The battery backup is 8 days. Some of the data is locked behind a subscription, it also requires you to connect to your phone to accurately track your runs and bike rides as it doesn’t have a GPS tracker in-built.
16. Garmin Venu 3
Garmin watches are perfect for runners because of the accuracy of the in-built GPS, training regimens, and workout routines. A few additional features are deeper sleep quality tracking, a skin temperature scanner which is currently locked, and ECG scans. It also possesses a built-in speaker and microphone which allows you to talk to other people on the go, and you can also install additional third-party apps to your watch through the Garmin IQ store application.
17. Coros Vertix 2
The Vertix 2 has an optical heart rate sensor used to measure heart rate, ECG data, and blood oxygen levels. The battery backup for this watch is 60 days in smartwatch mode. Additional features are GPS and a built-in Running Fitness Test Mode, which is ideal for runners. It can also track your post-workout recovery speed as it tracks HRV.
18. Garmin Fenix 7 Pro
This watch is an excellent pick for runners as it has excellent GPS capabilities and improved mapping, tracks high-intensity training exercises, provides animated workouts, also records football and other sports activities. It tracks heart rate levels, blood oxygen saturation, while you are awake or asleep, HRV status, and body energy levels, and also tracks stress levels, you also get music control functions phone-free.
19. Apple Watch Ultra
If you are into running, diving, or long-distance bike riding, then this is a good choice for you. It has all the features of the Apple Watch Series 8 and is suited for all weather types. It can last up to 60 hours in low-power mode. It has a good GPS tracking system and heart rate monitoring with sleep quality monitoring. You also get access to the complete Apple Library to install other applications. It has good sports tracking performance as well. One con is that some of its features are still a work in progress.
20. Garmin Vivomove Trend
This Garmin watch comes with the features of a heart rate sensor, measuring your blood oxygen levels and examining stress and respiration. It can also examine your sleep cycle and quality overnight, and you can also manually follow your hydration level and meditation sessions. It can also track your steps and tell you if you have rested for too long and need to move around to stay active. This watch is ideal for people on the move and who like to keep an eye on their health levels.
