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Fitness Trackers - Page 3: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

Latest Fitness Tracker Stories

2.5

The Whoop 4.0 health and fitness monitors adds SpO2 and skin temperature tracking, but suffered from inflated heart rate readings and falsely detected activities in testing.

By Angela Moscaritolo

If you want to get healthy, a fitness tracker can help. At PCMag, we put them through rigorous testing to see which ones are up to the challenge. Here's how we do it.

By Angela Moscaritolo
4.0

The third-generation Oura Ring offsets its new monthly membership fee with an upgraded suite of health-tracking features including continuous heart rate measurements, improved temperature sensing, and period predictions.

By Angela Moscaritolo
3.5

The Withings ScanWatch is an attractive wearable with long battery life that can take FDA-approved ECG readings, but it's a bit heavy and requires approval from a doctor to use.

By Jill Duffy

The Halo View comes with a one-year app membership and will be available in time for the holidays. Amazon also tipped two new features: Halo Fitness and Halo Nutrition. 

By Angela Moscaritolo
4.5
Editors' Choice

With an always-on color touch screen, a sleeker design, and new health tracking features, the Charge 5 is a significant upgrade over the previous model and Fitbit's best fitness tracker yet.

By Angela Moscaritolo

At $179.99, the Charge 5 costs $30 more than its predecessor, but it features a color touch screen, an always-on display option, and some advanced health-monitoring features found on Fitbit's premium Sense smartwatch.

By Angela Moscaritolo
4.0

The sleek, style-forward Fitbit Luxe offers all the basics you want from a fitness tracker in a design that looks more like jewelry than gym wear.

By Angela Moscaritolo

Get one for every member of the family with this limited-time deal.

By Stephanie Mlot
4.0

The attractive Garmin Venu 2 smartwatch offers a large collection of advanced health and fitness features, plus useful lifestyle tools including mobile payments, onboard music storage, and Bluetooth headphone support.

By Angela Moscaritolo

The $149.95 Fitbit Luxe aims to balance function and form with an AMOLED color display, a stainless steel case, up to five days of battery life, 20 exercise modes, 24/7 heart rate tracking, stress management features, and nightly respiration and heart rate variability tracking.

By Angela Moscaritolo
2.5

The OnePlus Watch offers an excellent touch screen and some nice health and lifestyle features, but is held back by a lack of third-party app support, GPS issues, and a bulky design.

By Angela Moscaritolo
4.0

The stylish Polar Ignite 2 fitness watch tracks your activities, heart rate, sleep, recovery, and offers personalized daily workout guidance to help you train smarter.

By Angela Moscaritolo

The entry-level wearable now offers free access to Bluetooth location technology courtesy of Tile.

By Stephanie Mlot

The $79.95 Ace 3 kid-friendly fitness tracker builds on its highly rated predecessor with new animated clock faces and longer battery life.

By Angela Moscaritolo
4.0

Ideal for small wrists, the Garmin Lily smartwatch has a fashionable, jewelry-inspired design and many useful health-tracking features for a reasonable price.

By Angela Moscaritolo
3.5

The slim, affordable Fitbit Inspire 2 offers all the basic activity and sleep features you need from a fitness tracker.

By Angela Moscaritolo

It may be cheap, but the OnePlus Band still promises 14-day battery life and multiple health tracking options.

By Matthew Humphries

Strap sensors onto your wrist and leg to capture upper- and lower-body movements.

By Stephanie Mlot
4.0

More than a standard fitness tracker, the Whoop Strap is useful for athletes and anyone else who wants comprehensive insight into their daily activity and health, with personalized coaching to help optimize training and sleep.

By Angela Moscaritolo