I’m looking for a good budget smartwatch (under £130) that will track my cycling to work, must be able to connect to Strava and a bonus if it has the ability to display maps. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Something I keep running into with wearables: I've got years of heart rate, HRV, and sleep data sitting in an app — and yet every morning it greets me like a stranger.
A score, a color, maybe a signal that "you slept poorly." But it doesn't remember the week I was sick, the stretch where work was brutal, or that I always run hot before a stressful day.
It tracks what happened. It never builds a model for me.
That gap feels like the next real problem to solve.
Most smart ring today is still basically a one-shot tool: you wonder know something → it answers → it forgets.
But the data a ring collects isn't a single prompt. It's a continuous stream: physiology, behavior, environment, routine. In theory that's enough to build something closer to a personal world model — a picture of you that evolves over time and gets the context right without you having to explain yourself.
Genuinely curious where people land on this: If your wearable device could learn one thing about you over time, what should it learn first? Your habit of drinking coffee before work? The time slot that you usually go out for exercise? Or something else...
Interested in how this community thinks about it.
Hi! I've been researching health tracking wearables for the last few months trying to decide if I should invest/which wearable to get if yes. Needless to say, I'm completely overwhelmed by my options. I know there are no perfect products and there will be people who love and hate each one, but this would be a fairly significant financial investment for me so I don't want to just buy one and hope it works out.
I've seen a lot about Oura (obviously), Whoop, Panther, and a few others. I want something with a strong ROI for what I'm paying. I'd prefer it not be huge and bulky but it's not my top priority. Ideally, I buy a product that I can wear almost everywhere (including strength training which has turned me off of Oura a bit) that's as accurate as possible. Data privacy is important to me, but I'm not delusional about the reality of data privacy in the US right now.
If anyone has thoughts, I'd love to hear them. I'm 24 and would like to learn more about my wellbeing while I have the ability to make really meaningful habit changes if needed. Any and all perspectives are greatly appreciated.
Has anyone managed to get them to take a return or did you need to do a chargeback?
I’ve been using WHOOP for years, but I’m thinking about switching. The subscription is getting overpriced, and the fact that the new device is incompatible with older accessories is pretty frustrating.
While researching alternatives, I realized that these devices are basically wearable sensor hubs. I’m comfortable doing the data analysis on my own side, so I don’t really see a good reason to keep paying a subscription for hardware I already purchased.
Does anyone know of a wearable device that simply gives access to the sensor data, ideally raw or close-to-raw data, without requiring a subscription?
I’m mainly looking for something that can track things like heart rate, HRV, sleep, recovery-related metrics, motion/activity data, etc., but I’m fine handling the analysis myself if the hardware gives me access to the data.
I started going back to the gym a few weeks ago after basically doing nothing active for a long time. I dont need advanced athlete level stats or anything, just something easy that tracks workouts and sleep accurately enough.
Is there a best fitbit model people usually recommend for beginners?
Hi everyone,
What’s the best wearable tracker for chronic illness?
I currently have an Apple Watch SE and the visible band. But I have so many issues with both
Visible band doesn’t track sleep other than ‘how did you sleep’ with a score out of 4 and honestly think that’s so stupid considering I wore it TO SLEEP why can’t it tell me!
There’s no option to track your menstrual cycle alongside symptoms, which, for someone with hormone dependent conditions is absolutely useless. I’ve also had numerous issues with it glitching and a monthly fee on top of the band is just extortionate. Literally the ONLY thing it tracks is heart rate? How can my entire day be based on my heart rate when I have POTS? You can tell it’s been designed by men who have no clue about women’s bodies.
Apple Watch: battery life is shite. Heart rate tracking isn’t constant which I need. Doesn’t offer blood oxygen level, temperature or any other metrics than heart rate ( I know some newer models do)
I’m so so so so so fed up of things being designed for disabled and chronically ill people without chronically ill and disabled people actually getting a say in what we want tracking. I need to be able to print out real patterns and data to take to my doctor and understand my body better but everything just does 1% of the job. Plus feel like a knob wearing an Apple Watch AND a visible band.
Please help!
Currently using a basic step and sleep band for 2 years. It works fine for cardio stuff actually but lately I'm lifting more and I want to see if I'm actually gaining muscle or just getting fatter slower. The problem is most fitness tracking seems focused on weight alone or body fat % that changes based on how hydrated I am.
What I want is something that tracks muscle mass over time. Not just a scale telling me "muscle +0.2lbs" thats probably wrong.
My Fitbit died almost two weeks ago. I contacted support and it’s out of warranty but they said they’d issue a discount code (as they always do). They said it would be 24hrs as there was an issue with their system. No code arrived. I emailed a few days later and got this response and am still waiting. Surely a big tech company can come up with a temporary solution for this! Anyone know what’s going on? I emailed again today so will see what the reply is.
A wrist watch that monitors sleep, etc. What are the options out there, ease of use, cost, etc
I want to buy the best phone available (also a fitness watch)
I am confused between a few things
Should I buy an iPhone with an Apple watch ultra (i really don't like that the watch ultra has such a low battery life and also takes a lot of time to charge)
Should I buy an Oppo find x9 ultra and amazfit trex 3 pro
Wait for sometime (in case an amazing phone is launching soon)
Your suggestion (A very good phone + A very good fitness watch)
Budget - No budget
What are your favourite fitness apps?
What do they have that other apps don’t?
What do you wish they had but don’t? Free or paid
I realised this last year when I was training for a half-marathon.
I had an Apple Watch on my wrist, a Whoop on my other wrist, and four years of HealthKit data I'd never looked at. Steps, sleep stages, HRV, resting heart rate, workouts, VO2 max.
All of it just sitting there.
The Health app is basically a museum. You can walk through it, look at the charts, nod, and leave none the wiser. It shows you what happened. It never tells you what it means.
That's why I built Rox.
You connect your Apple Watch, optionally your Garmin, Oura, Amazfit or Whoop, and Rox reads everything HealthKit has on you. Then it actually talks to you about it.
Morning reports that answer three questions: how hard should I push today, am I recovering well, am I sleeping enough.
You can ask things like "why am I so tired this week" or "is my training too heavy right now" and it pulls from your real data to answer.
No rings, no streaks, no cockpit of graphs. Just a conversation with something that's read your body for the last four years.
It remembers everything and ties up your life context with your daily metrics to get your insights and patterns you never thought existed.
A few honest things:
Consider this a limited free access to a product what Bevel 3.0 is charging $99 for :)
Download App link : https://apps.apple.com/in/app/rox-ai-health-coach/id6756538804
For free access, please comment “Rox” and I will share next steps with you (No promocode)
PS : Will really appreciate app store review if you like the product 😄
I’m dialed in on apps to track wearable data. Looking for an app that does a good job for logging training, particularly resistance training.
Considering price, workouts (weights, running, and swimming), sleep, and battery life. Which watch will give you the most value today?
My Brother decided to develop his own Workout App, behause he was frustrated with existing apps Like Hevy or Strong. Mainly because there was no easy way of sharing workouts and splits with friends. What started as a little side project is now an over a year solo developed workout tracker with some great community features like easy sharing of workouts and splits.
We launched the app a couple weeks ago for iOS and we will shortly release for android as well. We are aware that the app ist still rough on the edges and are working to make the app better. We appreciate any feedback here or via chat in the app. So feel free to get in touch with me or my brother. :)
As we don’t like paywalls or adds as well we decided to include all current features in an adds free version. There is a premium version for those who want to see their history after more than 30
days and want to have unlimited workouts. But I believe with the free version everyone can log workouts and use all the features without the need to switch to premium.
https://apps.apple.com/at/app/pump-workout-tracker-gym/id6751585722 or checkout the website https://pump-app.eu
I saw several positive reviews about Panther Eclipse and decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, my experience has been extremely disappointing.
I placed an order more than 17 days ago, and I still haven’t received my product. What’s worse is the lack of communication. I emailed their support team multiple times they replied once initially, but since then, there has been no response at all. I also tried reaching out through their Reddit support, but no response there either.
At this point, I honestly feel frustrated and disappointed. When you trust a brand and spend your money, the least you expect is transparency and proper customer support.
I’m sharing this here to ask: Has anyone else had a similar experience with Panther Eclipse? Did you eventually receive your order or get a refund?
Based on my experience so far, I would recommend being cautious before ordering.
Hey guys, I’ve been working on a new smart pillow concept and wanna hear your honest thoughts.
Here’s what it can do:
It looks just like a normal pillow, no weird bulky design.
Would you actually buy and use something like this? What features attract you the most?
I’ve had an Apple Watch on my wrist for pretty much as long as I’ve had an iPhone, and for the first time I’m considering ditching it for a Fitbit. I’ve loved the Apple Watch, recommended it to friends and family, but recently I’ve been wanting to take a step toward simplicity, rather than towards more features. My current watch has cellular connectivity and I thought that would encourage me to leave my phone behind more often, but in reality it has only resulted in even shorter battery life and more compromises in order to feel like I was using it to its full capability. I briefly looked into the Whoop, then immediately stopped when I saw the subscription options, but I really liked the look of the experience it offered.
Then the Fitbit Air was announced, and suddenly this Apple loving fanboy has been hovering over the preorder button for days. Part of me wants to wait until more reviews come out, but the other part of me just wants to get it asap because it’s so affordable and worst case I can return it if I really don’t like it, and put the Apple Watch back on. Even though I was turned off by the Whoop subscription, I think I would strongly consider the AI subscription after the free trial, because it would basically offset my Apple Watch cellular plan.
Anyways, I know this is a whole lot of nothing and speculation, but I’m sure I’m not the only Apple loyalist considering jumping ship. Curious to hear everyone else’s experiences. If you’re an Apple user and you use a Fitbit, how’s that been? I know the app is changing very soon so reviews may be mixed. I really like what I’m seeing, I just might give it a shot.
Edit:
This got a lot more feedback than I was expecting, thank you to everyone who took the time to give detailed answers and opinions!
So, I just search for alternatives and then had the idea to search on Chinese market places (because maybe they have something that is not popular in EU/US markets). I found a product (on 1688) and was wandering if anyone knows that brand or knows a review, I hardly find anything about it (I am not even sure, what the brand or app is called). I would really appreciate if there is someone who owns it and can rate/review it. It seems to be a pretty cheap alternative: CNY299.00≈EUR42.84
Thanks in advance for any help!
