HELP: Fitness Watch

I love my FitBit Ionic, but that may be too "fancy" for some. What features are you looking for?

ETA: My ONE complaint about my FitBit is that it is not "fixable". So if something goes wrong outside of the warranty period, you need to buy a whole new watch. I found this out the hard way. I'm not outside of the warranty period, but got a big scratch on my watch face. They don't have the capability to replace it and the only option offered to me was to buy another $300 watch. If I didn't love the FitBit interface so much I'd switch to an apple watch, so at least if it were damaged i could get that fixed. FWP I realize.

It depends on what you do and how much money you're willing to spend. Ray Maker's in-depth reviews and recommendations are worth checking out:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/11/winter-technology-recommendations.html

His gadget recommendations are divided into sections; depending on your interests, look at running watches, triathlon watches, and activity trackers.

Mine is a Letscom activity tracker. I got it on Amazon for about $30. I am pleased with it so far. Eventually I would like to upgrade to a Fit Bit. But this is good for the money I spent. It tracks my steps, my heart rate, and my sleep. It also links to Google Fit (Which links to MFP). Some Cons- The battery only lasts a few days before it needs a charge, and part of the band broke within a week of getting it though. It was just the piece that holds the band down, so I am using a hair band in its place, lol. Replacement bands are cheap though. I think I saw a 5 pack for $20.00. But hey, for 30 bucks instead of 120, I can't complain too much. It does what it's intended to do with minimal bugs so far.

Edit: Saw your update. It is water resistant, meaning you can wash your hands and not ruin it. But it is not submersible. However, you can look up swimming on google fit and account for it that way. This is what I did while on vacation and visiting the pool. I would add my swimming and whatever I was doing (treading water mostly). It would then sync and add the exercise to MFP. Google Fit would add the calories I added for swimming to my daily total burn. Seems like a good work around for the money.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/571520

I just bought at Vivoactive 3, I like it so far. Previously I had the forerunner 220 and this was the replacement for that watch. It is water resistant to 5atm and will record steps, sleep patterns, and exercise among other things.

I have the Garmin Vivofit 2 (had it for a while). It's been great and was inexpensive. They are on the 3 now...

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Suggestions for a fitness watch?! Looking to track my steps, sleep, exercises, and MUST BE WATERPROOF for swimming. I’d also like it to look like a watch.

Price is the biggest thing that matters.

What's your price point? Are you looking to spend $50? $500? What about other things like apps, music, workouts (not ones you log), etc?

This is my 3rd FitBit and the most expensive. It's also the only one that is waterproof.

I’m between a FitBit and Apple Watch.

Which Fitbit and which Apple Watch? The features vary depending on which model. Fitbit’s only waterproof models are the Ionic and Versa.

What kind of activities/exercises? Have you considered Garmin (has a number of models that are waterproof and well built)?

And how important is sleep tracking? Apple Watch battery life isn’t fantastic so they usually need to be charged at night (meaning they can track sleep but not in a practical sense because they also need to be charged to last the other 18 hours a day).

I charge my Apple Watch 3 for 30 mins in the morning while I get ready for work and sometimes 30 mins at night when having supper. But wear it the other 23 hrs with no battery issues.