Fitbit Inspire HR Heart Rate and Fitness Tracker, One Size (S and L Bands Included), 1 Count

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.

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.

2 weeks of using this, I have to say I’m loving it. Wore it for my swimming session. It worked! As for battery life, it’s not as bad as what others have commented. I did not turn on the text notification. Only for calls. If they text means it’s not urgent. Well at least that’s my theory. The watch looks great too. The strap is comfortable. Certain material will tend to stick on the strap but u can just wipe it off. I strongly recommend this if you are looking for something less costly yet stylish, reliable and comfortable.

Questo fitness tracker è senza ombra di dubbio un ottimo dispositivo, ma andiamo per steps: - PACKAGE Se devo proprio essere sincero (e pignolo) mi aspettavo una scatola più "professional" invece si presenta a mo' di prodotto da appendere che fa un po' "seconda linea" ma non c'è problema. Sono le mie fisse :) Per il resto tutto ottimo, all'interno troverete: - Orologio con cinturino Small - cinturino Large - carica batteria USB - libretto informativa sicurezza e garanzia Tutto ben curato, Fitbit è una garanzia da questo punto di vista. - CONFIGURAZIONE La prima cosa che faccio è provare ad indossare il tracker senza leggere nulla, e infatti sbaglio, nonostante ci sia il 51% di carica il dispositivo si accende ma non monitora (eh lo so, sono frettoloso). I passi da eseguire per il primo utilizzo sono i seguenti: - Scaricare l'app di Fitbit - Mettere in carica il tracker tramite il carica batteria USB in dotazione - seguire il wizard tramite app di Fitbit che vi indicherà tutti i passaggi step by step Una piccolissimissima nota dolente: durante la configurazione mi è stato richiesto un aggiornamento che è durato quasi 15 minuti, in questo periodo di tempo non potrete andare distanti con il vostro telefono perchè sarà in continuo sincro con il tracker. Dovrete portare pazienza. La nota positiva è che la batteria si carica molto velocemente, a quanto pare, è passato da un 51% al 90% in questo periodo di configurazione cha sarà durato massimo 20min. - UTILIZZO Beh che dire... molto comodo. Grazie alle sue piccole dimensioni quasi non si percepisce nemmeno. Non starò qui a ripetere tutte le funzionalità possibili (sono tutte scritte nella descrizione) ma mi limiterò a dirvi questo: - Rilevatore battito del cuore molto preciso e costante, uno dei motivi principali che mi ha spinto ad acquistare questo prodotto - Contapassi, per ora, fedele a quanto effettivamente fatto (leggo molte recensioni che si lamentano del conteggio durante il sonno, vi saprò dire) - fantastico nel riconoscere l'attività fisica - il conteggio calorie viene stimato sui 15 minuti per ora risulta fedele al mio metabolismo basale - la possibilità di utilizzare il timer a countdown, per quanto sia banale, ma è super (anche se sarei stato un po' preciso con i secondi) - Ho eliminato ogni tipo di notifica extra, ma questa è stata una mia scelta personale (ho già il telefono che "rompe") e se volete un consiglio: toglietele pure voi, no gioverà la durata della batteria - PREZZO Il prezzo è in linea con il prodotto che state acquistando, il rapporto qualità prezzo non si discute. Fitbit, ottimo lavoro!

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=1 Overall 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.

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.

It gives me a general overall data of how my day was like and my sleep patterns as well. The app gives you about 3 months free trial for their premium. I've used the GPS on the app a couple of times and about 50% of the time it gave terrible readings. I use Strava which links to your fitbit app and gives a better GPS track for your runs. The Fitbit watch itself is nice and small which I bought it for. It fits most of your looks unless you want something a bit more flashy. The screen does have an issue if you are directly in the sun at an angle. It will be difficult to read the screen then but overall I did not find that a major issue. I got this over the new Inspire 2 was because it had a slightly bigger screen and the most significant difference between this and the Inspire 2 is the battery life and free premium for a year. This works well for me and it's a good start for anyone who's adventuring into the world of fitness trackers.