Fitbit Inspire HR Health & Fitness Tracker with Auto-Exercise Recognition, 5 Day Battery, Sleep & Swim Tracking, Black

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.

Got the Inspire HR 7 days ago. Charged it to about 80%, today it was at 17% charge. Chargin to full took less than 2 hours. I got it to track my heart rate while swimming, walking, and cycling, and it does that just fine. The app will record a GPS trail with the heart beat and sync it to Strava, which works well (but I had to learn to make sure the device is connected when starting the exercise). The calorie count it shows seems to be relatively accurate; it is certainly in line with my expectations (people sometimes seem to expect it to track only additional calories burned during exercise, which makes them think it's off by an order of magnitude). I haven't been able to test it while swimming yet. Most watches annoy me with the sensation of having them on my wrist. This one is an exception, because it is nice and small (much thinner than a "normal" men's watch). The plasticky-feeling wrist band is not great but good enough. I find that I use it to check the time, now, which is much less distracting than looking at my phone. I love how it doesn't come with a charger; Nobody needs an additional wall plug to USB adapter in 2020. I charge mine on my laptop. The bit reminds me every now and then to get up and move a little, which is a nice gimmick (and can be switched off). It was not super intuitive to set the clock to 24-hour display (hint: it's not on the device or in the app, but on the web site), and during walks it displays my progress in some archaic unit that I don't understand (is it feet?), and there seems to be no setting for that. Doesn't matter — the app can be set to use metric. Haven't used the sleep tracking functionality.

This has been a decent upgrade from the Fitbit One. Only reason for upgrading was to get a Fitbit that tracked sleep better, had a heart rate monitor, and that I could swim with. So far so good. Its one of the smaller wrist worn fitbits and I like that I’m wearing something that feels quite unobtrusive. Also that I can swap straps (bought separately) to suit the occasion. The sleep tracking better than on the Fitbit One, is fairly accurate, and useful though has its limits; it isn’t sensitive enough to mark each waking period as a true waking period unless I get out of bed for example. This isn’t a deal breaker just irritating when I get a good sleep score but know that I slept terribly. The step count was way off initially. I wear on my non dominant wrist, on the the non dominant setting, but it was over counting steps and counting just about every action I did with that arm as a step too. To balance this out I’m still wearing on my non dominant wrist and have reduced the sensitivity by putting it on the dominant setting. Since that change the step count is a lot more accurate and comparable to the Fitbit One. Automatic exercise recognition is also taking some tweaking as sometimes it detects car journeys as cycling, but it is just a case tweaking settings. Over all I’m very happy with the purchase and hope over time it serves me as well as the Fitbit One did. Update: original review was written in March, 2 months later there are some additional things to note. The sleep tracking whilst interesting hasn’t been as insightful as I hoped. It can easily be fooled into logging light sleep and REM just by lying still and then being a bit restless. For anyone with insomnia or insomniac tendencies who has learnt to employ relaxation techniques to aid sleep, even if sleep doesn’t come, the sleep score in particular is going grate. Of course the sleep tracking tech in a device like this is always going to be limited and It may be useful for vast swathes of the population who do not have any kind of sleep dysfunction but for those of us who do, and have spent years learning to adapt, the technology in the Fitbit Inspire is going to fall way short of what you’ll probably find useful, unless you like the extra validation that you’re nailing those relaxation techniques. Secondly, the screen is very easily scratched. It’s nowhere near as robust as the Fitbit One. My Fitbit One was put through it’s paces, and it still looks great. My inspire already looks very tired. Going on the experience of my One I never considered for a second screen protectors for Fitbits were necessary or even a thing. My mistake as the Inspire definitely needs one - if you’re ordering the Inspire, order a screen protector suitable to your needs at the same time.

It's a great fitness tracker! Super nice design, seems relatively accurate and does exactly what I need it to. I primarily use it for sleep tracking, steps, heartbeat and calories (and time, of course) and it honestly does the job for me. I've had it for about 4 months now and there have been no issues. My only problem is the app since it takes a bit for it to find my device, it resets every time I try to use the period tracker and is slow with syncing, but the issue might be with my phone OS and not necessarily the app itself. I want to touch on some of other people's reviews. It does track "steps" when I'm doing something with my hand but not physically moving, so I would like to reiterate a point I found when I was researching fitness trackers - it is not as important that each and every step is 100% accurate, what matters is that it motivates the user. And I agree, the average user doesn't need absolute accuracy, an estimate is completely enough - even though you can look up device comparisons on YouTube, the Inspire HR is pretty accurate in itself. There are also some reviews stating that the Fitbit gave them a rash. I Invite these people to think logically - even though the device is waterproof, if you never remove it and let the skin under breathe, of course a rash is going to kick in. Overall this is a great piece of electronics. I do not regret my purchase one bit, I wear it everyday and it's amazing what it's done for my lifestyle.

I was initially very sceptical about buying this product, because of the negative reviews I read here. Luckily, the huge discount during the Black Friday sale made me buy it and I am very, very happy about it. *Step & Distance Accuracy: - This aspect is being heavily criticised in the reviews. I checked it in a couple of ways and I can say that I am very satisfied with the accuracy. - Test 1: During a 1-week holiday I went with my wife (which involved a significant amount of walking) who has an Apple watch, we compared the steps and distances covered shown by two devices every day. Distances were almost perfectly the same, and my steps were slightly lower (perfectly normal given that I have longer legs). - Test 2: The device pushes you to walk at least 250 steps during each working hours and shows you the number of steps left to complete this target. I saw that when the device says "68 steps needed to complete the target", it really completes the target in exactly 68 steps (yes, I counted). - Test 3: During the semester I teach at a university, 1 day per week. During that extremely busy day, I have a very specific walking pattern from building to building, which is repeated exactly in the same way for each Monday. For consecutive weeks I noticed that Fitbit produced very consistent distance and step results for different Mondays. *Sleep Tracker Accuracy: - I use the device with an Android phone (Pixel 3) and my Fitbit does not have a heart rate monitor. - One needs to set the expectations from this device correctly. The device tries to guess whether you are asleep or not, based on your arm movements. - For example, if you wake up but watch TV in the bed, or go to the toilet, or read a book (or any other activities without body movement) the device can not understand that you woke up. So if you want it to be precise in these cases, open the Fitbit app in your phone. - Other than this, I found the sleep tracker to be surprisingly good. I have problems with sleep, and I saw that the phone shows that I could not sleep during specific time intervals, during which I exactly knew that I could not sleep. *Ease of Use & Comfort - Another topic that I could not understand the existence of negative reviews. - This may be the easiest electronic device I have ever used. It has 1, yes, 1 button that does everything. And the touch screen works perfectly. - Charging is extremely simple and fast. I put the device to charge when I go to the shower, and in 15 minutes it gets around +40% of charge. - The device is very light and after getting used to it you do not feel it. - The strap is not uncomfortable, but I constantly feel like it is not secure enough. It feels like the device can fall from your wrist without you even feel. *Overall - I am very, very happy about this purchase at this price level. It exceeded my expectations significantly. - The important thing is to set the expectations correctly. It does not do magic, it just makes estimations based on some algorithms. It is not fair to compare a £39 device with +£150 ones.

I brought the inspire HR to replace my Huawei Band 2 Pro, while I've had a variety of budget fitness trackers, I've never had an actual fitbit before. I've had it for two days and so far I'm very impressed. Pros: - The app is better than the huawei health one, and has more features. - The steps and sleep seem to be more accurate, and you can edit sleep and wake up times if they're not. - I really like the hourly targets, I work in an office and I've been making sure to get up and do 250 steps every hour. - The heart rate tracking seems to be continuous instead of every 5 minutes like the huawei version. - The strap is really comfortable, I can hardly feel it unless I'm leaning on my wrist at my desk. - The straps appear to be easy to take on and off. - Screen is nice and bright. - It has a nice disco ball animation for reaching your step count, and just has generally nice messages. Cons: - No in-built GPS, so have to take your phone with you. - No clock face that shows both the date and step count. - Limited cutomisation of the data it'll display on the watch, I'd like to be able to remove displays I don't care about (There are 17 different screens to swipe through! Why would I want my weight displayed on my watch?).

Very pleased with this item. I’m by no means a sporty person, but I decided that I needed a little help losing some weight. To me it seems quite accurate with the step tracking, only tracks when I’m actually walking around. Don’t know how accurate the calorie burning tracking is, but I only use it as an estimate anyway. Sleep tracking is not perfect, but does give you an idea on how much rest you actually get during the night. Also I took the Fitbit with me in the pool, seems to work just as well as before, though not while in the actual water. Will have to experiment with the swim tracking, but since I can’t do more than a couple of lengths at the moment, that will have to wait. The app is very good, though I’m running the free version. You can personalise the watch through the app, which is very cool. Battery only lasts me about four days, but it charges quickly. HR tracking seems to be quite accurate. I get stressed quite easily, so if my heart rate goes up without working out, it’s usually cus I need to chill out. Very helpful. A good item for starting out, for good estimates and to try out whether you like the idea of wearing a tracker or not. I might go for the Apple Watch, if I was a proper sports person or for more accurate swim tracking in the future, but for now I am more than happy with the Fitbit.

Amazing Product!! I dont take it off unless charging... this product is so usefull when tracking all kinds of exercises i run this app alongside the myfitnesspal app and it gives me calorie adjustments based on what the fitbit has tracked so sometime i may think iv burned more calories than i actually have but the fitbit adjusts this for me to give me my true reading for the day and vice versa.... the heart monitor is really good straight away you start exercise or moving more you see you heart rate fluctuate depending on what you are doing this is a good wy to track what kinds of exercise you are doing (fatburn or cardio)..... I also enjoy looking at my sleep reviews on the app and it giving me a fgeneral score based on my sleep and also an insight into my sleep pattern.... i really need to sort my sleep because im knackered haha overall product is well worth the money and i highly recommend it... may even upgrade to the newest fitbit soon as im so impressed with this one. oh and one last thing that battery lasts around 3-4 days depending on use but i use mine alot and usually get 3 days charge out of it :) i hope this review helps

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.

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.

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!

After 6 years and 4 months I'm amazed that battery life is still about 3 days. Having worn it permanently for all that time the Inspire HR is chipped and scratched, but still going strong. I recommend replacing the strap with the inexpensive metal ones easily available on Amazon. Not sure whether to upgrade to a newer Inspire yet. For build quality and durability this tracker has been impressive.

I only wanted it to track my steps, and it serves that purpose well.