A question for ex fitbiters, what do you miss about Fitbit and do you regret moving on to Apple watch and leaving Fitbit behind?
The Fitbit did sleep tracking like no other device I’ve used. That was the ONLY thing that it did right. Fitbit is garbage. Every Fitbit I ever had died about six month after the warranty ended. And the most they would offer is a coupon for 20% off another Fitbit. Talk about an abusive relationship. I’d been a customer of theirs since the very first step tracker they put out but I finally had to move on to Garmin. And then I got an iPhone and the rest is history. I now use an AW8 and an Ultra 2.
Oh, and the Fitbit also kept the time pretty well.
Why do you use two apple watches?
I have an AW8 and I recently got an Ultra 2. I use the AW8 for when I want a smaller, lighter watch. It’s great for traveling and I do some workout, like boxing, where it gets uncomfortable under my gloves. I mostly use the Ultra 2 though. Also, I have cellular on the AW8 and haven’t transferred it to the Ultra 2 yet. I don’t like to bring my phone on hikes, so I wear the AW8 so that I have a connection. It’s an evolving situation. I will move cellular over, I’ve just been too lazy. 😂
Husband has a 5 and Utra, I have a 6 and 8. Use the older one for sleep, yard work, cleaning etc.
I relate to this. I mostly miss the sleep tracking. I had a Galaxy watch in between. Galaxy went far the other way with sleep tracking, so i have no idea who to believe. I like AW for so many things, though. I had the same issue with dissatisfying response from FitBit but the issue was the band breaking.
I relate to this. I mostly miss the sleep tracking. I had a Galaxy watch in between. Galaxy went far the other way with sleep tracking, so i have no idea who to believe. I like AW for so many things, though. I had the same issue with dissatisfying response from FitBit but the issue was the band breaking.
Fitbit is so good at auto-detecting activity. It knew when I was riding a bike. It knew when I was dancing around. With Apple Watch, the only thing it reliably detects is walks.
My Fitbit didn’t pause workouts during every goddamn session due to tattoos
I preferred the steps on the screen of the Versa vs rings. and I realize there’s probably some custom complication for that. Absolutely nothing else.
Just put the steps on the complication. I use steps and distance.
I miss the auto detect and start fitness tracking, battery life(obv it does way less), and all the awards I earned.
I don’t miss the Fitbit. The Apple Watch is superior in every aspect. I have no regret.
Nothing, one is essentially a glorified toy and the other is a real piece of hardware.
I miss nothing about my FitBit. I had two that broke after a year and I was careful with them. I had A Samsung Active Watch 2 for over two years that was worlds better than the FitBit but now I have the AW 8.
FitBit is complete crap.
Sleep tracking and the interface
First thing in my mind is the battery. My son has a five year old fitbit charge 3 and he says the battery lasts him a full week on one charge. My S6 needs to be charged virtually daily.
The heart rate monitoring in fitbit is a lot better because it’s continuous and you get this nice easy to read graph in the app. Apple watches don’t read your heart rate every second and the apple health app gives you a bunch of vertical lines which don’t give precise data.
Apple has great sleep tracking.
Literally does not.
How so? The only thing that I don’t like is you have to physically put it in sleep mode to track. If it would automatically track without having to be in a focus it would be great.
I use Sleepwatch app. Just going by score of how I feel when I wake up, I would say Fitbit is closer. There are also times I wake up for 5-10 minutes during the night. Fitbit picks it up, Apple Watch does not.
It’s not even about it not auto detecting. The sleep tracking is completely inaccurate. My watch has bedtime mode automatically set at a certain time. Well I just so happen to be working 3rd shift. I’m busting my butt during this shift and it was quite literally one of the busiest shifts I had… it gave me a ton of sleep data but ALSO had all my stand rings closed (which it should cause I was on my feet the whole time) but how can I be sleep AND closing my rings? I literally was never sleep.
Point is, as long as your watch is in sleep focus… it tracks anything you’re doing as sleep. Once I learned that I genuinely stopped wearing it to bed in its entirety.
That’s simply not true
It quite literally is.
You can have other apps that’ll do it for you( which is what I do but is not the same as built in)
Exactly, if other apps can make the watch auto detect sleep, then apple should be able to make it auto detect as standard
I thought Apple does automatically detect as long as you sleep 4 hours?
I don’t miss anything. My Apple Watches have been much better all around.
Just upgraded from a Fitbit Sense to an Apple Watch when the 9 came out. I miss sleep scores (maybe they were voodoo, but I still liked having one), the battery life, having everything in one app, and being able to track calories in/out without needing yet another app (seriously for all of the things that you can track in the Health App, not having native food tracking is wild).
All that said, there are lots of things that Apple Watch does better than my Fitbit, and I’m happy with the upgrade. But there are things I miss.
Check out Superset https://www.supersethealth.com/?ref_id=EJ58S0ZTV
I got so used to steps as the metric and even after a year it’s been an adjustment to have it now be active minutes. I also liked the FitBit app because it was more social. The Apple Watch is a smart watch that has fitness settings. Fitbits are pretty exclusively fitness watches.
I was waiting for somebody to mention the forum/sociability!
Oh I totally forgot about that! But it was a huge draw for me, especially around food ideas, and I feel like it was easier to find my IRL friends and invite them to compete.
I miss the Fitbit app itself, tbh. I had excellent experiences with Fitbit until I switched and this is definitely what I miss the most.
It takes Apple Watch like 4 apps and at least 1 paid apps or subscription to do what Fitbit does in 1 app with 1 optional subscription. Apple Watch info is split between the Health app, Fitness app, Apple Watch App, and any third party apps you use (which Apple Watch is reliant on to cover uses that Apple doesn’t natively cover like auto sleep tracking).
Also, Fitbit has the best sleep tracking out of all fitness trackers in the market. Apple Watch requires either a paid app for mediocre sleep tracking (via the Auto Sleep app) or you must sleep within your scheduled sleep hours with Sleep focus enabled for sleep tracking to work.
Also, requires daily charging on the Apple Watch while Fitbit lasts 7+ days depending on your model.
I’d hit up a garmin then or check out Superset Health. One app to show strain, recovery and sleep much like whoop https://www.supersethealth.com/?ref_id=EJ58S0ZTV
Agree that Fitbit has better sleep tracking than Apple and Garmin. But I miss Jawbone, poor quality hard product, but found the tracking algorithm to be best.
My Fitbit was the charge 2, I can do everything the Fitbit did on my Apple Watch
things I do miss is not being scared of scratching it or damaging it. I do hv AppleCare but i still care abt it. It was very tough and small as well, it wasn’t waterproof but I did lots of water activities with it and it was fine. The Fitbit also needed charging ever TEN DAYS while my Apple Watch needs it every two days