A question for ex fitbiters, what do you miss about Fitbit and do you regret moving on to Apple watch and leaving Fitbit behind?
For me it’s the battery and truly custom watch faces. The Apple Watch has custom face apps but they need to be refreshed or reset every hour afaik.
I had a Fitbit Inspire 3 and switched to an Apple Watch SE2. I miss how lightweight the Inspire was. Also that it tracked Sleep and exercise without enabling it. However it was all it does and the App was so slow with syncing.
Battery life. I was able to get 10 days from my charge 5 vs 1 1/2 - 2 days on my series 7. Absolutely no regrets making the switch last year though
Auto Sleep tracking and 7 day battery
I miss the wildly inflated step counts that made hitting my daily goal a breeze. My daily stats, compared to last year when my Charge 5 was alive, are consistently 2K lower. Fracking AW’s making me exercise more.
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.
Sleep tracking and the interface
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?
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.
Nothing, one is essentially a glorified toy and the other is a real piece of hardware.
No fitbit battery ever lasted more than 10 months for me so no, no regrets.
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.
The detailed sleep tracker
My Fitbit didn’t pause workouts during every goddamn session due to tattoos
I don’t miss the Fitbit. The Apple Watch is superior in every aspect. I have no regret.
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.
I don’t miss anything. My Apple Watches have been much better all around.