Fitbit

The Fitbit Air is not a smartwatch replacement. It can't ping your phone, surface texts or let you tap to pay for your coffee, and it falls short for those in-the-moment workout insights. If those things are important to you, you may have to move on or double up. And the $100 price tag means you feasibly can without breaking the bank. I'd probably wear both if I didn't have a looming backlog of wearables to test on my wrist once my testing period of the Fitbit Air is over. Yet it's the most accessible entry point into screenless health tracking so far, and a logical companion for existing smar

The best fitness tracker overall is the Fitbit Charge 6, which functions primarily as a fitness tracker but offers a few bonus features, too. Its SmartTrack function tracks your activity, supporting more than 40 types of exercise and keeping tabs on metrics such as steps, heart rate, calories burned and VO2 max.