Fitbit Alta HR Fitness Tracker with Heart Rate, 7 Day Battery Life, Compatible with Smartphones, Tablets, Computers

I’ve read several reviews and would like to offer my experience with the Alta HR regarding several attributes. Overall, I love this fitness tracker. It is small, sleek, and simple enough to track exactly the features that I want and nothing more for a reasonable price. I am currently on my second Alta HR — I lost the first one and couldn’t get by without it. Device and battery life: I’ve had my current Alta HR for 1 year and 4 months and it is still rocking and rolling. I charge it once/week on Sunday nights and do not have to charge it again throughout the week, even with actively logging several tracked runs and workouts. The great battery life, especially for a continuous heart monitoring device, is one of my favorite features. Design and screen: What drew me to the Alta HR in the first place is the sleek and small design. The screen is just big enough to see the time, heart rate, etc and can easily be worn with any outfit (see also: cheap and colorful replacement bands for ease of matching). It’s a simple feature, but I love that when you turn your wrist upward the screen auto lights up to the home screen. You can customize this home screen— I have mine set to time and heart rate so all I have to do during a workout to see my HR is turn my wrist up. As others have said, the tapping can sometimes be finicky (~20% of the time the first tap attempt doesn’t register), but it’s really not that troublesome. Again, customizing the home screen to the features that are most important to you can resolve most of this frustration. Sleep tracking: I’ve found the sleep tracking to be accurate for the most part. I naturally have a high resting heart rate and it’s likely that Fitbit is underestimating the amount of deep sleep that I get (10% on avg). However, it does a good job of differentiating between sleep and awake and total hours slept. I like that the auto-light up feature of the screen is disabled during sleep. The device and band are very comfortable and I don’t notice them during sleep. Heart rate tracking: I’ve found the heart rate monitor to be VERY accurate. I was not expecting this level of accuracy and have been very impressed. I do not have a strap monitor to compare with, but I have manually monitored my heart rate (neck pulse and a timer) at different intensity levels and found that my Alta HR was always within +\-3 bpm. As others have said, you do need to follow the directions of the device to get accurate heart rates during workout. The device is EXTREMELY accurate when following the directions. If you are going to workout (or do any activity that causes substantial wrist turbulence), you need to move the device 1-2 fingers above the wrist and tighten it an extra loop. This allows the device to maintain a constant and reliable read during motion. The app: The fitbit app is not unique to this device, but I LOVE it. I love that it syncs with both the device and other apps. I can use MyFitnessPal for my food and it auto-imports and uses that information to calculate remaining calories, including ones that you burned through activity and basal caloric burn (if you set a weight goal, the app will show a dial that uses this information and tells you if you are over, under, or on target for the day and by how many calories). It also easily allows me to track water intake. It obviously also has step goals and hourly step goals, as well as active minute goals. All of these goals can be customized, and move reminders for the device can be customized by in the app. The app also uses resting HR and GPS tracked run information to estimate your VO2 max. The device and app also will auto-detect several activities (walking, running, “outdoor sport” like tennis) with 10+ minutes of an elevated heart rate and steps. I really enjoy this feature because I feel it gives me a more accurate read of calorie burn than just entering a “tennis doubles for 20 minutes” activity in MyFitnessPal. Step tracking: Accurate as far as I can tell. Some have complained about not having accurate step counting while pushing a stroller etc— you can still get your steps counted (but not heart rate) by strapping this to your belt loop. I frequently visit manufacturing environments where I cannot have anything in my wrist and strapping the device to my belt loop always yields an expected number of steps. Other features: I like that the devices notifies you about texts and phone calls and scrolls the person and a message preview (can adjust in settings) if you prefer. I did not want my phone on my wrist as a distraction all the time (@apple watch) and the Alta HR level of notifications is perfect. The device is also water resistant: I’ve accidentally taken it in the hot tub for a few minutes multiple times and it’s not been affected except for a temporary cloud over the screen once that went away after a couple days. I’d hesitate to purposely swim with it though.

I had a Charge HR for about a year. Happily switched to the Alta HR when it came out. My wrist is 6.5” and I got a large. I wear it on the second smallest hole (with the Charge HR I’d worn it on the third smallest). I like the large because it can fit around my ankle if I want, and the extra strap fits across most of my under-wrist which I think looks good. STEPS: it does this just as well as the Charge HR HEART RATE: Does this just as well as the Charge HR. I run a few days a week and it gets the same readings. STAIRS: Doesn’t have this function, but I found it flaky in Charge HR and always got more stairs than I’d actually climbed for the day, so I don’t miss it. BATTERY: I had it set with “All-Day Sync” on and "Always Connected" off and the battery has lasted about 8 days. A little after the 6 day mark I started getting low battery warnings (I guess they start happening at 25%). I started getting nervous it would finally give out at the 8 day mark so I put it on the charger. I tried it with “Always Connected” on next and it lasted almost the same. I got the low battery warning earlier on the 6th day. By the 7th day I decided it was close enough and started charging again, so I'm not sure exactly how long it will take, but at least a week. ALARM: I like this better than Charge HR. The alarm goes and buzzes about four times. If you don’t do anything it stops and snoozes and goes again 9 minutes later. You have to tap it twice (or more, I usually bang on it a few times) to turn it off. Otherwise it just keeps automatically snoozing. I like that if I’ve decided I want to sleep a little longer I don’t have to do anything. SLEEP TRACKING: when set on “normal” was about the same as Charge HR. I tried it on “sensitive” for a few nights and I got big wide bars of “restless” and the tracker only counted the non-restless times as sleep, so even though I was sleeping for 6 hours, it only counted 2 hours as sleeping. I thought that was weird so I’ve had it set to “normal” since. Maybe this reading would be useful to someone, but I found it confusing. Five days after getting my Alta HR it started tracking “sleep stages”. This is cool, I like getting to see what stages I got at night. If you click on the chart it walks you through what the different stages are and what percentage of your sleep they made up. HOURLY ACTIVITY: It warns you ten minutes before the next hour if you haven’t had your 250 steps yet. I like this, I don’t always care to accomplish this throughout the day, but on the days that I do I used to get frustrated if I lost track of time at work and missed an hour since there’s no way to go back and get steps in so you just ruined getting 100%. I’m glad Alta reminds me. Sometimes instead of just walking around I stand up and shadow box - the punching counts as steps and my arms and torso get a workout and I get the elevated heart rate and I can get to 250 quicker. EXERCISE TRACKING: It can tell when I’m running, although like Charge HR it won’t know distances, just steps, heart rate, and calories. It doesn’t have the side button to start an exercise timer, but I never used that in the Charge so I don’t miss it. I have two other apps I use to track my runs, so I don’t care that much about how detailed the Fitbit tracks them. Although I did recently discover the fitbit phone app can track my runs if I start it at the beginning of the run (on the exercise screen click the stopwatch and go to the tracking tab: you can select the activity then click the play button. If it’s a run it uses the phone’s GPS to map the run). CALL/TEXT ALERT: I like getting the little buzz to let me know to check my phone. It displays a little of the text message, but not much. Which is fine, it’s usually enough to give me an idea of whether it’s something important or not.

Te ayuda a mantener un registro del movimiento que tiene al día, el agua que consumes, tus ciclos de sueño, si lo sincronizas con tu celular lee notificaciones que tengas a través de la pantalla del fitbit, parte puedes programarlo para que cierto tiempo te notifique que debes caminar o tomar agua

Works as advertised.. looks great... No issues so far

Love my Fitbit. It was a replacement for one that broke. Bought some extra straps for it, & it’s great. Love the alarm feature.

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The Fitbit Alta HR is the perfect fitness tracker for the aspiring enthusiast. It has all the essential activity tracking bits in place that should satisfy the fitness curious (but probably not the obsessed). I believe step/exercise tracking, sleep and heart-rate monitoring should be the bare minimum a fitness tracker should be offering in today's age and Alta HR does that very well. It's exercise monitoring may be not perfect (it tries to detect it automatically and so isn't 100% perfect) and the step tracking may not be accurate for the hard-core (it just fine for my 20 min run though). The real time heart monitoring is for the curious (interesting to observe how the heart rate goes up during driving, waiting for interviews, doctors appointment, meeting a girlfriend etc) but the rest heart rate measurement really ties in to your fitness (visible in the app). The sleep monitoring is a fantastic insight into your nightly proclivity as it measures deep sleep, light sleep and REM (dreaming) phases. Lastly, the Fitbit app ties in all the above things into a cohesive package that tries to give you a better holistic insight into your health regimen. All in all the Fitbit Alta HR is greater than the sum of its parts. If you're just getting started on the fitness thing but don't want to go overboard right away, this is the perfect stepping stone. Sure, it's a bit more expensive than the ones from Huawei and Mi but arguably the Fitbit Alta HR is more stylish, less obtrusive, has better social integration (invite your other Fitbit buddies for challenges etc), has a more polished app, and is admittedly a better fit (pun unintended) for the brand conscious.