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Making an accurate wristband heart rate monitor, let alone one that"s also comfortable and stylish, is challenging. Fitbit"s latest attempt to strike that balance is the $150 Alta HR. A near mirror-image of the original Alta, the Alta HR is an updated model with slight design differences, improved sleep-tracking features, and a tiny optical heart-rate monitor inside of it.

The Alta HR is quite similar to Fitbit"s currently available Charge 2, but the Alta HR places more emphasis on the combination of a slim design and an accurate heart-rate monitor. Fitbit is banking on that combination encouraging users to wear a device all day and all night long. The Alta HR is proof that you can have a device that works as hard as you do without being ostentatious and without much sacrifice.

The Alta HR looks nearly identical to the original Alta, and its symmetry is one of its biggest selling points. Fitbit managed to shrink the internal tech by 25 percent to make room for an optical heart rate monitor inside the Alta"s svelte frame. Coming in small, large, and extra large sizes, all Alta HR models are just 0.61 inches (1.6 cm) wide. That makes the device .23 inches (0.6 cm) thinner than the $150 Fitbit Charge 2. It also has the same tappable display as the original device and the Charge 2, but the HR responds to taps much better than the Alta did. There are no physical buttons on the Alta HR, so you can only tap the display to scroll through activity data screens. Waking the Alta HR"s display rarely took more than one tap, whereas the Alta often needed three to five taps to wake up at all.

The most noticeable difference is in the Alta HR"s bands: instead of the Alta"s snap closure, the Alta HR has a more watch-like band made of flexible elastomer and features a simple, semi-flexible buckle. Not only does the new band make the device easier to strap on, it also lets you get the perfect fit for measuring heart rate. As with any wrist-bound optical heart-rate monitor, the one in the Alta HR can interfere with blood flow and provide an inaccurate pulse reading if the device is strapped too tightly. On the flip side, it shouldn"t be so loose that air gets between the wrist and the monitor. While the original Alta"s snap closure is perfectly adequate for that device, the more secure band on the Alta HR is necessary.

The band is interchangeable, just like on the original Alta. Fitbit has a bunch of styles available in leather, metal, and, of course, elastomer, which is ideal for exercise. Although the Alta HR might not be water-resistant enough to swim with (the Flex 2 is still the only Fitbit tracker with that perk), it is comfortable to wear all day and while you"re sleeping. Since the new sleep features that are supposed to help you sleep better require the heart-rate monitor, the Alta HR needs to be easy to sleep with around your wrist. I slept with the device on for a few weeks, strapped as I typically would to ensure proper heart-rate measurement, and it never bothered me. I slept mostly with the sport band on the Alta HR and a few times with a leather band; I would wager the only uncomfortable band to sleep with is the bracelet-like metal band. Advertisement

Thanks to its smaller internals, the Alta HR is estimated to last seven days on a single charge. That"s with continuous heart-rate monitoring and sleep tracking, making it an extremely competitive device in terms of battery life. On the seventh consecutive day of wearing the Alta HR, I received a notification in the app that the battery was low. I typically tracked one or two workouts per day and wore the device to bed each night. Even with all that use, the Alta HR lasted over a week before it needed more juice.

The Alta HR has nearly all the same features as the Charge 2, the most important of which are daily activity and sleep tracking, continuous heart-rate monitoring, and auto-recognition of exercises. From the moment you strap on the Alta HR, it tracks your steps, calories, distance, and heart rate, and it will continue to monitor movement and pulse while you sleep. The heart-rate monitor enhances some of these features: Fitbit claims the caloric-expenditure estimates will be more accurate than before thanks to the heart-rate monitor, and the monitor feeds data into the new Sleep Stages and Sleep Insight features that help you get a better night of shut-eye.

Thankfully, the heart-rate monitor is pretty accurate. When I tested it against the Polar H7 heart-rate monitoring chest strap, the Alta HR typically hovered within three to five BPMs of the H7"s measurement. However, the Alta HR took a few more seconds to level off at a medium-intensity pulse after being at a high-intensity pulse for a few minutes. The H7 chest strap"s readings fell steadily from the 170s to the 130s, but the Alta HR took a few more seconds to level off at the new, lower heart rate.

Actually seeing your heart rate on the Alta HR during a workout is a little frustrating. You must tap the display to go to the heart-rate screen to see your real-time measurement, and that"s easier said than done when you"re in the middle of a 5K run. The only way to make this easier is to customize the order of your Alta HR"s screens in the Fitbit app and set the heart-rate screen to be the first one that pops up when you turn your wrist upward.

One of the differences between the Charge 2 and the Alta HR is that you cannot access sport profiles on the new device. You can save a few sport profiles to the Charge 2, allowing you to easily start a recorded workout from the device. But with the Alta HR, you must rely on the exercise auto-recognition feature or wait until you"re done exercising and manually log workouts in the mobile app. Auto-recognition and recording is one of Fitbit"s best features: the Alta HR will automatically record walk, run, elliptical, and bike workouts, as well as "sports" (a good generic category if you do a particular sport regularly) and "aerobic" workouts (another good category for HIIT sessions and the like) that you do for more than 10 minutes. This time threshold can be changed in the app, but the least amount of time needed to recognize and record an activity is 10 minutes. I only logged one session manually in the app while I used the Alta HR (it was a 10-minute stair-stepper session that I categorize as an aerobic exercise). Otherwise, the device picked up every workout I did without my help. Advertisement

The other two differences between the Charge 2 and the Alta HR is that the latter doesn"t have guided breathing sessions, nor does it have a connected GPS feature. The Charge 2"s guided breathing feature uses the display to lead you through a deep breathing session that helps lower your heart rate and keep you relaxed. It"s not a necessary feature—most fitness trackers don"t have it—but guided breathing might be good for your mental health if you"re constantly feeling stressed or anxious. The connected GPS feature lets you map outdoor running routes when you take the Charge 2 on a run with your smartphone. The lack of this feature might deter runners from buying the Alta HR: if you"re accustomed to running outside and want to review a route map at the end of each session, you can"t get that with the Alta HR.

We"ll discuss the Alta HR"s improved sleep features in the app section, but they are improved primarily because of the heart-rate monitor. Not only does the monitor work all day, but it also measures your pulse throughout the night and your resting heart rate before you wake up. That continuous nighttime heart rate, plus heart-rate variability data and the accelerometer"s movement information, gives you a better picture of your night"s sleep. Most other devices use movement data alone to judge if you"ve slept well or not (if you move too much, your session is automatically considered a bad night"s sleep), so adding heart-rate information makes the information more clear and accurate. Heart rate and heart-rate variability also lets the Alta HR estimate the amount of time you spend in light, deep, and REM sleep, as well as the periods when you"re awake at night. Before the introduction of Sleep Stages, Fitbit devices could only estimate light, deep, and awake times.

The Alta HR also has a number of alert features that are standard for nearly every Fitbit device. It receives text, call, and calendar alerts from your smartphone, which isn"t as many notifications as the $150 Garmin Vivosmart HR gets, but they are the bread-and-butter of smartphone alerts. You can set the device to ping you with a reminder to move if you"ve been sitting for too long, and you can set a silent alarm to either wake you up in the morning with light vibrations or to remind yourself to do something important during the day.

All those Fitbit insights add up to real lifestyle changes. In fact, researchers from Arizona State University discovered that the combination of wearing a Fitbit Zip activity monitor and expressing more mindfulness throughout the week increased levels of physical activity. For a relatively low cost (most models range from $50 to $250), fitness trackers help motivate you to kick-start and stick with a fitness plan, hold you accountable, encourage goal setting and, best of all, can help you lose weight.

In what may seem like a sea of Fitbit models, the Fitbit Alta HR attempts to strike the balance between what folks want as a straightforward activity tracker, while making some nods towards basic workout support.  I’ve been wearing a unit now for about two months – tracking my moves 24×7.  So I figured now’s a good time to dive into how well the unit works and where it stands against the competition.  Especially since the competitive landscape continues to get more and more crowded.

When it comes to looking at how the Fitbit Alta HR sizes up, it’s definitely one of the smallest out there in its class.  Of course, this class of devices tends to be pretty small.  Comparing it for example to the Garmin Vivosmart 3, you’ll notice both have slight differences but are very similar.

The Garmin Vivosmart 3 is a shade bit larger in width than the Fitbit Alta HR.  On the flipside, it has more functions for sport and tracking than the Fitbit does. Though, the Alta HR has band swappability, whereas the Vivosmart 3 doesn’t.

If you then compare that to something like the Polar A370, you’ll see that the A370 is a fair bit bigger.  But then again, the A370 has a much brighter and bigger display and far more sport functions.

So, in general, the bigger you get, the more stuff they cram in there.  Same would be true if you compared it to the Garmin Vivosmart HR+, which is in the ballpark of the Polar A360/A370 for size – but also contains GPS.  Here’s a quick look at the weights of each of them:

When it comes to using the Fitbit Alta HR, things are pretty straight-forward.  For the most part you’ve only got a few screens to tap your way through.  In a lot of ways, the majority of the data gathered by the unit is viewable from the app – not the device itself.

Sure, you’ve got core things like calories, steps, and distance shown on the device – as well as your current HR.  But to see data from workouts or HR trends, you’ll need the app.  But let’s not get too distracted yet. First the unit itself.

The display will always be off unless you either raise your wrist to look at it, or double-tap it.  I’d say about 80% of the time it correctly gets the wrist-raise, but the remaining 20% I’ll have to double-tap it.  In most cases where I have to double-tap it’s because the wrist motion wasn’t significant (like reading a book or sitting on the couch and only slightly moving to see the screen).  The battery life is as stated, about a week.  I haven’t had any issues there.

Once illuminated, the unit will by default show the time of day, day of week, and date – as seen above.  You can customize this display though via the mobile app.  This includes customizing not just the clock face screen, but also whether it’s in a vertical or horizontal orientation.  As seen below, some of these clock faces also show your current HR or progress towards your goal.

Next, we can tap our way through up to 8 different display pages.  These are listed below and can be turned on or off as you see fit.  You can also customize the specific order of them:

Throughout the day the unit is tracking your steps and distance, but its real motivation is to get you to move more.  So by default you’ve got a step goal (of 10,000 steps).  But you can customize that to instead be a distance goal, calories burned goal, or active minutes goal.

Of course – a big part of using an activity tracker is to track your steps and distance (as well as other activity).  With the Fitbit Alta HR, you’ll get the daily status as shown in the gallery a few paragraphs up.  But what if you want to see trending over time?  For that, you’ll crack open the app.  It’s here that you can see overview stats for each day, and then tap left/right to change days.  You can also tap any given metric (such as steps) to see what things look like for each day of the week, allowing you to scroll back as far as you’d like.

The same is true of other metrics like calories or active minutes.  Note that the Fitbit Alta HR does not track floors however, which is why you see it as zero above.

Next, we’ve got more general notifications – specifically smartphone notifications.  With the Fitbit Alta HR, you’ll get both text and call notifications, as well as calendar reminders.  But that’s it.  You won’t get Twitter notifications or any other app you’ve got.  So if you happen to use WhatsApp for example, you’re hosed.

On one hand you could argue the display is tiny and almost useless for anything of length.  And that’s probably true.  But there’s no real difference in length between a text message sent via the native text and that of WhatsApp.  It’s still my friend asking if I want to meet up for a ride using the same wording.  Thus…I’m not sure why Fitbit continues to box users in.

In any case, last but not least we’ve got sleep capabilities.  The unit itself doesn’t display sleep metrics, but rather instead records sleep data as you wear it each night.  That data is then accessible from the app.  Fitbit has semi-recently updated their sleep metrics to be quite a bit more useful than it was in the past.  To begin, of course, you’ve got an overview of sleep hours by days in the week for the past week (you can go further too).  You can then tap on any given day to get more details about that night of sleep:

You’ll notice up top on the right that I’ve got the time asleep (6hr 16mins), but also a funky waveform like looking graph that shows you what type of sleep I was in throughout the night.  I can scroll down in the app to get more details about that, and then comparisons to my averages as well as everyone else:

And with that, we’ve pretty much covered all the functionality there is on the Fitbit Alta HR itself aside from workouts.  You see, there’s no specific workout mode on the device, but rather, that’s triggered from the app on your smartphone.  So let’s head on into the workout section to dive into that a bit more.

Unlike the Fitbit Charge 2, the Alta HR doesn’t have a dedicated button for starting a workout from the band itself.  Instead, you’ve got two options – one is to let it automatically detect your exercise.  And the second is to manually start an exercise from the smartphone app.

What happens after you press start is that you’ll get heart rate data from the unit saved directly to the app via Bluetooth Smart.  So you must take your phone with you for this to work.  You’ll also be able to see the exact distance on the app itself.  Note – there’s no additional data displayed on the Fitbit Alta HR, that’ll just do its normal screens.

So basically, the app is acting like any other GPS fitness app – except it’s simply pairing to your Fitbit Alta HR to get your heart rate (sorta like pairing to a heart rate strap).  Speaking of which, the Fitbit Alta HR does NOT broadcast your heart rate to other apps in real-time (many other trackers do).  So no, it does NOT broadcast over either Bluetooth Smart or ANT+ standard HR profiles.  Nor will it communicate with gym machines like treadmills.

So what about optical HR accuracy?  Well, there’s two pieces to that.  First is the 24×7 HR component.  How well does it record heart rate when not in sport?  For that, I found things pretty good.  In many ways Fitbit’s optical HR sensor is better tuned for 24×7 mode than sport mode, and it shows here.  It’s sampling at a 1-second rate, and is recording quite near that as well.  And all the data I’ve seen while comparing multiple devices at once for 24×7 mode looks pretty good on the Alta HR.

Note that the 24×7 mode data is shown on the unit itself using the HR data page, or by customizing the clock face to show it by default.  Also, the data can be seen within the app too – both in real-time as well as historical trends.

But what about sport mode?  Well, that’s gonna vary person to person, and situation to situation.  One of the things that makes smaller band accuracy more challenging is how much light gets in from the side (daylight is the arch-enemy of optical HR sensor accuracy, and a loose fitting and very thin band is super tough).  Still, with that in mind, I went out and tested it in a few different scenarios.

Keep in mind that in order to test this accuracy you need to start a workout from the phone.  That way you can get a workout file to compare against other files with.  For these tests I was using both a chest HR strap as well as another optical HR sensor watch, and in some cases a fourth HR sensor (such as the Scosche Rhythm+ on the upper arm).  No wrist had more than one device worn.

As you can see, overall the Fitbit Alta HR did actually pretty well, especially in the interval portion.  Early on however in the first 7-10 minutes it struggled a little bit, and overshot on HR compared to the other devices.  For this run I had a chest strap (Wahoo TICKR-X), a Scosche optical sensor (upper arm), and the Suunto Wrist HR (other wrist).  So three optical HR sensors and one traditional chest strap.  Given the terrain during this run was pancake flat (seriously, a table-top has more deviation than this route did), I’m not clear why in the first 10 minutes we see the Fitbit Alta HR have trouble.

This means that for anything else you get an auto recognized activity. Which in turn means no GPS coverage.  And that matters because for years (still), Fitbit doesn’t allow data exports with HR data to non-GPS activities. Sure, you can go onto the site and click ‘Export to TCX’ for anything.  Except the file it’ll give you for a non-GPS activity is simply empty.  It’s a useless and null file.  Fitbit doesn’t call that a bug – but rather some sort of ‘feature’.  Hmm….ok.

While I could try and compare the data between the picture above and the actual HR sensors I had, that’d be pointless. Why?  Well, two reasons.  First is that the accuracy of doing so is sketchy at best.  But more important is that any person can easily see these two graphs look nothing like each other (the Fitbit seems to think I topped out at about 118bpm, despite major long climbs).  The Fitbit Alta HR is dismal when it comes to tracking optical HR on the bike – a problem I’ve had with all Fitbit units on the bike.

So overall I’d say that on the running side of things I’ve seen generally good progress from Fitbit (it’s much better than it used to be).  However, cycling is dismal as always.  As for other sports – well, again, it’s hard to know/tell because strangely Fitbit doesn’t actually let you track those sports with the Alta HR.  No indoor gym mode to track lifting, or Yoga, or anything else.

Finally, for lack of sticking it anywhere else – I’m not going to compare GPS accuracy in this review.  Like the Polar A370 review last week, the reason is the same: It’d just be comparing different phones’ GPS accuracy – not the Fitbit itself.  That’s because with the Fitbit Alta HR using your phone for GPS accuracy, the test results wouldn’t mean a whole lot. They’d vary by phone model and invariably you’d have a different model than I.  Then you get into things like firmware versions on the phone which can also impact results.  Still, for those curious – you can look at the GPS tracks with each and every data set I’ve shared above (it’s shown in the DCR Analyzer).  Alternatively, here’s a shot of one route, with four different units including the Alta HR.  Things are basically identical (albeit on a reasonably easy route):

I’ve added the Fitbit Alta HR into the product comparison tool.  This allows you to compare features against other products in the category, such as those from Garmin, Polar, and more.  While I’ve shown just a handful of competitors below, you can mix and match and create your own product comparison chart here in the product comparison tool.

For most people, the Fitbit Alta HR pick up doing what Fitbits of the past have done: Being a perfectly capable activity tracker.  With the porting of Fitbit’s optical HR technology into the Alta series, they’ve expanded the number of wearables they have with wrist-based heart rate technology, and in this case – the ability to swap bands.

But I feel like in many ways when I look at the Alta HR, I kinda just shrug. Fitbit didn’t really deliver on anything that would drive most other existing Fitbit users to upgrade to it, unless you really like band swappability.  Which of course – some people really do.  The ability to have more fashion-focused activity tracker bands is definitely a hot trend right now.  But in looking at the Fitbit lineup it’s almost become too confusing with too many options, especially in the $80-$150 price range.

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In 2017, Fitbit made some major changes to its sleep tracking. The Charge 2 HR, Blaze, Alta HR and Ionic now provide sleep stage tracking, better sleep insights and other helpful extras like sleep schedule reminders.

So to find out more about the new sleep tracking, I decided to wear an Alta HR for a month to see just how accurate and useful the sleep data on the App, reminders and insights proved to be.

Since this is intended to be a look at the new sleep tracking, rather than a detailed review of the Alta HR itself, I’ll cover it only briefly before looking at the Fitbit sleep tracking that’s the same for other devices.

The Alta HR ticks all of those boxes. With a similar look to the Charge 2, it’s considerably thinner. And it’s not far off the previous champion of lightweight wearables – the Jawbone UP3.

And like the Charge 2, it also looks great on the wrist. Many devices look a bit ugly, are too bulky or worse still, both. And that doesn’t inspire long-term use. But I thought I’d be happy keeping the slim and sleek Alta HR on for a month, and I was right.

When it came to heavy exercise, however, it was a whole other story. The Alta really struggles to keep up when I’m at the gym – possibly because of the constant wrist bending when lifting weights and rowing, which Fitbit themselves admit can cause problems.

The above screenshot shows the summary on the dashboard on the Fitbit phone App. It’s Monday morning and I’m working from home, so there’s not much activity logged as yet (wait till my gym session this afternoon!)

It doesn’t record stages if the sleep is less than 3 hours, so the 1 hr 37 min sleep is just a total time. Nevertheless, I was impressed that it picked up the total time for both phases.

But what does 49% of the time spent in Light sleep mean though? Is 1 hr 50 min of deep sleep the right amount or do I have a sleep disorder? These are the kind of questions I wanted to see answers to, as I imagine most people would.

In the above screenshot, I’m told I was in deep sleep for 19% of the night. I did wake up feeling refreshed, so going by the key notes, logically I can assume 19% might be a solid time.

The screenshot above shows perhaps my favorite part of the new Fitbit sleep tracking data: the benchmark against people your age and gender, and also against your own 30 day average.

Either my sleep is better than I thought, or I just haven’t worn the Alta HR for long enough yet, because I haven’t received any useful sleep insights so far. I know they will eventually come as the device gets to know me better, so hopefully by the next article I’ll have some to discuss.

Update note: for some reason, the insights never arrived when I had the Alta HR. But they do now with my Versa, even though they are general and would only be personalized if you go premium.

As for the Alta HR, this wasn’t meant to be a review of the device itself. But I should end by saying it’s grown on me over the weeks. It’s like the smaller sibling of the Charge 2, and although I first missed the mindfulness App and the more accurate exercise tracking, I really like the thin design and great battery life.

There"s little denying that the Fitbit Alta HR is a reiterative product. It looks very similar to the regular Alta and a bit like a smaller Charge 2, but it sits somewhere between the two in terms of features. When it was announced last month, Fitbit called it the slimmest fitness tracker with continuous heart rate monitoring, a distinction that had to be made to justify the same $150 price as the Charge 2 while packing fewer options on paper.I came to the Alta HR a bit skeptic. The Charge 2 was by far the most convincing Fitbit I"d ever used and even one of the best all-around activity trackers on the market. By stripping some features for the sake of size, the Alta HR was making a dangerous gamble and one I wasn"t too enthused about. Turns out the compromises aren"t that significant, at least for the targeted market, and the bonuses are sufficiently interesting on their own. While I"m not sure about the $150 price tag, I"ve fallen in love with the Alta HR and it has now kicked both the Flex 2 and Charge 2 off my right wrist.

Removable bandsCustomization is great. Even better in this case: regular Alta bands work on the Alta HR so the market is already booming with compatible bands.

Continuous updatesOver the past year, Fitbit has released many updates for its trackers to add new features and bring options from newer models to older ones. That gives me confidence in the Alta HR"s future support.

No "Multi-sport"It means you can"t manually start an exercise from your Alta HR like you can from the Charge 2, Blaze, or Surge. So no live stats while you exercise and no GPS tracking with your phone.

No water-resistanceCome on Fitbit, I thought we"d crossed that line with the Flex 2. The Alta HR is rain, sweat, and splashproof, but that"s about it. As a result, I have to keep my Flex 2 for swimming.

If you"re looking for a slim fitness tracker with continuous heart rate monitoring, your options are expanding every day, but there"s little denying that Fitbit and Garmin reign on top. The Alta HR is entering this crowded market with one ace up its sleeve: it"s small, actually the smallest of all. It"s still rather thick, but after a day or two, you forget it"s on your wrist.

Like many other Fitbits, the Alta HR has two sizes of bands, S/M and L, but only one comes in the box. The Flex 2 had both and saved you from having to figure out which size you needed before buying, but that"s sadly not the case here. Thankfully though, the bands are interchangeable and work with the regular Alta"s so the market is full of official and third-party options (read: cheaper) to choose from.

Plus, unlike the regular Alta and its band pins, the HR has a regular buckle on the band, which secures it perfectly on your wrist. The free loop has a little nudge that fixes inside the adjustment holes of the other side of the band, keeping the band from opening up inadvertently.

The Alta HR has a small OLED display that is way too thin to be used vertically. If you decide to go that way, you will see stats such as "9.8K" steps, which isn"t very helpful when you"re rushing to reach your daily goal at 11:58pm. Oh... am I the only one who does that sometimes?! Hah. Thus I personally prefer switching the display mode to horizontal, which looks awkward on my wrist but shows the exact number of steps, distance, and calories. It"s not that I"m obsessed with the numbers, I"ve said many times that these trackers should be taken more for their global estimates and changing trends and not their varying accuracy, but I"ve always been a math person so exact numbers appeal to my inner nerd more than approximations.

The display can be set to turn automatically on when you twist your wrist. I find this convenient, even if the current watch faces don"t have any option to show the number of steps, just a progress bar. You will have to tap the display to rotate through the rest of the stats. Beside the daily activity stats, these include your current heart rate, the battery life (yes!), and your next silent vibrating alarm.

I know some users find Fitbit"s screens unresponsive, but you have to slightly adjust the way you interact with it. This isn"t a touch display so you can"t use it like you do your smartphone. You have to actually tap it with a bit of force to trigger it. I"ve learned that from the Charge 2, so now I never miss a tap on the Alta HR and it always reacts to me. Personally, I don"t mind this. Touch displays like my Huawei Watch are smoother to work with, but they sometimes get triggered by the slightest touch, even a piece of clothing rubbing on them. That"d be impossible to deal with while exercising with my Fitbit.

From a hardware perspective, the last thing to note about the Alta HR is that it comes with one of Fitbit"s proprietary chargers. I no longer have a regular Alta to check if it"s the same cable, but regardless, I would prefer if Fitbit would get its charger situation sorted across all models. I own the One, Flex 2, and Alta HR, and have 3 different cables on my desk right now. Sigh.

The Alta HR is a very capable tracker. Like all recent Fitbits, it can count steps and distance, but also automatically track sleep and intelligently recognize exercise. When I think about it, I"m always amazed by how it can accurately tell whether I"m walking, running, playing some group sport, or biking, without any intervention from my side.

The continuous heart rate monitoring is the highlight feature and it works like all previous Fitbit trackers. You can check your current heart rate at any time on the display and, inside the app, you can see a daily graph of your HR variations, the evolution of your resting heart rate, and the number of minutes you spent each day in Fat Burn, Cardio, and Peak heart rate zones.

Also, like most recent Fitbits, the Alta HR offers some notification capability: texts, calls, calendar events, and reminders to move. It can be a good alternative to smartwatches if you don"t own one and still want to get those important notifications on your wrist. I can tell you that it works, but I disabled it after a day. Having the same notification vibrate on my Huawei Watch (left wrist) and Alta HR (right wrist) was annoying, and the Alta HR lost because it can barely show a few characters on the screen and doesn"t let me interact back.

The one new feature introduced with the Alta HR, which is spreading to other Fitbits with continuous HR, is the new sleep stages distinction. Previously, Fitbit would categorize sleep phases into 3 states: asleep, restless, and awake. That wasn"t very helpful as it didn"t tell you how much you spent in deep sleep and in light sleep. With the new stages, you can see when you"re awake and when you go into REM sleep, light sleep, and deep sleep. However, it"s worth noting that doesn"t work for short 1-2hr naps: they default to the old stats (asleep, restless, awake).

That"s common sense, but without seeing the numbers on the screen, it"s hard to tell what"s wrong and very easy to continue in your destructive behavior. For example, when I saw that my sleep average for an entire week was 5 hours and 48 minutes because of late nights and early mornings (2nd screenshot at the top of this section), I knew I had to take a couple of afternoon naps to balance things out and keep my sanity. It worked.

If you ask me, this is by far one of the best features of the Alta HR. Most recent Fitbit trackers hover between 3 and 5 days of battery life, which is very annoying. I"ve often found myself with a near-empty Charge 2 or Flex 2 and no access to a charger for several hours by which point the battery would just die.

That"s not the case with the Alta HR. Even by the time I get the low battery notification, I can eek out several hours, maybe even a day, of battery life — more than enough to get me to where the charger is. And if I"m about to leave for the weekend with 50% of battery, I don"t have to rush to charge it fearing it would give up before I came back. It can easily last through a few days without a top-up.

This means that I no longer feel like I have to babysit my tracker and set reminders every 3-4 days to fill it up. It brings to mind my Fitbit One, which could easily get through 10 days without a hiccup, though it"s not exactly as long-lasting. That"s a nice trend, Fitbit, and one you should keep up.

As I said in the table at the top of this review, there are several missing features in the Alta HR if you compare it to the similarly-priced Charge 2. It wins on size and battery longevity, it loses in a few areas.

For one, there"s no altimeter so you can forget about tracking the floors you climb. In daily activity, I don"t care about that number that much, but when I"m hiking up mountains, I love seeing the total floors and bragging about them. At $150, it"s disappointing to see that the Alta HR is missing that feature.

Also, there"s no "Multi-sport" mode, which means that you can"t manually launch tracking for an exercise on the Alta HR. You have to rely on automatic tracking and check your stats after-the-fact. Sure, you can tap the display to see your total number of steps/calories/distance for the day and your current heart rate, but you can"t see live stats about the current workout only. So you won"t be able to tell if you"re going faster or harder than last time until you"re done and your tracker syncs back with the app. That"s another important feature that walkers, runners, and bikers will miss.

And finally, the Alta HR has the same water-resistance level of the Charge 2 (read: almost inexistent). It can handle sweat, rain, and splashes, but not immersion during showers or swims. This is one feature that would have made the price parity with the Charge 2 more acceptable, but alas it"s not there. Fitbit needs to figure out how to bring the Flex 2"s water-resistance to its other trackers soon or it will be left behind the competition. Misfit and Garmin"s trackers can already withstand showers and swims, so Fitbit is still playing catch-up there.

If the Alta HR existed in a vacuum, it would be easy to recommend as a good tracker that gets the essentials right and offers handy bonuses like continuous heart rate tracking while still keeping a slim profile. But hikers, runners, bikers, and anyone who obsesses over every stat during their exercise and likes to push themselves harder every time, need not apply. This isn"t the tracker for you and your money is better spent on a Charge 2.

I keep coming back to it, but it"s really difficult to talk about the Alta HR without mentioning the Charge 2 as was obvious from most of this review. The two trackers offer a similar design and feature set, with slightly differing options for the same $150 price. One for one, the Charge 2 wins the important battles thanks to the added altimeter and the live stats with manual tracking mode, but that doesn"t mean the Alta HR doesn"t have a raison d"être.

The similarities might confuse you, but the Charge 2 is targeted at sport enthusiasts who often exercise (gym, run, hike, bike, etc) while the Alta HR is more for those who are generally active and exercise every now and then without being too picky about their stats.

The Alta HR is lighter, has more chances of being inconspicuous on your wrist, and looks better if you already wear a watch (smart or not) on your other wrist. If you use both a smartwatch and a Charge 2 like I did for about a month, you will get a few weird glances and some inquisitive questions. The Alta HR goes unnoticed by comparison. The better battery life is also simpler to manage and easier on your mind.

But the most important difference is this: style. The Alta and now the Alta HR are targeted at fashion-conscious active people, hence the slimmer profile and the designer accessories lookbook with leather and metal bands plus gunmetal and rose gold special editions, and even designer accessories from Public School, Vera Wang, and Tory Burch. On the other hand, the Charge 2"s lookbook only has leather bands, some different patterns on the rubber bands and different tracker finishes — no metal bands and no designer accessories.

Even if I personally prefer the Alta HR for everyday wear and find the balance of features and compromises better for my use, I still have a little trouble justifying the price. It feels like you"re paying more for less, especially when you can find the Charge 2 discounted every now and then while the Alta HR is still new and it"ll be a while before we start seeing deals on it. If it was $129.95 instead of $149.95, it would make a lot more sense. As it stands, you have to decide whether you"re willing to sacrifice a few features for a slimmer profile and longer battery life or if you prefer to go all-in with the features regardless of anything else.

Released in March 2018, the Fitbit Ace is a version of the Alta for children aged 8 and above. In March 2019, the Fitbit Ace 2 for kids aged 6 and above was released.

Announced in February 2019 in three different colors: black, lilac, and white. There are also two different strap colors. An optional clip-on accessory allows the Inspire HR to be worn in other locations such as a belt, waistline pocket, or bra.

The Fitbit Inspire 2 was released soon after the Charge 4 sometime in 2020. In addition to all the Inspire HR"s features, it has an improved screen, double the battery life & new Active Zone Minutes feature.

Announced in August 2022, the Fitbit Inspire 3 was released on September 15, 2022. The tracker looks similar to the Luxe tracker, a more premium version of the Inspire. In addition to all the Inspire 2"s features, it has an Oxygen sensor, stress tracking, and an always-on display mode.

The Fit Tracker was a small black and teal device that could be clipped discing and worn 24/7. It uses a three-dimensional accelerometer to sense user movement. The Tracker measures steps taken and combines it with user data to calculate distance walked, calories burned, floors climbed, and activity duration and intensity. It uses an OLED display to display this and other information such as the battery level. It also measures sleep quality by tracking periods of restlessness, how long it takes the wearer to fall asleep and how long they are actually asleep.

Announced on September 17, 2012, the Fitbit One is an update to the Fitbit Ultra that has a more vivid digital display, has a separate clip and a separate charging cable and wireless sync dongle.Bluetooth Low Energy technology. The wireless syncing is currently available on iOS and Android devices such as the iPhone 4S and higher, iPad 3rd generation, iPod touch 5th generation, Samsung Galaxy Note II and higher, Samsung Galaxy S III and higher, LG G2, HTC One, Moto X, and Nexus 4 or higher.

In May 2013, Fitbit released the Fitbit Flex, the first Fitbit tracker worn on the wrist. It tracks movement 24 hours a day, including sleep patterns. It has a simple display of 5 LED lights that indicate the progress toward the goal number of steps walked in a day and vibrates to indicate when the goal has been reached. The sync functions are similar to the Fitbit One and Zip. The Flex is a water-resistant tracker, though unlike its successor the Flex 2, cannot be worn while swimming.

Announced in October 2014 and released in early January 2015, the Charge HR is similar to the Charge, with an additional heart-rate monitor. With this addition, the 7-day battery life is reduced to 5 days. The Charge HR has the same textured band as the Charge and comes in black, plum, blue, tangerine, pink, and teal colors. The Charge HR band clasp resembles that of a traditional watch instead of the snap-on band of the original Charge, as the band needs to fit tightly for the heart rate feature.

The Fitbit AltaOLED screen that can be tapped for reminders, a clock and smartphone notifications. While not a touch screen, it is interacted with by tapping the band, similar to previous models. The Alta is also able to recognize the type of activity in progress: running, football, or walking.

The Fitbit Alta HR was released in March 2017. It has an added heart rate monitor. It includes the new Sleep Stages feature, which intends to show the stages of sleep, rather than just time asleep as in previous versions.

The Fitbit Inspire HR was released alongside the Inspire in 2019 to replace the Alta and the Alta HR. In addition to all the Inspire"s features, the HR also offers heart rate tracking. An optional clip-on accessory is compatible with the Inspire but not the Inspire HR.

The Fitbit Inspire 2 was released in 2020, unifying both the Inspire and Inspire HR in a single product. It is also compatible with a different optional clip-on accessory, but heart rate measurement is not available when the clip-on option is used.

The Fitbit IonicApple Watch Series 3, it is the successor to both the Blaze and the Surge. Like the Surge, the Ionic uses built-in GPS, using GLONASS to tap into global satellites and provide better accuracy when recording exercises, with the antenna being integrated into the watch case for a stronger connection. The Ionic also features SmartTrack, which auto-recognizes user activity and records it in the Fitbit app. The Ionic has interchangeable bands, including classic Fitbit bands, leather bands, and perforated bands for a more sport-like appearance, and the release mechanism has been modified to make swapping out bands easier. It is also water-resistant, making it safe to wear when swimming. Many of the Blaze"s clock faces return, as do several new clock faces. New to the Ionic is the ability to load apps onto the watch itself such as AccuWeather and Starbucks, as well as an NFC chip that allows the Ionic to be used for credit card purchases at places that allow contactless payment. As a result, the tactile buttons on the Ionic have some new functions. When not in workout mode, the right side buttons now function as shortcuts for the leftmost two apps loaded onto the watch, while a long press on the left side button brings up Fitbit Pay as well as music and quick settings. The Ionic is shipped in three color combinations of the wristband and watch case: Charcoal & Smoke Gray, Slate Blue & Burnt Orange, and Blue Gray & Silver Gray.

In 2018, the Ionic was updated to Fitbit OS 2.0 alongside the release of the Versa. The most notable change from OS 1.0 is the addition of a new app called Fitbit Today, a dashboard displaying the user"s health and fitness data. In July 2018, Fitbit announced the 15+ Best Fitbit OS Apps for Travel, which can be downloaded in Ionic and some are also available in Versa.

There are three variants of the Versa; the standard edition, the Special Edition, and the Lite Edition. The standard Versa comes in three colors: black, rose gold, or silver. The Special Edition comes in rose gold with a lavender band, or graphite with a charcoal band. The Special Edition also includes woven wristbands. In the United States, the Special Edition of the Versa is the only version of the watch to ship with Fitbit Pay. The Lite Edition has a more limited feature set and comes in silver with a white or lilac band, marina blue, or mulberry.

Fitbit’s the undisputed king of these trackers, shipping 5.7 million devices in the second quarter of 2016 and capturing 25 percent of the global fitness market. But even incumbents can’t afford to rest on their laurels. That’s where the Alta HR, Fitbit’s newest tracker, comes in.

Fitbit’s Alta HR improves upon last year’s Alta with sleep-tracking and heart rate-monitoring features — all in a slim, compact frame. We came away impressed by the device’s accuracy when tracking heart rate. While we wish the body was waterproof, and the display was a little easier to activate, we think the Alta HR is one of the best fitness trackers you can buy at its price point.

It’s near impossible to tell the Alta HR apart from its predecessor, and that’s a good thing — both are among the thinnest, sleekest fitness trackers we’ve used.

The Alta HR boasts a stylish aluminum body with tapered symmetrical edges. On top sits a curved screen with thick black borders, and underneath is a PurePulse heart-rate sensor and three-pin charging port.

Fitbit claims Alta HR is one of the smallest wearables on the market with continuous heart-rate tracking, and that seems likely — it’s tiny. The company said it shrunk the internal tech by 25 percent to make room for the optical heart-rate monitor, and the smallest model – the unit we reviewed — measures a mere 0.61 inches (16mm) wide.

The Alta HR’s wristbands are interchangeable, with alternative options available in elastomer, leather, and metal. But unlike last year’s Alta, which used a prong closure to secure the tracker around your wrist, the HR’s band adopts an adjustable watch-like buckle that’s much easier to fasten. It’s also a lot more comfortable to wear all day — I tended to forget I was wearing it.

The Alta HR’s monochrome OLED screen isn’t touch-sensitive — instead, tap the screen to cycle through statistics screens, call and text message notifications, and activity reminders. Unfortunately, it’s too dim to read in direct sunlight, and isn’t very responsive.

Sometimes, I had to tap the screen multiple times to get the Alta HR to wake up, and usually a few more times to cycle between stats. The problem is mitigated somewhat by the Fitbit companion app, which lets you specify which stat you see when you lift your wrist. But it’s frustrating nonetheless — especially during a run or workout when tapping the screen can be a quick way to glance at missed notifications.

The band isn’t as skin-conforming as we would have liked. Even at the tightest setting, we had a tough time ensuring the Alta HR’s heart-rate tracker stayed in contact with the wrist.

Sadly, the Alta HR also isn’t waterproof. Unlike Fitbit’s Flex 2, it won’t track your laps or strokes. It’s a feature we would like to see trickle down into all fitness trackers, as sportier devices have the tendency to get into contact with water more often than other devices.

A heart-rate sensor isn’t the Alta HR’s only headlining improvement — there are quite a few features it inherited from the pricier Charge 2. The Alta HR can track daily activity, monitor heart rate, steps, calories, distance, and can automatically recognize exercises. It can track movement and heart rate while you sleep, and can provide insight on the efficacy (or inefficacy) of your workout routine.

Fitbit pegs the accuracy of Alta HR’s heart-rate tracking to within 6 beats-per-minute, with a margin of error less than 6 percent. In our testing, it stayed well within that range.

Unlike the wildly inaccurate Pebble 2, the Alta HR was consistently spot on. A sedentary afternoon at the office had it hovering around the low 60s, and a sweaty session of virtual reality gaming got it to the 140s. It responded quickly to ramp-ups in activity, reporting a new BMP within a few seconds of high-intensity sessions.

Perhaps more impressive than the Alta HR’s heart-rate tracking is SmartTrack, the auto-recognition feature that Fitbit introduced last year. It automatically categorizes walks, runs, cycling sessions, elliptical routines, and broader activities like “sports” and “aerobics” after a session. In our testing, the Alta HR’s tracking had no trouble differentiating a treadmill session at the gym from a walk to my apartment. It even suggested an appropriate category — aerobics — for the aforementioned VR session.

It’s a key feature, mainly because it’s impossible to manually start a workout on the Alta HR — you have to wait until you’re done exercising and log workouts in Fitbit’s smartphone app. If most of your routines are stationary or on machines, that could get frustrating.

The Fitbit app, which has been updated to support the Alta HR’s tracking features, hasn’t changed all that much since that last time we reviewed it. The home screen shows basic stats like the number of steps you’ve taken, the distance you’ve walked, the calories you’ve burned, the minutes you’ve been active, and the number of days you’ve exercised in a given week. Scroll down a little and you’ll see your heart rate in BPM and your weight.

Relatively new additions include the Challenges and Guidance tabs. The Challenges tab packs location-based activities like “Weekend Warrior” (a two-day session of high-intensity workouts), and “Jogging in NYC” (a three-mile run in Manhattan).  The Guidance tab, meanwhile, offers workouts from Fitbit’s Fitstar app.

Fitbit said the Alta HR uses a combination of heart rate and movement data to determine how long you’ve in each sleep stage. During the different stages, your heart rate variability — the interval of time in between heart beats — changes, and so the Alta HR continuously records it throughout the night. The data’s plotted on a colorful graph that shows the previous night’s info, your 30-day average. and sleep stats from Fitbit users of the same age and gender.

Sleep tracking seemed accurate in our testing. During one particularly restless evening, the Alta HR recorded each hour of disrupted sleep — 2 a.m., 5 a.m., 6 a.m., and 7:30 a.m. It showed that I’d slept for a total of six hours, and 20 percent of that time was spent in Light sleep. The app said most people my age and gender spend a lot longer in that sleep stage than I did. Good to know, but what can I do with this information?

Fitbit estimates the Alta HR’s battery at about a week, and that’s roughly in line with what we saw. After four days with heart-rate monitoring enabled, active sleep tracking, and brisk walks in New York, the Alta HR’s battery meter settled at 35 percent — more than enough to last a full week.

The warranty covers product defects up to two years from the purchase date — or you can return the Alta HR within 45 days if you’re not happy with it.

The Fitbit Alta HR is available from Fitbit.com, Amazon, Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, and other retailers for $150. It comes in blue, fuchsia, coral, black. Two special edition colors, 22k soft pink gold and gunmetal black, start at $180.

The Fitbit Alta HR is an impressive fitness tracker at its price point. It may lack a few bells and whistles found on its pricier counterparts, but the Alta HR’s compactness, the accuracy of its heart-rate tracker, the smart activity recognition, and the robustness of its sleep tracking make up for its shortcomings.

Garmin’s Vivosmart HR+ and Samsung’s Gear Fit 2 are excellent alternatives that both throw in GPS for $30 more at $180, but they’re not as stylish or compact as the Alta HR. The $80 Misfit Ray and $100 Fitbit Flex 2 can record swim sessions, but they lack heart-rate monitors.

For folks looking to put $150 toward an activity tracker, it’ll come down to use case: If you’re a frequent swimmer, the Flex 2’s the obvious choice. If you can’t live without workout profiles, want relax sessions, and a GPS, go for the pricier Charge 2. If you want a lower-profile wearable that’ll track your sleep, record your activity, and won’t stick out like a sore thumb, the Alta HR’s the fitness tracker to buy.

The Alta HR should last at least a few years if properly cared for. Fitbit is generally good about updating old products, sometimes going so far as to bring new features to older models. And accessories like bands and charging docks keep it fresh.

Yes. If you’re a casual athlete looking for a no-frills, stylish way to track your sleep and daily activity — and don’t care about GPS — the Alta HR is one of the cheapest and slimmest fitness trackers with a heart rate sensor, and benefits from Fitbit’s ever-improving ecosystem of accessories and software. Simply put, it’s one of the best everyday activity trackers we’ve tried.

The company’s upcoming Alta HR wristband, a new version of its slim fitness wearable that’s been refreshed with a heart rate monitor and longer battery life, will be one of three devices to get Fitbit’s forthcoming sleep tracking features. Called Sleep Stages, the update will allow the Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 wristbands to detect light, deep, and REM stages of sleep. That goes beyond what Fitbit’s trackers can currently monitor, which include metrics such as the number of times wearers wake up throughout the night, the amount of time they spent awake, and the times at which they’ve fallen asleep and woken up.

Fitbit will also provide users with more feedback about how their sleep habits impact their overall health, as well as tips for getting a more restful slumber. For example, Fitbit could tell a user that they get 20 more minutes of restful sleep on nights following a workout compared to a day spent idle. Gadgets that support Sleep Stages will also alert wearers on the wrist when it’s time to go to bed in order to meet their sleep goals. (The Alta HR will have other improvements that distinguish it from the standard Alta besides better sleep tracking, like the ability to view target heart rate zones on the device.)

Sleep Stages is only available on the Alta HR, Blaze and Charge 2. But the other new feature, Sleep Insights, will be coming to all Fitbit devices with sleep tracking features. (That includes every Fitbit except for the Zip.) The new sleep-oriented capabilities will launch later this spring, while the Alta HR will hit retail stores for $149.95 in April and is available for preorder starting Monday.

Above all, the Alta HR is the slimmest tracker ever made with continuous heart-rate tracking. That, really, is the headline. (The original Alta didn’t have heart-rate monitoring.)

Heart rate is an important indicator of your overall metabolism, how efficiently you’re exercising, and how healthy your heart is overall (your resting heart rate). The Alta uses your pulse data to produce more accurate calorie-burn statistics, too.

The Fitbit’s job isn’t just to measure you; it’s also to inspire you.Motivational features. Fitbit’s app uses clever cues to prod you to move more, and reward you when you do. For example, Adventures is a cool, semi-augmented-reality feature: As your step count grows through the week, it tracks where you’d be if you’d walked the same distance into the hiking paths in Yosemite, or the route in the New York City Marathon. You can hold your phone up and look around, turning your body, and see the stunning view that you’d see around you—no matter how gritty and depressing your actual location.

To detach the two band halves, you press hinged metal buttons on the back (top). A wide variety of band options await.OLED screen. The OLED screen isn’t as bright as the one on the Fitbit Charge 2; you can’t see it at all in direct sunlight. You can choose what kind of time display you want, and in which orientation.

Showerproof (shhhhhh!). Fitbit, no doubt fearing complaints from people whose showers are modeled after fire hoses, discourages you from wearing the Alta in the shower. (It’s splash- and rain-resistant only, they say.) But the truth is that it does fine in showers of typical water pressure; I’ve been violating Fitbit’s no-shower recommendation for years without a problem.

The Alta HR has no buttons. You tap the glass repeatedly to see these readouts.Notifications.The Alta vibrates when your phone gets an incoming call or text—it scrolls the actual text message—or when a calendar appointment comes due. (You can turn off any of these notifications.) Super handy when your phone is buried in your bag or over there on the table.

Workout detection. The Alta, like other Fitbits, can detect when you’re exercising, and record it correctly. By analyzing the particular movement patterns of your wrist, it knows which kind of exercise you’re doing: biking, hiking, running, or playing basketball, soccer, or tennis. It automatically records that exercise, which is really slick.

One study, however, says that just moving a littleonce every hour goes a long way toward fighting off those awful outcomes. That’s why the Alta reminds you, after every hour of sitting, to walk around for a couple of minutes.

But the Alta HR is a different story. The heart monitor enhances the accuracy of many other data types, including calorie tracking, weight-loss tracking, exercise tracking, and sleep tracking.

That may be why, surprisingly, the Alta costs the same $150 as its older, wider brother, the Charge 2, which I reviewed here—even though the Charge 2 does more. Just so you know, here’s what the Charge 2 does that the Alta HR does not:Stairway counting. The Alta HR has no altimeter. (The Alta HR therefore needs no little air hole—another reason it’s weird that Fitbit says not to wear it in the shower.)

Guided relaxation breathing, guided workouts. The Alta’s screen isn’t wide enough to display the animations, and the Alta lacks the physical button for navigating those features.

In other words, if you’re a serious athlete, the Alta probably won’t be enough for you. But if you’re just aiming to get healthier, sleep better, lose weight, and gain amazing insight into the ordinarily invisible processes of your body and metabolism, the Alta is the best band going.

Coordination between health care providers and technology developers is crucial in this respect. Many nonclinical factors influence the precision of sleep detection. The software used to process the data is as important as the accuracy of the sensors. Additionally, interpretation of raw data can change widely depending on the algorithms used. Fitbit wearable devices and other commercial sleep trackers use proprietary algorithms which are not made public by the developer, nor is it possible to access raw data collected by the device. It is noteworthy that one of the biggest issues occurred when trying to translate the concepts of light and deep sleep to the three stages of sleep measured by PSG. A model of wearable device more consistent with standard assessment methods, and therefore more suitable to provide directly comparable results, would greatly improve the application of this technology in research and clinical settings. Overall quality of Fitbit sleep trackers has increased over time and they expected to be more reliable as technology progresses.

To our knowledge, this is the first study to validate Fitbit wearable devices for sleep assessment in participants with sleep apnea, and the largest study to validate wearable devices in this population. It is also the first time Fitbit Alta HR is validated in a clinical sample.

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