The best Fitbits in 2025

The Fitbit Versa 4 is great as an entry-level or causal option, which is where it excels. It dropped a few health-based features from the previous gen model. But there's no denying that the Versa 4 looks good on the wrist and it has more than enough features to track your post-work gym session. 

It tracks your heart rate and sleep, and offers a daily stress management score. It also measures blood oxygen. In terms of fitness tracking and stats, it auto-detects when you start exercising and has 41 modes, including running, cycling, yoga, weights, interval training, swimming, and more — even kickboxing.

The biggest negative is that there's no onboard music storage, which means if you want to listen to music when you workout, you'll need your phone. Though it's not that big deal — most of us have our phones at all times anyway. It's worth noting that third party apps have also been dropped from this upgrade.

Other plus points include a six-day battery life (though expect some features to drain it faster) and a six-month Fitbit Premium membership trial, which you get with most Fitbit purchases. Remember you'll need to pay a monthly subscription fee for some metrics once that trial ends. We also enjoy the selection of colours on this Fitbit model, too.

The Fitbit Charge 6 is one of the best all-round fitness trackers available. It has a baseline of essential features, such as GPS for tracking runs, a heart monitor, and the capabilities to measure calories burned, blood oxygen levels, sleep, steps, and more. Most of which are standard on trackers these days.

But the Fitbit Charge 6 adds features to make it as appealing for casual gym-going and more serious training. It doubles the available workout modes from the previous version — going from 20 to 40 — and connects with gym equipment via Bluetooth to share your heart rate. And a new Focus feature allows you to concentrate on specific goals, such as weight loss.

It provides a daily readiness score, which assesses your energy levels and tells you when you need a recovery day. The Charge 5 also monitors your mental health and gives you a stress management score, and motivates workouts by giving you active zone minutes, totting up the time you spend working out. It also recognises activities once you get started, but it can be slow on the uptake.

As a Google-made fitness tracker, it has all kinds of supplementary Google features, such as Google Wallet, Google Maps, and YouTube Music (though most people would prefer Spotify support). You'll need a Google account but it's worth it because the upgraded Fitbit app is popular with reviewers.

The Inspire 3 is another upgrade and perfect for anyone who's on the fence about trying a Fitbit. It costs under £100, but it’s still packed with enough features to ensure the average user will get tons of use and benefit. 

It’s smaller and pared-down in terms of display, but the Inspire 3 does the big, all-important job of getting you motivated. Like other Fitbits, it gamifies your activity by having you work toward 150 weekly minutes of activity, and it’ll keep track of how many calories you burn and how far you go in the process.

You can team up with friends to compete in challenges and earn badges. It’ll also keep an eye on your heart rate around the clock, and when you’re sleeping it monitors your sleep patterns and issues you a sleep score. But for detailed, sport-specific stats and features, a more advanced Fitbit might be best.

And despite being on the lower end of the Fitbit price spectrum, you can still take this into the pool — it’s water resistant to 50 metres. 

For those who are more stylish than sporty when it comes to wearables, the Fitbit Luxe is the fashion-minded offering in the lineup. It’s more bracelet than tracker, and has a much slimmer, sleeker profile on the wrist than other Fitbits.

The Luxe rewards you for achieving goals and gives you reminders to keep up good work and habits. It’s subtle but motivating all the same. As with other Fitbits, you can challenge friends to keep the motivation levels up.

While the battery life is short compared to other models in the lineup — and there’s no GPS, which isn’t great for runners — it works for swimmers and tracks 20 other exercises, plus your blood oxygen and stress. 

It’ll also keep an eye on your sleep and heart rate around the clock and estimate how many calories you’ve burned during your latest bootcamp class or yoga session. It will also give you a little buzz when you reach your target heart rate zone. And if you want to keep an eye on your breathing rate and heart rate variability, it can dive into its apps to pull that data for you. 

The Fitbit Sense 2 gives you all the Fitbit goodness but focuses on mindfulness and mental wellbeing. Its EDA app scans for stress, which it measures by tracking your electrodermal activity, heart rate, and skin temperature. It asks you how you're feeling day-to-day and offers advice to help reduce stress or relaxing breathing exercises. It even records your most stressful moments throughout the day so you can recognise patterns.

Fitbit's Daily Readiness score, which combines with a stress management score, will also help you decide when to put your feet up and enjoy some "you" time. And Fitbit Premium offers breathing and meditation sessions too. There's a six-month trial included so you can decide if they work for you or not.

If you're looking to combine mindfulness with everyday health and fitness, the Fitbit Sense 2 offers all the Fitbit basics — tracking for your heart rate, body temperature, blood oxygen, breathing rate, and sleep. It will also recognise workouts and gives you active zone minutes.

One drawback is there's no music support — no apps for music, no music storage, and no controls for playback on your phone. Though you get other phone support and a built-in GPS.

A perfect Fitbit for kids, the Fitbit Ace 3 has a colourful design and low-key but effective trackers that they’ll love learning to use.

All the important bases are covered here: Physical activity monitoring, sleep tracking, and a pedometer. It’ll also nudge little ones to rack up 60 minutes of activity daily and remind them when it’s time for bed, too. 

Parents can sync the Ace 3 to their own device to monitor activities and messages. Be warned though: Switching between kid and parent modes in the app is a bit of a pain. Using the app, kids can challenge friends to keep pace with steps and send messages. If the child is older and has their own smartphone, they can use the watch for phone notifications.

The battery life is also child-friendly. It’ll last up to eight days, so they have more than a week to remember to charge it. Kids will have fun choosing a band and picking out one of the clock faces, too. Swim lessons after school? No problem. It’s water-resistant like most of the grown-up Fitbits. 

When is a Fitbit not a Fitbit? When it's a Google Pixel Watch 3, perhaps? Actually, Google bought Fitbit in 2019, so all Fitbits are actually Google-made. So while you get smartwatch features courtesy of WearOS, it has Fitbit-powered health and fitness features and the standard six-month subscription to Fitbit Premium.

Features include your morning Readiness Score along with Cardio Load, which tells you how hard your heart is working, and Training Load, for helping you track and meet training targets. These are design to help you better plan and manage workouts, so you're reaching goals and not over-extending yourself.

As you'd expect it offers plenty more in the way of health and fitness tracking: sleep, stress, blood oxygen, and temperature. And you can really dig into the metrics through the Fitbit app. And as a Google-powered Wear OS smartwatch, it also integrates lifestyle apps and features — emails, calendar, a link to your Pixel phone, Google Assistant, and access to third-party apps, such as Spotify.

The great thing about the Google Pixel Watch 3 is that it's very much a smartwatch rather than a fitness tracker, so if you're after a good looking watch — and it does look very good indeed — that boasts Fitbit features, this is the one for you.