If you are a fitness buff and want to document your fitness progress, you might wonder which is best to buy, a fitness tracker or smartwatch?
To help you decide, let’s take a look at each of these, weighing the plus points of each:
Fitness Trackers
The fitness tracker was developed years before than smartwatch as a wearable device to monitor one’s health in terms of fitness. It covers various activities such as sleep time, the steps you walk and the calories burned.
Smartwatches
The smartwatch is a wearable device that monitors the same basic activities but can be expanded app-wise to include many more complex health-monitoring functions.
However, a smartwatch will also let you check email, text messages and surf the internet. It is an open-ended gadget that allows developers to create additional apps for it and is thus highly versatile.
Fitness Tracker vs. Smartwatch?
There are several key points to take into account when choosing which you want to purchase.
Fitness Tracker:
- Less costly to buy
- Gives you only the basic readings you might want as a fitness buff
- Is more of a single-focused device
- Easy to use
- More comfortable to wear
Smartwatch:
- More expensive
- Able to do many things
- More complex to use
- Its batteries have a short life
- Some smartwatches can feel uncomfortable
What People Say?
When the fitness trackers came out, there were many early adopters, however, many users lost interest over time and continued their fitness programs without using them:
The CEO of Argus Insights conducted research that indicated that sixty percent of the buyers set their fitness trackers aside within six months of the purchase.
The same research concluded that smartwatches would replace the fitness tracker as it develops more functionality and comes down in price.
Conclusion
If you want something basic, inexpensive, and easy to use to track your fitness activities, the fitness tracker is designed with you in mind.
But if you like all the additional features that come with the smartwatch, and you want it to include all your daily essentials like text messages, emails, etc., then there is only one choice.
