A question for ex fitbiters, what do you miss about Fitbit and do you regret moving on to Apple watch and leaving Fitbit behind?
Fitbit is so good at auto-detecting activity. It knew when I was riding a bike. It knew when I was dancing around. With Apple Watch, the only thing it reliably detects is walks.
I don’t miss anything. My Apple Watches have been much better all around.
It takes Apple Watch like 4 apps and at least 1 paid apps or subscription to do what Fitbit does in 1 app with 1 optional subscription. Apple Watch info is split between the Health app, Fitness app, Apple Watch App, and any third party apps you use (which Apple Watch is reliant on to cover uses that Apple doesn’t natively cover like auto sleep tracking).
Also, Fitbit has the best sleep tracking out of all fitness trackers in the market. Apple Watch requires either a paid app for mediocre sleep tracking (via the Auto Sleep app) or you must sleep within your scheduled sleep hours with Sleep focus enabled for sleep tracking to work.
Also, requires daily charging on the Apple Watch while Fitbit lasts 7+ days depending on your model.
I’d hit up a garmin then or check out Superset Health. One app to show strain, recovery and sleep much like whoop https://www.supersethealth.com/?ref_id=EJ58S0ZTV
Agree that Fitbit has better sleep tracking than Apple and Garmin. But I miss Jawbone, poor quality hard product, but found the tracking algorithm to be best.
My Fitbit didn’t pause workouts during every goddamn session due to tattoos
Fitbit could show me my October total steps, as a great logging method. Or last week, etc. Apple only dies rolling totals.
Only thing I miss is my years of stats with fitbit
I miss the web interface and the windows app.
I preferred the steps on the screen of the Versa vs rings. and I realize there’s probably some custom complication for that. Absolutely nothing else.
Just put the steps on the complication. I use steps and distance.
I was an early Fitbit user and LOVED them. I had a bunch of different models. I do miss it.
I got so used to steps as the metric and even after a year it’s been an adjustment to have it now be active minutes. I also liked the FitBit app because it was more social. The Apple Watch is a smart watch that has fitness settings. Fitbits are pretty exclusively fitness watches.
I was waiting for somebody to mention the forum/sociability!
Oh I totally forgot about that! But it was a huge draw for me, especially around food ideas, and I feel like it was easier to find my IRL friends and invite them to compete.
My Fitbit was the charge 2, I can do everything the Fitbit did on my Apple Watch
things I do miss is not being scared of scratching it or damaging it. I do hv AppleCare but i still care abt it. It was very tough and small as well, it wasn’t waterproof but I did lots of water activities with it and it was fine. The Fitbit also needed charging ever TEN DAYS while my Apple Watch needs it every two days
I miss the web interface and the windows app.
The detailed sleep tracker
I miss nothing about my FitBit. I had two that broke after a year and I was careful with them. I had A Samsung Active Watch 2 for over two years that was worlds better than the FitBit but now I have the AW 8.
FitBit is complete crap.
Nothing, one is essentially a glorified toy and the other is a real piece of hardware.