Our guide of the best activity trackers for Women features the top names in wearable tech and their dainty devices that have been designed to be fashionable as well as functional.
Women and men alike wear and enjoy any type of fitness tracker, smartwatch, or any other wearable; but these fashion-forward activity trackers have made it onto this page because they have a feminine touch and happen to look better on a girl’s wrist rather than a hairy man limb.
Best Activity Trackers for Women
Fitbit Alta
The stylish and popular Fitbit Alta offers a versatile design with interchangeable bands and bracelets in various styles to match your day and night-time outfits, plus it can be worn as a necklace pendant. There’s also a special edition gold version and designer bands by Vera Wang, Tory Burch and Public School coming soon.
Fitness Tracking
The Alta has a small OLED display which is activated by tapping the top. activity tracking fundamentals: steps taken, distance walked, calories burned, active minutes, time and date, and sleep quality. It also features a Move Reminder, a vibrating alarm and SmartTrack which automatically detects select activities.
Smartphone Notifications
The Fitbit Alta displays incoming calls, texts and calendar reminders on the OLED screen.
Water-Resistant
Splash proof only – okay for showering.
Battery Life
Up to 5 days – rechargeable.
App Compatibility
iOS / Android / Windows.
Fitbit Flex + Tory Burch
Now that we’re on the Fitbit buzz we might as well continue, only we’re going back in time a few years to the best-selling Fitbit Flex. In 2014 Fitbit and Tory Burch became the first designer fashion label – wearable tech collaboration. The result is an extremely chic Tory Burch bracelet collection of bracelets and necklace pendants. Just pop the Flex into the accessory and look good tracking your steps.
Fitness Tracking
The Fitbit Flex features a cute little 5 LED display that lights up to show your progress when it’s tapped. The Flex may have had a few years to mature but it’s still a top little wearable. It tracks your steps taken, distance walked, calories burned, active minutes and sleep quality. There’s also a vibrating alarm.
Smartphone Notifications
The Fitbit Flex doesn’t feature smart notifications (calls, text, emails, social media).
Water-Resistant
Splash proof – remove before taking a shower.
Battery Life
Up to 5 days – rechargeable.
App Compatibility
iOS / Android / Windows.
Garmin Vivofit 3 – Gabrielle and Alexandra
Garmin aren’t historically known for making fashionable wearables, but with the Vivofit 3 they’ve made an effort to jazz up the activity tracking range with designer bands from Gabrielle and Alexandra for women and Jonathan Adler for men. The designer bands come as separate accessories and can be easily changed to fit with different garb.
Fitness Tracking
The Garmin Vivofit 3 features a small monochrome display which keeps you informed of your steps taken, distance walked, calories burned, time and date, active minutes and intensity, and sleep quality – though no vibrating alarm. Garmin’s Move IQ automatic exercise detection and Move Reminder are also onboard.
Smartphone Notifications
The Garmin Vivofit 3 doesn’t feature smart notifications (calls, text, emails, social media).
Water-Resistant
5 ATM – safe for swimming – automatically detects swims.
Battery Life
Up to 1 year – no charging required.
App Compatibility
Android 4.3 + / iOS iPhone 4S + / Windows 10 +
Misfit Ray
The Misfit Ray is a stylish little device and offers the quality activity tracking and user-friendly app from one of the original and best wearable technology companies.
Ray has been designed with fashion and function as equals and can be worn with pretty much any fashion accessory, such as bracelets, necklaces and watch straps thanks to its quick-release spring bar attachment system.
Fitness Tracking
The lovable Ray features a multi-color LED display which lights up different colors depending on your daily goal progress. It keeps tabs on your steps, distance walked, calories burned, and offers decent sleep monitoring, a vibrating alarm, and move reminder.
Smartphone Notifications
The Misfit Ray vibrates when you receive an incoming call or text message, plus the LED display lights up; green for calls and blue for texts.
Along with fitness tracking and smartphone notifications, Ray works with the Misfit Link app which means it can trigger your smartphone’s camera and music player and you can cook up IFTTT recipes to control other devices.
Water-Resistant
5 ATM – safe for swimming.
Battery Life
Up to 6 months – no charging required.
App Compatibility
The Misfit App is compatible with iOS 7 + / Android 4.3 + / Windows 8.1 +. The Misfit Link app is compatible iOS 8.0 + / Android 4.3 + / Windows 10 +.
Amazfit Moonbeam
This posh-looking yet affordable fitness tracker from Chinese tech giants, Xiaomi has a design inspired by Chinese jade pendants and can be worn as a bracelet or necklace pendant.
The overall performance isn’t quite as impressive as its fancy donut aesthetics though; it’s not the best at syncing and is a prone to a bit of data loss; problems that could potentially be fixed with future updates.
One thing I just can’t get my head around is the name, Amazfit. Although I know there’s no affiliation, it makes me think of Amazon every time I see it, and it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Amazfit. Aaaamazfit. Amaaazzzfit. Amazfeeeet.. No, it ‘s not working.
Fitness Tracking
There’s no sign of a display of any kind on this elegant Asian donut. It does keep track of steps, distance, calories, and sleep quality (sleep tracking not great); but no stats are visible on the wrist – so app only. It also features a silent vibrating alarm.
Smartphone Notifications
The Amazfit Moonbeam vibrates when you receive an incoming call.
Water-Resistant
IP68 – safe for showering but not swimming.
Battery Life
Up to 10 days – rechargeable.
App Compatibility
iOS 9.0 + / Android 4.4 +.
Samsung Charm
The Samsung Charm is fine example of a giant tech fancying themselves as fashion designers. It has to be said, they’ve done a pretty good job. The Samsung Charm can be worn as a bracelet or necklace pendant.
Fitness Tracking
The companion Charm app works alongside S Health and keeps track of your steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, and sleep quality (sleep tracking not great). It’s pretty much the basic package – made even moe basic by the lack of a vibrating alarm.
Smartphone Notifications
The Samsung Charm has a small 3-color LED display that blinks when you receive an incoming call, text email, social media alert, and calendar reminder, but no vibration feature.
Water-Resistant
Slash proof only
Battery Life
Up to 14 days – rechargeable.
App Compatibility
Android 4.4 +
Fitbit Charge 2
The best-selling Fitbit Charge 2 offers a full range of activity tracking features. It comes in a range of colors and the bands can be swapped, so it can be worn with all kinds of flavors.
Fitness Tracking
The Charge 2 features an OLED touchsreen display which can be navigated with taps or using the button on the side. It has a built-in heart rate monitor, and keeps tabs on your steps, distance, calories, floors climbed, active minutes, time and date, and sleep quality. It also has a vibrating alarm.
Other features include a move reminder, guided breathing exercises, cardio fitness level, and SmartTrack which automatically detects different activities such as cycling, running, and several sports.
Smartphone Notifications
The Charge 2 will buzz you and display incoming call and text notifications, as well as calendar reminders.
Water-resistant
Splash-proof only.
Battery Life
Up to 5 days – rechargeable.
App Compatibility
iOS / Android / Windows.
Fitbit Flex 2
The first Fitbit Flex was the pioneering wearable of the activity tracking craze. Now, the Flex 2 is back with a new look, more features, and a water-resistant design.
The Fitbit Flex 2 has a versatile, modular design so it can be worn with some very stylish accessories, such as the rose gold bangle and gold necklace accessory from Fitbit.
Fitness Tracking
The Flex 2 features a five-LED display which shows your daily fitness progress when you tap the top. It offers the essential fitness tracking metrics: steps, distance, calories, active minutes, and sleep quality. There’s also a vibrating alarm, move reminder, and automatic activity recognition thanks to Fitbit’s SmartTrack.
Smartphone Notifications
When you receive an incoming call or text message, The Fitbit Flex 2 vibrates and the LED displays different colors depending on the notification.
Water-resistant
5 ATM – safe for swimming.
Battery Life
Up to 5 days – rechargeable.
App Compatibility
iOS / Android / Windows Phone.
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