Best fitness trackers in 2025

Wear OS smartwatches all come with solid activity tracking features, but if you’re serious about keeping an eye on workout data or you just don’t value access to the Play Store, a dedicated fitness tracker might provide a better experience.

There are tons of fitness trackers available, with varying capabilities, form factors, and at a wide range of price points. Whether you’re looking to spend a hundred bucks to get something that’ll let you know if you’re waking up in the middle of the night or you’re training for a triathlon and money is no object, there’s something out there for you. Here are AP’s favorite Android-compatible fitness trackers today.

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Best fitness trackers available right now

The Fitbit Charge 6 is a direct continuation of one of the most popular fitness trackers around. This time, the tracker gains a range of Google-powered features, making it a Pixel Watch lite in all but name.

The Fitbit Charge 6 excels at the essentials like activity and sleep tracking and includes built-in GPS to keep tabs on all your outdoor runs. It even upgrades its automatic workout detection capabilities to make sure you don’t miss activities. The upgraded model also broadcasts heart rate information to supported fitness equipment, making it a true workout companion.

The overhauled design is available in various colors and sits comfortably on the wrist. The OLED screen is plenty bright, too, but the small size means information density remains low. This also means that the Google Maps integration is limited to alerts for turn-by-turn navigation.

In our review, we found that the Fitbit Charge 6 has a few quirks. For example, the built-in media controls can only manage YouTube Music and no other streaming app. Similarly, Google Wallet support on the Fitbit Charge 6 can be rather iffy, and not all cards are supported. Priced at just $160, and frequently discounted, the Fitbit Charge 6 is a no-brainer for anyone seeking a premium fitness tracker.

Garmin is a storied name in the fitness wearable space, offering watches that span a wide price range — with some especially premium picks costing four figures. At an MSRP of $450, the Venu 3 is somewhere in the middle of the Garmin range. That’s obviously still quite pricey for a fitness tracker when you can nab our budget pick, the Fitbit Inspire 3, for $99 or less, but the Venu 3 justifies its price tag.

The Garmin Venu 3 can manage up to two full weeks of battery life in “smartwatch mode,” and can stretch to three weeks with battery-saving features enabled. Garmin says the watch can last over a full 24 hours with the onboard GPS active, which is great for peace of mind if you’re using it to track hikes or trail runs in more remote locations.

Garmin is a go-to for outdoor runners, specifically, and the Venu 3 is definitely great for that. But it’s also able to track activities like cycling, yoga, weightlifting, and dozens more. This tracker will appeal most to serious runners, but even if running is just a piece of your overall fitness regimen, the Garmin Venu 3 is a great, premium tracker that won’t completely break the bank.

At an MSRP of $100, the Fitbit Inspire 3 is certainly pricier than plenty of other budget options. But that entry price gets you a lot of good stuff, like 10-day battery life, SpO2 monitoring, and tracking for more than 20 exercise types. You can even set shortcuts to track up to six different types in a flash.

The Google-operated Fitbit app is polished and feature-rich, with customizable layouts and easy access to activity and sleep data breakdowns. The Inspire 3 works with iPhones, too, despite being a Google product.

The biggest issue with the Fitbit Inspire 3, aside from its expensive-for-entry-level price point, is a consequence of the tracker’s lightweight form factor. The slim tracker has a small display, so it can’t show much information at a glance and can be hard to read, depending on your vision. Still, it’s a great little low-maintenance tracker if you’re looking to dip a toe into fitness tracking beyond simply counting your steps.

Coros has become a popular choice among fitness enthusiasts thanks to its combination of excellent fitness tracking and a value price point. The latest in the lineup, the Coros Pace 3, is the best of everything that makes Coros fitness trackers so unique.

It has a sunlight-readable display that sips battery life, allowing it to last as long as three weeks on a single charge. Running outdoors? The dual-band GPS support guarantees precise location tracking. You’ll even find a rotating bezel to scroll through the ample data the watch provides.

While the Coros Pace 3 lacks any third-party apps or controls, there’s 2GB of built-in storage for listening to music. However, setting up custom workouts on the Pace 3 can be a time-consuming chore and has a steep learning curve. The lack of NFC also means that you cannot use the watch for payments. But if all you need is a no-nonsense fitness watch with best-in-class fitness tracking features, the Coros Pace 3 makes for a solid choice.

If you’re in the market for something especially rugged, Amazfit’s T-Rex 3 may fit the bill. The sub-$300 fitness watch comes with 10ATM water resistance for diving up to 300 feet, and “military-grade” durability, rated as being able to withstand temperatures up to 158 degrees Fahrenheit and as cold as 22 below zero.

The T-Rex 3 has a big, chunky body, with a 1.5-inch AMOLED display that can hit up to 2,000 nits of brightness. That large body also fits a big 700 mAh battery that can power well over a week of vigorous use away from a charger. Using battery saving features, you can push the watch a couple of weeks between charges.

It may not provide as polished an experience as something like the Garmin Venu 3, but for less than $300 (and often $200 or less on sale), it’s much more affordable. If you want a big, rugged watch that you can wear for outdoor activity in every season and you don’t want to spend half a grand on it, the Amazfit T-Rex 3 is a great option.

The Garmin Lily 2 is a smartwatch designed for those with smaller wrists, and while it’s technically a smartwatch, it can feel svelte enough to be a lot like a fitness tracker.

Despite its smaller form factor, it offers several features you can utilize, like tracking heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep quality, and stress, along with menstrual health. With 5 ATM water resistance, you can take it for a swim, expanding how much you can make use of it while outdoors through the built-in GPS connection.

Plus, you get all the benefits of Garmin’s Connect app, where you can also try workouts and training regimens to meet your fitness goals. That’s also where the Body Battery comes in so you know when you’re too tired to work out.

You won’t get any color on the monochrome display, nor the ability to store music on the watch itself (you can still control playback from the watch). Contactless payments through Garmin Pay are also available. Battery life holds up well at five days per charge, so you won’t be reaching for the charger too often.

If you are looking for something to help you track your health and fitness but hate the idea of strapping something on your wrist, then a smart ring may just be right up your alley. The Oura Ring 4 is the company’s fourth attempt at making a smart ring and that expertise has paid off here.

With significantly improved automatic activity detection, the Oura Ring 4 can now detect up to 40 different activities automatically. In our review, we noted that the automatic tracking was so reliable, you shouldn’t have to worry about manually tracking your exercise. The Oura app is well laid out and does a great job of bringing your latest trends front and center.

Even with all of these added features, the Ring 4 manages to deliver week-long battery life. In addition to its fantastic battery life, it is available in twelve different sizes, ranging from 4-15 and is quite comfortable to wear.

The Ring 4 doesn’t come with a charging case, and you need to sign up for the Oura subscription service, which is the biggest letdown. Oura does give you the first month free, but not everyone wants to pay a subscription fee to track their health.

It’s rare to come across a more affordable fitness tracker that comes with a screen that feels like it was plucked from a more expensive model. That describes the 1.32-inch AMOLED on Nothing’s CMF Watch Pro 2 in a nutshell. Vibrant and slick, it’s a great way to view all the pertinent information you want to see when using the device to keep tabs on your activity.

Along with heart rate and blood oxygen, the watch offers solid sleep tracking that is very accurate for something in this range. With support for 120 sports modes, there’s also automatic tracking for outdoor walking and running, made all the better with built-in GPS to track location and route as well. The CMF Watch app does a nice job laying it all out, so you can understand what you’ve done and what goals you want to reach.

Nothing claims battery life will last up to 11 days per charge, though keeping GPS and Bluetooth on, while also maintaining steady SpO2 tracking chips away at that. Even so, you’re not likely to charge more than once a week.

Just bear in mind this isn’t exactly a premium device despite the vibrant display. It feels a little flimsy and has poor haptics. Bluetooth connectivity can be fickle about reconnecting when venturing out of range and then coming back in. If Nothing can resolve these software issues with updates, the Watch Pro 2 only gets better.

The Withings ScanWatch 2 takes a classic approach to its design, much like its predecessor, but checks some key fitness and health tracker boxes anyway. It’s designed to look like a traditional analog watch, yet has hidden fitness tracking tech like a heart rate monitor, daily step counter, and skin temperature sensor. The watch also features an ECG monitor, which is a key feature for heart health, especially for warnings about atrial fibrillation.

The battery life is between two weeks and a month, depending on how much you use it — remarkably better than most other wearables you can buy right now. What the ScanWatch 2 can do is still limited, most significantly in terms of what information it can show you from a simple glance at your wrist.

The step counter sits toward the bottom of the watch face, while a small screen provides you with key details, like step count, current heart rate, ECG results, etc. It isn’t the most expansive set of results, but you can find everything neatly put away in the app on your phone if you want to.

Samsung may be newer at making smart rings, but the Galaxy Ring proves to be a solid debut, and that may be partly because of its effective purpose. Rather than a full-on ring that does it all, the company sees it as a great complement to its smartwatches.

You don’t necessarily need to go that route to get the most out of it, but it means you have a couple of ways to go about wearing one of these. Coated with titanium and plastic and silicon, its slight concave makes it look slimmer than it is, though it’s also prone to scratching if you wear it while lifting weights. You won’t have to worry about water resistance with its IP68 rating, where it can also track swimming, but beware of it potentially sliding off your finger.

The Galaxy Ring is limited to tracking just 13 exercises, with only walking and running tracking automatically for you. You need to start the rest from your phone. Otherwise, the Ring also tracks steps, heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and sleep quality, including menstrual cycles for women.

While a Samsung phone isn’t necessary to get all the features, you must use an Android device and install Samsung Health and Galaxy Wear on it. Battery life holds up better the larger the size you wear, but you’re looking at roughly a week, on average. Samsung says you can stretch that further if you wear the Ring with a Galaxy Watch. Special gesture controls also only currently work with the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6.

What’s the best fitness tracker for you?

Those are the top picks for the best fitness trackers. With such diversity, you’ll likely find an option that is appropriate for you. Our best overall pick comes from Fitbit, and there’s a reason it is a household name in wearable technology. The Fitbit Charge 6 is slim and affordable, and we particularly appreciate its onboard GPS, turn-by-turn navigation, and contactless payments.

The Amazfit T-Rex 3 and Garmin Venu 3 are also top-notch choices for the outdoorsy crowd, with their accurate fitness tracking, long battery life, and excellent readable displays. The Venu 3 offers more features and capabilities in total, but it’s also the most expensive option on this list.

The smart ring market has also never been stronger, with Oura and Samsung at the top of the pile today. Oura offers a more wholistic app experience and can track more activity types, but the Samsung Galaxy Ring ties into the Samsung ecosystem better (and Samsung’s ring doesn’t require a subscription).

Those seeking a more robust outdoor tracking experience can look to the Garmin Lily 2, which is great people with smaller wrists seeking built-in GPS. But if smart features are what you’re after, the best Android smartwatches are capable fitness trackers in their own right — though, of course, they can’t match the battery life offered by a dedicated fitness tracker.