A question for ex fitbiters, what do you miss about Fitbit and do you regret moving on to Apple watch and leaving Fitbit behind?
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.
I left Fitbit over a year ago and have found some excellent replacements for what it did at the time I left. At this point I’m still pretty damn happy with what I got.
HRV/Recovery: Athlytic
Sleep metrics: Pillow
Honorable Mention: Auto Sleep
Nothing
I hate the fact I can’t use my Apple Watch to count my total calories burnt without going into the fitness app.
On my Fitbit it was on the main screen and reset at midnight.
To me an Apple Watch is more of a phone on my wrist than a fitness tool.
came from a fitbit versa 3, really miss continuous heart rate tracking
Fitbit could show me my October total steps, as a great logging method. Or last week, etc. Apple only dies rolling totals.
I miss the web interface and the windows app.
Battery life. I miss only needing to charge once a week.
For everything else, I prefer my Apple Watch.
I regret nothing. My old Fitbit started collecting sweat under the glass, making it impossible to read the display. It also stopped charging.
For a little better AW experience check out Superset. Beta signups now and should be launching in a month or two https://www.supersethealth.com/?ref_id=EJ58S0ZTV
So they want you to pay another subscription, garmin does all of that for free 🤷♂️
Only thing I miss is my years of stats with fitbit
I miss the web interface and the windows app.
The battery life
Having to use MyFitnessPal to track calories.
the app!! having everything in one place with easy to read goals (that can be customized), i know you can use apple health but it is so cheap-looking and not as easy to use.