My Most Recommended Wearable of 2024: New FITBIT CHARGE 6

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This is the Fitbit Charge 6, and it is likely to be my most recommended wearable of the year. Let me explain.

A lot of people don’t want a $300 smartwatch that needs to be charged every night. They want a subtle device with a long battery life that tracks health and fitness, has google pay, notifications, and maybe a few other smart watch features. So what are your options here? You can’t get a WearOS watch or even a Galaxy watch thanks to the battery. A Garmin device would work but they are very expensive. So that brings us to Fitness Bands. Of all the smart bands out there, the new Fitbit Charge 6 is going to be the most appealing here in America.

3 colors - black, silver, champagne
DESIGN
Claimed 7 day battery life
Touchscreen and one button on the left

Links to compatible exercise machines
Claimed 60% more accurate for HIIT
Sleep score
Daily Readiness score
Cardio Fitness score (basically VO2 Max)
40+ exercise modes

ACCURACY TESTING
Built In GPS
Sleep score
ECG
High/low HR detection
SpO2
Skin temperature
RHR
Respiration rate
EDA scan for stress

Auto workout detection
Google Pay/Wallet (YES!)
Google Maps (YES!)
YouTube Music controls - other music too?
timer/stopwatch/smart wake alarm/find my phone/notifications
Tap 3x to zoom in

50m water resistance
$160

CONS
Haptics are kind of weak
No mics or sound
Can only control YT music
Kind of expensive
Fitbit Premium paywall
Bezel is still pretty chunky
No onboard music

Actually though, this is the best wearable for a lot of people! Tons of people just want a small device with a long battery life, google pay/maps/

[ljacobs]

Can’t believe they are keeping Fitbit Premium.

[Metalmachine]

I got the Charge 5 when it came out and have loved it. I don’t track workouts; mainly use it to track steps, sleep, notifications and as a watch during my consults at work. I get about 10-12 days of battery life not using workout tracking and other features. And that is the biggest deterrent for me getting a proper smartwatch

[feliciaf.]

I just upgraded to the Charge 6, i've been using the Charge 3 since it came out and the only issue I faced was the wear and tear of the band. I also don't understand the premium charge as others have mentioned. I could see paying a small cost if fitbit let me sync with my peloton app so I could track all those classes. I didnt have to pay for sleep and mindful classes with my charge 3🤷🏾‍♀️

[jacobreubenaglipa]

I will consider getting fitbit if they are going to remove premium payments.

[armysoldier]

Great review, I’ve had previous versions of the Charge and loved them until they stopped working. A couple years ago I switched to the Inspire which was a big change for me. Although it still works, I still prefer the Charge. Now that some of the Black Friday early sales are out and the Charge 6 is $99 at Best Buy, I think I’ll pick one up.

[qooraf]

It looks good but lack of music controls ourside of Youtube music is a major downside, plus the fitbit premium stuff. Switched to garmin a while back and I'm very happy with it over the Fitbit

[ppecchi]

I had a Fitbit Charge 5 and after a little more than a year stopped working : battery life 1, 5 hour ; no heart beats, no steps counting, no screen on when rotating the wrists. I contacted Fitbit Customer Support Center, and that had me do several troubleshooting and resets ... all useless . The watch didn't fell, didn't get close to any magnet, no high heat, no low cold ... it just died while I was walking ...I checked on the Internet and many users had the same experience, so it's not a case, but something related to the product. Unfortunately all these type of device reviews just take in consideration the functionalities but not the quality of the hardware, or issues in the engineering of the products . I 'ld rather to pay more for something more reliable than a Fitbit Charge whatever .

[Cesum]

Not sure why everyone is saying charging for Fitbit premium is a deal breaker. It honestly doesn’t provide you with that much insight. I’ve never used their workout suggestions. Their wellness videos aren’t really all that compelling to use. The core functionality you get with any basic Fitbit is all you need to lose weight and that is why you buy these fitness trackers- to track how your fitness improves. If you really need someone to interpret the data for you (rather than looking through the graphs yourself) the. They usually give you a free subscription for a few months upon purchase of the device. I wouldn’t overlook the tracker because you don’t get fit it premium included. You don’t need it at all and it doesn’t provide much more insight than the basic data provides.

[Jean_E]

The fitbit paywall is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Why would you buy a watch that's designed for fitness and then also have to pay for the fitness separately???? Same with the google pixel watch! You just paid $350 for a watch, but no, you need to pay more for the fitness stuff???
Why did Google bother buying fitbit if the plan wasn't to integrate into google fit or scrap fit and replace it with fitbit ...
I will never understand it

[Gravage]

If Fitbit(Google) wants to sell me any new devices, they need to allow me to connect multiple devices to my Fitbit account, like they USED to. I'm not removing my Pixel Watch 2 from my account every time I want to use this for sleep tracking, etc. Honestly, I don't even look at any of their new devices because this limitation makes them utterly useless to me.

[watchchimp]

I had an early Fitbit. I got the top of the line, and it worked pretty good at first. At that point "premium" was just a coaching application which I didn't need.
After about 15 months I noticed I wasn't get detailed sleep info., then slowly other features stopped working.
It really felt like forced obsolescence !
Then I ran into a woman who had the same experience. TWICE!
That confirmed my suspicions.
So, I swore off Fitbit.
I got a Polar, because someone said the had theirs for 5 years! It's good, but more of a trekking/sports watch.
So could we assume that since Fitbit is using a paywall now that they won't stop working in 15 months!?
If they're going to be obsolete; they should make that clear up front.
But, knowing that, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone! 😢

[pixelgaming]

The Charge 6 is miles better than the Charge 4. My band attacher on the fitbit itself broke off and I'm on the fence between the Mi Band 8, Huawei Band 8, Fitbit Inspire 3 and Fitbit Charge 6. I'm not looking for a perfect tracker but I want my data to be as accurate as possible. The Quantified Scientist noticed quite a few artefacts during running. Also locking FitBit features behind a paywall is putting me off.

[utamip]

I’m keeping my charge 4 just for the spotify 😂 this device is so much 1 step forward 2 steps back whyyy

[alanpriest]

I have had one for 4 days now and the step counter is insanely inaccurate. If I walk 100 steps it usually counts 100 steps. However, it counts steps when im not walking. It counts about 150 when I'm asleep. I work at home sat at a desk. After 5 hours it counts over 3000 steps when all I have done is go the kitchen a couple of times to make coffee! I gestimate it is incorrect by a factor of 10. So, even if the step counter is accurate when I'm walking, at the end of the day the final count will be worthless. Unless there is a solution I will have to return it. I contacted Fitbit support but they could not explain why is is so inaccurate.

[maggiebrookes-buttwriter]

I really like the Charge 6 - I was disappointed to discover they hadn't included an altimeter to track floors climbed, (which existed on the charge 3) and I wish they had given us a wider choice of clock faces which were a bit plainer with large size heart rate and date.

[robertbyrd]

I had the Charge 5 and it died after 2 minutes in the shower.

I never paid the Fitbit premium monthly. Does having the Premium plan really help your health

I guess I always though if I got plenty of workouts, steps, and sleep; resulting in high SP05 ratings and fairly quick drops in pulse after a workout, that I was doing well. Comments are welcome.

[MrPanzerDragoon]

Thanks for the review. The paywall is the nail in the coffin for me. I don't like to have a physical device that doesn't do it all because I didn't pay a subscription for.

[michaelgonzalez]

If they're going to keep that Fitbit they need to offer quite a bit more. I also think they need to drop that price to like $3-4 and I can imagine that they would get a lot more subscribers

[judymclaughlin]

I only got one clock face not the dozen or so they show online that I could install. How do a get an analog looking face ?
I’m not paying for Premium!

[splatmatt]

Note kind of misleading: the "GPS" in this video was not using the on device chipset but leveraged the connected smartphone's GNSS ("GPS") chipset. The charge 6 (like the charge 5) does have a built-in GNSS chipset but does not work as well. By default Fitbit/Google sets the charge 6 GPS setting to dynamic mode which is uses a combination of the smartphone and built-in device (charge 6) chipsets. However, in dynamic mode it mostly uses the smartphone's "GPS" chipset.