I don't have either one - I don't like wearing anything on my wrist, including my watch, which I wear only when I leave the house.

Does your Fitbit work in a swimming pool? That's where I get most of my exercise when I'm in the desert, and in L.A. my elliptical machine tells me how far I've supposedly traveled when I exercise. There's an app that is supposed to work with it, but it only worked for about a month, and even then was difficult.

I hear they're thinking of using them as medical devices for certain health issues, heart disease, asthma, etc. They're just not there yet.

Yes, I primarily only use the step count, sleep, and heart rate. All the rest is fluff to me. When I turn off location tracking it won't sync with the app.

I just put my iPhone in my pocket and use the Health app that comes with it to count steps.

Steps taken doesn't tell reveal the quality of that exercise. That's where having the calorie burn & heart rate help show you what you're really doing. There's a huge difference in someone plodding along getting 15,000 steps in a day and another person that is pushing themselves in exercise getting 15,000 steps in a workout session.

For me it's an encouragement to workout harder and push myself to do more each day.

I returned mine after noting it was counting steps while sitting cross-legged and air tapping my foot. The fitness watch I have now is incredibly accurate and pretty, too. ;)

Depending on which one you got, the HR monitoring is probably the most important feature. I had several FitBit over the years but didn't want to invest further into their tech after they bricked my Ionic with an upgrade. Their app and website are pretty easy to use. If you don't have the dongle plugged into a computer, you need to synch with a smartphone to get the data from the watch to their database.

If you don't care about HR or sleep tracking, a pedometer is sufficient but is also prone to counting most movement as steps. Good and bad with everything.

I’m happy to plod. I need to plod more.

I used to have the older style fitbit before they discontinued it. I primarily used it to see how long I slept. My new watch it is my oxygen level and beats per minute that I watch. I am hoping I will remember to ask my doctor some questions. Things like heart rate in the low 50s and the once a week drop in blood oxygen into the 80s. My old doctor thought it was mental/depression and dismissed it.

I like my fitbit but I bought it because it linked to my employers wellness program and I got points for steps taken which could be redeemed for amazon gift cards. This year to cut costs they switched to a completely useless program that will link to the fitbit, but you get nothing. It will just say, "hey you met your step goal for today! Yay!" No points, no reward, nothing. So if had known they would be doing that I would not have gotten my new Fitbit when my old one died last year. If I had known that my walking was simply for my own benefit with no points given, I would have just used the pedometer that came on my phone (Samsung health app) or Map My Walk.I have the inspire because it came with a clip option. I wear it on my bra because I do not like really wearing such things on my wrist, and I think the clip ones are more accurate as far as steps counted.

As an aside I read that the calories burned feature on these things is completely useless......

I don't take my phone with me everywhere, so I wouldn't use the step counter. That wouldn't do for going up and down the 3 flights of stairs to take garbage out, etc. I'm hardly taking my phone with me.

I walk, YouTube exercise and dance to my favourite country music. I'm absolutely moving whenever I can.

I was out walking and my neighbour saw me, and she said I looked like I was on a mission....nope, just walking. When I want to mosey and just have a social visit I'll go with my g/f and Gino. He's a loveable guy, but he stops at every single tree, rock and shrub that he sees.

We have been raising an Australian Shepherd pup for the past 2 years, and he is an escape artist. DH ordered a GPS tracking collar for him that synchs with his iPhone. Even when the dog is riding in his truck with him, the software reports back showing DH where the dog has been. The funniest part is it also records how many steps the pup has taken and whether he's met his "goal" for the day (14,000 steps based on how big he is and how much distance he travels). We get some good laughs. Our perimeter fence around our acre is pretty well fortified at this point, but we keep the collar on him.

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I use my fitbit with my iphone to track the # of steps on walks and it also maps them so when I'm hiking and I can see which trail I'm on. It also automatically syncs with my WW app so I get my steps tracked there too.

I tried using it for tracking my sleep, but I find it annoying to wear at night...but it does seem to keep a decent record and it's interesting to see how much time I spend in REM or deep sleep.

When I am at my desk and dont move for several hours my fitbit registers it as me being asleep.😴