Fitbit One Wireless Activity Plus Sleep Tracker, Burgundy

I've had this little guy for over a year now - I wanted to get some mileage out of it before I reviewed it - and I'm still a big fan. First - I opted with the Fitbit One because a.) it had high reviews and b.) I wanted something that did both sleep tracking (so Zip was out) and I didn't have to wear in an ugly bracelet on my wrist (so pretty much everything else was out). I usually keep this in my pocket or clipped to my bra - works great in both places. ACCURACY: when I first got it (and a few times since then) I walked around counting my steps then checked with the fitbit -each time it's been within about 3 steps of how many steps I counted out of 50, regardless of if I wear it on my wrist, clipped to my bra, or in my pocket. just now I stuck it on my wrist and shook my hand back and forth vigorously 20 times and it added on 8 steps, so if you really want to cheat the system you can - though it probably will take more effort to shake on extra steps than actually just walk. I haven't had any problems with it adding on a lot of steps after car rides. I had a baby 6 months ago and have found that it counts bouncing up and down to calm a fussy baby as a step, but I'm cool with that - it's pretty much like jogging in place. the floors climbed feature seems fairly accurate - I haven't actually spent a day counting how many times I go up and down our stairs to compare it and it think it sometimes will count walking up a steep hill as a flight of stairs (once again, I'm cool with that), but on days i'm cleaning the house and thus going up and down stairs more often than usual my flight count is significantly higher. whether or not it gets your distance correct depends on how accurately you set your stride length - I think the easiest way to make sure it's set correctly is to go for a walk and set the GPS tracker on your phone if you have one, then once you get to 1 mile on the GPS check and see what your fitbit is telling you then adjust accordingly. SLEEP TRACKER: it's cool, it shows when you're "asleep" (not moving), when your "restless", and when you're "awake" - there are two settings sensitive and normal, apparently normal is if you're wearing it on your wrist and sensitive is if you have it in a pocket or something (because some pajama's have pockets - you know, for when you need to hold stuff while you're sleeping . . .) I set it on normal because I wear it on my wrist. I tried it on sensitive for a while to see if it worked better - it just freaked me out and told me only 1/2 of my time in bed was spent sleeping - I started wondering if I really was tired and not well rested, even though I never felt like I had trouble sleeping before. . . - just read the instructions and don't freak yourself out. Often times it will show me "restless" times during the night when I am definitely awake nursing - I guess there's a certain movement threshold you have to pass to be considered "awake", so it's not 100% accurate in that regard. it also doesn't coach you in sleeping well - just gives you the raw data on what happened during your night. (which has been super helpful with nursing - it's nice to see the trends of how long the baby's sleeping, how often we're getting up, how long we really are up for, etc. without having to have the presence of mind to make note of it while I'm half asleep). you can set goals on the app for how much sleep you're aiming for each night and set goal go-to-bed and wake-up times. putting the fitbit into and out of sleep mode is super easy (you hold down the button till it buzzes) and if you forget to put it in sleep mode one night or accidentally let it run well into your morning it's easy to go in and fix the times on the app. I love the silent alarms - I was skeptical that a little thing buzzing on my wrist would wake me up - but it works great and my husband appreciates how quiet it is. there is no snooze - which is good for me because I'm one of those snooze five times type people - this forces me to set a realistic time to get up and do it (though to be honest, I set a second alarm 10 minutes after the first one just incase. . .) you can set as many alarms as you want and have them go of on any day you want, so if you want to set alarms to remind you to get up an move around every hour or have an alarm that only wakes you up on * Note: I'm not a big fan of the little sleep wrist thing that comes with the fitbit. after a few months the velcro stated pulling it apart. For a while I cut off the top of one of my husband's socks and wore it folded in thirds on my wrist with the fitbit tucked inside- that worked OK but some nights the fitbit slipped out - now I have a cheap 3rd-party silicone wrist band thing made to fit the fitbit in it - it works great. DURABILITY: I have accidentally washed my fitbit twice and dried it once. it survived. And it counted the spin cycle as active minutes. The charge still lasts for a week or more. I don't recommend forgetting the fitbit in your laundry, but it has held up well to the wet and the heat. I wear it while working out and sweat has never seemed to be a problem for it. It's been over a year and is still working exactly the way it did when I got it. Two weeks ago the little plastic piece on the back of the silicone clip broke - I super glued it back together and so far so good. the clip itself would still be somewhat functional without that little plastic piece - it would just have a metal part poking out that could be poky- but you also can buy third-party replacement clips for $5 or spring for the actual Fitbit replacement clip for 3X more if branding is important to you. APP - i Like the app a lot. I've used it both on a Samsung tablet (android) and on an Iphone and both work great. you can set daily goals, see how much of your daily goal you've achieved, get weekly/monthly/quarterly historical graphs, track your weight, amount of water drank, calories, etc. I also like that you can get rid of things you don't want on it - for example I don't track my calories so i took that tile off my app and don't have it sitting there wasting space. in the settings there is a spot to mark if you are pregnant or breastfeeding - I don't know exactly what that does - my guess is it ups your daily calorie allotment - and maybe takes that into consideration when it tells you how many calories you've burned. I don't do the friends and competitions part of it - but there's a platform to connect with people you know and set little competitions or group goals - honestly the idea of me seeing what everyone else is doing and everyone seeing what I'm doing isn't very appealing, but it could be fun accountability if you set a goal with a friend/family IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE: Know thyself. Having this won't inherently make you healthier. I got this because I like tracking things and this gave me a way to gamify my activity - I set goals and I can see exactly how close I am to hitting them each day - which is a strong motivation factor for me - at 8PM if I see that I'm still 4000 steps shy of my daily step goal I'm much more likely to suggest we take an after-dinner walk in the evening. I've been drinking more water because I'm keeping track of it. It helped me track my activity level through my pregnancy and is helping me see how getting back in shape afterwards is going, I'm also glad I'll have this archived so when I get pregnant again I can see how I track compared to this pregnancy. If you're like me it will be strong motivation for you. If your highly competitive getting one of these then competing with your friends on it might work, or having an accountability partner who can see your daily activity may help keep you motivated. If none of those things pique your interest this probably isn't a good investment, but it is a well made product.

I just received the Fitbit One yesterday, so I can't really give as detailed a report as some of the others I've read. I spent a very long time deciding which item to purchase - did I want a Flex? Did I want my heart rate monitored? I think the first thing to figure out is what you exactly want to accomplish. For my needs, tracking my steps, calories burned and sleep is really what I wanted and the Fitbit One had outstanding ratings. As well, I did not want to have to wear anything on my wrist during the day. The clip vs. band was a huge plus for me. Plus the burgundy color is really nice (though where I clip it, no one sees it anyway). I downloaded the free Fitbit app and created an account online as soon as I got it (you have to activate and set up online anyway). It asks for your goals as far as weight loss, in what time frame, steps per day goals, etc. You can make changes if you need to. Based on the goals you set for your weight loss amount and how hard you are willing to work for it (from easy at 0.5 lbs/week to very hard at 2 lbs/week), it will calculate how many calories a day you should be eating and then tell you how long it should take to reach your goal. This is the website or app, not the Fitbit One itself. The Fitbit is small and I barely notice I'm wearing it. The clip is a rubbery material that is very soft, so it is easy to get the One into and out of the clip when you want to put it into the band for sleeping. I clip it to clothes on my upper body as per the instruction recommendations, and I don't remember it is there. You can set a message for when you first start it up, and then you can cycle through various stats, like # steps walked, stairs climbed, miles walked, calories burned, and then it will show the time all on the display. On the website/app, you will get more details about all the areas that are tracked. When you meet a milestone, it has a little "hooray" for you - for example today I met my steps goal. If you want it to track your sleep, you need to put it in the sleep band. I did that last night and it is super easy to get the One out of the clip and slip it into the band. I had to keep the band fairly loose so it wouldn't be uncomfortable - it isn't the softest material - but when I fell asleep I didn't even notice I had it on. In the morning, it gave me details about my sleep pattern and how long I was actually sleeping vs. how long I was in bed, which I think is super helpful. This is a great tool, but like any tool the responsibility is still on the individual. You have to manually enter your food in the online tracker (or in the app), and it will tell you how many calories you've eaten, how many you have left, etc. It will also tell you how many you may have left because of the amount of calories you've burned. But that is all dependent on a person taking the time to put the information in and doing so accurately. For me, that's the hardest part (I've tried food tracker apps in the past). I think once I get into the habit and make it my routine, it shouldn't be so difficult. Synching data from the One to the computer/app is done wirelessly. I noticed it makes it to my app (via bluetooth) much more quickly than it makes it to my computer. Sometimes I have to refresh the computer several times to get it to show the right number of steps, etc. However, there is so much more information in the online dashboard than in the app, and you can get into great detail about your sleep and other things that I really do want it to synch accurately (and quickly) with my computer. My one complaint is that I didn't realize it already came with a clip and a sleep band so I bought them separately. That might be MY mistake, though, so I didn't take any stars off for it. But if you want to buy this, unless you want to have an extra clip and band just in case, you do NOT need to buy them separately. Overall, I'm very pleased with this choice. It was a tough decision but so far so good. I'll update if status after I've used it for awhile.

Motivator: Ich hab den Fitbit One in Burgunder jetzt seit fast 3 Monaten. Hab mir den Tracker zugelegt um mich zu mehr Bewegung zu motivieren. Mit der Sport-Funktion (Knopfdruck am Anfang und am Ender der Trainingseinheit) sieht man sofort wie erfolgreich man beim Training war. Aber auch im Alltag ist der Kleine eine tolle Motivation! Ich war am Anfang echt überrascht, wie wenig man sich an manchen Tagen bewegt ( hab nen typischen Schreibtisch-Job). Durch den Tracker steigt automatisch die Motivation abends nochmals ne Runde spatzieren zu gehen oder die Treppe statt den Aufzug zu nehmen! Und das alles ganz nebenbei... Der Fitbit One zählt im Alltag die Schritte relativ genau. Manchmal "verpasst" er mal 10 Schritte, dafür berechnet er an andere Stelle welche extra. Insgesamt stimmt es dann aber in etwa, mir kommt es nicht auf 100 Schritte mehr oder weniger an. Bei Stockwerken schummelt er aber gerne mal ein paar dazu. Vorsicht ist auch auf längeren Autofahrten, besonders bei holprigem Untergrund, geboten. Ich war damit im Urlaub unterwegs und bei einer 4-Stündigen Busfahrt durch die Berge habe ich schon mal bis zu 8.000 Schritte und 50 Stockwerke angerechnet bekommen :-) Ein Plus war dafür aber, dass der Akku über 2 Wochen durchhält, man immer und überall ohne Internet /Handy seine täglichen Erfolge direkt auf dem Display sieht und alle Daten bis zu 30 Tage auf dem Gerät gespeichert werden. So hat es also gereicht erst nach den 14 Tagen Urlaub zu synchronisieren und zu laden - was nur 1-2 Stunden dauert. App: Die App habe ich am Anfang auch häufig genutzt, besonders um meine Ernährung zu "überwachen". Es sind nicht alle typischen "deutschen" Lebensmittel in der Datenbank vorhanden (man merkt dass das Gerät von einem US-Unternehmen stammt). Trotzdem konnte ich so besser einschätzen wie viel Kalorien ich am Tag zu mir genommen habe. Bei vielen Lebensmittel kann man ja dann einfach etwas "verwandtes" eingeben. Da mein Handy noch kein Bluethooth 4.0 unterstützt, kann ich den Tracker nicht direkt mit dem Handy synchronisieren. Durch den Bildschirm im Tracker ist dies aber kein Problem, da alle Daten auf Knopfdruck angezeigt werden. Schlaffunktion + Wecker: Die Schlaffunktion ist am Anfang ganz interessant, aber nach ein paar Tagen war die Statistik für mich eher uninteressant, da ich einen regelmäßigen Schlafrhythmus habe. Der Fitbit One unterscheidet nur zwichen "schlafen" (bei absoluter Bewegungslosigkeit) und "wach" (bei Bewegung). Es gibt hier also keine Unterscheidung für "leichten Schlaf" wie z.B. beim Jawbone. Für mich ist besonders die Weckfunktion ein echter Gewinn! Ich bin bisher immer von der Vibration am Handgelenk aufgewacht (war also nie zu schwach), egal wie kurz die Nacht war. Ist wesentlich angenehmer als ein schriller Wecker... Ein absoluter Pluspunkt ist der Support: Ich trage den Tracker - wie vorgesehen - täglich an der Hosentasche befestigt oder am BH. Beide Varianten sind sehr angenehm und je nach Kleidung sehr unscheinbar, was mir sehr wichtig war. Der mitgelieferte Clip hält sehr gut. Meiner hielt anfangs sogar so gut, dass ich den Clip manchmal schwer wieder lösen konnte. Dadurch hat sich nach nur 2 Monaten die kleine Plastikkappe am Ende des Clips gelöst. Dadurch war der Clip fast unbrauchbar, da das Metall die Kleidung leicht beschädigen kann und ich den Clip nur noch schwer handeln konnte. Ich habe deshalb den Support angeschrieben und um Ersatz gebeten. Nach 2 Tagen kam die erste Antwort, dass sie noch ein paar Daten von mir brauchen und 1 Woche später habe ich kostenlos einen neuen Clip bekommen. Dieser hält auch sehr gut, ist aber nicht mehr ganz so "starr" wie der andere, weshalb er hoffentlich länger halten wird. Fazit: Für alle die einen unauffälligen Aktivitätstracker suchen, der NICHT am Handgelenk getragen wird, ist der Fitbit One sehr gut geeignet. Er funktioniert auch ohne App und Handy-Synchronisation gut motiviert durch die aufgezeichneten Schritte, Stockwerke und die Entfernung. Ganz witzig sind auch die Blume, die je nach Intensität der Bewegung wächst, und die "Begrüßungssprüche", wenn man den Fitbit z.B. nach dem Duschen wieder zur Hand nimmt :-)

Un excellent coach (podomètre), fini le changement de piles car cet appareil a un batterie rechargeable ! Il vous donnera les informations suivantes : Nombre de pas réalisés, le nombre d'étages gravis, le nombre de calories brulées, le nombre de kilomètres parcourus, le nombre de minutes actives et votre progression par rapport à votre objectif. Vous pouvez également analyser votre sommeil ou fixer des exercices ou démarrer un programme alimentaire, suivre votre consommation d'eau, suivre vos calories absorbées. Il sait se faire discret et a une autonomie d'une semaine. Couplé à une smartphone, il affiche toutes vos données sur l'année, les trois derniers mois, le mois en cours, la semaine en cours, le jour. Je vous le recommande vivement.

Bought this for my wife as she was wanting to get fit. I think this is the best fitbit as it can be discreet with anything you are wearing and it isn't a giant black band on your wrist. This also calculates how many stairs you've climbed which is a great inspiration to climb stairs instead of taking lift and climbing stairs is so good for you! The fitbit app is decent though I still think the UP App is better. The Fitbit app allows you to add data like weight and food intake etc if you so choose. The fun thing is that Fitibit is social so you can challenge your friends who also have Fitbits to a weekend or week challenge to see who does the most steps over that weekend. It's again a great way to keep motivated. If you want a little something to help keep you active during the day then this is a good priced gadget that will do just that.

This product is simply awesome, I gifted or to my wife and she had been using it since 6 months now. Got a very good deal for 5642/- on amazon. About the product, it is as Fitbit standards, shows accurate results and very handy device. You can clip it to your denims, tee, or underwear and the result is compared to hand wearables are accurate as hand wearables show results based on hand movements. I would recommend this device specifically to ladies if you don't want hand wearables

Great little gadget which is definitely motivating me to move more. It's good to have targets to aim at and great when you achieve them. The FitBit One is very discrete, clips anywhere and is very secure. The stair counter depends on a change of elevation by 10ft - if a floor is less than that it won't register, so it doesn't always record flights of stairs when I'm at home. I'm loving the silent alarm which wakes me up without disturbing my other half. And the sleep band is so light I don't feel I'm wearing it. The sleep monitor itself is interesting but I think the novelty will wear off shortly. I've tried both levels of sensitivity and I don't think it's telling me anything I didn't already know about my sleep patterns. The FitBit syncs easily with my iPhone and my personal dashboard on the website provides plenty of extra features in the way of activity and food tracking etc. although that's done manually. Wanted to give it 5 stars but the stair tracking is a bit hit & miss sometimes - and that's why I bought the FitBit One instead of some other tracker, so that's a wee but disappointing but it's not a deal breaker. The main thing is it's definitely motivating me.