Fitbit Inspire 2 review

Here's what we thought of the Inspire 2 from Fitbit.

Woman wearing Fitbit Inspire 2

by Joanne Brooks |
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The Inspire 2 from Fitbit has a whole range of features that could help to benefit your health...from reminders to move to tracking your heart rate - it even analyses your sleep!

The Fitbit Inspire 2 specification at a glance:

Health

• 24/7 heart rate

• Resting heart rate

• Breathing rate

• Heart rate variability

• Stress management score

• Reflections

• Guided breathing sessions

• Menstrual health tracking

• Food logging

Fitness

• Active zone minutes

• All-day activity

• Heart rate zones

• Cardio fitness level

• Swim proof and swim tracking

• Real-time pace and distance

• Workout intensity map (in app only)

• 20 exercise modes + smart track

• All-day calorie burn

• Reminders to move

Sleep

  • • Sleep stages

  • • Sleep scores

  • • Silent alarms

  • • Sleep mode

Design and more

  • • Up to 10 days of battery

  • • Google fast pair

  • • Find with tile

  • • Do not disturb

  • • Notifications

  • • Timer & stopwatch

  • • Streamlined design

  • • Clock faces

Fitbit Inspire 2 band in colour Desert Rose/Black

How did this product make your life easier?

The Fitbit Inspire 2 has really impressed me. From being super simple to set up to the trackers sleek design, to it being light and comfortable to wear. The Fitbit Inspire 2 includes some great features and tools to help you meet your goals.

For normal day to day wear, the smart watch records how many steps you do, your calorie burn and it also tracks your heart rate. It can receive calls, texts and some app notifications.

The sleep stages is a great feature that will help you have a better understanding of your sleeping habits by monitoring your sleep and giving you stats on how much time was spent in light, deep and REM sleep. The Inspire 2 has a brighter screen than previous Fitbit models and the display is very straightforward to navigate. Simple up and down swipes and squeezing of the side to go back. Despite having a brighter screen the text on the display is quite small and could be a problem for some people to read though.

I found the timer and stopwatch were great features; being able to set quick timers on your watch was a real bonus! The tracker is water-resistant up to 50 metres which means you can wear it whilst having a swim and it will automatically track how far you swim and also having a shower whilst wearing the tracker isn’t a problem either. Taking off and then forgetting to put your tracker back on isn’t something you need to worry about!

Would you recommend this product?

I would recommend the Inspire 2 to anyone that is looking for a fitness tracker that isn’t too complicated. When you take into account the cost of the Inspire 2 you really can’t go wrong, it’s a simple to use, an elegant looking fitness tracker that has some great features! I would say that one of the best things about the Inspire 2 is the exceptional battery life which can last up to 10 days!

Would you choose this product above all others on the market?

The Inspire 2 is not as comprehensive as some more expensive fitness trackers on the market and doesn’t have built-in GPS but provided it fits your needs it won’t disappoint. It automatically recognises 20 different exercises and the active zone minutes feature tracks any time spent in a heart-pumping activity…you can earn 2x the minutes when you are in cardio or peak zone. This is great for giving you motivation. The Inspire 2 does pretty much everything you could need with the added bonus of not looking too bulky or masculine looking like some trackers can.

What changes would you make to this product?

I would like the Inspire 2 to have a larger text size for the steps data and also reading the screen in strong sunlight is sometimes very difficult.

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