

The premium version gives you additional perks like a fitness coach, additional sleep score details, access to additional programs, and customized tips to help you reach your goals. You can further enhance the app by purchasing the premium version for $10/month. The Fitbit app is comprehensive, and it has many features, including a tracker where you can keep a log of your food and water consumption, access to a number of different workout programs, a sleep analysis, and different communities you can join. Lifewire / Erika Rawes Software: The Fitbit App You can wear it while swimming, showering, and exercising, and it will hold up to the demands of your busy everyday life. Water-resistant up to 50 meters, the Fitbit is durable and rugged. The interface is easy to navigate, and you swipe up and down to check your call notification and metrics (think heart rate, steps, stairs, sleep), and you swipe left and right to access your other widgets and log an exercise. The side button also serves as a back button, and it pulls up additional display options when you hold it down. The Charge 3 doesn’t have any physical buttons, but rather a touchscreen and a capacitive button on the side that you press to awaken the device. The gorilla glass screen is greyscaled, but it is bright enough to see in sunlight. The backlit OLED screen is large enough to see from a distance, measuring 1.57 inches from corner to corner. This is especially true when you purchase replacement bands, which sell on Amazon for less than $10. Overall, Charge 3 is simple and fashionable, and you can wear it with anything.

The Fitbit Charge 3 is one size fits all. On the plus side, you get both a large and small band in the package, so you don’t have to worry about finding the right fit. It’s thick and bulky, with a silicone removable band that’s around 0.9 inches wide. The Charge 3 isn’t the slimmest tracker out there.

But, how does the Charge 3 stack up against the Charge 4 and other fitness trackers currently on the market? I tested the Fitbit Charge 3 alongside a few other fitness trackers to find how it compares. The Fitbit Charge 3 hit the market in 2018, and now that its successor is available, the Charge 4, you can easily find the Charge 3 on sale. Keep reading for our full product review. We purchased the Fitbit Charge 3 so our expert reviewer could thoroughly test and assess it.
