Fitbit Sense

Bugginess slightly holds back a well-rounded health-focused smartwatch that really tries to innovate.

Many of my favorite features, like Sleep Tracking and Fitbit Coach, also remain locked under Fitbit Premium. A Premium subscription costs $80 every year. Add in the $330 Sense hardware, and you've spent as much as an Apple Watch Series 6 in year one. At this price, you should probably just get an Apple Watch (if you own an iPhone). You won't have to renew a subscription yearly to access Apple's Fitness+.

The Fitbit Sense is undeniably ambitious and capable, but it's do-it-all attitude adds too much complexity and friction.

The Sense is a nice smartwatch, and it does indeed feel like it comes closer than anything I’ve used at getting the most complete picture of your day-to-day health. At the same time, there is a good amount of bugginess that still needs to be ironed out, which doesn’t jibe well with the Sense’s $330 price tag.

The Fitbit Sense is a comprehensive health-tracking machine with basic smartwatch features and a new navigation system that can be difficult to master. It offers more wellness tools than Apple and Samsung at a cheaper price, and it’s especially great for people who don’t mind wearing a watch to bed to glean more information about their health.

Sense is the most powerful wearable Fitbit has ever released, and while it tries a lot of new and exciting things, it still struggles with a lot of the fundamentals. All of the usual activity/sleep tracking features are as great as ever, and with things like an EDA and temperature sensor, you can monitor more aspects of your health than ever before. It's a rather exciting piece of tech, though a myriad of performance and software issues raise into question whether the Sense is worth its extra high price tag.

Fitbit's premium, pricey Sense smartwatch puts a focus on your well-being with the ability to measure and monitor your stress, heart rhythm, skin temperature variation, and blood oxygen saturation.

The Fitbit Sense nails the basics. Built-in GPS is finally here, and the heart rate sensor has been improved. We also love the new quick-release straps. However, many features aren't available at launch, and the implementation of the EDA and SpO2 sensors could use refining. Overall the Fitbit Sense is a solid wearable. But like all Fitbit smartwatches, it has plenty of bugs. Until Fitbit fixes some software issues, we recommend passing up the Fitbit Sense.