Fitbit Inspire 2 Health & Fitness Tracker with a Free 1-Year

Item purchased – easy to use, practical and ticks all the boxes for what it was intended. Links up to smartphone easy. Good for a more budget friendly fitness watch.

This is my first Fitbit, I waited a few weeks before reviewing to get to grips, after playing around with the app and the inspire 2 it’s a really great watch packed with lots of features. The battery life is incredible so far lasting 8 days on one charge, it seems to be fairly accurate on sleep heart rate and steps, and there are lots of fitness videos to choose from, I did review other Fitbit devices before deciding to make the plunge and to be totally honest it has everything I need so I think I made the right decisio

I got this as a direct replacement for its predecessor which got lost on a bus. I hoped that the app would keep the data from the previous incarnation and it did.
The app is good at using the GPS data to record where you have been on a particular trip but one problem that it seems to suffer from is adding steps to your count if you get on the bus or other transport. I have sat in a bus travelling at 50MPH down the motorway, looking at those steps piling on as I sat there.
It is also good at tracking your weight although you need to type that in manually.
It is worth the money if you want to keep track of how your weight and other physical parameters are performing but it can be a bit odd with the amount of sleep you get.

Bought this for the missus, cos she had septic shock and was in intensive care for ages, and her heart rate has been pretty whack tbh. She’s loving it! It was a proper bargain I thought! Does pretty much all the other more pricey ones do, and it’s.fit for a.baroness

After 2 weeks trying to decide if I’ve got a lemon or I’m somehow failing to understand instructions, I’ll do a reset and decide whether I need to return and declare the experiment as a failure.
I wanted a simple device that told me the time, prompted me to drink enough water, to get up and dance around regularly and to go places I’ve agreed to be. I’ve used my phone for these things for years, but it’s not always handy.
I decided on a basic Fitbit 2, nothing fancy, just a watch with extras. Lots cheaper than an Apple Watch, and I could use it just as a watch if I didn’t find the extras helpful. As someone who suffers from chronic anxiety, I tried the mood setting. I’ve tried to be positive but the negative emotions have all come from trying to work the Fitbit (my previous IT experience is: formerly in information management, now a keen photographer who can use Lightroom and Photoshop, neither of which is simply press-a-button stuff) so, my experience:
– Time:Turn my wrist towards me – pot luck whether anything happens, although time will flash up without prompting when least expected.
– Drink and Dance Prompts: let’s say spontaneously irregular
– Alarm: Forget it
– Sleep: I decided I might as well get some insights. So I know what time I turn off my light to sleep and I know I don’t lie awake long, and I know when I wake up. I know because I’m still checking the times on my phone. Fitbit seems to be monitoring someone else’s sleep times, despite me wearing it, and the app provides interesting charts for the times it bothers to follow me. Really, I do sleep more than the 2hrs 50mins a night that has recorded several times on my phone app.
– Finding Icons: There weren’t many when I set it up. Then there were a lot. Since then they seem a bit random and limited in number. I presume they are also monitoring someone else.
– Heart Monitor: My phone app assures me I’m alive.
I am really glad I didn’t take the free annual subscription – I didn’t want to try to cancel or tie myself in to something I kept having to pay for. I can imagine trying to break through the dead zone that is my Fitbit to block a fee that costs twice as much as my sort-of-wristwatch-with-added features.

This works great with the app. Using the “touch” screen on the tracker is a different story and is pretty useless.
I use it for tracking sleep, exercise, water and calorie consumption and with the app all these are easy to do and informative. The Premium subscription doesn’t seem to add much for my purposes but your mileage may vary.

The screen is difficult to see outdoors and the touch screen is erratic (on a good day). Starting and stopping the exercise run app takes upwards of a minute of poking, swiping, squinting and pinching (while your PB is ebbing away! ). Using the run app does give a map of the route taken, pace stats and times on the app if you have your phone GPS connected and with you. Otherwise if you just want the (approximate) duration, heart rate zone and calories burned it will usually detect a run automatically and you don’t have to mess with the app on the tracker itself.

For 45, just having it on my wrist to monitor exercise and sleep via the phone app is a good deal. The apps on the tracker itself are a “bonus” but a pain to use. For me the Premium app subscription doesn’t look like good value.

UPDATE – Worked out that when they say “tap” they don’t mean touch as on your phone or tablet. It is literally a sharp tap for the motion sensor to pick up rather than a touch screen (although weirdly you can also swipe?). If you literally “tap” reasonably sharply it does tend to react better when starting and stopping the run app, but it is still quite an involved process – especially outdoors when you can’t see what you are doing on the screen too well. Finally, let the phone GPS connect in run mode before you tap the big triangle to start the run. See the top of the screen for the tiny triangle to stop moving and say “connected”.

I bought this as a cheap and simple way to log what I eat and drink, my steps and exercise. I wear this differently to most people, in that I also bought and elastic strap so that I can wear it on my ankle to ensure a more accurate step count, and I wear it 24/7.

Because I wear it on my ankle, only taking it off for showers and charging, and other than that I’m not touching it at all, the battery is lasting me 17 days between charging and I could probably squeeze out a couple more days if I wanted to, taking it to the limit at around 20 days. I don’t use the screen on the Fitbit at all. You can move all the categories around in the app, so whilst I have food, water, bpm, and weight as my top four you might decide to have different ones. Being able to customise all the options as to what is important to you is really useful. I have found the app extremely easy to use and figure out how to get the most out of it.

I get everything I need from the app on my phone. I’m not interested in logging the different types of exercise, only how much I have done in the fat burn / cardio zones. When exercising at home I like to be able to see that I’m in the fat burn / cardio zones on my phone and if I’m not I can push myself to put in more effort.

Logging whatever I eat is easy, particularly due to the custom food option, so I can log exactly what I eat and the calories. Once I have added a custom food it stays on the list, which is great. It is also very simple to log what I’m drinking, which helps to keep me hydrated.

Lastly and probably most importantly to me. I’m on a weight loss journey and I have found wearing this gadget helps to keep me motivated. Having lost over 2st 8lbs, in the last 14 weeks, it is really helping me on my journey, and I didn’t have to pay a small fortune for any of the more expensive versions. This does all I need it to.

Would definitely recommend the Fitbit Inspire 2 for people who require simplicity.

I initially was looking at Apple Watches but after reading reviews on this watch I decided to take a chance! I’m happy to say I’m really blown away with this fitness watch! It does everything I want it to – track my sleep, steps, heart monitor and guided meditations. I really like the simplicity of the watch face as I didn’t want all my phone notifications coming through to it – you can choose to have this though! Day 3 and I really couldn’t be happier with my Fitbit! Highly reccomended for a basic, reliable fitness tracking watch! Plus the strap is so comfortable and light, I barely notice it’s on!

This is a great tracker. The battery life is about a week, it is accurate for heart rate and steps and is great at sleep tracking. I’ve always liked the Fitbit app and with this tracker there are a couple more features than with my antique Charge 2.
However, I bought two of these for a 9 and a 11 year old and the app does not support this tracker for children. The only way to get it to work is to lie about their date of birth. I’m not sure why, it is sturdy enough and fits smaller wrists OK.

his is my first time into fitness monitoring, I’m a pensioner but would say I’m active. I lawn bowl, ride my electric bike up to 35 miles, I’ve survived a 8ft fall from my roof without too much damage only a bruised back. so I bought a ‘Fitbit’ to monitor my health, my sleep, my exercise and my diet. I must say it is revealing especially my sleep. I’m trying to loose some weight, so I monitor calories. So, overall for one weeks use I’m impressed, I hope I reach my goals set. If not its still very interesting know more about myself. would I recommend? yes, this is reasonably priced bit of kit, looks good, also its a watch. not had one for years. so if nothing else I can tell the time. you can use the phone app for much more than I do, I didn’t want the monthly premiums stuff because it can tell me all I need, lets see how it goes before I commit to 7.99 a month, and join any groups. I’m just enjoying knowing more about my health.
Update as at 31.Jan 22. after 3 months use had to stop as the wrist band watch has caused an allergic rash on my left wrist. Stopped for two weeks for it to heal, but finally last week Jan, have finally stopped using. I’ve put it down to either the metal charging point under the device or the constant monitoring of the pulsating green light, monitoring heart etc. Shame because I was enjoying using this. giving me me sleep patterns and overall health details. I’m sure there is an alternative to this just glad I only purchased the 40 model.