Fitbit Luxe review

Our Verdict

The Fitbit Luxe is equal parts activity band and wrist candy, elevated past a jewelry-inspired design and color touchscreen. For the cost, we wish it offered GPS, but information technology withal gets the fettle-tracking nuts correct.

For

Lightweight, bonny design
Color touchscreen
Great for basic fitness and sleep tracking
Has Fitbit's stress management tools

Against

No GPS, NFC payments
Display could be brighter

Tom'southward Guide Verdict

The Fitbit Luxe is equal parts activity band and wrist processed, elevated by a jewelry-inspired blueprint and color touchscreen. For the price, we wish it offered GPS, just it however gets the fitness-tracking nuts right.

Pros

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Lightweight, attractive pattern
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Colour touchscreen
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Great for basic fitness and sleep tracking
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Has Fitbit'due south stress management tools

Cons

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No GPS, NFC payments
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Brandish could be brighter

Fitbit Luxe: specs

Price: $149.95
Size: 36.iii x 17.6 x x mm
Display: 0.76-inch AMOLED
Battery life: 5 days
Water resistance: 50 meters
GPS: No

The $150 Fitbit Luxe is looking to make fettle tracking a fashion argument. While nosotros've seen smartwatches offer lifestyle models every bit alternatives to their sporty counterparts, the Fitbit Luxe is the first activeness band we've seen in a long while that'll pass equally wrist candy.

At a glance, the Fitbit Luxe bears a resemblance to many of the all-time fitness trackers. Simply the device detailed in this Fitbit Luxe review introduces elevated, jewelry-inspired elements with a color touchscreen and stainless steel casing with metallic finishes. It looks even better paired with a "special edition" link bracelet from Fitbit's partner designer make.

We know what you're wondering: Does Fitbit Luxe trade class for function? Although you won't find GPS or voice assistants similar y'all might on many of the best Fitbits, the Luxe has Fitbit's Activity Zone Minutes, sleep tracking, stress management tools and up to five days of battery life. You'll also get a free trial of Fitbit Premium, the company's advanced health monitoring service.

The Fitbit Luxe has also got two new features thanks to a new software update — an ever-on brandish and the power to meet blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) information. Read more about the Fitbit Luxe software updates here.

Fitbit Luxe toll and availability

The Fitbit Luxe is available equally of this writing for $149.95. That includes the price of the concrete tracker in the gold, platinum or graphite casing, plus archetype silicone straps. You'll pay more (about $50) for Fitbit'south in-brand higher fashion straps.

You'll also accept the pick for the Fitbit Luxe Special Edition, which comes with a link bracelet from jewelry brand gorjana and costs $199.95. I didn't get to endeavor the link bracelet out, only it looks like other bracelets I regularly wear.

A peachy freebie of Fitbit Luxe is a 6-month trial of Fitbit Premium, which normally costs $nine.99 per calendar month. Fitbit Premium offers more advanced personal insights and health programs, plus an extended view of your body metrics over fourth dimension.

Fitbit Luxe review: Blueprint

While Fitbit's squircle smartwatches take grown more fashionable, providing metallic finishes wapping physical buttons for flush touch controls, the brand's fitness trackers have held onto an able-bodied artful. The Fitbit Charge iv, for example, doesn't wait like something you'd want to wear to a nice occasion. Aforementioned goes for the Fitbit Inspire 2.

Enter Fitbit Luxe in its metal casing. In maintaining the oblong brandish shape, the make is clearly going for versatility. The screen is large enough to show you all the metrics y'all'd want to run into mid-workout — plus the lightweight build allows a barely-at that place feel — but from a side view it might exist mistaken for jewelry.

Compared to aforementioned Fitbit trackers, which both have grayscale displays, the Luxe's vibrant color touchscreen separates it from the pack. Although I wish the 0.76-inch screen was brighter confronting straight sunlight, the home screen, exercise animations and notifications look neat in colour. Note that some of the best cheap fitness trackers, like the $fifty Amazfit Band five, have color touchscreens, so information technology's not necessarily a premium feature, but we're glad that Fitbit included information technology in the Luxe anyway.

While I stuck to silicone straps since I'm fairly active, a drove of manner straps add together to the Fitbit Luxe's effect. The in-make options include leather double-wrap and woven stainless-steel mesh styles.

Fitbit Luxe review: Health and fitness features

First and foremost, Fitbit Luxe is a fettle tracker. It counts your steps, monitors your heart rate and tells y'all how many calories y'all burned in a workout. It doesn't have GPS, so it tin't rail your outdoor runs or walks if you lot leave your phone backside. I'd usually recommend whatever of the best running watches or best sports watches for seasoned athletes who crave personalized preparation data, so no built-in GPS shouldn't be a dealbreaker for a casual exerciser.

Otherwise, this activity band has more 20 exercise modes. The Luxe also gets SmartTrack, or automatic conditioning tracking. It picked up my daily domestic dog walks without me needing to launch a workout, and it should as well be able to detect running, elliptical exercise, outdoor cycling, select sports and swimming. It incorrectly guessed I was on the elliptical when I actually — and ambitiously — took the stairs up x flights ane afternoon, only I could edit the entry in the Fitbit app.

Getting my heart rate up (fifty-fifty if it's merely doing stairs) counts towards Fitbit'south proprietary Active Zone Minutes feature, too. Active Zone Minutes monitors the time yous spend in the fat burn, cardio or peak heart-rate zones while exercising. Your mission is to earn the AHA'southward and WHO's recommended 150 Active Zone Minutes each week. I've long been a fan of this feature rather than the outdated 10,000 steps threshold, and am excited that such a skilful-looking device can actually guide me towards my activity goals.

The Fitbit Luxe has the company's slumber tracking tools, too. When you vesture it to bed, information technology tin sense how well you're resting. In add-on to tallies of how much time you spend in different sleep stage cycles, y'all'll receive a slumber score. I landed in the lxx-90 range (out of 100) every dark, Keep in mind that with a Fitbit Premium membership, you'll unlock more sleep insights and actionable data. SpO2 readings will provide better sleep data, likewise, though the sensor isn't alive yet on Fitbit Luxe.

Fitbit Premium is likewise where you lot'll detect the bulk of the stress-management tools. The Luxe doesn't accept an EDA sensor like the Fitbit Sense, simply y'all can encounter your stress management score based on your center charge per unit, sleep and activity data, likewise every bit manual input of your mood. So, according to your score, Fitbit provides actionable advice ranging from expert tips to suggested meditation sessions.

I already mentioned you don't get GPS with the Fitbit Luxe, but you should know it also skips on NFC support. That ways you tin't use information technology for contactless payments. If you're like me, who grew to rely on NFC at checkout counters during the pandemic, I was a scrap disappointed that I couldn't use Fitbit Pay with my fashionable new fitness tracker.

Luckily, you lot still become virtually of the not-health-related tools you'd want. The Fitbit Luxe can be used to prepare an alarm or timers, and information technology mirrors your smartphone notifications. I will say dozens of pop-ups on the pocket-sized screen gets abrasive, so I recommend limiting which notifications you want pushed to your wrist in the Fitbit app.

And if you were hoping for a fitness ring with a phonation assistant built-in, you'll need to wait elsewhere. Different the Fitbit Sense or Fitbit Versa 3, the Luxe doesn't support Google Assistant or Alexa.

Fitbit Luxe review: Battery life

FItbit says the Luxe's battery should last five days, which is a less impressive battery life than some of the company's other trackers. The Inspire 2 bombardment life lasts upward to x days, while the Fitbit Charge 4 lasts upwardly to 7 days.

I needed to charge my unit of measurement up after just iv days, but those days included overnight wear for slumber tracking and many hours of pulling GPS data from my phone during outdoor walks. It charged upward to 100% from dead in about two hours.

Fitbit Luxe review: Verdict

Don't let the Fitbit Luxe's looks fool you. It's a very capable fettle tracker, especially for activities like walking, yoga and indoor cycling. The small display and lack of GPS don't make it an ideal companion for serious runners, swimmers or bikers, merely whatever casual exerciser will be satisfied. Plus the Luxe supports a number of sleep and stress tools, embracing a more holistic arroyo to wellness.

That said, for the cost, I wish it had a few more than tricks up its shiny sleeve. Compared to the Fitbit Inspire 2, which is $50 less, the Fitbit Luxe has a metal casing and colour screen. The Fitbit Accuse four, which costs the same every bit the Luxe, has both GPS and NFC, making it a more complete fitness tracker. Simply if you've been waiting for a fancy-feeling fitness tracker that won't clash with your fine jewelry — and tin can be worn from the gym direct to work or dinner — wait no further than the Luxe.

Kate Kozuch is a senior author at Tom's Guide covering wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she's not in cyborg mode, you can find her on an exercise bike or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot army volition dominion the world one 24-hour interval, but until and so, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.