Amazfit - Helio Ring

I'm a big fan of Xiaomi products and their sister products. Redmi, Yi, Amazfit. I'm wearing the amazfit gtr3 watch. I find it excellent, but not much of a work out type, it counts steps, monitors spo2 and heart rate / sleep. I like it a lot. It's not a medical device I know, but I'd see it as an indicator. Also have the Helio ring, the zepp app on android aggregated the results of the measurements, supposedly giving more accurate results. Get over a week with the watch after about an hour's charge, circa 3 days on the ring.

First off, no smart rings are good at fitness tracking beyond auto tracking of steps and calories with walking/running - at this point anyway. In fact, one that is designed for fitness tracking (Helio Ring) appears to be one of the worst performers in this in my experience. Having many different categories to be able to manually track fitness activities implies that they will have accuracy, but that isn't really the case. Some may do okay with HR and HRV, but step count is lacking and vice versa. Second, it is not recommended to wear a smart ring while lifting weights. Usually people cite the risk of degloving (your ring "degloving" the skin from your bone), but there are also risks of less dramatic finger injury, damage to the ring itself, as well as just being uncomfortable. It's recommended for the above reasons to wear a decent smart watch or chest strap for close accuracy with fitness tracking...then allow the the data to sync in Apple Health or Google Fit. Ultrahuman now allows that data to also [sync back into it's own app.](https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartRings/comments/1hu57us/comment/m5n4p8i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

While I agree with you on the fitness tracker comments, I disagree on the subscription fees. Oura is the only smart ring that charges a subscription fee...and they are losing marketshare because of it. AmazFit Helio Ring tried to charge a subscription fee for premium features of their app, but, after a few months, lowered the price of their ring AND now bundle the premium features for free. Ultrahuman has third-party add-ons called PowerPlugs. There are 12 of these niche add-ons and only two require a subscription. Cardio Adaptability, and Region-Limited AFib Detection. RingConn did say that they were considering subscription fees at one point before their Gen 2 started shipping, but later said they decided against it.

It's a bad deal because why buy this when you can get the Amazfit Helio for half the price which tracks even more.

Well this was a huge disappointment after the hype they built up with this. Did they get the memo that Amazfit Helio was released earlier this year with better sensors for half the price? All they needed to do was have a improved sensor and a competitive price. Swing and a miss, nothing to see here.

I would not wear the amazfit helio on my wrist. The post even says it has better tracking than the whoop when he moved it up his wrist. And I would wear it on my bicep where it has excellent HR tracking

In the Chase the Summit video he mentions that he asked polar if they were planning on releasing bicep bands for the loop and he said the answer was unclear. Which seems absurd considering that yes, they already have wearable hr monitors for your bicep. But my point is that you can get very accurate heart rate data from the amazfit helio

The amazfit Helio has worse tracking, horrible sleep detection (not stages, it actually always misses you waking up), and horrible recovery/load algorithms. https://www.reddit.com/r/whoop/comments/1n6iznn/ultimate_wearable_showdown_whoop_mg_50_vs/

Pasting my reply The amazfit Helio has worse tracking, horrible sleep detection (not stages, it actually always misses you waking up), and horrible recovery/load algorithms. https://www.reddit.com/r/whoop/comments/1n6iznn/ultimate_wearable_showdown_whoop_mg_50_vs/

You could use a amazfit Helio it's a alternative for a whoop but cheaper and without the subscription. Ot does everything you mention in your post

Amazfit Helio is 99 bucks and provides more than enough data for a "regular" person like you. Accurate HR, HRV and HR zones all available and many other stats, I also really like PAI, you score points on heart rate, so you have to do enough exercise every week to score enough points.

After all the hype, I have to say I’m disappointed. \- The weight is higher than both the WHOOP and Helio, and the battery life is shorter too. \- On top of that, I haven’t seen any meaningful updates on the Polar Flow app. I was holding off to see how it turned out, but looks like I’ll be going with the Amazfit Helio instead.

Swim, poor app, and no vibration alarm. Those are part of Amazfit Helio for $99...

Whoop and Amazfit Helio.

I decided to get amazfit helio. What a let down. All that hype for an overpriced product that missed the mark

Amazfit have terribly inaccurate tracking of pretty much everything.

I had my lesson learnt when I pre-ordered Polar VV3. Fortunately, now it is good enough for me but at that time during the launch time, it is a pain. One big thing I learn is that Polar keep improving its product but they do it very very very sloooooowly. So now I am using Amazfit Helio and will come back again in a year or so to check Polar Loop again.

Get the Amazfit Helio. No subscription, good app and it does have vibration

Could be fake reviews. Amazfit (by Xiaomi) are legit and very cheap as well.