Amazfit - Helio Ring

I have a few devices that I like! Amazfit Active Watch and Helio Ring - theyre good all around fitness and sleep trackers. I use them mostly for sleep, steps and light heart rate tracking during the day. My downside to these is, like a lot of lower price smart devices, my watch only checks heart rate once a minute (unless it's set to an exercise mode), and the ring only every 5 minutes. Then (again, unless it's tracking a workout), it'll aggregate the heart rate data over 5 minute intervals for me to look at. It's all very accurate and gives a good quick picture of my day, but I wanted something with a bit more granularity to check our when I don't feel well. Sometimes I also find myself distracted during the day wearing the watch since it'll also send me notifications for texts and such. Visible 2.0 Armband - this is a new addition for me. I've had it a week now. This device only checks heart rate and HRV, but it is constantly monitoring the heart rate and gives you your HRV in the mornings (or during breathing exercise through the app). The data is presented minute-by-minute, it's incredibly accurate and gives a lot of helpful insights into when I'm pushing myself a little too hard. Downside here, it's subscription based. While my Amazfit watch was a one time like $90 payment, this band is an initial cost of $79 with a $20 a month subscription fee. With a referral code (which I used), it basically made it $59 for the band and the $20 initial first month payment. Slightly better but again, it is financially restrictive for some people. If youre interested though, I'd be happy to provide a referral because I do think it's a useful tool at least to gather information.

I went from garmin epix 2 to amazfit helio. Purely because sleeping with the garmin was painful for me whereas with the amazfit can’t feel it. That was the bottom line for me

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'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.

From my experience the Helios has way better sleep tracking then my Fenix 7 or 255m. The HR is much more accurate especially during lifting. For 99€ I don’t see why anybody wouldn’t get it.

Long Time whoop user here, who switched to the amazfit helio. The amazfit helio is just better than the whoop. The only downside is no journal, but to be honest I stopped using it after half a year on the whoop when I got all the relevant information out. The update frequency on amazfit helio is crazy.

Wouldn't get a Hume, I sent my one back! Get a Helio instead!

Polar Loop doesn’t have vibration sensor. That’s something which I liked in Whoop/Helio. I can wake up without disturbing my wife.

i just got a helio earlier this month for the same reason. I still wear my Garmin Instinct from time to time, and always use it to track workouts, hikes, etc…. The band give =s me the data i was looking for - plus it’s way more comfortable to sleep with.

The question is what all are you trying to track?? If it is heart rate, pick a device that connects to a Polar H10. Even the most accurate fitness trackers are perfect only when your heart rate is below 160bpm or something. They don't register well once you cross that. The polar will fix that shortcoming. If you just want heart rate tracking round the clock, or resting HR, Both Helios and AW will do a decent job. > Is amazfit helios even closely accurate to apple watch 10? Yes. It's "good enough". > Average Life of both the devices and how much time does it give you in a full charge Apple watches age well. However, You effectively need to recharge it daily. The Helios will last a week+ comfortably. > Should i consider other devices like fitness tracking rings ? Rings won't work well with barbells, kettlebells or heavy weights. The ring might get caught and you don't want to deglove your finger. 😶 (Please don't search for "deglove" online)

> . I want to track sleep, recovery etc Sleep tracking is terrible on every single device AFAIK. It's more of an approximation than a real sleep report. But you'll get there sleep time reasonably well on both AW and helios. Recovery metrics. I'm not sure if any device can even measure that or how it is measured (Okay, it uses HRV as data, but it is unreliable in concept itself) . 😶 You just have to go by feel on it. What your body tells will be the true answer and in my case has never lined up with whatever the apps say.