Fitbit - Sense Advanced Smartwatch
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Last updated: Jan 4, 2026 Scoring
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"Been using them for about four years working out in my gym, and cycling daily (45+ minutes on a bicycle outdoors)."
"I even washed them accidentally and still worked perfectly fine afterwards."
"I still have the Kirby my grandma bought brand new in 1970."
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"especially because of the battery life. ... The mouse I had right before this was the steelseries super light one, that was an every other day charge at minimum. Whereas this one is like once a week at most - and I work from home and game all night."
"offers significantly better battery life ... insane battery life"
"Oh, and the battery lasts days even when exercising a lot (weeks without excercise)."
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"No issues with the Sense missing any distance."
"In terms of tracking, the fitbit wins hands down. ... It is and has been consistent with tracking data, downloading, and only lost a few days data when I needed a replacement charger."
"it's great at tracking those metrics"
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"It's absolutely local, Dyson Air purifiers run an MQTT Broker that the integration connects to natively (you don't need to have MQTT installed at all, the integration does its own thing independently) ... a completely local MQTT based integration"
"the Google Assistant feature that I used so many times a day"
"Temperature, humidity, nitrogen dioxide, PM2. 5, PM10, VOC, Formaldehyde... The carbon Monoxide sensor is a separate sensor I added to the room, not Dyson. Also filter life, night mode, on off, auto, movement."
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"Mine just did the same thing yesterday and this also worked for me to fix the issue."
"I ran into this once with my Sense and followed the instructions here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Sense/Fitbit-Sense-Stuck-in-Startup-Loop/td-p/4942987 ... I don’t know if it will work for everyone but it did work for me."
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"The j7 got stuck often, maybe 1 out of 4 cleanings it either sucked up a cat toy or jammed itself under something."
"or the rollers don’t load up with hair and melt the CHM."
"I had many times where sonar audio devices flat out wouldn’t work properly and required a restart or reinstall to fix, and I got tired of it."
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"About a year and the right bud would last about 15 minutes on a full charge."
"after about 6 months of use, the battery life fell off dramatically. ... I'm lucky if I get 45 minutes out of a full charge. ... This battery issue affected both sets of Elite 65t earbuds."
"my vivoactive 4s died a few months ago now after a few good years services, I wanted to change it. I couldn't because I had the change the whole watch, planned obsolescence."
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"It is NOT the watch for tracking. ... while not working out, it barely tracks ANY of my steps around the house. Literally off by 1000-2000+ in the evening."
"Don’t get this if you want a good health-tracking watch because it’s nowhere close to that. ... Sometimes, it won’t even record my runs—it shows that tracking has started, but when I check later, it’s still at zero. ... Even when it does record, the exercise time only appears in one widget on the app’s home screen, while the activity ring stays empty. ... I haven’t used my watch in over a month because it’s just not worth wearing if the tracking is so inaccurate."
"the fitness tracking is pretty bad ... the heartrate monitoring is terrible ... they dropped the ball with the fitness tracking"
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"Now I just lost another important feature on my Fitbit Sense, the Google Assistant feature that I used so many times a day."
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"My fitbit sense 1 just completely died on me."
"constant boot loop and I never was able to recover it."
"I ran into this once with my Sense ... similar looping/booting issues with their Fitbit"
I have a Fitbit sense I purchased a year ago after my versa 2 screen started having display issues after 4 plus years and the charge was down to 3 days. I love fitbits because of the long battery life and it has enough features for me. I don’t want a watch that has a smaller screen or needs charged daily … been there before and didn’t like it.
r/fitbit • Would you buy a Fitbit watch again? ->I absolutely would, especially now with the AI coach. It suits my needs and I have aong history with Fitbit. I replaced my Sense with a Sense2 earlier this year.
r/fitbit • Would you buy a Fitbit watch again? ->I bought a Sense a few years but the screen cracked so I bought Versa (2maybe?) and the battery completely broke and now I'm back to my original Sense! Cracked but still works well! I've been wanting a new fitness tracker, and while I have been using Fitbit for many years, I've been so disappointed but I just don't know what else I would be happy with.
r/fitbit • Would you buy a Fitbit watch again? ->Mine just did the same thing yesterday and this also worked for me to fix the issue.
r/fitbit • I am never ever buying another Fitbit ->I have a Fitbit Sense that I got for free after the Ionic had a battery recall. Luckily mine is still working fine. However I am trading it in for $55 to Best Buy with my Pixel Watch 4 pre-order. You could try doing the same thing but it's possible they will notice that the Sense isn't working and not give you the credit, but who knows. I will miss Fitbit's great battery life but I am looking forward to having a proper watch OS.
r/fitbit • I am never ever buying another Fitbit ->I got a sense when it first came out. Had it for 2 years and got the pixel watch when it first came out. When I went to reset the sense to hand it down to my wife, constant boot loop and I never was able to recover it. Support was useless. Pixel watch is still going strong after almost 3 years tho. Considering the upgrade to the watch 4 or may wait for watch 5.
r/fitbit • I am never ever buying another Fitbit ->The reason I like my 570 is mainly the sizing options. The 42mm is perfect me along with the fact that I got a 25% discount code that expired after 10 days. My fitbit sense 1 just completely died on me. Essentially, it came down to the 265s or the 570. I went with the updated version.
r/Garmin • Is the Forerunner 570 the worst choice in Garmin’s current lineup? ->For anyone else have similar looping/booting issues with their Fitbit, I ran into this once with my Sense and followed the instructions here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Sense/Fitbit-Sense-Stuck-in-Startup-Loop/td-p/4942987 I don’t know if it will work for everyone but it did work for me.
r/fitbit • I am never ever buying another Fitbit ->I have a fitbit sense & a circular 2 ring. I've had the circular 2 for about a month & the fitbit sense for 4-5 years. Both will track heart rate, sleep, steps, menstrual cycle, do breathing exercises ( circular only via the app), meditation, ecg testing for afib, etc. In terms of tracking, the fitbit wins hands down. It is and has been consistent with tracking data, downloading, and only lost a few days data when I needed a replacement charger. The Circular is having data outages, losing 4 days of data & needed a factory reset and has been a pain in the ass. As far as it thinks, I don't sleep. The saving features are: stress level tracking, live measurement data as it includes real time SPO2 information& Kira ( their wellness AI). If I had to recommend one, it would be the fitbit.
r/ChronicIllness • Health Tracker Suggestions ->I have had both and the Ultra 2 isnt even close to the Fitbit Sense. Ultra gets 1.5 days with a 30 minute daily GPS workout and normal smartwatch functions. Sense easily got 3x better duration.
r/AppleWatch • I’m really tired carrying an out-of-battery watch around. ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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