Top Smartwatches 2023

The Withings Steel HR Sport is the perfect marriage of analogue and digital, featuring an analogue watchface with all kinds of built-in smart tech. It’s thanks to this design that the Steel HR Sport looks at home when worn in the office or at the gym, and that’s not something that can be said about most fitness-focused smartwatches. It’s capable of tracking over 30 activities, from running to swimming and even Yoga or Ping Pong, and the 25-day battery life means you never need to worry about charging it. Couple that with an app that provides meaningful insight into the data collected by the smartwatch, and you’ve got the perfect fitness companion.

The attractive Samsung Galaxy Watch has better battery life and is easier to use than most smartwatches, but its fitness tracking features aren't up to par.

The Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 feels like a more polished effort than the last Fit and is definitely one of the nicest-looking cheap fitness trackers you can put on your wrist right now. It largely delivers on those tracking basics too, but comes unstuck when you turn to it for monitoring heart rate and tracking exercise. If you’re happy just dealing with those basics and a smattering of smartwatch features, you’ll be well served here. The Xiaomi Mi Band 5 though will likely offer you better value while Fitbit’s cheapest tracker will offer a more reliable tracking experience too.

The TicWatch Pro can last 30 days on a charge, but you won't get all the benefits of a smartwatch.

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The GTR Mini is a good looking and capable smartwatch for not a lot of money. Yes, the tracking isn’t as good as more expensive alternatives, but if you want a way to monitor your health all while exploring what smartwatches can do, it’s a solid and inexpensive choice.

The TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra is a good fitness-tracking smartwatch with a long battery life and great display. It should be even better when it gets upgraded to Wear OS 3.

The TickTalk 4 phone-watch is pretty bulky, but it offers reliable safety, communication, and tracking features that both kids and parents will appreciate.

Fitbit's health-focused Sense 2 smartwatch puts an emphasis on stress management while improving upon the original with a more responsive touch screen and longer battery life.

If you're ready to upgrade from a simple fitness tracker to a more serious sports watch, the Amazfit GTR 3 is a solid choice. It gives you a lot of fitness tracking tools for relatively little cash, its software and hardware are both well designed, and it's slim and light enough for everyday wear. Its battery life doesn't quite live up to Amazfit's claims though, so be prepared to charge it weekly if you want to use all its best features. Don't expect to install third-party apps either; Amazfit's Zepp OS is relatively new, and its store is quite bare.