Your guide to the latest and best fitness trackers of 2017. Check out our latest reviews and buyers’ guide on the top activity trackers for this year.
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Fitness trackers , which are also called activity trackers, activity monitors or fitness bands, are like high-tech pedometers that can count your steps and then estimate the distance you’ve travelled and the calories you’ve burned. See also: Best Fitbit.
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You can use fitness trackers to monitor your activity, but the general idea is that they spur you on to exercise more, helping you to get fitter and/or lose weight.
Some fitness trackers have a display that shows you steps and calories information, and often the time too, and they tend to be worn on the wrist like a watch or clipped onto your clothes.
Any data they capture will then be synced with an app on your smartphone , tablet or PC, and there you’ll find a more detailed view of your activity.
You might also be able to add friends that use the same brand of fitness tracker to compete against, but not every fitness tracker offers this. Pitting yourself against others can be extremely motivational.
Bear in mind that fully fledged smartwatches also offer fitness tracking but it tends to be basic so very few have made it into this chart.
