The Best Smartwatches of 2024

Addressing the criticisms of its predecessor, the OnePlus Watch 2 boasts a dual-chip architecture, featuring the BES 2700 ultra-low-power Bluetooth chipset and the Snapdragon W5 chipset. This innovative setup ensures seamless performance by efficiently managing tasks and conserving battery life, promising a lasting and responsive user experience throughout the day.

Available in Black Stainless Steel or Silver Radiant Steel finishes, with a 22mm interchangeable band, the smartwatch meets military-grade certification and boasts IP68 and 5ATM water-resistant ratings. This durability extends to its functionality, with features like an action button for quick access to workouts, ensuring versatility in various environments, from the gym to everyday wear.

The OnePlus Watch 2 shines in its functionality, equipped with Wear OS 4 and a range of Google apps pre-loaded for seamless integration with Android devices. Offering over 100 sports tracking modes, including auto workout detection and high-precision dual-frequency GPS, the smartwatch caters to fitness enthusiasts. Despite some minor drawbacks such as reduced battery life with the always-on display and the absence of certain health tracking features like ECG and menstrual cycle tracking, the OnePlus Watch 2 stands out as a compelling midrange option, delivering exceptional value for Android users seeking a reliable and feature-rich smartwatch experience.

Read our full OnePlus Watch 2 review.

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the best wearable that the Cupertino-based company has ever made. But it costs far than most people need to pay for a smartwatch and is perhaps tougher than your average weekend warrior needs it to be. So, who’s it for? Well, anyone that takes their outdoor adventures seriously. With its ultra-durable build quality, up to three days of battery life between charges (in low power mode: around 32 hours with regular use), and an always-on Retina LTPO OLED display with a maximum of 3,000 nits of brightness, so that it can still easily be read in bright sunlight, this is a smartwatch for those who take their outdoor time seriously.

It comes packing 64GB of storage, perfect for keeping offline topographical maps handy, a Night Mode watch face to help those trekking under the stars to maintain their night vision and an incredibly loud alert siren to help rescue personnel locate you in the woods, or, if you’re very lucky, scare away a hungry bear.

It’s also for those anyone with large wrists or who prefer their timepieces to be large and in charge. Its 1.93 x 1.73 x 0.57-inch case has a 49mm lug and weighs 2.17 ounces. Thanks to its larger size, the Ultra 2 is able to pack in one more button than other Apple Watches currently offer. This button is programmable and can be customized to meet your needs. Heck, it can even do duty as a dive watch. Of course, it also does everything else that any current generation Apple Watch is capable of: body metrics tracking, exercise tracking, GPS route finding, messaging, access to Siri, providing notifications sent from your connected iPhone and the ability to load hundreds of apps on to it to make it the ultimate EDC tool.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this device. If you can afford one, feel you need one for your outdoor endeavors or simply want it because of its chonky good looks, you won’t be sorry you purchased it. But because of how much it costs—and how capable its sibling, the Apple Watch Series 9 is at a much lower price—we’ve placed the Apple Watch Ultra 2 further down this list than you might expect.

Read our full review of the Apple Watch Ultra 2.

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Along with being one of the best smartwatches, the Fitbit Versa 3 is our best fitness tracker upgrade as well. We were most impressed by how much this fitness-first watch has to offer for the price, especially against the likes of Apple and Samsung.

Unlike the Versa 2, Fitbit added a dedicated GPS to the Versa 3, so you won’t need to tap into your phone’s GPS to track where and how far you run or walk. The watch's automated fitness tracking is incredibly responsive, too, without any notable delays or issues with tracking the wrong type of workout.

The Fitbit Versa 3 also has a long battery life and comes with plenty of other features and apps, making this platform-agnostic smartwatch great for iPhone and Android owners alike (something we can’t say about watches from Apple or Samsung). But the Versa 3 is especially good for Android owners; while both iPhone and Android owners can answer calls (not place them) from the Versa 3, Android owners can also voice-dictate a reply to text messages.

One major downside to the Versa 3: unlocking premium features like in-depth health analytics, sleep data, Calm app meditations, and Fitbit workout videos costs $10 per month or $80 per year. (You can read more about it here). Compared to Apple Fitness+, which costs the same as Fitbit’s subscription, Fitbit doesn’t integrate its paywalled features as seamlessly, and as our health and fitness team noted, its workout videos feel a lot like watching workout videos on YouTube.

Things like in-depth sleep analytics are already part of Apple’s and Samsung’s watch ecosystems for no additional cost. Still, if you're looking for a device-agnostic smartwatch with plenty of features, this is among the best out there.

Read our full FitBit Versa 3 review.

With it’s dual-layered screen, the Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 is a bit of an oddity in the smartwatch universe: Its main OLED display does all of the things you’d expect a smartwatch to do: touch interactions, show off the device’s colorful OS interface and allow you to access its full range of capabilities, while the low-powered display laid over top of it takes care of basic tasks such as, well, telling you the time. During testing, we weren’t able to tell how its low-powered secondary display affected the Pro 5’s battery life. But we were able to go three days before the watch needed to be recharged, putting it in the same battery space as the Apple Watch Ultra 2.

At the time we reviewed the Pro 5, it was running on Google’s Wear OS 3.5 operating system. Thanks to the wearable’s relatively speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 chipset, it handled daily tasks such as notifications, navigating various widgets and apps with ease. The Pro 5 also provided to be an impressive fitness tracker, with over 100 different activities that users can choose to track.

Unfortunately, there’s no word on when or if this otherwise-solid smartwatch will receive any software updates, or for how long Mobvoi plans to support the device. We were also disappointed by the fact that, despite it being fast and running the latest Watch OS, the Pro 5 lacks support for Google Assistant.

Read our full review Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 5.

Specifically tailored for adventurers, the Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar focuses on a robust toolset for enjoying and surviving in the outdoors, with smartwatch features taking a backseat. It's a device that emphasizes navigation, tracking metrics, and an impressive battery life that can last days or even weeks. Its 1.14-inch matrix display is clear in extreme conditions and its backlight ensures visibility in the dark. We liked how easy the Vertical was to navigate, using its well-spaced buttons and touchscreen even while wearing gloves.

As a fitness tracker, the Vertical is top-notch. Housing an array of health-tracking sensors, it’s adept at monitoring activities, from general fitness to specialized outdoor adventures. We love that it can store offline maps in its memory: a feature that makes it ideal for venturing into areas without cellular coverage.

That said, it lacks many of the niceties people expect from a premium smartwatch. It doesn't include offline music storage, tap-to-pay or cellular texting capabilities. We also noticed that there can sometimes be a very small amount of lag between when a UI element is chosen and when the watch takes action.

Read our full Suunto Vertical Titanium Solar review.

The headline here is an astoundingly low asking price. The Wyze Watch comes in two sizes (44mm and 47mm) both with a rectangular design that owes a debt to the Apple Watch line. The grey aluminum alloy case looks quite smart and there’s a single button on the right. The silicone band is comfortable and the Wyze Watch is IP68 certified, so it can be submerged in water for short periods without sustaining damage.

A slower processor in the 47mm model contrasts with the smaller screen and larger bezels in the 44mm model. Either way, the TFT LCD display is not the most responsive and the Wyze Watch requires a little patience. Fitness tracking is basic and includes a step count and calories burned estimation. There’s also a heart rate sensor and Sp02 sensor to measure your blood oxygen levels. Sleep tracking is automatic, but activity tracking has to be started manually and only seems to cover running.

You can configure the notifications you want to come through from your phone, but they are one-way only, so you can’t answer calls or respond to messages. Connectivity is occasionally flaky, but it works correctly most of the time. There’s no support for apps, music, mobile payments, or navigation. On the upside, battery life is very good, and most people will only need to charge the Wyze Watch once a week.

Ultimately, the Wyze Watch is a very basic smartwatch that offers one-way notifications, basic fitness and sleep tracking, long battery life, and not a great deal else, but that’s reflected in the bargain price.

Read our full Wyze Watch review.

With a colorful and bright AMOLED screen, detailed fitness and health tracking, and up to 14-days of battery, the Amazfit GTS has a lot going for it. This unashamed Apple Watch clone comes with support for Android phones as well as iOS, and is offered at a very affordable price.

At a distance, you could easily mistake the Amazfit for an Apple Watch, though the single button is located centrally on the right of the case. The build quality is inevitably nowhere near as good as Apple’s, and our review unit picked up a couple of tiny chips to the case during the first week, though it is waterproof and had no issue going through the shower. Setup is convoluted and requires lots of time-consuming updates, making the Amazfit GTS by far the worst out-of-box experience on our list.

The software and the companion app are a little confusing, but the fitness tracking features are impressively detailed. You’ll find heart rate tracking, the ability to record workouts, a standalone GPS, and detailed sleep tracking. The Amazfit GTS also offers something called PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence), which has been inspired by a scientific health study to push you toward enough physical activity to reduce your risk of heart disease and other health problems. While the scope of the fitness tracking features is impressive, and there’s lots of data to review, the accuracy is sometimes questionable—especially the step count.

The main weakness of the Amazfit GTS is the smartphone notifications. We had difficulty getting messages and call notifications to come through and they remained inconsistent throughout testing. There doesn’t seem to be any facility to send or reply to messages, simply a notification that a message arrived on your phone, and the Amazfit GTS can’t make or receive phone calls.

There are also no third-party apps, mobile payments, or voice assistant support. While this is a very affordable smartwatch, with a great screen and some interesting fitness tracking features, for most people it will be worth spending a little more for something better.