The insights themselves are helpful, but they’re often very short (only a couple sentences) and, as far as I can tell, you only get one insight a night. In fact, I only have one complaint with Sleep Insights: I want more. One of the best features of Fitbit’s new sleep tracking is called “Sleep Insights,” in which the app provides advice or observations based on your sleep “performance.” Sometimes, the insights simply commend you for keeping a regular schedule other times, they give advice, such as mentioning you may want to change your sleep environment if you’re not sleeping well enough. Are these minor issues? Of course, but I’d hope that Fitbit irons out these issues in later updates. And while the Fitbit can record naps, it’ll only provide Sleep Stages for a regular night’s sleep. Another time, I left my Fitbit on my bed for a few hours to charge, and for some reason, it thought I took a nap. I have a habit of lying on my couch and checking my social media feeds after I have breakfast-c’mon, you do it sometimes too-and in a few instances, the Alta HR thought I was still trying to sleep and listed the half hour after I “woke up” as part of my sleep stats. The tracking isn’t without its quirks, however. You can set a sleep goal for each night (by default, it’s set to eight hours), and the app will congratulate you for hitting your goal. More important, I thought the “Benchmark” feature-which shows how long an average person spends in each stage of sleep-was particularly useful, as I genuinely had no idea that 15-20% of deep sleep each night is completely normal. The diagrams showing your sleep patterns are mostly straightforward, and easy enough to understand.
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Unlike other sleep tracking apps I’ve tried (such as SleepAs Android and Sleep Better by Runtastic), Fitbit’s sleep tracking tech doesn’t need to be told when you’re going to sleep-the Alta HR automatically recognizes when you’re falling asleep, and, from my tests, it’s pretty good at it. Overall, the Alta HR is a useful and valuable sleep tracker.
I’ll admit that my sleep schedule has been spotty at best-and that’s why I’ve long sought a sleep tracker that could tell me how I normally sleep, and adjust my sleep cycle accordingly. If you’re looking for a new fitness tracker that does all of the basics, it’s hard to say no to the Alta HR.īut in this test, I especially wanted to drill into the Alta HR’s Sleep Stages tech. The small LCD screen is still large enough to tell time and provide text notifications, and thankfully the battery lasts long enough so that you don’t have to worry about charging daily (I had to charge mine about every five days). It’s compact, visually appealing, and reinforces Fitbit’s reputation for accurate and useful fitness tracking. Fitbit provided an Alta HR so I could test the effectiveness of Sleep Stages.įirst, a word about the Alta HR: I think it’s an excellent all-around fitness tracker. If you own a Charge 2, Blaze, or the brand-new Alta HR, you can take advantage of the Sleep Stages. With Sleep Stages, Fitbit claims that its sleep tracking has taken a major step forward and can provide information that you’d normally only be able to get from expensive sleep studies, such as accurate records of how long you spend in light sleep, deep sleep, and REM. For a long time, the only way to get truly accurate sleep tracking was by shelling out for a dedicated sleep tracker like the Withings Aura, and even then they’re not perfect. Sleep tracking often feels like a white whale for many fitness-tracking companies-often, even popular fitness trackers are inaccurate at best.
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