Smartwatches you need 2024

Now days watches not only displays time but can also elevate your outfit and make you feel good. Best smartwatches can do even more, from tracking your workouts and measuring your heart rate to serving up notifications and access to voice assistants. While you’re wearing a connected watch, you can leave your phone in your pocket and use your wrist for simple tasks.

Apple Watch Series 9

The Apple Watch is the best smartwatch money can buy. It has the best operating system, watch OS, with plenty of apps to help reduce the number of times you need to pull out your phone. The Series 9 is nearly identical to its predecessor, series 8, but can process Siri requests on the device, making it snappier and more private. That means you can ask the voice assistant about your health data from the week prior and get results quickly. This is thanks to the S9 chip, which is more efficient and delivers slightly better battery life—you’ll still need to regularly recharge the watch.

Samsung Galaxy Watch6

Galaxy Watch6 is a great option for anyone with an Android smartphone, especially Samsung owners, as a few features like the electrocardiogram and irregular heart rate alerts only work when paired with Samsung phones note this watches don’t work with iPhones at all. Each model has two sizes you can choose from, with the option to spend more on an LTE version for constant connectivity even if your phone isn’t nearby. Very simple to check notifications, respond to messages, and even control your smart home devices via SmartThings or Google Home.

Google Pixel Watch 2

The Pixel Watch 2 has almost everything you’d want. There’s auto-start and auto-stop workout detection, fall detection, SpO₂ measurements, and even a redesigned Fitbit app that looks much more modern. Google has even added Safety Check, allowing you to share your location with emergency contacts if you don’t respond after a certain time. A Body sensor feature can also detect good and bad stress and offer ways to cope, like with a guided breathing session. And newer updates since have added features like Car Crash Detection and Bicycle Fall Detection. This is easily still the prettiest smartwatch for now, and it’s super comfy on the wrist. It also nails its health and fitness features, from reliable heart rate and sleep-tracking data to an improved workout screen that shows you the most important information at a glance, including heart rate zones. You can take electrocardiograms and monitor for an irregular heart rate too. The only downside battery life is unfortunately ok but it will last about a day and this watch is also not repairable.

Garmin Watch Vivo move

The first Garmin watch to include wireless charging, which means you’re now free to ditch your annoying Garmin plug-in charger. The watch is wireless charging, blood oxygen measurements, sleep tracking, auto-activity tracking, and Garmin’s proprietary and excellent algorithms for measuring your fitness. It’s a little clunky to operate—it’s not anywhere near as feature-rich as the other smartwatches above—but that might be OK if you prioritize battery life, as this tracker can last five days on a single charge.

Fitbit Ace LTE watch

There are of poor-quality kids watch that’s why we’re a little more comfortable recommending the Fitbit Ace LTE. Google-owned Fitbit promises not to store children’s health data for research, and it will delete location history after 24 hours and all health data after 30 days. This watch has cellular connectivity, so you don’t need to add it to your carrier’s cellular plan. You can set contacts and your kids can make phone calls and texts through the watch to the Fitbit Ace app, and they can share their location via Google Maps. Fitbit is bringing the gamified fitness tracking experience that adults are used to for kids with Fitbit Arcade, and there’s even a Tamagotchi-like virtual characters your kids can take care of. These games are time-based, so your kids can hit their activity goals by completing them, and the parental controls let you set limits, like School Time, which locks down many of the watch’s features. It’s a great way for your kid to go out and be independent, while also giving you the peace of mind in knowing how to reach and find them easily.

Casio CA53W-1CR Calculator Watch

This calculator watch has buttons that are tiny, but you can calculate how much your tip will be when grabbing the bill at the restaurant, and everyone will marvel at your brilliance. This great watch from Casio is a classic—it’s comfy and lightweight—and you can cycle through a few modes, including a stopwatch, an alarm, and a second time zone. There’s a five-year battery life, and the fully automatic calendar goes through the year a century.

Life One Plus Watch 2

The OnePlus Watch 2 is great for anyone with an Android phone looking for a Wear OS smartwatch that prioritizes battery life. It can last roughly three days on a single charge, a little more if you enable some power saving settings. Technically, this watch is powered by two chipsets and two operating systems to enable this feat of battery longevity, but the user experience is very similar to that of the Galaxy Watch6 or Pixel Watch 2, just with OnePlus taking the helm on the health and fitness features. It’s worth noting that this is a large watch, so consider it carefully if you have small wrists. Health capabilities are lacking—there’s no fall detection or electrocardiogram—but there’s sleep tracking, and it’s generally pretty accurate. Some features, like heart-rate tracking, distance traveled, and steps, have mixed accuracy in our testing, which means you shouldn’t buy this smartwatch if you’re primarily using it for those functions.

Withings Scan Watch 2

Withings’ ScanWatch 2 can pass for an analog watch. Its health-tracking feature set is comprehensive—you get heart rate monitoring, an electrocardiogram, blood oxygen measurements, and sleep tracking. Battery life is stellar too, as it can live up to 30 days with light use. The main problem is the tiny display on this watch, which is too small to read some notifications. The GPS is also connected, meaning it requires your phone to be tethered and nearby. There’s an optional Health+ subscription, but we’d advise against it, as it doesn’t offer much utility.

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