The good news is that everything is done automatically. The data seems to be alright, but it’s not perfect, nor backed by any science. When you wear Halo on your wrist during sleep, it tracks the time you were awake, time in REM sleep, light sleep, and deep sleep, then gives you a sleep score out of 100. It’s missing the social element you get with your friends on Apple Watch.Īpple Watch and Fitbit are better fitness trackers. It does a fine job tracking activity, but it doesn’t provide proper fitness motivation. You’re not buying Halo as an activity tracker. If you want to go a more affordable route, Fitbit Inspire 2 is usually under $100, and it has a screen, 10-day battery, and doesn’t require a subscription service. While the entry-level Apple Watch is just $199, making them about the same price assuming a two-year ownership. Halo is $99 and will cost $48/year for the membership. It’s an interesting approach and differs from Apple Watch’s Move Ring, which shows a continuous amount of active calories you’ve burned. I go hard every day, and I realize the average person doesn’t, but why can’t I tailor this number to me? For someone who works out consistently, 150 points will be achievable in just a couple of days. You get 1 point for light or moderate activity and 2 points for intense. Halo categorizes your activity level by intense, moderate, light, or sedentary by using your heart rate.Īmazon uses a point system where you need 150 points per week. In one way, auto logging of exercise is better than Apple Watch because the only time Apple auto-detects is when you start a run. My heart rate readings are pretty much right on with my Apple Watch while wearing them simultaneously. After you exercise, the activity type can be changed to whatever you want for a proper log. Halo won’t know the type of workout, but it’ll see the heart rate spike and automatically start recording. Without the monthly subscription, it’ll count your steps, check on your heart rate, and tell you how much sleep you got, but it won’t do basic things, like keep track of your workouts, your activity intensity, or track of your sleep cycles. Halo is $4/month to get access to basic fitness and sleep tracking stats. In this post, I’ll guide you through Amazon Halo’s four main features, and give the things I like and don’t like along the way. And to make matters worse, after the six-month trial, it’ll require a $4/month subscription fee to be a useful device. It’s not a great activity or sleep tracker.
I bought the Amazon Halo in October and have had it on my right wrist for at least half of the days since.īut I’m struggling to figure out who should buy this.
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