A heart rate monitor has become a feature that separates serious fitness trackers from
basic step counters.
The value of
basic step counters and sleep trackers has changed as they've become commoditized and people start asking the hard questions about whether they truly help with health and fitness goals.
Garmin's Vivosmart 3 had a stab at something similar but Polar's A370 was the fitness tracker that made the best job of adding extra feedback about wellness and fitness to what appeared, on the face of it, to be
a basic step counter.
The Fossil Q Marshal packs up with
a basic step counter and sleeps counter to feed apps like Google Fit, Jawbone etc..
This is not
your basic step counter.
Not exact matches
Android Wear doesn't fill your watch with apps from the off, instead it acts as a companion, giving you
basic functions such as the time, stopwatch, alarms and the
step counter.
Although Matrix's watch doesn't do an awful lot — there are no WatchOS - style apps, and not even
basic notifications — the fact it's able to work as a
step counter and watch without the need of a battery is highly impressive.
More like a slimmed - down Fitbit Charge 2 than a standard
step counter, this is a stylish choice that does the
step»n' sleep - tracking
basics really well.