9 Best Smartwatches (2025): Apple, Wear OS, Hybrid & Kids' Watches

Other Smartwatches to Consider

The fig of smartwatches connected the marketplace is staggering. I’ve tested models from Tag Heuer, Citizen, Montblanc, and galore different manner brands, but astir of them are simply excessively costly for what you get. Here are a fewer options I like.

Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra for $650: The 47-mm Galaxy Watch Ultra (7/10, WIRED Review) is the company's Apple Watch Ultra and Garmin competitor, and it's a coagulated archetypal introduction into the satellite of pricey, feature-rich, and almighty smartwatches designed for nonrecreational athletes. It lasts a small implicit 2 days connected a complaint due to the fact that it's a large 47-mm ticker and tin battalion a beefy battery. There's a titanium lawsuit and sapphire solid face, positive it's rated to 10 ATM and IP68, truthful you tin submerge it up to 100 meters underwater. The bosom complaint tracker is remarkably accordant with the Apple Watch Ultra 2, and the dual-band GPS delivers close mapping. The bundle isn't arsenic intuitive, and a fewer features are lacking erstwhile compared to different show smartwatches, but this is simply a bully commencement if you're successful the satellite of Android.

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE for $160: The Galaxy Watch FE is simply a good fund Wear OS smartwatch, but I deliberation it's much sensible to bargain the Galaxy Watch6 bid if you're trying not to walk overmuch due to the fact that you tin find them connected merchantability for astir the aforesaid price. The 40-mm Galaxy Watch FE has a smaller surface that doesn't get arsenic bright, and sports a slower processor and a smaller battery, truthful you'll person a richer acquisition by spending conscionable a small more. The wellness sensors are astir the same, and I got close results with bosom complaint and slumber tracking. The artillery besides lasts conscionable astir a day, if not a small less.

OnePlus Watch 2 for $300: This is past year's OnePlus smartwatch, but it's inactive available. It seems similar a amended worth present that the OnePlus 3's terms has been jacked up. Avoid paying $300 for it (it's often $250 connected Amazon, though I'd reason waiting for an adjacent amended sale). The 46-mm OnePlus Watch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) runs Wear OS and lasts astir 3 days connected a azygous charge, a small much if you alteration immoderate power-saving settings. The wellness capabilities are lacking—there's nary autumn detection oregon electrocardiogram—but there's slumber tracking, and it's beauteous accurate. Some features, similar heart-rate tracking, region traveled, and steps, person mixed accuracy successful my testing, which means you shouldn't bargain this smartwatch if you're chiefly utilizing it for those functions. Also, see the OnePlus Watch 2R, which you tin snag for little cash. The differences are mostly astir physique quality. The surface doesn’t get arsenic bright, it has an aluminum lawsuit alternatively of stainless steel, and there’s nary sapphire crystal protecting the screen, truthful it’s little durable. However, this makes it lighter and much comfy to wear.

Apple Watch Series 9 for $301: The Series 9 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a large smartwatch, but debar buying it astatine its MSRP. Try to hold for a merchantability and walk little than $300 connected it. It has each the accustomed wellness and fittingness features, and extras similar Double Tap. (You tin pat 2 fingers connected your ticker manus to judge oregon cull calls, reply to messages, commencement oregon extremity timers, and more. It's ace handy.)

CMF Watch Pro 2 for $69: CMF is simply a sub-brand by Nothing, and its Watch Pro 2 is simply a shockingly bully value. It looks charismatic (very minimalist!), and you tin swap retired the strap oregon adjacent the bezel signifier if you'd like. This is 1 of the uncommon sub-$100 smartwatches I similar wearing that feels large connected the wrist. So galore of them look truthful bland and deficiency personality. It runs a proprietary operating strategy but works with some iPhones and Android devices via Bluetooth. I've been capable to presumption notifications from my telephone (you tin lone respond to immoderate with canned responses), and the bosom complaint and slumber tracking person been close for a fund device, adjacent if it takes a small longer to process and amusement you the results. My measurement count, however, was disconnected compared to higher-end smartwatches. You tin way exercises with it, and it adjacent has GPS to supply mapping data, though the details are beauteous basic, and there's nary further discourse to the numbers. You tin power euphony playback, alteration ticker faces (they're each precise beauteous connected the AMOLED display), and cheque the weather. The app is slick, though I person noticed the ticker tends to get disconnected, truthful immoderate notifications don't travel done each the time. Sometimes, the surface connected the ticker gets stuck connected 1 screen, and I person to property the crown to spell backmost to the location screen. These are reasonably insignificant quibbles, particularly considering the fantabulous 10-day artillery beingness I was capable to hit. I went to Paris for a fewer days and came back, and I didn't adjacent bring the charger. It's uncommon to find this benignant of worth for $69.

Withings ScanWatch 2 for $350: The ScanWatch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) tin walk for an analog watch. Its health-tracking diagnostic acceptable is comprehensive—you get bosom complaint monitoring, an electrocardiogram, humor oxygen measurements, and slumber tracking. Battery beingness is stellar too, arsenic it tin unrecorded up to 30 days with airy use. (Heavier usage volition spot astir 22 days earlier needing a charge.) The main occupation is the tiny show connected this watch, which is excessively tiny to work immoderate notifications. The GPS is besides connected, meaning it requires your telephone to beryllium tethered and nearby. There's an optional Health+ subscription, but we'd counsel against it, arsenic it doesn't connection overmuch utility. The ScanWatch 2 comes successful a 42-mm oregon 38-mm lawsuit size and doesn't person the affluent features and apps you'll find connected the likes of an Apple Watch, but if you privation to show your wellness data—and you don't privation your ticker to look excessively techy—this volition bash the job.

Google Pixel Watch 2 for $249: The archetypal Pixel Watch was missing a batch of features erstwhile it launched, but Google dilatory added them implicit a year. That means the Pixel Watch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) has astir everything you'd want. There's auto-start and auto-stop workout detection, autumn detection, SpO₂ measurements, and adjacent a redesigned Fitbit app that looks overmuch much modern. Google has adjacent added Safety Check, allowing you to stock your determination with exigency contacts if you don't respond aft a definite time. And newer updates person added features similar Car Crash Detection and Bicycle Fall Detection. It's a beauteous ticker and comfy connected the wrist. It besides nails its wellness and fittingness features, from reliable bosom complaint and sleep-tracking information to an improved workout surface that shows you the astir important accusation astatine a glance, including bosom complaint zones. The artillery beingness is, unfortunately, conscionable OK—it'll past astir a day.

Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 5 Enduro for $350: A smartwatch’s plan is important. You person to bask wearing it! Unfortunately, I consciousness perfectly thing for Mobvoi's latest watch; the Enduro is conscionable plain boring. That's a shame due to the fact that it's a coagulated Wear OS ticker that's snappy and tin present a whopping 4 days of artillery beingness connected a azygous complaint acknowledgment to the company's clever dual-display exertion (it uses a low-power sheet for the always-on screen, and an OLED for erstwhile you commencement interacting with it). The different problem? Mobvoi is mediocre astatine delivering timely bundle updates, and who knows if this ticker volition adjacent get the existent Wear OS 5 version.

Huawei Watch D2 for £291: At archetypal glance, this smartwatch looks similar a chunky Apple Watch knock-off. It's not sold successful the US, but the crushed to bargain it, if it is disposable successful your area, is the reasonably well-hidden, inflatable humor unit cuff successful the strap. Huawei’s Watch D2 is the lone smartwatch to connection Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM), which tin instrumentality measurements implicit 24 hours, thing that is captious to summation an close representation of your wellness due to the fact that humor unit changes passim the day. This smartwatch is besides reasonably bully astatine fittingness and slumber tracking, but there’s nary dependable adjunct unless you person a Huawei phone, and the app lacks polish and is airy connected penetration (you get data, but precise small mentation of what it means). The Watch D2 did thing to dispel my archetypal content and failed to lucifer our different picks present connected astir fronts, but if you’ve been advised to support a adjacent oculus connected your humor pressure, it could beryllium worthy a look. —Simon Hill

Avoid These Smartwatches

Not each smartwatch is simply a winner. Here are a fewer ones we've tried that aren't worthy the dough.

Montblanc Summit 3 for $1,270: This is simply a beauteous (and large) smartwatch, but it runs Wear OS 3, which is ace dated. There's nary speaker, nary Google Assistant, and the fittingness features consciousness half-baked. It conscionable doesn't connection each that overmuch different than a beauteous face.