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Is apple watch worth it for tracking running/activities? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Apprehensive_Ad4717@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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I'd like a smart watch that tracks running, biking, and swimming distances and heart rate data. I'm already team iphone, so would apple watch be worth it for these purposes?

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[–] WhoWho22222@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s a great tracker. I use it for walks and I have never had a watch with GPS that has been as consistently accurate as my AW. Before this, I had a Garmin Venu and while it definitely had more metrics, the GPS just wasn’t consistent. And before that I had a Fitbit that was absolute garbage.

My AW doesn’t have the crazy level of metrics that the Garmin has but it does have enough. I don’t need 25 different metrics, most of which I don’t understand, for my walks and hikes. YMMV if you are an elite athlete or a marathon runner or something like that. For distance and heart rate, it is a fantastic device.

[–] red_vette@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The accuracy varies a lot from my experience. Both my buddy and I do a lot of mountain biking together. Separately he runs and while I mostly walk. We have both found that they can be off by 10-20% compared to our Garmin bike trackers on the trails and comparing our distances side by side. We have also both found them to be off by 10% or so with walking/running. This has been an open discussion since the Series 2 days and we have both upgraded regularly hoping the better processors would fix the issues. He even got an Ultra last year and it hasn't proven to be much better.

[–] WhoWho22222@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I only have two Apple watches to compare to and I tend to walk the same path over and over. They are always within a couple hundredths of a mile of each other. But I have a hiking buddy who has a new Venu 3 and sometimes they can be more off, like as much as a tenth of a mile.

For reference, I just hike and walk and the areas that I do this in are pretty flat and tree free.

[–] Mr-Echo@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the nice thing about the AW is the app store. If you are somebody who needs more metrics chances are somebody has made an app for it.

[–] CuriousDissonance@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

This