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fitbit's stepped up its SmartWatch game with the Versa and it's ready to go head to head with the Apple watch this is Apple watch Series 3 vs. Fitbit versa both share a similar square face with rounded edges the Versa has three buttons and the Apple watch has one plus a digital crown they both have interchangeable straps a selection of metal finishes and you can choose a variety of watch bases to further customize the look so my main priority that I look for in a SmartWatch is fitness tracker first and then kind of SmartWatch second because that's what I use it for the most obviously you know to tell time and stuff like that but my main feature is the running I'm totally the opposite I am SmartWatch first and then fitness features second design wise I definitely noticed that the Fitbit for a lot will flush against my wrists than the Apple watch the Apple watch is much more chunky exactly that little bulge at the bottom with the sensors kind of starts digging into your skin after a while and almost least a little indentation if you wear it to time I thought the Apple watch was pretty confusing in terms of the digital crown I didn't know when to press it I'd know where to turn it or the other button like what do they do I eventually got used to it but then I put the Fitbit on and oh my goodness three buttons I had no idea what each of them did what kind of did bother me was that the straps are is hard to swap out and I do swap them out between running and going to work for example the Apple watch is much easier to swap out have you tried it I've tried the Apple watch but not okay we need to have this challenge let me do the Apple watch and I'll swap out the band and you try to solve out the Fitbit one alright okay yes am I gonna get blamed for this I know I'm just I'm glad it's not just me and then and I can say this because this is week this is everybody on the first try oh I'm embarrassed at how slow I am at this Lexi this is why I had to do it because I was worried it was just me so this is validation thing okay so at least it wasn't just me nori that's really tough to do if you've never encountered that before really hot it is no no no this this was me the first time changing it the Fitbit works with Android or iOS and the Apple watch is tied to Apple's ecosystem Fitbit mirrors the notifications from your phone and you can adjust what shows up from the Fitbit app but you can't call on your voice assistant or respond to a text Android users will be able to respond to text with canned responses in a future update the Apple watch lets you do a lot more especially if you have the LTE version so you can leave your phone at home it has basic functionality like making and taking calls responding to texts or even ordering a lift there are also a lot more third-party apps to choose from than the Fitbit the Apple watch lets you do mobile payments through Apple pay for payments with the versi you'll have to get the special edition and in the US this version costs $30 more both are water resistant up to 50 meters which means you can take them for a swim or wear them in the shower so when I was wearing the Fitbit I really did miss the ability to respond to text and I also missed this thing able to talk my messages like to take them through Siri I found it's pretty accurate for me most of the time and my you know my accent is not necessarily that easy to understand especially for voice assistants if they're sent to the US version but it does a pretty good job now I'm interested to know because you use English and Spanish yeah for me the dictation feature wasn't that useful because it it doesn't it doesn't know what language to respond in when I'm texting so oftentimes I would dictate in English and it would start trying to dictate some gibberish in Spanish and and vice-versa so I didn't use the dictation I do like the the ability to be free from the phone but at the same time I end up spending more time but I do like the other features of the watch like you know Apple pay is a big one for me and all sorry unlocking your the Apple watch my favorite feature of the Apple watch that I do miss when I'm wearing the Fitbit it's so simple but the Find My iPhone it's huge when I'm walking out the door if I can't ring my phone I'm like ah I just I miss that boy watches measure steps distance altitude and heart rate the Apple watch has built-in GPS to track distance and map your route the Fitbit relies on your phone's GPS but if you don't want to take it with you the Versailles uses steps and stride to calculate distance so going into it I thought I was really gonna miss the GPS tracker on the Fitbit it doesn't have one built-in and you have to rely on the phone but actually it wasn't as bad as I thought it's pretty accurate in tracking distance even when I don't take the phone along with me but I do like seeing my map and my accomplishment of my route in the Apple watch if I have been out and exercise I don't want to be tethered to a phone at all and so having GPS is such an important feature for me I don't like using those first party apps generally to track my R on my workouts whatever I'm doing I usually use the third-party app like Strava just something I can kind of track my progress over time and I'm competitive I want to see how I compare to other people and that motivates me even more one of the things that I did like a lot about the Fitbit that the Apple watch in Hamm was the coach app as a new mom who doesn't make it to the gym as often as I would like having the ability to summon a fitness instructor on my wrist wherever whatever for 10 minutes was really great just having those visuals about like how to do an exercise that was a huge game-changer for me both allow you to see a deeper breakdown of your information over time on their mobile apps fitbit's consolidates it into one app and lets you log other health data manually like food and water intake the Apple watch has a similar breakdown but it is split between the watch app the activity ring app and the health app I love the Fitbit app the fact that it translates the heart rate info into actual useful information is key for me you can look at a workout and see when you were in cardio zone or in fat burn mode or in your peak and so for a run I want to have reached my peak or else I'm not working hard enough or for Pilates I want to stay in fat burn zone as much as possible I really like that as well and when I went back to the Apple watch and I was trying to find the right data there's three apps to choose from I'm like do I look in my activity ring up no it's not that it's really can the health app nor like dog because we're gonna watch off like where am I supposed to look I really wish there was a consolidated way to kind of get all that information I'm sure that there are lots of other third-party options as well but you can do that with but just the native way to do it it's so much easier if you just have that all in one place rather than scattered over kind of three different areas and then the watch itself you can sing songs to each watch while they charge with the Apple watch you can only sync music from your Apple music library or stream over LTE while the Fitbit syncing process is more complicated you'll need the desktop app and you can only load songs you own if that's all too much trouble you can use Deezer or Pandora to sync playlists so when I was trying to put music on the Fitbit it took forever and the fact that I had to attach it to a computer was just another pain point rather than pulling across from the app so the good thing about the Apple watch is that yes you can pull across here and music pretty easily from your phone but you're tied to the Apple music ecosystem which is kind of annoying now I have a Spotify subscriber like Apple please please please please please and Spotify please please please please have some sort of integration because I want to be able to use my Spotify account for you you know you think I'm on there I don't use it that much so because it's so hard I would use it even less I mean the fact that it's so seamless over the Apple watch I do have songs on iTunes so it was a lot easier to transfer then the painstakingly long process on the Fitbit so I know that I would probably just load one playlist and then never even touch music again because it's so hard where the Fitbit really shines is battery life after about five days of wearing the Versa all day during workouts but not listening to music it still had about a 10% battery left the Apple watch struggles by comparison especially if you're using battery intensive features like LTE if you adjust tracking workouts and using it Samira notifications from your phone you'll probably get about a full day's use anything extra is a bonus okay Vanessa it's crunch time I'm gonna put you on the spot what is your favorite and least favorite parts of beach okay so for the Fitbit my favourite parts are just the comfort of wearing it all day the coach app I really like the price point and the battery life those are keys that's one of my biggest complaints about the Apple watch is that I do have to charge it every day but ironically my favorite parts of the Apple watch are what I don't like about the Fitbit is the fact that it doesn't have GPS and that it doesn't allow mobile payments I mean you do get the you can get this special edition so there's a way around that but in that sense I think the Apple X has it beat and the integration with all the third-party apps is I like that about the Apple watch how about you okay the fact of Fitbit is you know platform agnostic you can use Android or you can use iOS but someone that swaps between the phone ecosystem all the time I like the fact that I'll be able to use the Fitbit across whatever phone I'm using I just wish that you could respond to text messages but Android is coming soon so that's something at least and the music is the other big thing for me so because of the Apple watch and the Fitbit are kind of tied to these redeco systems themselves like in terms of how you put the music on until one of them gets a Spotify I think that's kind of like the big decision-maker for me as you mentioned the comfort and the battery life on a Fitbit is such a great advantage over Apple watch - sounds like you're not ready to commit until one of them gets Spotify on the other hand I will just take both of them then Lexi I'll just wear both of them one on each race what do you guys think which one did you like best which one would you buy let us know and vote in our poll thank you again for watching