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fitbit's newest band adds heart rate is it worth it I'm Scott Stein and I need to get healthier a lot of people do and the new Fitbit charge HR has heart rate built-in which is new for Fitbit and new in a lot of wearables moving beyond pedometers that count steps this uses green LEDs to track your heart rate on your wrist now for resting heart rate it does a pretty good job and it's comparable to things like the basis peak that I'm wearing here that also uses green LEDs if you're doing active exercise the Fitbit does targeted sessions of that too now people who have used it at the gym at the office and when I've been trying it it's a little variable there that's because this type of heart rate monitor isn't as good as the one that you wear on your chest at the moment so if you're really looking for super exact heartrate this is not it but if you want to find out your resting heart rate or how are you doing at night when you're sleeping this does it and the app allows you to track that in a little chart that's on all the time this does 24-hour heartrate for a month five days of battery life charge but what's that for you know if you're using the pedometer and using Fitbit you're counting 10,000 steps a day is your metric there's no real metric for heart rate in terms of telling you well you got to do this and then you'll be healthy you'll see your heart rate and you'll know that you're in different activities zones but my heart rate ran higher sometimes because I was having coffee and it counted it as fat burn so it gets confusing and there's no easy guide I would love to see that in Fitbit sap I'd love to see that in heart rate monitoring apps because until that happens it's a confusing area for people to dive into but if you have wanted to add a little bit of heart rate to a fitness band this is $20 more than the previous Fitbit and feels pretty similar not a bad deal I'm Scott Stein this is the Fitbit charge HR available now