With an always-on color touch screen, a sleeker design, and new health tracking features, the Charge 5 is a significant upgrade over the previous model and Fitbit's best fitness tracker yet.

Color touch screen with always-on display option, Attractive design with metal case, Automatically tracks certain activities, Excellent companion mobile app, Robust stress management and sleep tracking features, Tracks overnight HRV, breathing rate, SpO2 and skin temperature variations, Supports...

No Spotify support, Limited exercise shortcut list, Clock faces aren't customizable

“The new-and-improved Fitbit Charge 5 delivers everything you could want in an advanced fitness tracker.”

Not the cheapest fitness tracker available, but it's definitely Fitbit's best - offering a fantastic blend of features, design, battery life and price.

Lovely OLED display, Solid performance, Built-in GPS, Good battery life, Fitbit app is excellent, Comfortable to wear, Great heart-rate monitoring and sleep tracking

No music control, Exercise options could be expanded, Display could be bigger, Some features not available at launch

The Fitbit Charge 5 is extremely impressive, and pulls together the best features of Fitbit's current lineup in one neat device. You get on-board GPS for tracking runs without a watch, an EDA (electrodermal activity) sensor for measuring stress responses, contactless payments, sleep tracking,...

On-board GPS, Excellent heart rate monitoring, Clean, simple interface, Contactless payments

No music controls, Limited on-screen workout data, Some features missing at launch

When the Charge 5 gets its most exciting health features turned on, it’ll be a tracker with big appeal for anyone that wants to pay closer attention to their health beyond tracking steps and runs

Finally gets a screen upgrade, Comfortable to wear 24/7, Easy to use interface, Solid heart rate monitoring

ECG sensor is not usable (yet), Daily Readiness Scores not live yet, Data insights locked behind Fitbit Premium, Iffy sports tracking accuracy

The Fitbit Charge 5 makes the fitness band every bit as desirable as the Versa, but the price will put some people off

Much more stylish, Bright, colourful OLED screen, Built-in GPS

More expensive than the Charge 4, No more Spotify controls, Daily Readiness score needs Fitbit Premium

Regular readers know I wear at least one, often two watches daily with one usually some type of smartwatch and the other a model of GPS sports watch . While I wear two watches, millions prefer a more minimalist approach to activity tracking and still prefer the classic band form factor.

High quality materials, Perfect smooth curves and comfort, Integrated GPS, ECG, EDA, and skin temperature, Fitbit ecosystem well supported, Fitbit Pay support

Readiness Score and ECG not yet available, Limited conncected notification experience

Fitbit’s newest fitness tracker, the Charge 5, might be the biggest change to the Charge line yet. It has a color screen, the first for a Charge, and you can opt to keep the screen on all the time. It has a new rounded design that’s thinner than the Charge 4.

Slim, lightweight design, Bright color screen, Long battery life

No physical buttons, Screen feels too small, Sometimes confusing UI

The Fitbit Charge 5 is a great fitness tracker, and a great fitness tracker only. It’s perfect for someone interested in keeping up with their daily exercise stats—no matter whether they are a beginner just trying to lose a bit of weight or tone up, or an experienced athlete needing a reliable way...

For day to day use, the Fitbit Charge 5 manages to take all the best aspects of the Charge series and apply a super clean and brilliant display, with an easy to user interface – all driven by the usual Fitbit app/cloud platform that people have used for more than a decade.