Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: What’s New?

The upgrade from the Inspire 2 to the Inspire 3 includes a new AMOLED always-on colour touch screen, ensuring you can always read the display, even in bright sunlight. To provide a more comprehensive view of your health, the Fitbit Inspire 3 also features a SpO2 monitor that measures blood oxygen levels. Aside from the SpO2 monitor and AMOLED screen, the Inspire 2 and Inspire 3 are quite similar.

Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: Design and Display

Like previous Inspire models, Fitbit keeps the Inspire 3 slim and light. It’s barely noticeable on your wrist throughout the day.

Fitbit has swapped the OLED screen for a colour AMOLED screen, adding more vibrancy to the Inspire 3. You can now use an always-on display mode. The OLED screen’s visibility was sometimes poor, especially in bright outdoor light, making this change a necessity for the Inspire series.

The screen is highly responsive to taps and swipes. However, it can be a challenge to see everything on the narrow display.

At first glance, the Inspire 3 appears to have no buttons, but they are present. Pressing both sides activates the screen, returns you to the home screen, or navigates to another menu.

The Inspire 3 is suitable for swimming or showering with a water resistance rating of 5 ATM, safe for submersion up to 50 meters.

Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: Interface

You can navigate the Inspire 3 with up/down and left/right swipes, quickly learning the functions it offers.

While the Inspire 3 doesn’t match the features of Fitbit smartwatches, it allows you to receive notifications, set alarms and timers, enable ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode, and locate your phone. Bluetooth must be active for these features.

Due to the slim screen, not all functions are optimised. For a similar price, you might find a tracker with a larger screen and comparable or better features.

Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: Battery Capacity

Compared to the Fitbit Inspire 2, there’s no difference in battery life, which was unexpected given the always-on feature that increases power consumption.

Besides the always-on mode, there’s an auto-wake mode where the screen activates when you turn your wrist. With auto-wake enabled, the Fitbit Inspire 3 can easily last over 10 days. However, the auto-wake function isn’t always reliable—sometimes the screen doesn’t turn on when you raise your wrist, requiring a tap to activate it. Still, a battery life of 10 to 14 days is impressive.

Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: Health and Fitness Tracking

The Fitbit Inspire 3 tracks numerous fitness activities. Swiping right twice lets you add your favourite sports to quick-access shortcuts.

The Inspire 3 offers standard Fitbit features, including step counting, reliable sleep tracking, and workout time monitoring. Regarding sensors, it includes an accelerometer for sleep tracking, an optical heart rate monitor, and red infrared sensors to measure blood oxygen levels.

Fitbit’s fitness tracking has always been strong, and the Inspire 3 is no exception. Sleep monitoring stands out, as its lightweight design makes it comfortable to sleep with. The Fitbit app shows your sleep stages and assigns scores, giving a reliable picture of your night’s rest or nap quality.

A downside to the Fitbit Inspire 3 is the lack of built-in GPS. While it can track your position and map walks or hikes, the Inspire 3 lacks live GPS to follow pre-planned routes.

Fitbit Inspire 3: Smart Features

When it comes to smart features, the Fitbit Inspire 3 is quite basic. You can view incoming phone notifications with the option to filter them by app via the Fitbit app. It also includes an alarm, timer, and a find-my-phone feature that pings your phone within Bluetooth range. Additionally, Google Fast Pair enables easy and quick pairing with your Android device.

Beyond these, there are no other smart features. Fitbit Pay isn’t supported, and you can’t store music on the Inspire 3. This activity tracker is designed purely for measuring health and fitness data.

Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: Price and Availability

The Fitbit Inspire 3 is currently available from £92.00. It comes with a strap, a charging cable, and a 6-month trial of Fitbit Premium from Fitbit. After this period, it costs £8.99 per month or £6.67 per month with an annual subscription.

The Fitbit Inspire 3 is always black, but the straps are available in the following colours:

• Midnight Zen/Black
• Lilac Bliss/Black
• Morning Glow/Black

We also offer a variety of Fitbit Inspire 3 straps to personalise your style.

Fitbit Inspire 3 Review: Conclusion

The Fitbit Inspire 3 isn’t an extraordinary fitness and health tracker with groundbreaking features. It’s a stable entry-level option for health and fitness tracking from Fitbit, offering the most appealing features at an affordable price.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Fitbit be used without a subscription?

Yes, but you won’t get additional fitness and health data. For that, you need Fitbit Premium.

What’s the difference between Fitbit Inspire 2 and 3?

The Fitbit Inspire 2 has an OLED screen, while the Fitbit Inspire 3 features an AMOLED screen. The Inspire 3 also measures blood oxygen levels.

Does the Fitbit Inspire 3 have Fitbit Pay?

The Fitbit Inspire 3 lacks an NFC chip, making it impossible to pay with your digital wallet via the Inspire 3.