Top 10 Fitness Trackers Under $100 Reviewed

The Vivofit 3 by Garmin boasts the best battery on the market for fitness trackers. It provides wearers with full-on 24/7 tracking for a full year before it needs to be replaced. It uses a regular battery, as opposed to needing to be charged, which eliminates the hassle of daily or weekly charging and needing to carry a cord and charger with you.

It also provides smart sensing technology that is based on your current fitness level to provide accessible goals. As those goals are met, they increase with intensity to maintain a steady stream of progress.

It is waterproof, making it a great choice for swimmers or those wanting to wear it all day, even in the shower. It automatically detects activity and gives you an alert after periods of inactivity to keep you motivated to keep moving. It also automatically monitors sleep.

And simply connect to the free and user-friendly Garmin app for full accessibility.

This fitness tracking device keeps up with all your steps, your traveled distances, accumulated burned calories, and activity as well as supporting 14 different sports and activities. It also allows the user to keep up with their data in real-time, for up to seven days on one full charge. And with smartphone synching, it's easy to get a visual on progress through easy to read charts and graphs.

Willful sleep tracking is automatic and records several different aspects of sleep. It then combines the data from your sleep cycles to analyze sleep patterns. Thanks to a silent vibrating option for the alarm, users can wake up gently.

The user-friendly app that accompanies this device provides in-depth analysis as well as social media and SMS notifications.

And it has a decent waterproof rating of 5 meters, making it friendly for swimmers and showering.

The AmazFit Bip is an extremely lightweight device, at an impressive 1.1oz. This gives it incredible comfort for all-day wear. And don't let the small package fool you, it packs a powerful 30-day battery life.

It features onboard GPS, optical sensors for more accurate readings, and four different fitness activities. As expected with a fitness tracker, it keeps up with your sleep quality, calories, and steps.

The AmazFit doubles as a basic smartwatch and will easily sync up to cell phones for on-screen email, phone, and SMS, and social media notifications. It doesn't allow the user to interact with the notifications though, the user must respond on their actual smartphone.

The AmazFit comes in several different colorways to compliment any style and features a great 30-day refund policy so customers can feel confident in their purchase. It also includes a warranty for one year.

It monitors steps, very basic sleep analysis, calories, and even provides users with goals based on daily levels of fitness. It features inactivity alerts to offer encouragement to stay motivated during periods of inaction.

The sensors for this tracker monitor heart rate, footstep speed, and distance traveled. It also has the ability to connect via hotspot to your phones GPS. And it has the durability to withstand swimming or showering as it is waterproof up to 1 meter of water.

When using the accompanying app, users have access to pre-loaded workouts and exercising options. But it already comes with 14 different sports and activity settings for quick start-up use. However, this tracker is not able to provide in-depth analytics with sports, such as cadence, ground contact, or oscillation.

LetsCom is a great basic tracker that is comfortable enough to wear for everyday use with its soft stylish band. It features all the basic tracker needs, smartphone connectivity and a wide range of device compatibility, comprehensive sleep monitoring, GPS options, and text and call alerts with vibrations or prompts on its color screen.
It is also a convenient fitness tracker for traveling and those on the go often, as there it's cordless and there is no hassle with charging. Simply attach the device directly to a USB plug for easy charging anywhere.

The Huawei Band 3 provides a built-in GPS along with a full-color touch screen that allows for adjustable brightness.
IT is a great choice for swimmers, but not just for its impressive waterproof rating of 50 meters. Also because it tracks the style of stroke, how many strokes, and how many laps, along with the calorie content for the swim workouts.
It also features other multiple sports tracking capabilities and keeps track of heart rate in true time 24/7.
The sleep sensor is great o this tracker, as it was designed alongside Harvard med school to track true sleep, identify the top common issue with sleep, and even provides the user with better sleep help.
And with it doubling as a remote for your smartphone's camera, you can improve your selfie game and even take shots of yourself at a distance without needing an external remote to keep up with on the go.

The TicBand Fitness Tracker supplies you with all the tools you need to have a more in-depth understanding of where you are with your level of fitness in order to help you create realistic goals with the device. It provides a custom cardio rating, along with a consistent sensor for heart rate monitoring.

It also provides simple sleep monitoring with options for a silent alarm that vibrates to wake you up more peacefully. It syncs to your smartphone, offers an interactive and vivid display of your daily progress in numbers.

This device provides the user with about five days of decent battery life, even with the heart rate sensor on all day every day. But, it can last up to a full month if the display is off. The TicBand is light with a sleek design to be extra comfortable for full time non stop wear.

This tracker proves that you don't need to pay a high price for a decent fitness device. It comes with all the basics of a fitness tracker, plus smartphone connectivity for on-screen notifications for messages and social media. It's also incredibly comfortable and stays put gently on the wrist even with a hardcore dose of movement.

It provides steps and calories, but also deeper statistics like unnecessary movements sensor. It allows for easy time telling by a simple movement of the wrist to turn the bright led screen on.

It's also available in great colors and bands can be purchased separately to interchange for matching and style coordination. It is lightweight and thin, making it a great fitness tracker for women to wear on their naturally more slender wrists.

This product comes with a full year of warranty with access to a 24/7 support team.

This slim design enhances comfort for any wrist and is very lightweight weighing 18g. It is even comfortable to wear by kids.
It features the very basics of steps, caloric burn, sleep tracking, and distance, and this info is easy to access right on the screen. However, it can be connected to an app as well to see the statistics on your phone's screen for people with limited visibility. And through the smartphone connection, it can be synced to send alerts for various messages, and even just reminders for daily to-do lists.
Along with the 60-day full refund policy, it also features a lifetime of customer service support through their 24hr technical support system.

The Alta by FitBit really is a great fitness tracker, available at just below the $100 mark. It provides you with everything you'd expect from FitBit, superior comfort and dependability. But the high price tag doesn't provide anything impressively different from the others on this list, it just comes from a well-trusted company with good customer service.

Track your overall calories, 24/7 heart rate monitoring, and even workout statistics like levels of intensity and periods of inactivity.

The sleep feature does provide information on your sleep habits for different levels of sleep; light sleep, deep phase, and REM. This is to help notice any irregularities in your cycle to make sure you get better rest.

One fun feature is that it allows users to interact with friends and other users via the smartphone app. And it keeps all of your important notifications coming in no matter what activity you're doing.

The FitBit Alta, despite the high price, is not a good choice for those need a waterproof device. It is only water-resistant for hand washing and light rain.