10 Best Smartwatches (2025): Apple, Wear OS, Hybrid & Kids' Watches

Other Smartwatches to Consider

The fig of smartwatches connected the marketplace is staggering. I’ve tested models from Tag Heuer, Citizen, Montblanc, and galore different manner brands, but astir of them are simply excessively expensive for what you get. Here are a fewer options I like.

Apple Watch Series 10 for $364: Thanks to watchOS 26, the 2024 Series 10 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has galore of the aforesaid features arsenic the caller Series 11, similar hypertension notifications and Sleep Score. It has a thinner and lighter plan with a larger surface than anterior models, and it adjacent got humor oxygen sensing backmost via a software update successful August 2025. It's excessively atrocious this 1 inactive has the 18-hour artillery life. Avoid paying anyplace adjacent to MSRP for this watch. If you tin find it for nether $300, snag it.

Google Pixel Watch 3 for $299: The Pixel Watch 3 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is seeing immoderate steep discounts present that the Pixel Watch 4 has been announced. It's a large smartwatch, with the caveat that it's not repairable. (The newer exemplary addresses that.) It features loss of pulse detection—cleared by the FDA for use successful the US—which tin beryllium captious successful redeeming someone’s life. Google besides focused its fitness updates connected running, enabling users to make customized runs and travel AI-powered tally recommendations portion getting feedback connected cardio load—how hard your bosom is moving and whether it's due for your body. I powerfully urge you spell with the 45-mm model, which doesn't adjacent consciousness that big. It simply delivers amended artillery life—just astir 24 hours with the always-on show oregon a small much if you person it turned off.

Apple Watch Ultra 2 for $700: The Watch Ultra 2 is inactive worthy considering, conscionable don't wage anyplace adjacent MSRP; otherwise, you whitethorn arsenic good bargain the caller Watch Ultra 3. It tin past respective days of use, and has galore of the aforesaid large features arsenic the latest model, including amended mics to prime up your voice, an 86-decibel siren to alert your presumption to anyone nearby, and precise GPS to amended way your hikes (plus assistance you find your mode backmost with the Backtrack feature). The surface tin show topographic maps, but you cannot presumption offline maps without an iPhone.

Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025 for $650: The 47-mm Galaxy Watch Ultra (7/10, WIRED Review) is the company's Apple Watch Ultra and Garmin competitor, and it's a coagulated archetypal introduction into the satellite of pricey, feature-rich, and almighty smartwatches designed for nonrecreational athletes. This is technically the 2025 model, which is identical to the 2024 mentation but comes with 64 GB of retention and successful a new bluish color. It lasts a small implicit 2 days connected a complaint due to the fact that it's a large 47-mm ticker and tin battalion a beefy battery. There's a titanium lawsuit and sapphire solid face, positive it's rated to 10 ATM and IP68, truthful you tin submerge it up to 100 meters underwater. The bosom complaint tracker is remarkably accordant with the Apple Watch Ultra 2, and the dual-band GPS delivers close mapping. The bundle isn't arsenic intuitive, and a fewer features are lacking erstwhile compared to different show smartwatches, but this is simply a bully commencement if you're successful the satellite of Android. If you don't attraction for the bluish oregon the other storage, you tin buy the 2024 exemplary for hundreds less.

Samsung Galaxy Watch7 44 mm for $230: Samsung's Galaxy Watch7 from 2024 is simply a small plain. This exemplary debuted Samsung's Energy Score and added updated slumber tracking capabilities. You besides get FDA-cleared slumber apnea detection, though this isn't a diagnostic you'll crook connected each the time—it takes 2 nights to track, and afterward, you'll get a enactment saying whether oregon not you amusement symptoms. This feature, on with the electrocardiogram and irregular bosom bushed notifications, is lone disposable erstwhile paired with a Samsung phone. Otherwise, this ticker functions good with immoderate other Android. You tin take from 2 sizes, positive Bluetooth-only oregon LTE. I tested some sizes and recovered artillery beingness frustrating compared to its predecessors. With the always-on display, I struggled to deed 24 hours with 2 tracked activities and slumber tracking overnight. With it turned off, things fared a small better, but I was inactive hardly hitting a afloat day. You'll person to babe the artillery and utilize the power-saving modes. If you don't attraction for the latest and greatest, you tin prevention a batch of dough with the Watch7.

Casio G-Shock Master of G Rangeman GPR-H1000 for $500: It's not for every event, but the Master of G-Land Rangeman (GPRH1000RY1A) looks large connected my wrist, and I emotion that I lone request to complaint it astir erstwhile a week. This is simply a G-Shock archetypal and foremost. It has a durable, heavy lawsuit and a comfy strap. It's a big watch. It besides has six sensors and a built-in GPS. Connect the ticker to your smartphone via Casio's app, and you tin get elemental notification alerts, heart-rate tracking, enactment tracking, and slumber tracking. That's without mentioning different features similar humor oxygen monitoring, compass, satellite time, altimeter, and barometer. I've compared the results to an Apple Watch Series 10, and for the astir part, halfway metrics similar bosom rate, measurement tracking, and slumber are similar. I person had immoderate information not amusement up successful the Casio app for a fewer days, and galore of these functions are dilatory to load connected the watch. This would not beryllium my archetypal prime if I wanted a fitness-focused wearable—get a Garmin instead—but I similar the quality to look astatine and way immoderate of these metrics whenever I want. More importantly, I similar having a G-Shock astir my wrist.

Samsung Galaxy Watch FE for $250: The Galaxy Watch FE is simply a good fund Wear OS smartwatch. The 40-mm Galaxy Watch FE has a smaller surface that doesn't get arsenic agleam and sports a slower processor and a smaller artillery compared to the Watch7 series. The wellness sensors are astir the same, and I got close results with bosom complaint and slumber tracking. The artillery lasts conscionable astir a day, if not a small less.

OnePlus Watch 2 for $245: This is past year's OnePlus smartwatch, but it's inactive available. It seems similar a amended worth present that the OnePlus 3's terms has been jacked up. The 46-mm OnePlus Watch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) runs Wear OS and lasts astir 3 days connected a azygous charge, a small much if you alteration immoderate power-saving settings. The wellness capabilities are lacking—there's nary autumn detection oregon electrocardiogram—but there's slumber tracking, and it's beauteous accurate. Some features, similar heart-rate tracking, region traveled, and steps, person mixed accuracy successful my testing, which means you shouldn't bargain this smartwatch if you're chiefly utilizing it for those functions. Also, see the OnePlus Watch 2R, which you tin snag for little cash. The differences are mostly astir physique quality. The surface doesn’t get arsenic bright, it has an aluminum lawsuit alternatively of stainless steel, and there’s nary sapphire crystal protecting the screen, truthful it’s little durable. However, this makes it lighter and much comfy to wear.

Withings ScanWatch 2 for $370: The ScanWatch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) tin walk for an analog watch. Its health-tracking diagnostic acceptable is comprehensive—you get bosom complaint monitoring, an electrocardiogram, humor oxygen measurements, and slumber tracking. Battery beingness is stellar too, arsenic it tin past up to 30 days with airy use. (Heavier usage volition spot astir 22 days earlier needing a charge.) The main occupation is the tiny show connected this watch, which is excessively tiny to work immoderate notifications. The GPS is besides connected, meaning it requires your telephone to beryllium tethered and nearby. There's an optional Health+ subscription, but we'd counsel against it, arsenic it doesn't connection overmuch utility. The ScanWatch 2 comes successful a 42-mm oregon 38-mm lawsuit size and doesn't person the affluent features and apps you'll find connected the likes of an Apple Watch, but if you privation to show your wellness data—and you don't privation your ticker to look excessively techy—this volition bash the job.

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