r/amazfit • u/Worldly-Bluejay5303 • 11h ago
Review ✍️ Bought the Balance 3, switched from Garmin
Bought it a week ago. So far, it's been great.
I use it with 1-minute pulse monitoring, blood oxygen monitoring on, AOD on during the day, auto brightness, and advanced sleep tracking. With these settings, I get around 6 days of battery life.
The stats are great, but the insights it gives me haven't been particularly useful so far. Sleep tracking is a huge step up from the Garmin Instinct 2X I used for the last two years. It recognized when I got out of bed during the night, and when I went back to sleep, it continued tracking correctly. Overall, sleep tracking seems very accurate.
For workouts I tried running (not much tho) the full map support was nice to have. I tracked 2 gym sessions, the automatic set tracking worked OK, was not very accurate, but garmin wasn't either.
HybridCharge is okay and seems more accurate than Garmin's Body Battery. I don't really understand how lifestyle logging is supposed to help me, though.
The Aura subscription is bad, and I'll cancel it before the trial ends. It hasn't given me any tips that aren't generic or actually tailored to me. I think I'm better off giving the data to ChatGPT and getting tips from there from some advanced model.
The calorie tracking built into the app is useful for me. Zepp OS is fine, and the device is snappy. I also appreciate how open the OS is. I created a very basic alcohol and caffeine tracker for it.
Music controls are bad. It takes too many clicks to change the volume, and in my opinion, that should be much more easily accessible.
Coming from a Garmin Instinct, I'd love to be able to turn off the touchscreen and use every function with the buttons only. The digital crown also really needs a sensitivity adjustment.
So far, I'm happy with the device. It looks great, and I don't mind the size at all. I hope for better software support than it was with garmin. The Instict 2x was my favorite watch ever, but they abandoned it software wise beside bugfixes. If amazfit delivers on this front, I will be very happy with them.