

To track your sleep, you need to attach your One to the sleep wristband that comes included with the tracker. The device’s OLED screen let’s you keep track of your progress throughout the day so you know where you are against your goals and also doubles up as a clock. In addition to sleep, the One tracks your daily activity, including steps taken, stairs climbed and calories burned. The Fitbit One is conveniently small and easily clips onto your pocket, belt or even bra. The UP3 does not include this functionality. One difference between the UP3 and UP4 is that the UP4 includes Amex Payments – you can connect your UP4 band to an American Express Card and make payments from your wrist. Advanced sleep tracking empowers you to understand your sleep quality even further by tracking your Wake, REM, Light and Deep sleep. Using bioimpedance sensors to track your heart rate, the UP3 and UP4 can detect your sleep phases with a high degree of accuracy. On top of the basic features – activity tracking, sleep tracking and stopwatch mode, the UP3 and UP4 boast advanced sleep tracking, heart health monitoring, automatic sleep detection and smart alarm. Automatic sleep detection so there’s no need to switch into sleep mode before catching a few zzz’s – no matter when you fall asleep, the UP2 should catch it and track it.

A smart alarm feature which identifies the best moment in your sleep cycle to wake you up in the morning and does so using a gentle, silent vibration.More importantly, the UP2 includes two features that may aid a good night’s sleep… One key difference between the two is that you wear the UP2 on your wrist compared to anywhere on your person with the UP Move. The UP2 hosts the same features as the UP Move – sleep tracking, activity tracking and stopwatch mode. Jawbone supports a huge array of sports so no matter what your sport of choice is, you can log it in the Jawbone app after completing your activity. The stopwatch feature is there to tell your UP Move that you’re about to start an activity, such as running or yoga. Activity tracking monitors your steps, calories burned, distance walked, active time and idle time. In addition to its sleep tracking mode, the UP Move boasts activity tracking and a stopwatch mode. Without automatic sleep detection, it’s on you to remember to start the sleep tracking mode, otherwise you’ll lose a night’s worth of data. On the downside, you have to actively invoke the sleep tracking mode for the UP Move to track your sleep – something that’s done automatically in other trackers. It tracks your quality of sleep using the built-in accelerometer, which detects light, sound and wake phases of sleep. Speaking of sleep…the UP Move will tell you the basics – how long and how well you slept. However, Jawbone does recommend wearing it on your wrist during the night to track your sleep accurately. Unlike the UP Move’s sister trackers, wearing the UP Move on your wrist is not a requirement. If you’re looking for an all round tracker that you don’t have to wear on your wrist, the UP Move could be for you.

This is by no means an extensive list of the trackers available but it’s a good start for any budding tracking enthusiast! In this section we’ll cover a range of devices from Jawbone, Fitbit, Sense and Basis. We’ve hand-picked a range of sleep trackers that we think deserve to be highlighted.
