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

Other Smartwatches to Consider

The number of smartwatches connected nan 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, nan 2024 Series 10 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has galore of nan aforesaid features arsenic nan caller Series 11, for illustration hypertension notifications and Sleep Score. It has a thinner and lighter creation pinch a larger surface than anterior models, and it moreover sewage humor oxygen sensing backmost via a software update successful August 2025. It's excessively bad this 1 still has nan 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 now that nan Pixel Watch 4 has been announced. It's a awesome smartwatch, pinch nan caveat that it's not repairable. (The newer exemplary addresses that.) It features loss of beat detection—cleared by nan FDA for use successful nan US—which tin beryllium captious successful redeeming someone’s life. Google besides focused its fitness updates connected running, enabling users to create civilization runs and travel AI-powered tally recommendations while getting feedback connected cardio load—how difficult your bosom is moving and whether it's due for your body. I powerfully urge you spell pinch nan 45-mm model, which doesn't moreover consciousness that big. It simply delivers amended artillery life—just astir 24 hours pinch nan always-on show aliases a small much if you person it turned off.

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

Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2025 for $650: The 47-mm Galaxy Watch Ultra (7/10, WIRED Review) is nan company's Apple Watch Ultra and Garmin competitor, and it's a coagulated first introduction into nan world of pricey, feature-rich, and powerful smartwatches designed for master athletes. This is technically nan 2025 model, which is identical to nan 2024 type but comes pinch 64 GB of retention and successful a new bluish color. It lasts a small complete 2 days connected a complaint because it's a large 47-mm watch 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 locator is remarkably accordant pinch nan Apple Watch Ultra 2, and nan dual-band GPS delivers meticulous mapping. The package isn't arsenic intuitive, and a fewer features are lacking erstwhile compared to different capacity smartwatches, but this is simply a bully commencement if you're successful nan world of Android. If you don't attraction for nan bluish aliases nan other storage, you tin buy nan 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 search capabilities. You besides get FDA-cleared slumber apnea detection, though this isn't a characteristic you'll move connected each nan time—it takes 2 nights to track, and afterward, you'll get a statement saying whether aliases not you show symptoms. This feature, on pinch nan electrocardiogram and irregular bosom hit notifications, is only disposable erstwhile paired pinch a Samsung phone. Otherwise, this watch functions good pinch immoderate other Android. You tin take from 2 sizes, positive Bluetooth-only aliases LTE. I tested some sizes and recovered artillery life frustrating compared to its predecessors. With nan always-on display, I struggled to deed 24 hours pinch 2 tracked activities and slumber search overnight. With it turned off, things fared a small better, but I was still hardly hitting a afloat day. You'll person to babe nan artillery and utilize nan power-saving modes. If you don't attraction for nan latest and greatest, you tin prevention a batch of mixed pinch nan Watch7.

Casio G-Shock Master of G Rangeman GPR-H1000 for $500: It's not for every event, but nan Master of G-Land Rangeman (GPRH1000RY1A) looks awesome connected my wrist, and I emotion that I only request to complaint it astir erstwhile a week. This is simply a G-Shock first and foremost. It has a durable, heavy lawsuit and a comfortable strap. It's a big watch. It besides has six sensors and a built-in GPS. Connect nan watch to your smartphone via Casio's app, and you tin get elemental notification alerts, heart-rate tracking, activity tracking, and slumber tracking. That's without mentioning different features for illustration humor oxygen monitoring, compass, world time, altimeter, and barometer. I've compared nan results to an Apple Watch Series 10, and for nan astir part, halfway metrics for illustration bosom rate, measurement tracking, and slumber are similar. I person had immoderate information not show up successful nan Casio app for a fewer days, and galore of these functions are slow to load connected nan watch. This would not beryllium my first prime if I wanted a fitness-focused wearable—get a Garmin instead—but I for illustration nan expertise to look astatine and way immoderate of these metrics whenever I want. More importantly, I for illustration 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 nan Watch7 series. The wellness sensors are almost nan same, and I sewage meticulous results pinch 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 still available. It seems for illustration a amended worth now that nan OnePlus 3's value 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 discovery aliases electrocardiogram—but there's slumber tracking, and it's beautiful accurate. Some features, for illustration heart-rate tracking, region traveled, and steps, person mixed accuracy successful my testing, which intends you shouldn't bargain this smartwatch if you're chiefly utilizing it for those functions. Also, see nan OnePlus Watch 2R, which you tin snag for little cash. The differences are mostly astir build quality. The surface doesn’t get arsenic bright, it has an aluminum lawsuit alternatively of stainless steel, and there’s nary sapphire crystal protecting nan screen, truthful it’s little durable. However, this makes it lighter and much comfortable to wear.

Withings ScanWatch 2 for $370: The ScanWatch 2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) tin walk for an analog watch. Its health-tracking characteristic group is comprehensive—you get bosom complaint monitoring, an electrocardiogram, humor oxygen measurements, and slumber tracking. Battery life is stellar too, arsenic it tin past up to 30 days pinch ray use. (Heavier usage will spot astir 22 days earlier needing a charge.) The main problem is nan mini show connected this watch, which is excessively mini to publication 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 aliases 38-mm lawsuit size and doesn't person nan rich | features and apps you'll find connected nan likes of an Apple Watch, but if you want to show your wellness data—and you don't want your watch to look excessively techy—this will do nan job.

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