The Fitbit Luxe is a simple fitness and health tracker with an emphasis on aesthetics. It’s small, lightweight, and one of the best-looking trackers the company has made in recent years. As far as features go, the Luxe is as basic as all Fitbits. It records your steps, distance and calories throughout the day and can record 20 different sports. There’s no standalone GPS on board, but it supports many of Fitbit’s newer health monitoring features like stress management and sleep results. Design is the name of the game with the Fitbit Luxe. It still resembles a basic fitness wristband, but you can jazz it up to look more like a regular wristband. The Luxe has a stainless steel tracker module that feels much more premium than the plastic cases on the Mi Band line. Each tracker comes with a set of silicone bands. They are pleasantly soft and hardly collect hair or dust. The Luxe has a small AMOLED color screen. It can be bright enough outdoors in direct sunlight, and there is an ambient light sensor to adjust the brightness in different lighting conditions. Considering that the Luxe’s case is much larger than the display itself, there is certainly room for improvement here. Fitbit has introduced a new swipe-based user interface on the Luxe, which is different from the operating system on the Inspire 2 and Charge 4, but similar to that on the Charge 5. The menus are designed to be intuitive: Swipe up for activity and health stats, down for settings, and left/right for workouts and everything else. Double-tap the screen to return to the watch face, too. The Luxe is equipped with an optical heart rate sensor that measures your heart rate during the day, night and activity. It features the same PurePulse algorithm as the Charge 4 and Inspire 2, and the Luxe’s resting heart rate readings match the data from the Fenix 6 Pro and Polar H10 chest strap exactly.
