Amazfit Active Smart Watch Review

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If you’re looking for an exceptional Smart Watch with loads of sports and health tracking at a reasonable price, the Amazfit Active is for you. With a long battery life and an array of insights into your health and fitness, the functionality of this watch is excellent. Other benefits include being able to choose the colour of both the watch itself and its changeable straps, easy connectability to a smartphone and precision navigation straight from the watch. I’ve been testing out the Amazfit Active for the past few weeks to allow me to provide a thorough review. That said, there are so many functions on this watch that I definitely won’t manage to cover them all. So, if you have a particular question about it, do leave me a comment and I’ll answer it if I can.

Amazfit Active: Aesthetics

There are a few key points about the aesthetics of this watch that are noteworthy in my opinion:

• The size and weight are ideal, it’s light enough to not notice you’re wearing it, but big enough to be able to see the screen easily.
• The colour is lovely – I’ve got the petal pink one. It’s also available in midnight black and lavender purple.
• Straps are changeable, including a really sweet pink and silver checked fabric one that I’ve got my eye on.
• The watch face is changeable – this includes the background, digital or analogue and displaying different things – really useful if there’s a particular function you use the most because you can display it on the face. Some of the faces come at an additional cost, but it’s only a couple of pounds extra.

Sports functions

I’ve had several sports watches over the years, with each one geting progressively better as technology progresses. But the Amazfit Active has still surprised me in terms of the sports functions. Many of these are in conjunction with the Zepp app. Functions include:

• Information about your recovery from exercise
• AI generated workout plans personalised for your goals, schedule and condition (based on your readiness score generated by the watch based on recovery)
• Tailored running plans for 3, 5 and 10km
• Training templates for 9 sports
• Auto-detection of outdoor running, treadmill, walking, indoor walking, outdoor cycling, rowing machine and eliptical
• Record other sports manually including pool swimming, yoga, elliptical, zumba, badminton, strengh training, indoor fitness, free training, rope skipping, stretching, dance, ball games, water sports, open water swimming and many more
• Predictions of your race times
• Import a route to your watch and it will help you to navigate it
• Share activities
• Store music and control it from the watch to listen while you exercise
• Get a summary post-workout and realtime updates on performance for outdoor and track running
• Set step goals, measure the steps you’ve done and check progress towards the goals you set
• Stopwatch

If you’re a swimmer or a triathlete, you’ll feel my pain about being unable to record your training properly on other watches. Open water swimming in particular is an unusual function to have on a watch. The Amazfit Active uses GPS data to record your open water swim, which is one of my favourite things about it.

Health functions

I have to admit, I don’t really use health data on a watch, but nor do I track my health in any other way. That said, for anyone who does want health tracking functions, the Amazfit Active is awash with them. One of my favourite things about the health functions is that there are some specifically aimed at women. For a smartwatch with lots of fitness functions, this is a breath of fresh air because they are traditionally geared up for use by men. Health functions include:

• Wild.AI gives specialist health advice for women including readiness scores, nutrition suggestions and training plans that adapt to your cycle, stage of life and associated hormones.
• Menstrual tracker, including fertility and period reminders.
• Sleep tracking including heart rate, temperature and breathing quality.
• Readiness score.
• Heart rate monitor.
• Mental recovery tracker.
• Blood oxygen monitor.
• Stress levels.
• Notifications of areas concern, such as high stress, abnormal heart rate, low blood oxygen.
• Reminders to drink water.

Other useful features

The other main features of the Amazfit Active centre around phone connectivity. However, it’s also worth noting battery life and a few other interesting functions here.

• Using Zepp Flow, the Amazfit Active allows you to use voice control to use both watch and phone functions such as asking the watch to share fitness data, or reply to messages – this relies on connection to an Android phone.
• After a full charge, the power can last for up to a fortnight.
• Alexa is built in with this watch, so you can use it for smart assistance in the same way as a static Alexa.
• Bluetooth connectivity allows you to make and take calls from the watch.
• Other apps can be downloaded to your phone and connected to the watch, including a blood pressure monitor, thermometer and environment quality assessment.
• Navigation straight from the watch using GPS.
• Music storage.
• Diary.
• To-do list.
• Find my phone function.
• Syncronise do not disturb from the phone.
• See the weather for your location on-screen.

Amazfit Active Smart Watch Review: My Experience

I’m sure you have already realised that my experience of using the Amazfit Active has been largely extremely positive. There are no functions I can think of that it doesn’t carry out. Likewise, it doesn’t feel intrusive, you can remove any notifications you don’t want regularly (eg reminders to move or drink water). It’s also a great size and weight and looks lovely. However, in order to provide a balanced review, I need to mention the couple of things I’m not keen on.

1: The charger. I don’t love the charger. Perhaps it’s because the watch doesn’t need charging often, but I haven’t really got used to it. Rather Than plugging or slotting into the watch, the charger attaches with magnets. I find it difficult to get it the right way around and get the magnets to catch. It then gets knocked off quite easily once it’s connected. It’s not a huge deal in comparison to all the good points of the watch and certainly wouldn’t put me off buying it again. But it’s still a minor irritation when I have to charge it.

2. Watch maths. This is the main issue I’ve had with the Amazfit Active. I’ve got two very active daughters and before getting this watch, I already had a small, cheap, old but perfectly functional smart watch. So, I had one watch, I was then given this watch. So, how many watches do I have now? Two, right? Wrong. I have no watch. The girls now have one each, and I’m learning to adapt to not having one. This is why I can’t have nice things.

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