Apple and Samsung make the best smartwatches you can buy, but what about the apps that track your health? We compare AppleHealth to SamsungHealth.
One of the main reasons to wear a smartwatch is to track your health, exercise, and sleep. Both Apple and Samsung have comprehensive health platforms, Apple Health and Samsung Health, but are they really much different from each other?
Having to use Apple Health and Apple Fitness is a little confusing, and I’d really like to see Apple combine the two together into one, single app in the future. It would make it more streamlined. Having only one app, as with Samsung Health, makes more sense, but there is a potential problem with this, as we will see later on. Connection and setup of both smartwatches are simple and don’t take long, although you do have to pay more attention to the Samsung platform after you’ve paired the watch.
Samsung uses a similar three-goal system covering activity/calorie burn, active time in minutes, and steps. These are displayed in the shape of a heart rather than a circle. Apple doesn’t put any emphasis on step count at all. It’s there in the app, but you really have to search for it, while Samsung incorporates it into its daily set of goals.
Previous Next 1 of 5 The Galaxy Watch 5 does provide a lot more information on your activity both during and after, but the way it’s presented is long-winded. The Apple Watch may show a little less data immediately after you complete a workout, but it is presented more concisely, and you don’t need to scroll very far to see everything you need to know.
Samsung just seems to have no idea how to organize it, and instead just creates a big, long list for you to dig through. With better organization, Samsung Health would match and potentially beat Apple Fitness, but as it is, Apple’s app is more engaging, less complicated, and far less work. What about wearing the smartwatches at night? I found the smooth, curved Apple Watch with a Sport Loop or Braided Sport Loop band very comfortable to wear overnight, and barely noticed it on my wrist. The standard Sport band, or the leather and metal bands, are less comfortable. I found it took longer to get used to wearing the Galaxy Watch 5 overnight, but the soft, standard Sport Band doesn’t get hot or sweaty.
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