Close to being the complete fitness tracker for beginners but let down by a poor screen, hit and miss accuracy and a short GPS battery life

Easy to use; Good for motivation; Built-in GPS; Best app for beginners

Poor screen; No mid-workout Spotify controls; Hit and miss accuracy; Short GPS battery life; Quite pricey

The Charge 4 is a clever, compact motivational fitness tool with plenty to offer anyone looking for some basic tracking and support. If you won’t want a watch, it’s among the best fitness trackers you can buy. It offers a big range of insights and paints a digestible picture of your overall health and fitness. And the Active Zone Minutes concept is hugely addictive. It’s incredibly easy to use and syncs seamlessly with the well-presented app. However, it’s let down badly by a sub-standard screen, some accuracy issues and a few own goals – like Spotify controls that don’t work during a workout. And those undermine what otherwise is a pretty decent tracker.

Easy to use ; Good for motivation; Built-in GPS; Best app for beginners;

Poor screen; No mid-workout Spotify controls; Hit and miss accuracy; Short GPS battery life; Quite pricey;

Easy to use ; Good for motivation; Built-in GPS; Best app for beginners;

Poor screen; No mid-workout Spotify controls; Hit and miss accuracy; Short GPS battery life; Quite pricey;

The Fitbit Charge 4 looks almost identical to its predecessor, including the grayscale touchscreen, but the addition of built-in GPS makes a huge difference, and helps make it a viable alternative to fully-fledged running watches if you enjoy working out for fun and health, but don't need a torrent...

No price increase from Charge 3; Built-in GPS; Heart rate zone tracking

Monochrome display; No design update

With the Charge 4, Fitbit improves its best tracker with built-in GPS, Active Zone Minutes and Spotify controls

The Fitbit Charge 4 is a modest yet important update to the Charge 3, the company’s most capable fitness band. The addition of built-in GPS makes the Charge 4 an even better fitness device for serious athletes and active zone minutes gives all users a new motivational tool by quantifying time spent...

Accurate GPS; Active zone minutes is a good motivator; Fitbit Pay as a standard feature; Multi-day battery life; Finally has Sleep Mode; Good price

Dated design; Can only control Spotify music playback; Limited on-device apps; Not compatible with Apple Health or Google Fit

“The Fitbit Charge 4 is an awesome fitness tracker at a great price.”

Excellent fitness tracking; Some smart features; Good battery life; GPS built in; Solid value

Limited music support; Slightly dated design; Display could be better

Tracking my health is important to me. I use MyFitnessPal to track what I eat, Sleeptracker to monitor my sleep, and the Apple Watch to track my fitness and activity. All that information is tied together in the Apple Health app. The Apple Watch even alerted me to the fact that I might have atrial fibrillation — a diagnosis that was later confirmed by cardiologists. In a world with all these ultra-high-tech, artificially intelligent tracking systems, the humble Fitbit can feel a little old-school. While the Fitbit Charge 4 isn’t going to compete with the Apple Watch in many areas, for the price, it’s pretty much the best fitness tracker you can buy. That’s especially true given that the device now finally offers built-in GPS and new heart-monitoring features. Let’s take a closer look. The Fitbit Charge 4 looks almost identical to the Fitbit Charge 3 — and while the Charge 3 did offer an updated design, it does still feel a little dated at this point. That’s not to say that it’s ugly. T...

Excellent fitness tracking; Some smart features; Good battery life; GPS built in; Solid value;

Limited music support; Slightly dated design; Display could be better;

An evolution for the series, this fourth-gen device adds GPS for more advanced exercise tracking. So if you're looking for a fitness band that's a fully accomplished device, the Fitbit Charge 4 is hard to beat.

Comfortable and unobtrusive to wear; Great sleep data; Added GPS makes it more complete for exercise tracking; Fitbit app is easy to interpret

GPS use will drain the battery more quickly; Doesn't stand-up against proper sports watches; Display hasn't evolved

An evolution for the series, this fourth-gen device adds GPS for more advanced exercise tracking. So if you're looking for a fitness band that's a fully accomplished device, the Fitbit Charge 4 is hard to beat.

Comfortable and unobtrusive to wear; Great sleep data; Added GPS makes it more complete for exercise tracking; Fitbit app is easy to interpret;

GPS use will drain the battery more quickly; Doesn't stand-up against proper sports watches; Display hasn't evolved;