Letsfit Fitness Tracker (ID152) review

Our Verdict

While very inexpensive, the Letsfit ID152 fettle tracker's fit on smaller wrists may pb to inaccurate results.

For

Inexpensive
Built-in charger
Durable and h2o resistant

Against

Non super authentic
Stiff/uncomfortable band
Not easy to apply from wrist lonely

Tom's Guide Verdict

While very cheap, the Letsfit ID152 fitness tracker'southward fit on smaller wrists may lead to inaccurate results.

Pros

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Inexpensive
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Built-in charger
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Durable and water resistant

Cons

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Not super authentic
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Potent/uncomfortable ring
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Non piece of cake to utilise from wrist solitary

Letsfit ID152: Specs

Size: 6.9 10 iii.iv ten 0.8 inches
Weight: 2.4 ounces
Display: TFT LCD 0.96 inches
Water resistance: IP68 (splash-resistant)
Heart rate monitor: Aye
GPS: No

At a glance, the Letsfit ID152 looks like it might make a nifty stocking stuffer—it's stylish and sporty, with a built-in heart rate monitor and a water-resistant design. Information technology has decent battery life and a built-in USB charger, and it also supports notifications from your phone. Oh, and it'due south only $25.99, so information technology's basically a steal.

Only earlier you get out and buy an armful, call up that upkeep fitness trackers are usually cheap for a reason, as I discovered during my Letsfit ID152 fettle tracker review. How low can you go earlier it'due south just not worth it?

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Letsfit ID152: Cost and availability

The Letsfit ID152 fitness tracker has been on sale since August 2019; it tin exist institute for $25.99 at a number of major retailers. It's bachelor in blackness, blue, pink, and purple, though supplies of certain colors may be limited.

Letsfit ID152 review: Design

The Letsfit ID152 has a slim, sporty design similar to the Fitbit Accuse 4. It has a long, rectangular 0.96-inch screen, a two-part strap (in blackness, bluish, pink, or majestic), and a built-in heart charge per unit monitor and USB charging plug. The built-in USB charging plug is specially convenient—it's located on i end of the device, nether the strap (to use it, you pull the strap off and plug the device directly into a USB port).

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The ID152'due south screen looks pretty practiced. It'south bright enough to see in daylight, with crisp text and vibrant colors. It's not a touchscreen, but is instead controlled by a touch-sensitive "push button" area near the bottom. The push recognizes short and long presses; short taps scroll through the ID152's menus and long presses allow you go deeper into stats and workouts.

The ID152's strap is pretty stiff, and it didn't soften up much even after not-cease wearing for several weeks. While this probably won't exist a dealbreaker for about people, I have an extremely modest wrist—the stiffness combined with the length of the device meant this tracker was non only somewhat uncomfortable, it also slipped effectually quite a bit on my wrist (which may accept affected the device'south accuracy when tracking certain metrics). The device only comes with i type of strap and whatsoever replacements would demand to be custom-made (plus, it's a upkeep tracker—if you don't like the strap, it's non for y'all).

Letsfit ID152 review: Fitness tracking

It's not really a secret that accuracy tends to exist the biggest issue with budget fettle trackers. Unfortunately, the ID152 isn't an exception here—the accuracy just wasn't there, though some of this may accept been related to how the device fit (or, rather, didn't fit) my wrist.

The ID152 tracks the usual fettle metrics (steps, calories, distance), too equally sleep and centre rate. It has several sport/conditioning modes, merely you tin can only accept three of these modes agile on the sentinel at ane time—you can cull which three using Letsfit's app (called VeryFitPro). Some of the activeness modes, such every bit walk, run, and wheel, can too use GPS data through your telephone.

The ID152 didn't practice a great job with tracking step count or altitude—it underreported on both, simply it did and so somewhat consistently. You actually tin can adjust your footstep length for the ID152 in the app, merely it nevertheless underreported my steps even after I tweaked information technology several times.

The ID152 has a built-in heart rate monitor, which can be prepare to detect your heart rate automatically throughout the mean solar day (yous tin can also plough this off to preserve battery life). Its heart charge per unit tracking wasn't completely off base all the fourth dimension—the ID152 managed to study the same centre rate measurement every bit my other heart rate monitors (Apple Watch 6, a wrist-based blood pressure monitor, and manually checking my pulse) maybe lxx percent of the time; the balance of the fourth dimension it reported my heart charge per unit to be strangely high. I recall this may take been partly related to how the device fit my wrist, because it wasn't always snug against my pare. But it too reported my heart charge per unit to exist 150bpm a few times when I wasn't even wearing the device, so, who knows.

Slumber tracking is usually the weakest tracker on whatsoever device, so terrible sleep tracking isn't a problem for me (particularly since I have a non-traditional slumber schedule). The ID152 wasn't corking at sleep tracking, because it didn't seem to recognize things like naps, or sleeping during not-traditional hours, or fifty-fifty sleeping during traditional hours much of the fourth dimension. Withal, the few times I did manage to get sleep-tracking to work, it seemed to be pretty accurate as far equally noting when I fell comatose, when I woke upward, and my restless moments throughout the night.

Letsfit ID152: App and other features

The Letsfit ID152 connects to your phone via the VeryFitPro app (available on both iOS and Android). This is the same app that connects to other Letsfit fitness trackers and smartwatches. The ID152 has a pretty limited card on the device itself, so you volition need to utilise the app to access the device'due south settings and to turn on notifications and alerts.

The ID152 offers button notifications for incoming calls, texts, emails, and a number of tertiary-party messaging apps and social networks. This is a pretty nice characteristic for a budget fitness tracker, even if the implementation could use some work. The notifications appear on the ID152'southward screen simply disappear as soon as you tap the touch-sensitive button, so they're pretty easy to accidentally tap through. The ID152 also offers alarm alerts, just alarms need to be set within the app (information technology won't take hold of alarms from your phone). Yous can toggle alarms on or off from the device.

There are a handful of settings in the app that make sense, such as footstep length, device linguistic communication, sentinel face up, etc. But there are also a few that I would prefer be directly on the device itself, such every bit screen brightness and practice-not-disturb style—information technology's a huge hassle to have to open up up the app every time you lot want to plow on practice-not-disturb. There's also a characteristic that allows you to command your device's photographic camera shutter from the device, but this besides must exist opened from within the app. I suppose existence able to command your telephone's camera shutter from your wrist is meliorate than not being able to do it all, but I didn't find this feature to exist whatever more than user-friendly than merely setting a timer or using a cheapie shutter remote app.

Letsfit ID152: Bombardment life

Letsfit estimates that the ID152 fitness tracker will last nigh x days on a accuse. I constitute it lasted about two weeks with normal use. Charging takes a little over an hour.

Letsfit ID152: Verdict

There are several things I like about the ID152, including its bonny (if not terribly comfy) pattern, its relatively low-cal weight (the ID152 is about 24 grams, which is 6 grams lighter than the Fitbit Accuse iv), and the fact that it supports notifications for a bunch of apps, including Line, Whatsapp, Wechat, Skype, Viber, and Facebook Messenger.

But it's hard to recommend a fitness tracker with such a striking-or-miss tracking tape. I suspect most of my issues arose from the fact that it was simply too large for my wrist, but the strap'south inflexibility and the lack of smaller straps volition brand this an issue for other people like me.

Amongst the best inexpensive fitness trackers, the Wyze Band and the Xiaomi Mi Ring 4, both of which cost roughly the same as the Letsfit ID152, have better displays and more features—and are ameliorate at fettle tracking.