Should I get Premium?

[All4zen]

Have been thinking about joining Fitbit premium, but after reading nothing but negative things about it on here, I'm having doubts about joining. 

Moderator edit: Updated subject for clarity 

[SilviaFitbit]

@All4zen Welcome to the Community. Sorry for the delayed reply. 

I'll be happy to clarify your inquiry. Fitbit Premium helps you build healthy habits by offering customized features in the Fitbit app, including tailored workouts, insights into how your behavior impacts your health, and personalized plans to help you reach your goals. 

Fitbit Premium will give you the following features:

- Learn how to improve your nutrition, try new workout regimens, and more through programs tailored to your health and fitness goals.

- Receive personalized insights based on your activity, habits, and progress throughout programs.

Invite friends to compete or work as a team in customizable challenges.

- Complete step-by-step workouts with Fitbit Coach, and give feedback for each exercise to personalize your workout sessions.

- Guided meditations

I'll be around if you have any additional questions. 

[SunsetRunner]

@All4zen I am currently on my free trial. With the premium and honestly I do not think it is worth the money. I will be canceling at the end of my trial. It does give you a lot of information but this is information you can search for and find on the web for free. The one thing I was very interested in in the premium service is seeing my heart rate while sleeping. Unfortunately the BPM its blocked by the header so I can't even see what it is I'm interested in seeing. Yes there is a graph and I can roughly figure out what my BPM is, but that's not the point. It's a service I'm paying for should I keep it and it's not fully functioning.

 

[houch]

im pretty sure everything you get with premium you used to get for free before, so just for that i wouldnt pay £80 a year , its abit of a shame that i payed £165 not to long ago and now to use all the features i have to again pay more. Its almost like they sold a bunch and then went ,right now loads of people have them lets make them pay for features, sorry for the rant 

[LZeeW]

@SunsetRunner   I am going to report your screenshot as a bug in the Android app display.  I am an iOS user and mine displays correctly.  You get a much better view of your sleeping heart rate if you expand the view and rotate it to landscape view.  But don't get jealous because the iOS app has a different display bug.

Have you searched through the Guided programs?  I am confident that these items are not available for free.

@houch  As a long time Fitbit user, I am very sure that items included in Premium were not free before.

[Thiago_Porto]

I am on my last days of free trial, but it's just poinless to continue:

- spotify does not have music download option

- workout tracking and stats are still poor compared to Adidas Runstatic, Strava, Nike Run or others

Conclusion: I still have to carry my phone to run, even that my watch should have music and has GPS... and the USD 200 watch serves only to check heart rate, track sleep and look at the time

I am a user since 2014, but seems that Fitbit has stopped in time. 

[SunsetRunner]

@LZeeW  Thank you.  The Guided Programs are not and were not free.

@houch  I second what @LZeeW  said.  Nothing offered in the Premium service was free before Fitbit decided to offer a Premium service.  There is a lot of information offered, but so far I haven't read anything I didn't already know and could find on the web for free.  Really the only feature I was interested in is the information offered on the Restoration Card in the sleep category, but it's not worth keeping at $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year.  Besides that, no matter how hard I try to select the high points on the graph to see what my heart rate was at a certain time, I can't seem to select what I want.  So at the end of my free trial I will be cancelling the Premium Service.

Personally, I thought it was great that Fitbit didn't have any kind of Premium service and you had all access to everything in the app.  I am very disappointed that Fitbit took the low road and instead of adding more free features to their app, they decided to try to milk us for more money.  Their devices aren't as expensive as Garmin's devices, but they aren't exactly cheap either.