Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority
If you regularly wake up groggy and your first impulse is to check your wrist for a sleep score, congratulations, you are in too deep with health tracking. Same here. At this point, I think that the best accessory you can buy for your Samsung Galaxy Watch is not a strap, a charger, or a case. It is the Galaxy Fit 3. Yes, the roughly $50 fitness tracker. And yes, I understand how silly it is to claim another wearable as an accessory to a smartwatch. But hear me out, because this might genuinely be the best quality-of-life hack I’ve added to my Galaxy setup in years.
Would you supplement your Galaxy Watch with the Galaxy Fit 3? 6 votes Yes, I love this idea. 0 % I'm using an older Galaxy Watch with my new one. 0 % I have a Galaxy Ring to go with my Watch. 17 % No, I really don't need to. 67 % I don't own a Galaxy Watch. 17 %
The Galaxy Fit 3 is an easier bedmate than a watch
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority
Sleep tracking is an addictive curse. It has not fixed my terrible sleep nor improved my feelings about that terrible sleep. Yet here I am, logging every night as if knowing my sleep animal will suddenly turn me into a morning person. At a minimum, I am always trying to reduce friction. Most recently, that meant swapping my Galaxy Watch Ultra for Samsung’s cheapest wearable as part of my bedtime routine.
If you sleep with your smartwatch on, you know the tradeoffs. You want the data, but could really do without the weight. Modern smartwatches are bulky by necessity thanks to advanced sensors, chips, and battery cells. They also tout ever-growing (and increasingly vibrant) AMOLED displays that look great during the day, but turn into bedside floodlights at 2 AM. Most importantly, they don’t offer endless battery life, and sleep tracking steals away the most convenient time to charge a smartwatch.
The Fit 3 handles my sleep, the Ultra handles my day, and Samsung Health funnels it all together.
The Fit 3 solves all of this. For starters, it’s light, thin, unobtrusive, and basically unnoticeable in bed. The band-style device weighs just 36.8g compared to the Galaxy Watch Ultra’s hulking 60.5g build. The Fit 3 also packs a significantly smaller display than my smartwatch, and I can configure it permanently to bedtime settings, turning brightness all the way down, muting notifications, and generally disabling the device screen while it’s on my wrist. No tilt-to-wake, no midnight Morse-code vibrations, just insights waiting for me in the morning. Samsung funnels everything into the same Samsung Health app as my Galaxy Watch Ultra, so my data stays continuous even when the more expensive watch is resting on its puck to charge.
This is key because the Fit 3 battery lasts long enough that I rarely have to think about it. The tracker clocks roughly two weeks of use between charges, and that’s assuming you’re going to use it a lot more than just for sleeping. So far, it’s looking like it can last even more with all the settings I’ve disabled. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Watch Ultra taps out at about two days. My dual-device setup makes that meager battery stat much less of an issue. Follow along with my madness.
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