Polar Ignite

The Polar Ignite does a lot more than I expected. It is more than a FitBit, less than an Apple Watch which is right where I wanted it to be. The GPS works really well for bike rides and, surprisingly, lap swimming. I wear it pretty much all the time and end up charging it every other day from around 30% remaining - it does charge very quickly though. I have verified the heart rate with an external SpO2 meter and the numbers agree very well. As for cons, the touch display is a bit laggy but not aggravatingly so. Also, water on the display in the shower will emulate touch events. One change I'd like to see is a night time dimmer mode, or alternatively a small time display on a black background during the "sleep hours" because in the middle of the night it seems very bright. I really like this watch - as an already active person it tracks my activity, sleep and etc. in surprising and insightful ways. It pairs with the Polar website to allow you to plot all your data and see your trends. If you are already active and are looking for a good fitness tracker, this is a good candidate.

Excellent fitness tracker. Had it for three months with no problems. Super bright color display, sturdy construction (i keep bumping it against the corners in my house with no scratches), syncs with polar.com running programs and is super helpful if you're training with heart zones. Heart beat is not as accurate as the H10 chest strap but you can link the two and it will display your H10 readout on your watch while you run. Battery lasts about 1-2 days but that's not a deal breaker for me since I'm in front of the computer all day and the charger is always there in front of me. Previous fitbit 3 owner and love this watch because of the way it syncs with polar running programs and has a ton of features.

I bought this to check distance, pace and heart rate. The heart rate monitor can be off as much as 20-30 bpm. My normal resting heart rate is under 55. This thing measures 75. A lazy 3 miler and this thing said I averaged 160. No way! A check by hand at the end was 130. No matter how tight or loose the thing is strapped on it’s awful. Nice little watch otherwise, but don’t buy for the monitor.

This is my third fitness watch, after a Garmin Vivoactive and when it lasted less than a year replaced it with a Polar A360. I bought the A360 even though it was a huge step down from the Vivoactive because a) I had less money to spend and b) it was the only watch near that price point that claimed good HR monitoring in the water. The Garmin gave up in the water and just turned the HR monitor off when swimming. Because of some heart worries HR tracking during all physical activity was a requirement. I recently had enough spare cash to upgrade my A360 and after a lot of research decided to go with the Ignite. It seemed like the best combination of the two - the Polar HR functionality combined with better tracking of sports and a built-in GPS. My biggest worry was that I wasn't too happy with the companion app, the Polar Flow. It literally tracked just HR for all sports - the only difference between sports was the icon displaying the sport on the watch and the app. Fortunately I needn't have worried. When you switch watches, the app changes what it can display, and now Polar Flow is showing laps and distance for pool swimming, and distance and a map for biking/running/walking. The good: HR tracking for all sports is accurate enough for my uses. It generally matches the readout on whatever piece of cardio equipment I'm using (+/- 3 BPM), and when I'm in the pool the exertion level feels consistent with the HR readout. When biking I love being able to match my HR to the leg of the ride I'm on. When I'm boxing, the watch doesn't "accidentally" shut off on the back of my glove like the Garmin did (this drove me crazy!). The okay: Really my only complaint is that this watch still doesn't accurately track lap counts when swimming. If you are using a paddleboard just forget it - it's looking for arm movements to track laps. It still undercounts my regular laps, too. Also, it's supposed to be able to discern between the stroke, but always tells me my backstroke laps are breast stroke (which I don't even do). The Garmin had the same problem. Otherwise I'm really happy with it. I haven't tried the training functions yet as my workouts are heavily influenced by my physical therapy requirements, but everything else works just as well as I need it to. Fitness level: active but not competitive Frequency: 4-6 times per week, mix of gym cardio, boxing, cycling and swimming.

I've really enjoyed my Polar Ignite over these last 3 years however, about 6 months ago I noticed I was no longer able to access the lap time information, due to the touch screen on that section not responding. No matter how hard I touched the screen, it would never go to the lap time info. Now, it can take several minutes to choose the workout program as the touch screen response is erratic, causing a program to start that you did not choose. It could take a few minutes of swiping!! Also, battery life was suffering. So, this is my final review as I'm going to jump ship on Polar and choose Coros Pace 3.

Great watch w GPS, so no GPS need to carry phone, band is super comfortable, quick time check and workout checks are easy, no pb nec. Would definitely buy same again

It seems like the Polar Ignite was not designed by a runner! I'm not sure why the default for the screen is to go to sleep after 5 or so seconds when you are exercising.. When I am running I want constant feedback by glancing down at my watch. Now when I glance down, there is nothing but a black screen. It appears that the only way you can bypass this is to lock the screen and turn the back light on. However, you can only do this when AFTER you have started the stopwatch. So if you are timing yourself, you either have to stand still and do this after you have started the timer or try and do it when you are running, which is virtually impossible to do. Is there some kind of work around I am missing??!! Basically you lose about 10 seconds if you are trying to record a time....because you have to fiddle about with the settings. The screen is also way too dark. Can it be adjusted? It does not appear so. The screen is hard to see during the day when you are running. (While you can lock the screen. When you are in running mode, it always defaults to unlocked. You must change it every time you start the timer). The touch screen does not work very well. Sometimes it takes two or three swipes. The design of the watch interface is just not intuitive. I will be returning this product.

I bought the Polar Ignite to hopefully upgrade from a Fitbit Ionic, and am very happy with my decision. After wearing the Ignite 24/7 since early September, I have found the heart rate monitoring and the GPS to be quite accurate. I especially like the sleep monitoring features of the Ignite that I believe are likely unmatched by any other fitness watch. The ergonomics of the Ignite menu system and the associated Polar Flow App. are excellent. I find useful and instructive the additional level of technical detail that Polar provides over that provided by Fitbit. Updated12/30/2020 Just purchased my second Ignite. Battery on Ignite that I purchased in Sept 2019 was depleted. I don’t consider this to be great battery life, but am quite satisfied with the Ignite otherwise. Have reviewed other watches by Polar, Garmin, and Fitbit and decided that the Ignite is the best choice for me.

Très bonne montre mais problème après moins de 2 ans ne fonctionne plus

Excelente producto. La principal característica que buscaba (medición constante del ritmo cardíaco) la cumple a cabalidad. El resto de las características las hace muy bien (ejercicios complementarios, medición de la calidad del sueño, notificaciones). Sigo siendo fan de la marca. Lo único que puede ser molesto para algunas personas es la necesidad de recargar el reloj con relativa frecuencia, en mi caso cada tres o cuatro días (depende por completo de tus hábitos de ejercicio)

I've been fitbit for long time and to be honest it's fine for any basic daily usage, however I've seen major improvements generation to generation especially on the activities tracking occuracy and heart rate monitor response. So, with seeing the new Polar ignite, I thought it's time to change. One of the reason for changing was the heart monitor occuracy and response which I have read before that Polar is doing it better and somehow it's better than fitbit. In addition they have improve in the sleep tracking techniques however fitbit is doing it better as they will track any sleep more than 1 hourse while the polar you have to define the window of sleep and will register sleep lasted lesss than 4 hours! Which is so strange as any afternoon sleep will be register. I like the night recharge feature but again if some sleep is not register such feature will not be accurate. For activities tracking, polar is very basic and will register any activities unless you activate the type of sport you are doing while fitbit will automatically detect if you are running or jogging or biking... Battery is fine will last for 4 days almost that include a couple of hours of gps usage. One more thing to mention is the watch I received from amazon was faulty the vibration is not working so I call the polar maintenance center in Dubai and they replaced it right away. Very supportive and customer oriented center.

Don't believe all the negative reviews, I purchased this after a lot of online research. I'm not a fitness fanatic, and before the Ignite I wasn't even wearing a watch, but wanted something which gave me a nudge / reminder to get up and do some exercise (I lead a sedentary lifestyle, though I am pretty fit - 56yrs, 5'9, 75Kgs, BF16%). I was going to hold off until I could get a Samsung Active 2 with my phone upgrade, but read enough about how inaccurate its HRT monitoring was (as well as its GPS) that I decided I wanted more of a fitness watch than something on my wrist that'd literally double up as a phone (because I've already got my phone for that, right ?). I also didn't want to pay too much for my first fitness watch as I believe this is still quite a moving technology and new/better ones will be coming out all the time. Finally, I was more steered towards Polar because I have had Garmin products before and didn't like their software. Polar have been in the HRT monitor space the longest (as far as I know) and felt if anyone could produce a great fitness watch, they'd be the favourite. So far, I've had it a week and absolutely no complaints ! Well, okay, a few improvements I'd personally like :) 1) The strap is a) too rubbery/grippy, and b) the strap loop keeps sliding down each time you try to put the watch on. a) + b) = A very frustrating experience every time you try to put the watch on, since to slide that loop up once the watch is on your wrist is very difficult to do since the rubber material is too grippy, preventing you doing so without a few blue words during it...... (I’ve since superglued the strap loop permanently in place and so have eliminated the above mentioned frustration). 2) The watch face is switched off until you bring the watch up to your face to look at it. That is fine except that this only works when you're in the upright position (either sitting or standing is fine). Try bringing the watch up to your face when you're lying down or in bed and you’ll find the watch face will not wake up.... it's as though the orientation of the watch is what is important to it, not that you're making a sudden movement with your arm to wake it up. 3) You have a choice of analogue or digital watch faces, one of each. That's fine, but when you choose the analogue face, the face I prefer, then the watch hands obscure the health data and information. If you choose the digital face, no obscuring takes place. It's a shame that Polar didn't design TWO positions for that data, one for the digital version of the watch, and another for the analogue version. Other than that, I'm completely satisfied with my Ignite watch, I've had NONE of the issues I've read in online reviews elsewhere, no issues with it measuring my sleep within the first three nights, no issues with the software, the GPS is accurate (I tried it on a local walk I do every other day) and the data itself is very useful. If you're a fitness fanatic, take your marathons and training very seriously, then you probably want a more sophisticated and accurate device - and for that you’ll need to pay two or three times the price of a Polar Ignite. But for those of us who want a watch mainly for fitness, aren't fanatical about that, and don't want smartphone features, this watch is not only perfect in my view, it is also VERY attractive on the wrist. A great purchase decision !

Bisher hatte ich nur einen ganz günstigen Fitnesstracker, und wollte nun upgraden, um mein Training besser unter Kontrolle zu haben Ich suchte eine Sportuhr ohne diese ganzen "Gimmicks" wie die Pushs von Nachrichten etc..., bei dem ich aber viele unterschiedlichen Trainingseinheiten (drinnen/draußen) einstellen kann. Ich trainiere ca. 3x die Woche, v.a. im Kraft-Ausdauer-Bereich, weniger oft gehe ich laufen. Daher fiel meine Wahl auf diese Uhr. Die Uhr ist schnell und unkompliziert eingerichtet, egal ob mit der App auf dem Handy oder am PC. Auch die Einstellungen können schnell vorgenommen werden. Die Uhr misst den Puls am Handgelenk, die Trainingswerte sind für mich in dem erwarteten Bereich und für mich völlig ausreichend. Bestimmt geht es mit einem Brustgurt noch genauer, ist für mich aber unerheblich. Der Schrittzähler ist für mein Empfinden zu empfindlich und zählt v.a. bei der Arbeit am PC auch Schritte, die ich definitiv nicht gemacht habe. Wenn ich allerdings (draussen) unterwegs bin/laufen bin, zählt sie sehr zuverlässig und ähnlich im Vergleich zu anderen Uhren. Der Schlaf wird meiner Meinung nach sehr genau gemessen, zumindest die Wach-Phasen sind genau aufgezeichnet. Beim Laufen ist die gemessene Laufstrecke (inkl HM) recht genau im Vergleich mit anderen Uhren und Apps. Der Trouchscreen reagiert fast immer gut auf meine Eingaben, könnte ab und zu schneller und deutlicher reagieren (genauso wie der Knopf). Klar führt Schweiss oder Wasser zu verzögerten Eingaben, das passiert auf meinem Handy auch. Die Anzeigen sehe ich bei Sonne oder Dunkelheit deutlich. Das Armband hat keine hohe Qualität, erfüllt bisher aber seinen Zweck. In der App kann ich alle möglichen Werte nachschauen und vergleichen, sehr interessant. Alles in allem habe ich die richtige Uhr für meine Zwecke gekauft. Sie ist vielseitig, funktioniert gut und ich würde sie wieder kaufen.