What is it and is it worth your money?

If you buy a Fitbit, you will be dealing with Fitbit Premium, a monthly subscription for extra options. But what do you get? And is it worth your money? In this article we explain everything.

What is Fitbit Premium?

As a Fitbit user, you can no longer ignore Fitbit Premium. This is a monthly subscription for people who wear a Fitbit wearable to get more features such as additional health information and videos with workouts or meditation sessions.

If you wear a Fitbit, you are not obliged to take out a Fitbit Premium subscription. So the subscription is optional, but is it worth it?

What Fitbit Premium Features Are There?

With Fitbit Premium, you get access to a ton of extra features. We list them for you:

• Insights: With Premium you get more insights into your health through personal tips. Without a subscription you get more general tips.

• Health Report: The ability to create a health report with your health statistics. The idea is that you can hand this report over to your doctor.

• Workouts and Meditation: You will have access to a range of videos and audio sessions featuring workouts and meditations. Fitbit is also working on Dutch content.

• Challenges: Three challenges to do with your friends, in which you compete against each other or go for a common goal.

• Daily Recovery Score: Soon, Fitbit Premium will also get a daily recovery score. This score indicates whether your body is ready for a workout, or whether you should take a rest day.

What does Fitbit Premium cost?

A subscription to Fitbit Premium costs 8.99 euros per month. It is also possible to take out an annual subscription. Then you pay per year 79.99 euros. That comes down to 6.67 euros per month.

90 days free Fitbit Premium

When you buy a new Fitbit wearable, you automatically get 90 days of Fitbit Premium for free. That means you can use all functions. With this, Fitbit naturally hopes that you get used to the features and then you want to pay to keep the same functionality.

If you do not want to pay after the 90 days, you must cancel the subscription in time. To do this, go to your profile in the App Store and choose ‘Subscriptions’. Tap ‘Fitbit Premium’ and choose ‘Unsubscribe’. If you don’t, money will be automatically debited as soon as the subscription is renewed.

Is Fitbit Premium worth it?

Whether Fitbit Premium is worth your money depends on why you use the wearable. If you mainly want to keep track of your steps and sports sessions, Premium offers hardly any added value. The workouts and meditation sessions are of good quality, but they are all separate lessons. There is an overarching whole that you can use to grow in your fitness.

Do you wear the wearable all day long and do you also sleep with it, in order to gain as much insight as possible into your health? Then Premium is worth considering, because you get more insight into your sleep, among other things.

At the time of writing, we haven’t been able to test Fitbit’s daily recovery score yet. That is why we do not know to what extent this score offers added value. If the score works as it should, then it can be a valuable way to stop yourself from going too far with exercise.

Fitbit Premium and the future of Fitbit

It is likely that more and more new features will be placed within Fitbit Premium in the future. For example, the new daily recovery score is only available with this subscription. New Dutch videos with workouts and yoga exercises are also exclusively available to Premium members. That’s something to keep in mind if you’re buying a Fitbit product right now.

Read our Fitbit reviews

on iPhoned we review the latest Fitbit wearables so you know if they’re worth your money. You can now read our Fitbit Chrage 5 review and Fitbit Luxe review.