Ignite 2 Series Water Resistant Smartwatch with GPS, Heart Rate Monitoring, Sleep Analysis and Personalized Fitness Tracking, S-L, for Men or Women, Black

Watch is great for exercise as well tracking sleep. This watch will track HR of sleep, HR beat variation, REM cycles and time of each cycle in your night of sleep, interruptions in your night of sleep, etc etc and also tracks quality of sleep based on HR. The watch keeps track of average sleep statistics as well to track improvement of sleep. I like the alarm function as well since I usually can’t wake up from my phone alarm clock. The battery life is sufficient enough that it lasts over 4 days most of the time depending on how many workouts you do or other functions that you use and recharging is quick. Touch controls are a little slow to respond, and sometimes difficult to use when sweating a lot or if the watch/your hand is wet. I’ve used this watch in a steam room and pool many times in the past 6 months without any water damage issues at all. The watch continues to function and track HR and workout data even after over an hour inside a steam room (115 degree F is the typical temperature in the steam room I use). The button allows you to pause or save a workout without using the touch functions which comes in handy when using the watch for swimming or other sports involving water. The watch also has weather data as well if paired with your phone. In regards to Hr accuracy, the watch does need to be secured and not loose to properly track HR especially for sleep data to be accurate. I have experienced inaccurate readings when I did not have the watch right enough on my wrist, but it doesn’t need to be painfully tight. Overall a great watch for those who don’t care for smart watch capabilities but want a solid watch for exercise and sleep tracking.

Great watch for tracking activities, workouts and sleep. It takes awile to figure out all the screens(7) and various functions (per screen). Works well with Polar Flow app and syncs well. Make sure to download a digital copy of the manual, since you’ll be referring to it quite a bit at first. I had 2 issues that I couldn’t get to functio, even reading thru the manual a few times and the specifics even more, so I contacted Polar described the problem (via e-mail, since there is NO customer service phone #) and withib 48 hrs rec’d a reply that steered me in the right direction to use the functions. As an aside, I did purchase after market watch face screen protectors and after market watchbands that have more holes to allow the wrist to bresthe.

Great watch; one shortcoming is that it does not interface well with the Windows 10/11 version of the Polar Flow app. Instead, Polar seems to want customers to use the smartphone app version of Polar Flow. Not nearly as easy to review past workout data on the phone screen. Such as: looking at the map of your recent running route.

POLAR Ignite 2 - Fitness Smartwatch with Integrated GPS - Wrist-Based Heart Monitor - Personalized Guidance for Workouts, Recovery and Sleep Tracking - Music Controls, Weather, Phone Love this watch. Easy to use. So many functions. Easy to clean I had a Fitbit and like the look of this. More feminine. Good quality and fair price

I have tried a Fitbit Versa 2 and this Polar Ignite, so this review contrasts them. The polar ignite is much more accurate as a heart rate tracker, which is great. I no longer feel the need for a chest-band tracker; I can trust this wrist mounted one. But with the fitbit I had gotten used to the software making sensible, if not perfectly accurate, decisions. If I went for a long walk the fitbit would recognize that and log it. If I mowed the lawn the tracker would think I was riding a bike on gravel (vibrating wrist, moving, somewhat elevated heart rate - not a bad guess!). The Polar so SO DUMB about this. If you don't remember to tell it "now I am exercising" and "now I am stopping"...well, here's an example: I played some tennis and at the start I clicked on "start logging exercise - 'outdoor other' category" because there's nothing closer to tennis than that. I finished and forgot to tell the watch I was finished. I drove home, went to bed, slept until the next morning and then noticed my watch was still logging my "exercise," even though I'd been travelling 60mph with a heart rate of 60bpm and then sleeping for 6 hours. And then then for about four days it tells me, essentially, "don't exercise any more because remember you did 14 straight hours of working out two days ago and that means your injury risk is elevated!" Likewise if I get in a hard workout session and fail to tell the watch when it started and ended the software on the app says "your fitness is declining because you didn't exercise this week," despite a clear 90 minute period with my heartrate high. Not useful. Also the actualy touchscreen controls are annoying - I have to tap and tap and tap to get it to register. So I'm using it less and less. Forgetting to turn on or turn off the exercise tracking mode once screws up your carefully curated workout record for a week or so. Also this watch misinterprets sleep, so I can't trust that either. If I'm awake for an hour during the night it ususally says I was awake for 5 minutes. The fitbit did much better interpreting sleep and waking.

I'm updating my review because after all the time I had it, it managed to almost work for most of that time. What is almost impossible is updating it either by computer or by phone. By computer it will take you days to get the update to work (maybe). By phone it will never work (bluetooth lost). Normal syncs work maybe 50% of the time, but sync well enough to get your workouts to the cloud. I don't think it is reporting my heart rate very well (at least compared to my old Polar device), it tends to report it as lower than it is. Also the user interface pretty much will drive you insane and also it tends to lock up so it no longer works (sometimes during a workout). If you reset it often it tends to behave itself. It does not speak to iPhones to report notifications, despite implying that it does. This is the worst technology experience I've ever had, and I was a software engineer for 35 years and had a lot of computers and devices. This is just such a poor device in terms of software and/or hardware (software I suspect) that I can't recommend ANYONE buy this. And any other polar device will, I suspect, suffer from the performance of the polar app on computers. Note I have a iMac and an iPhone. It's just possible they do better on PCs. I will leave my former reviews below in case they should be helpful, but you don't really need it. First, it seems to underestimate heart rate relative to my previous Polar chest strap and watch. Judging from how my heart feels, I suspect the heart strap is more accurate. Second, syncing takes a lot of time and it seems to want to do the next sync immediately after completing the last. I have to bring down the IOS app or the FlowSync program on my iMac to prevent this. It does charge quite fast though, and the graphics are good. It's fairly intuitive, which is fortunate since the manual is virtually non-existant. I couldn't update the software at first until I put in a problem report and ended up uninstalling, rebooting, re-downloading FlowSync using Safari, and syncing/updating again. The update took quite a while but did complete this time. I feel like it's adequate to replace my previous Polar watch with it's sealed chest strap (that had to be repurchased periodically) and I guess I'm willing to live with the under reporting of my heart rate (and thus lower calorie burn). The customer service was quite good. EDIT: After about a month of use, the update seems to have changed the way updates are made. It no longer fully updates on demand. Instead, with the app running, it seems to update periodically behind the scenes. While it is sometimes required to wait a while for the update to happen, it seems to be reliable. I have also had the touchscreen stop working and there is no manual but I kept the button pushed and eventually it did a reboot and after the reboot the touchscreen works again. It does record steps, but it doesn't translate a lot of steps automatically into a workout (as fitbits do). Thus if you want to walk for a workout, you have to start a workout on the watch. The online site is good, though various types of workouts have very different information available (and I can't quite predict what I'm going to get). However remember I bought this because my previous polar watch has been obsoleted by Polar. It still works, but I can no longer upload the workouts. So there is no guarantee of how long this watch will be supported. EDIT: After about 3 months, it has a new issue. Every once in a while, say every month, it just stops updating to online no matter how many times you try to sync to your phone. The only thing I've found to fix that is to attack the cable to my Mac and sync directly to the computer. I guess we have to say that this watch has a lot of capability, but it is a BUNDLE of problems you're going to have to address constantly. EDIT: New bug after more time on the wrist. The most consistent way to sync is to kill the app on the phone and then restart it. Then to connect it to power and then press the button to take it off the charge screen. Then go to the Activity screen and then press the button until it says it's syncing. However, sometimes after successfully syncing, it syncs again and errors out, leaving you with the error screen. The new bug is that sometimes if you do not reboot for a while, it stops charging even when connected. Also over time it seems to underestimate the heart rate to an increasing degree. I probably will end up trying to replace this thing this summer.

Had Ignite but upgraded to the Ignite2 Love it

I use this watch daily to track activities and sleep. Love it

Me encanta el Polar Ignite 2, no me arrepiento de su compra. Se adapta a mis necesidades. Lo recomiendo totalmente.

C'est ma 3 ieme Montre Polar . Bon produit fiable comme toujours

Die eleganteste Lösung einer Sport- und Fitnessuhr. Absolut zuverlässig, einfaches Händling. Top Qualität von Polar sowieso unumstritten.

Works well (usually) I've only had a couple of times were it thought my HR was 180bpm when I was doing general low level exercise.

Appena pochi giorni la scadenza della garanzia di due anni, il touch screen ha smesso progressivamente di funzionare. L'orologio è perfetto, non ha graffi, non ha subito urti. Il problema sembra, purtroppo, frequente per questo tipo di modello. da quanto ho letto in siti specializzati. Mi hanno prospettato di inviarlo all'assistenza al costo di 15 euro, dopo di che dovrebbero fare un preventivo per la riparazione. Data la serietà dell'azienda mi sarei aspettata la sostituzione o quantomeno la riparazione gratuita.