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In abstract:
- Tech Advisor highlights how the Fitbit Air faces new competitors from the Luna Band, each focusing on the rising screenless health tracker market.
- The Luna Band affords a novel voice-first strategy at £155/$149 with no subscription charges, integrating with Siri for meal and symptom logging.
- Luna Band’s AI-powered LifeOS creates personalised every day routines based mostly on physique information, launching by invitation in late July 2026.
The Fitbit Air launches subsequent week, however there’s already competitors from a brand new rival, the Luna Band.
The Fitbit Air is kicking off a surge of curiosity in screenless health trackers in 2026. It’s certainly not the primary, with the likes of Whoop being fashionable with athletes for a few years, however Google’s new band is pushing the gadget into the mainstream.
We’re anticipating many extra to comply with all year long – together with the Garmin Cirqa – and past, as customers search a much less distracting wearable. It was initially proven off at CES again in January however the Luna Band is now totally official, with an upgraded design and performance from that early prototype.
Following on from the Luna Ring Gen 2, the screenless health tracker is described as a “calendar to your physique, constructed to maintain you in peak state”. It takes a barely totally different strategy to the Fitbit and Whoop as a “voice-first wearable”.
It appears like it is going to go well with those that take pleasure in a really detailed routine because the Luna Band, mixed with its LifeOS intelligence engine (aka AI-powered software program), is designed to plan your day round your physique – actually hour by hour – as a “new approach to consider well being”.
By means of the sensors on the Band, LifeOS repeatedly screens your physique and connects to different information sources comparable to blood markers, medical context and meals habits. You may log meals, signs, and “moments” utilizing your voice and with out opening the app, because of Siri integrations.
There’s no microphone on the band itself, so this implies talking into your iPhone. The Luna Band additionally works with Android telephones, however with out the voice performance.
Fitbit Air vs Whoop: Screenless health trackers in contrast
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All that is was a plan which the band communicates by way of haptic suggestions. It will embrace exercises and meditation, and notifications to chop off your caffeine consumption.
Luna additionally says the app comes with numerous ‘micro-apps’ for issues like coaching, stress and productiveness, plus you may make your individual well being modules based mostly in your wants.
The official web site additionally particulars that the Luna Band can observe your sleep and fertility.
Luna hasn’t given an actual value but, however advised Tech Advisor will probably be round £155/$149. Importantly, when evaluating with the likes of Whoop and Google Well being Premium (the brand new model of Fitbit Premium), there’s no subscription payment.
The Luna Band has a launch date of ‘finish of July 2026’ and the agency says Drop 1 is invite-only. You may be part of the waitlist from at the moment within the hope of with the ability to purchase one.
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