Best Smartwatches Under $100 in 2026: Budget Fitness Smartwatches for Android and iPhone Ranked by Owners

This 1.8-inch Alexa watch is the women’s version of the TOOBUR formula: the same voice assistant, Bluetooth calling with a speaker and microphone, notifications from the usual apps, and sensors for heart rate, blood oxygen and stress around the clock with automatic sleep tracking, in a smaller case with a hypoallergenic silicone strap. It is IP68 rated for showers and swims, offers more than a hundred sports modes, and its 300mAh battery charges in two hours for about a week of use. Thousands of owner reviews give it solid owner feedback, and the maker backs it with a three-year guarantee, the longest here. Battery life is shorter than the TOOBUR, the blood oxygen figure is explicitly non-medical, and the magnetic charger is proprietary, so do not lose it. As a gift watch it is the easiest recommendation on the page.

The Fitpolo is the men’s counterpart to the Alexa watch above, with a 1.8-inch HD screen, 102 faces or a photo of your own, Alexa voice control, and Bluetooth 5.3, a newer standard than most budget watches use, for a more stable link during calls. It tracks steps, distance and calories all day, monitors heart rate, blood oxygen, stress and sleep, offers 105 sports modes and carries an IP68 rating. Fitpolo lists compatibility from iPhone 6 and Android 6 onward, so it will pair with an old phone in a drawer. Thousands of owner reviews give it solid owner feedback, with the call quality and the price the usual praise. Like every watch here, notifications are read-only, and Fitpolo does not state a battery figure as clearly as TOOBUR does. It is a straightforward, well-reviewed Alexa watch for a man who wants a plain square face.

The AEAC 1.32-inch is the budget watch for someone who wants it to look like a watch. Its round 43mm case holds an AMOLED display, the same technology as the expensive brands use, with deeper blacks and sharper text than the LCD panels on the square picks here, and it comes with more than two hundred faces. Calling runs through an HD speaker and microphone with the maker’s own voice assistant, the sensors cover blood oxygen, heart rate, stress and sleep, there are 110 sports modes, and AEAC quotes up to ten days from a two-hour charge. Thousands of owner reviews give it the best owner feedback of the mainstream watches on this page, with the screen and the look the recurring praise. It is rated 3ATM rather than IP68, so showers are fine and lap swimming is not, and the assistant is not Alexa. For style on a budget it is the pick.

This 1.69-inch watch proves how little a working smartwatch now costs. For a fraction of the other picks it still takes and makes Bluetooth calls through a speaker, stores emergency contacts, shows notifications from the usual apps, and tracks heart rate, blood oxygen and sleep around the clock with more than a hundred sports modes and a waterproof rating. The Da Fit app offers over a hundred faces, and the extras run to a timer, stopwatch, alarms, find-my-phone, music control and weather. Thousands of owner reviews give it solid owner feedback, mostly from people who wanted the basics and got them. The listing cannot decide whether the screen is 1.69 or 1.83 inches, there is no voice assistant, and it is a slim pink watch aimed at smaller wrists. For a first smartwatch or a child’s, it is hard to argue with.

The Tiwain military watch is the one pick here with a GPS receiver in the case, so a run or a hike is mapped without carrying a phone, and it backs that with a compass, an altimeter and a barometer that show altitude and pressure on the wrist. The 1.43-inch AMOLED sits in a zinc alloy body that the maker rates to military standards for temperature, pressure and dust, with IP68 water resistance, and a side button fires an LED flashlight good to about twenty meters. It tracks 170 sports, monitors heart rate, blood oxygen and sleep with vibration alerts for unusual readings, takes calls, and its 530mAh battery lasts seven to ten days. Hundreds of owner reviews give it solid owner feedback. It is heavy, the review base is smaller than the square watches, and single-frequency GPS takes a moment to lock, but for trail use it is the outlier worth buying.

The KEEPONFIT round watch is the small-wrist alternative to the AEAC: a 1.27-inch round touchscreen that takes a photo as its face, Bluetooth calling and SMS through a built-in microphone, notifications from the major apps, and the same heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep and activity tracking as the rest of the page across more than a hundred sports modes. It is IP68 rated for swimming and showering and pairs with iOS 9 and Android 6 or later. Thousands of owner reviews give it solid owner feedback, and the maker is unusually direct that its sensor data is for daily wellness and may differ from medical equipment, which is true of every watch here. The screen is the smallest on the page, there is no assistant and no GPS, so it is the pick for someone who wants a discreet round watch rather than a square one.