Stefan Mileschin

Color tracker for sub 20 USD

Makibes is one of the newcomers to the smart fitness tracker area and we've already taken a deeper look into the G03 GPS enabled band. Now we've had a chance to test the much less expensive color HR3 smart bracelet.

The package includes Makibes HR3 smartband, a short manual and part of the smartband is the detachable TPU strap.

One of the key features is the 0.96-inch color screen with a continuous heart rate monitor. Other features include IP67 waterproof rating, customizable clock faces, smart reminders, and the promise of seven day battery life with 80 mAh lithium polymer battery. It will charge in an hour and the USB charging port is covered by the TPU strap, making it easier to charge your device an any charger or computer USB port.

Some essential features include all day activity tracking, auto sleep tracking including sleep stages, wrist gestures, stopwatch and a phone search.

It will count your step, kilometers, heart rate, Kcal, and show you the time. It will even let you change the background and the watch dials.


The band has a raised wrist to wake the sensor that works as expected. The default screen shows the date, battery life, Bluetooth connectivity to your device, central position and the current heart rate followed by the day of the week and time. This is actually most you will ever need.

You will need to switch to another screen to see the steps, kilometers, Kcal burned, separate heart rate screen, sleep time, stop watch, SMS, Find phone of Off button. One annoying part is that there is no quick way to go to the home screen, you always have to click multiple times through all menus to get to the home screen.

The intelligent reminder function lets you know when you get an SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsup, Wechat, QQ or Line.


The device itself looks elegant and does its job well with occasionally unusually high heart rate reading.

On the positive side, the Wearfit 2 app works really well and can even connect with Google Fit and Apple health. This makes it really valuable as you will be able to complement your phone data with more accurate measurements.

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