Wellograph Wireless Bluetooth Heart Rate and Activity Monitor Wellness Watch - Silver Satin

Loved it for the first couple of months but then one of the buttons on the side stopped working (unfortunately the one that syncs and enters menus etc.). I thought, 'Fine, I've only had it a couple of months and it has a year warranty!'. Not that fine unfortunately, trying to find a contact for Wellograph was hard enough on their website but after emailing, I got no response so I'm left with a nice looking but useless fitness watch. Stay away if you want a working watch for more than a couple of months!!

I've been looking at wearable tech for a while now as the concept of being able to track calories burned in my morning gym session wasn't essential to me but these are good statistics to track over time. Over a long hard comparison of many different brands I decided to go with the Wellograph, and here is why.Firstly, I am a Windows Phone user and the amount of supported apps for this platform is a fraction compared to iOS and Android. So when I stumbled upon the Wellograph I was pleasantly surprised to see that it had it's own supported app for Windows Phone, as well as iOS and Android. This was a massive tick on the list for me because comparing this to other leading wearable tech almost none had their own supported app for the Windows Phone platform... The app itself is very simple to use with the ability to check progress from Pulse to Sleep measured in a chart so you can monitor your health progress. You must 'sync' your Wellograph to the phone periodically to feed this information from your workout sessions back into the app via Bluetooth to able to see these results. The Wellograph does not connect your Smartphone constantly as this drains battery for both Smartphone and the Wellograph, as the Wellograph is designed to last for up to a week it needs to cut as much battery saving corners as possible. But this is not necessarily a bad thing.Which brings me to my next point. The Wellograph may be considered unworthy and costly in comparison to the sights of the new upcoming Smart Watches as the displays are LED and touchscreen. Wellograph's approach to this however is a simplistic energy saving screen with a backlight which may not be as flashy as LED touchscreens but make the device last a whole lot longer. In combination with it's user interface the Wellograph provides an easy and enjoyable experience.Unfortunately, there are some issues with the Wellograph that had disheartened me. Due to my workout routine I barely do a lot of running, so when I got to the gym ready to do some weightlifting I hit the start timer and worked away to my hearts content only to find that I hadn't burnt many calories at all... Later on that day I took part in a Spinning class as I thought to my self "this will burn loads of calories". After the 45 minute session was up I was excited to see my results, only to find that I had only burnt 55 calories... This then led me to realise that the Wellograph does not measure calories burnt my heart rate, it measures it my steps taken... Hopefully Wellograph will correct this in upcoming updates.Overall the Wellograph is a modern and beautiful looking kit with a great user interface and app. I even received many complements on how nice my "new watch" was. But even beauty has it's flaws, when it came down to the true use of the device it did fall short.

I've been using one of these since the beginning of the year (I got mine at The Consumer Electronics Show in January) and it works great. I was able to compare it to everything else out there and it was by far the most elegant and best looking watch (which is important to me) and it does all the things I need it to - for me, mainly counting my steps every day and syncing with my iphone. The heart rate functions and sleep tracking are newer for me and I am getting to know these data points since I have had access to this data as well, but the resting HR is coming down which is great to see! Charging is easy and the watch lasts sometimes longer than a week for me, and that's with me wearing it from waking to sleeping. Nice one Wellograph!

As a keen sportsman I am always interested in tracking my movements and heart rate to get an accurate understanding of my performance and ability. Playing football on a regular basis, alongside frequent visits to the gym, I didn’t want just any old cheap, inaccurate tracking device that gives you false readings and measurements, I have seen that there are so many of these on the market and I am eager to stay away from them and save my money. Yes the Wellowgraph is up there with the premium priced sports trackers, that being said it does a lot more than most other sports trackers in this price bracket.The device itself arrived in a rather premium looking box, along with its upright charging dock and a very handy set of easy to use instructions (you will definitely be needing these). Opting for the black version, it looks extremely sleek and I particularly like the way you can clearly see the fine layer of glass that covers the top of the watch – it gives it a great finish. The strap is made from genuine leather, again being a premium product you would expect this. A lot of other sports bands/trackers use a rubber strap; however this ultimately gives the tracker a cheap look, glad to see Wellowgraph have taken the risk in keeping with their luxurious brand and feel.Onto functionally and there really isn’t a lot this device can’t do. It has time and date, pulse and heart rate monitoring represented either on a daily or weekly basis, as well as distance tracking and sleep tracking (this is a soon to be added feature sometime in the near future, or so I’ve read online). It also has a fitness test in which it will ask you to take part in certain activities and then measure your heart rate based on age, weight and height etc, I’ve tried this feature out a couple of times but personally it’s not the sort of thing I use all that often. I’m a big fan of how the watch will measure your heart rate and pulse, and then convert it into an easy to use graph. To a lot of people this may sound pointless and a bit random, however when used properly it really help to understand at which points of the activity they start to fatigue, and at which points you were most energetic. As far as I can tell the accuracy of the Wellowgraph is also very high. A lot of trackers will get the amount of steps you take completely wrong, but the Wellowgraph presents reasonable data, making it a very reliable device. The free downloadable app allows you to look at your actives either on a daily basis, or by session. This is a cool feature as it means you can track how hard you’ve worked throughout the week through each different activity. This does genuinely help to track your fitness levels and gives you a push to work harder and beat previous records.The free downloadable app that links to Wellowgraph via Bluetooth is a great support platform for the watch. At first I had a few issues connecting the watch to my phone, it took 3 or 4 times for my phone to actually pick it up, but it has never had any issues since the first sync. It’s easy to navigate, smartly designed and shows your data in an easy to understand format. It allows you to look at your activities either day by day or week by week, and formats them into a graph. This helps you to see at which point through your workouts you have pushed yourself the hardest and which points you could have worked harder, much like you can do on the actual watch itself, however in slightly more detail.I think the only thing that’s missing from this watch is a GPS tracker – for the amount of money you pay it would have been great to have a feature that allows you to actually track where you’ve run and give you an exact distance. This would also allow for further accuracy, and could potentially make the watch a little more desirable for those who use it specifically for running. Clearly a lot of time has gone into the development of this deceive to ensure it stays one step ahead of the competitors in terms of quality (looks and feel), and functionality. Apart from these small improvement I’ve mentioned, the Wellowgraph is a great device, it has proven to be very accurate, and despite being up there with its premium price point, I think it lives up to it very well.