If you love the idea of tracking your health and fitness with a screenless band but don’t want to pony up for a Whoop subscription, you'll soon have more options. Maybe. Probably: Three different Whoop-likes have popped up in the past few weeks, but I'm still murky on the details of what they'll offer, and none of them are (yet) available for sale to the general public. In order from most to least likely to be real products you can buy, they're coming from Polar, Amazfit, and Garmin.
There’s a lot of buzz around these devices because plenty of folks would love a fitness tracker that isn’t a watch. Maybe you already have a mechanical watch and don’t need another thing on your wrist; or maybe you don’t want anything on your wrist at all and would love a nice comfy armband instead (it really is easy to forget you’re wearing the Whoop band, and it's my favorite placement when I’m in the gym since a watch can get in the way of some exercises).
WHOOP Peak – 12-Month Membership – 5.0 Health and Fitness Wearable – 24/7 Activity and Sleep Tracker with Heart Rate, HRV, Stress Monitor, Personalized Coaching, Healthspan – 14+ Days Battery Life $239.00 at Amazon Get Deal Get Deal $239.00 at AmazonIf an established fitness watch maker came out with a screenless band, it wouldn't immediately be a Whoop killer, because it'd be missing out on Whoop’s app, which is honestly the best thing about it and which clearly took a ton of development effort to create. I wouldn’t expect any of these devices to be true competitors to Whoop as a service, but the device alone would give people another option, and that's pretty cool.
Polar announced today that it’s coming out with a “brand-new product category” and you’ll be able to buy the item, whatever it is, in September 2025. Polar describes it as a “screen-free wrist device” and specifies that it will be “subscription-free.”
Amazfit’s Helio Strap: exclusive to Hyrox athletes (for now?)
Amazfit, by contrast, has photos and a name for its device. It’s called the Helio Strap, and is currently only available for the 15 top athletes in Hyrox, a Crossfit-like sport. (Note that they don’t call it a “band” because Amazfit already sells several products in a Fitbit-like wristband shape that have names like “Amazfit Band 7.”)
Even more promising, a product listing for an all-black (not Hyrox branded) version of the Amazfit Helio strap was reportedly live on Walmart’s website for a brief moment, with a price tag of $79.99. So far there is no word on when that product might launch for real.
Garmin’s band: one tiny alleged leak
The idea of a Garmin band was leaked, maybe, to the website The 5K Runner, which has a history of publishing Garmin leaks that sometimes come true. on this potential device was accompanied by an AI image, thus making it look real at first glance—but nope, it was created by an algorithm that can’t even make a sleeping woman’s head look like it’s attached to her body, and certainly doesn’t have any insight into what Garmin may or may not be planning for a sleep band.
The writer of The 5K Runner is “100%” certain that this is a real product, and predicts the launch date as “soon, with August at the latest, and more likely by the end of July.” But without more information, it’s hard to know whether we should be as certain. I asked a Garmin rep about this rumor, and they declined to comment.
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