8 Best Heart Rate Monitor Watches in Malaysia 2023

Why It’s Our Top Pick:  

“We feel that Fitbit Luxe is an all-rounder heart rate monitor watch. With a sustainable battery life for up to 5 days, its heart rate monitoring is remarkable making it one of the best to have on your wrist whilst you’re active with sports. Sleek and attractive, this smartwatch is a great daily booster for helping you keep up with your health habits.

To top that, with excellent health monitoring tools, and the competency to support the Fitbit app and ecosystem, the Fitbit Luxe is another one of the best Fitbit ranges you don’t want to miss out on.” 

Features:  

With regards to its specifications, Fitbit Luxe comes with a 0.76-inch AMOLED power display that is protected by a Corning Gorilla glass. It comprises a heart rate sensor, accelerometer, and red and infrared sensors for oxygen saturation (Sp02) monitoring. 

Performance:  

The smartwatch’s SpO2 blood oxygen monitoring enables you to check your oxygen level in your blood so that you can be aware of any vital changes in your fitness and wellness. Its in-app Cardio Fitness Score educates you on how you can improve your fitness level over time. Besides, the Active Zone Minutes alerts you when you’ve entered your personalized target heart rate zone during workouts.

Understand your body better with better monitoring of your heart health, stress management, skin temperature conditions and more thanks to Fitbit Sense.

Features:  

This smartwatch comprises an ECG, stress tracking, and body temperature monitoring. It also comes with a loudspeaker and microphone that enables Bluetooth calling. With a 1.58-inch AMOLED display, be sure to expect better and more vivid information at your best viewing.

Performance:  

This comprehensive fitness tracker boasts an ECG tracking that can detect irregular heart rhythm. Its innovative stress monitoring app alerts you when you’re feeling stressed, while its temperature-monitoring feature detects abnormal body temperature while you snooze. Thanks to its in-built GPS, you can conveniently track your pace and distance on your runs, walks, etc.

Apart from tracking activities and calories, Fitbit Sense even tracks the menstrual cycle for women, blood oxygen, inactive modes. Expect up to 6 days and beyond of battery life, from just a single charge.

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Features:

The Fitbit Inspire 2 has a user-friendly interface that allows you to track your steps, burned calories, activity, sleep, and much more. Its 24/7 heart rate monitoring is just one of its best features, apart from its stable battery life. The touchscreen comes with a backlit OLED display that responds well to natural swiping and scrolling.

Performance: 

This swim-proof and smart tracker allows you to optimise your workouts according to heart rate zones, monitor sleep stages, and estimated calorie burned. Better yet, this fitness-oriented smart band helps you manage your stress levels with guided breathing sessions. With over 15 pre-set workout modes, the Active Minutes feature helps you set your target heart rate.

Great for heart patients, Garmin Vivosmart 4 evaluates both your heart rate and your oxygen saturation levels.

Features: 

This slim and smart fitness tracker comprises advanced sleep monitoring with REM sleep. For additional features, expect a wrist-based heart rate detector, all-day stress tracking, relaxation breathing timer, VO2 max, Body Battery energy monitor, and so much more.

Performance: 

This smartwatch can capture your blood saturation levels at night thanks to its wrist-based Pulse Ox² sensor. The Body Battery energy monitoring combines stress, heart rate variability (HRV), sleep and activity information to measure your body’s energy reserves anytime. It is also capable of alerting you when your heart rate unknowingly increases above the fixed threshold and when it remains high while you’re resting. The battery life is equally fantastic as it can last up to 7 days.

Thanks to a large and high-resolution touchscreen and user-friendly features, Fossil Gen 5 is a great watch to be worn by senior folks.

Features: 

Apart from heart rate monitoring, this smartwatch features a sleep and activity tracker, built-in GPS, and an energy-saving mode. The 46mm touchscreen smartwatch comes with an integrated Google Fit health-tracking app. It is powered with Wear OS by Google to offer you accessible health insights. The smartwatch also features a Google Pay, speaker, and 8GB storage to download and store more apps and music. 

Performance: 

This swim-proof smartwatch is capable of working on its own without having your phone nearby thanks to its untethered GPS. Together with its Accelerometer, Altimeter and Gyroscope sensors, and its heart rate feature, it can monitor and display your real-time heart rate. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, you're able to activate your Google voice assistant for seamless hands-free assistance. However, this smartwatch can only sustain up to 24 hours or more after a 2-hour charge.

This Suunto 9 Baro Smartwatch is noted to be a high-end sports watch that fits ideally for the needs of cyclists and other high endurance athletes.

Features:  

Featuring robust GPS capabilities, weather forecasts, and navigation features, this smartwatch can also track heart rate, sleep data, and numerous other activity metrics. The Scandinavian-designed smartwatch is made with durable materials such as Suunto 9 Baro Titanium and sapphire crystal glass which is resistant to scratches. It comes with a 1.4-inch Matrix LCD that is bright enough to make it easily readable under sunlight. 

Performance: 

This comprehensive fitness tracker of a smartwatch comes with more than 80 sports modes and can even track your statistics such as training effects, training load, recovery, and general fitness level. Besides, it supports several sports services such as Strava, Endomondo, MapMyRun, and many more. Just from a single charge, this smartwatch’s consistent GPS tracking can sustain up to 120 hours, which makes it great for tracking long hours of activities. Despite using it for various purposes, this smartwatch can sustain up to 14 days of battery life.

Undoubtedly one of the best smartwatches in the world, the Apple Watch Series 7 comprises everything you need in a heart rate monitor and health-tracking watch.

Features:  

This smartwatch features a 45mm or 41mm Always-on Retina display, which makes it work like a regular watch – you do not need to lift or press to see the time! It is larger than the Apple Watch SE and comes with a Blood Oxygen app and an ECG app.

Apart from its 50-metre water resistance rating, this smartwatch also features sleep tracking and incidental fall detection. 

Performance:  

Apple Watch Series 7 features the all-new Always-on Retina display. This was a highly anticipated upgrade, as it means that it is essentially a typical watch – but smarter! This smartwatch also tracks the floors climbed with its always-on altimeter and tracks your calories, distance and sleep.

With 32GB storage -- you can now stream, download, and enjoy your favourite playlists right from your watch. Though the battery life may be inferior compared to some of the other options, it still sustains up to an impressive estimated 18 hours.

With both 24/7 heart rate and oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring, you simply cannot ask for more with Fitbit Versa 3. 

Features: 

The Fitbit Versa 3 comes with a 1.58-inch AMOLED display, allowing for only touchscreen features. Comprising of a Google Assistant, thermometer, and heart rate monitor, this fitness-oriented smartwatch too allows you to track your daily activities. Some of its features include more than 20 exercise modes, sleep and calorie tracking and the ability to receive notifications for calls, texts and from apps such as Gmail and Facebook.

Performance:  

This smartwatch features a loudspeaker where you can play your music aloud and make and receive phone calls. You can even select and auto-track your favourite sports modes with SmartTrack. More than just a fitness tracker, Fitbit Versa 3 is capable of monitoring other health aspects such as SpO2 (blood oxygen levels), breathing rate, and differences in your skin temperature when sleeping.