Hero Band III Reviews

by Msking325

I bought this to monitor my blood pressure and so far that has been pretty helpful. But I don’t understand why I have to reset all of my personalized settings every single day. halfway through the day I look at my watch and notice that it has reset itself back to 24 hour time period instead of 12 hour. I also have to change it back to imperial instead of metric and when I try to customize the watch face, that just gets reset back to the default also. This is extremely annoying and I don’t know if it’s because I am accidentally resetting some thing like if I have my arms crossed it thinks I am “long pressing” the watch face. The option to reset defaults on the watch should be at the very end of the rotation so it’s not accidentally getting pushed through a typical day. I also wish there was a way to customize the menus on the watch. There are a few features that I would like to remove because I do not use them but I still have to scroll all the way through them to get back to the beginning. Please keep working on updates to make this watch better.

by Air Commands

You get what you pay for? It was easy to set up initially, but then things went downhill over the next month. The touchscreen is not very sensitive, so it’s very hard to navigate between the few different screens that are available. I noticed a few weeks ago, a few weeks after having purchased it, that the time was off by several hours and minutes (date also). I tried to reset the device, offloaded the software from my phone and uploaded it again and I have not been able to get the watch to work after following the instructions and even trying some other combinations. Now the touchscreen is even less responsive. The blood oxygen, blood pressure, and heart rate monitors still work, or at least I think they do. I cannot be sure of the accuracy of the readings given how dysfunctional the rest of the device is. I cannot get it to connect to my iPhone 12 anymore either.
Also noticed that the steps are super inaccurate. You can get several thousand steps by binge watching and never getting off of the couch, just by managing the tv remote.
I should be grateful it was inexpensive? No, the company should not sloppily create a device that doesn’t work and then charge any amount of money for it. Very disappointed.

by Kamwest92

The watch functions when charged and functions accurately as a watch. Step counter and sleep monitor are inconsistent. It also lights up at night to monitor heart rate and is disruptive to sleep. It’s good for a watch but not much else. I am a nurse and compared my vitals (heart rate and SpO2) with a medical grade monitor and the readings were inaccurate. Also it claims to provide a blood pressure measurement but that’s not accurately possibly without some sort of cuff. Also ready much lower than my actually blood pressures with a standard blood pressure cuff. It is waterproof and durable. The camera feature doesn’t work. The weather app says it’s -1 degrees outside and it’s 50’s today—I did verify Bluetooth was connected. So yeah…you get what you pay for. I still wear it sometimes because it did let me upload a cute picture of my hubby on the watch face. It looks expensive but it doesn’t really consistently do what it advertises that it does.

by CaTxChick

It looks good. I want it to be good. But it makes me crazy. Not all of the settings work nor do they stay as you set them. Things are constantly changing. Minor but will gives the picture: I look at watch face and the time is now showing in 24 hour format when I have set it to 12 hour format 100 times. And that is just one of all the settings that do not stay fixed. I am now getting email alerts (which haven’t worked - ever) in the middle of the night waking me up even though I’ve set the DND and turned off ALL notifications. I’ve never gotten alerts for texts or the other items on the notification list. Sometimes it tells me my phone is ringing but not consistently. I’ve unpaired and re-paired the watch and still no change. Haven’t heard back from tech support which appears to be in China. I am not optimistic of getting this fixed. :(

by Bekahboo2111

The watch constantly restarts. Could be in the middle of a workout or in the middle of the night and in the middle of doing nothing. Lose all my data for the day, my workout info and I have to redo all my settings. I wish it had more workout/activity options like hiit or stretching/yoga. If I’m pushing a strolling and walking or even a shopping cart in the grocery store it doesn’t track my steps so make me wonder how accurate my other steps are. During a workout my heart rate will read say 160 but when I look in my full day heart rate it’ll say the max was 130. Again makes me question accuracy. It’s great otherwise, easy to use, easy to wear, seems splash resistant from washing hands doing dishes and bathing kids along long as their not splashing too much lol. If it unhooks from Bluetooth I have to go into HeroBandIII and my settings and completely forget and re sync in order to reconnect which losses all recent data. Not able to connect it to workout apps so heart rate can be included in workout data. The message alerts either keep vibrating if you don’t read your phone or they go away before you even have a chance to read two words.

by Tipsybirdy

Wheelchair mode needs to be added to the list of exercises and adding a “rolls” option in place of “steps” would help me greatly. I’mA very healthy 35-year-old female who was paralyzed seven years ago and I cannot find a smart watch that has wheelchair options. The only wheelchair option I smart watch is the iPhone watch but that’s way too much money for me to buy. I was hoping just putting it on “cycle” mode would be the best at the gym while hand cycling. It’s not accurate at all. I thought I’d try it out before I splurged on an iWatch. Even my sleep recordings are very wrong. It says I’m asleep at times when I’m awake. So what’s up with that?I think if you added a wheelchair mode, it would help millions of people that many go unrecognized- but we are here! and we need stuff like this but there’s nothing other than an iWatch with a wheelchair mode and I can’t afford that. If you did that we can trace the pushes, hand cycles, and upper body to be broad. Please listen to me I know you don’t think of it, but there are millions of wheelchair users that want smart watches. If you did add it, I know your sales would go way up.

by MillieCVH

I had bought the watch like a week ago and then it started to not track my sleep which I was annoyed about. Then I waited thinking it would fix itself and still hasn’t. Been a few days since it started and just doesn’t track my sleep anymore. The watch I think is not very accurate as I never woke up yet it said I was awake in the middle of a deep sleep? I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work. It also doesn’t show my messages on the watch anymore like if someone were to text me on message it would give me a notification that someone texted me and shows what they said, but now it doesn’t do that either. I just feel like it hasn’t been working since I first got it which is very disappointing. I don’t recommend getting it.

by SamTrice

On the plus side, HeroBandIII has a pretty easy user interface, and reports Steps, Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Blood Oxygen Saturation and Sleep data.

I really value having a consistent baseline to view and monitor this data with.

Unfortunately HeroBandIII has a number of problems.

The first is that it does not sync to Apple Health. It did at first but stopped. Checked all settings. Uninstalled and reinstalled but no go. I use My Fitness Pal which does not sync with HeroBandIII, so need it to work with Apple Health. My work around is to manually enter exercise data in My Fitness Pal.

Next is that it does not accurately count steps (walking) most likely because of the minimum 30” step length it uses. I will try disabling location and see if it gets more accurate, but that is an issue. If you are less than 6’ tall with an avg stride it will undercount your steps.

I like that it has sleep data, but that is not accurate either. It shows me as in light sleep at times I know I have been well awake. Not sure if that is on the phone or HeroBandIII . Not sure if any of the other sleep data is worthwhile.

I really like the phone’s features (Smartwatch Fitness Tracker by Motast) and want to like HeroBandIII but it needs work.

by Stteng

Original review: I just my SMARTWATCH YESTERDAY! I have not really used it yet!!

It has ONLY THREE ALARMS ON IT!! This is UNACCEPTABLE!!! I want to have at least FOUR! I take my medication FOUR TIMES A DAY! It would be nice if I could Also have a wake up alarm and a bedtime alarm TOO (HAVE A TOTAL OF SIX ALARMS!!)
NOTE: I want an unlimited number of alarms or at least FOUR BUT SIX IS NICE!!

It would be nice to display the number battery level on my Donerton SMARTWATCH CLOCKFACE!

The charging contact design of my Donerton Smartwatch is POOR! It has ONLY TWO CONTACTS! I THINK THAT THE DONERTON SMARTWATCH CHARGING CABLE MAGNETS SHOULD BE STRONGER!! If they sold a charging cable with STRONGER MAGNETIC CHARGING CONTACTS THEN I WOULD BUY IT!! I am sure that I am not the only one who would buy it!!

You should make your Donerton Smartwatch whenever it is charging display a battery icon displaying the number of the remaining battery percentage left!!

Update: I decided to replace my DONERTON OEM (wristband that comes with watch) wristband! Its clasp broke so I could not wear my Donerton SMARTWATCH!!
Fortunately I bought an ANCOOL 20mm replacement wristband which has not broke yet! I wish its loose wristband ring holding my loose wristband wouldn’t be so small! I find it hard to use it!

by Mom_o_3

I love this watch, but there are small glitches that could be fixed. For example, if I set a custom face in the watch it only last for maybe 24 hours before it changes back to (I guess the default) the original screen. That gets annoying 🥴Also, if I change the number of steps for my goal daily, I have to go in and change it everyday! Again, annoying! I do like the heart rate, oxygen, and b.p. functions on the watch. Another issue with the watch is everyday, yet again, I have to go in the settings and turn off every notification, everyday! Like I said before, just annoying little things. Overall, it’s a nice little watch to purchase, it could just use some updates to fix those bugs.

by Clphil99

I teach in a preschool and we teachers communicate via text. Not every text needs a response, so I wasted a few seconds having to look at my phone. I was thinking a smart watch would be easier, I could read the text more conveniently. My watch does not receive every text or every call. I will hear my watch ding and then look at my watch waiting for the text, but never receive anything. It’s great for time, step count, and health info, but that’s it. Even the weather doesn’t always update or load. You get what you pay for. 🤷🏼‍♀️

by Binoy50

Pretty nice watch and HeroBand3 app with most of the basic features available. No issues with Bluetooth sync, only that it doesn’t always update data to health app. Request to also add few more training modes like Elliptical, treadmill, indoor running etc and if it can track the workout automatically. Auto pause during breaks between workouts should also be a nice feature. Music control doesn’t automatically show in watch unless manually enabled. Great battery life, I didn’t charge it for 3 days and still have 55% left.

by Smithprops

First, my sincere apology for my earlier comments & rating submitted. I found the place to switch from metric to imperial under “Others” so I’m not as disappointed as I stated previously in the review. However, my watch did switch settings on its own. A couple of times it appeared to be processing itself and a strange white screen with plaid-looking black lines would appear instead of the watch face I selected. Later it would switch back to my selected watch face & sometimes to a different watch face. It also switched itself from my original setting of a 12-hour format to 24 hours. It lost connection with my phone and when I tried to reconnect the watch device couldn’t be found. I finally deleted HeroBandIII and tried reinstalling HeroBandIII & then the watch. The directions in the manual could be better as well to help with troubleshooting. Hopefully, I’ll have smooth sailing from here. My husband also has a watch & has had no problems with his.

by Oxoocoffee

I have P36D watch paired with HeroBandIII. I noticed that I am not getting iMessages notifications unless I select “Other” option in Notification section of HeroBandIII . If I turn off Other and leave Messages .. no iMessage notification. Also sometimes I get multiple same notifications I every min or so when Other is selected. Was looking for developer contact and found support email but it did bounced back. I see there are other newer? Versions or Headband 8? Are the compatible?
Also my heart rate monitoring is quite not precise. Not sure it it is watch or app

by Topher6262

When I got my Hero Band III over a year ago, the band was a little hard to attach to itself, charging was not the easiest and the display was way, way too dim.

During this past year, the band became much easier to fit together, I found that the watch electrodes for charging needed cleaning, even scraping to make a solid connection with the charger and the last Upgrade fixed the display so that I could see it in the sun - at least while shading it with my hand; before it was even hard to see in a very well lit room.

There was also a problem with the watch losing the dial picture and reverting some other things back to its defaults; all because I kept HeroBandIII hanging in the background of my iPhone. I found that if I set everything and swiped HeroBandIII out of active memory, I no longer experienced the defaults showing up again.

The only real downside to this watch is the plastic face - it scratches way too easily. Otherwise, I am enjoying all the functions this watch boasts; for a lot less than what I still want - an iWatch, just because I own an iPhone.

by Master0502

I really like this watch. I know some of the stuff isn’t completely accurate, but for the most part it is really close. I have a bunch of medical issues and my husband relies on the readings to make sure I am fine. I wished I would of bought this one before the others and saved the money because I went broke on them and they aren’t worth a darn. HeroBandIII is good too. It keeps the info daily. It has a short battery life, and needs charged more often, but with what it does, I can see why.

by Jrtuuutefvh

I have been looking for a watch to replace my Fitbit, needed something with more features that wouldn’t break the bank, found this one and have over it since purchasing. Some features are limited but for what you get it is more than worth it. Love that I can keep track of my heart rate and blood pressure while still getting all the alerts from my phone. Battery life is pretty great, normally lasts about a week before needing to be recharged. HeroBandIII makes it very simple to setup and to use, highly satisfied!!!

by Twweesa

I previously had the Apple Watch and lost it so I was forced to get a new sports watch! I looked at other brands that were much more expensive and even purchased different ones. This one stood out, 1) because I have small wrists, both the size of this and the bevel of the glass
Just made it look better, 2) the ability to change the faces and 3) the battery in comparison to my Apple Watch... well there is no comparison. I had to charge my Apple Watch 2X every single day. This watch I charged on Monday and today is Friday and it has 58% battery left. Changes I would like to see: It doesn’t give a good explanation for comparisons with other data. I.e., I slept 5hrs 53 min and it reports back, “than 51% similar users sleep less” somehow I find it hard to believe 51% users sleep less than basically 6 hours each night. For the people that say something isn’t accurate, are you just assuming it was accurate before? Maybe it wasn’t correct before? Overall, I am extremely happy with this watch and recommended to friends. One actually ordered the same watch yesterday but hasn’t received it yet. I would definitely recommend this. Thank you.

by SuperGooseOfGiganticGlen

I really just wanted an inexpensive watch for work, and I would have been happy to have one that just told time, so anything else this watch does is a bonus. That said, if I could offer a suggestion for improvement, I would say this: I would really like to be able to see when I take my steps through the day. If I were relying on Apple Health to tell me, I could see that I took x amount of steps at x time, but now it syncs with the watch and only adds the total number since the last sync. It doesn’t say what time I was most active. Other than that, the features are fun, and it tells me the time. That’s all I expected for the price.

by AZ Denny M

This watch is remarkable for the price. I wear both a Fitbit Versa 2 which costs $149 and the Heroband III which cost me less than $50. The Hero does more. It counts true striding steps, not little shuffling steps you take in the kitchen, around the bathroom sink etc. It’s heartbeat, blood pressure and oxygen measurements agree closely with my home medical equipment. I loaded a custom watch face that gives me continuous readings of heartbeat, steps, miles, calories burned, charged percent, along with the time and date. It takes some practice to figure out how to operate the watch and App. The band is difficult to clasp and you need shade to read the watch face outdoors, but hey, the price is so good you can laugh all the way to the bank.

by Wiedermark

I’ve had numerous problems with this watch and HeroBandIII . Setting up initially went fine but since has been difficult. I’ve had to reset and reconnect 3 times and you have to go back to the start like it’s 1st time out of the box. It makes changes such as dropping the weather connection frequently. I was working with a lot of arm motion and it went back to factory settings. The wrist band is difficult to latch comfortably. I thought I could return for refund within 15 days but no. I’ve contacted support more than once and they send a list of the set up pages from the manual. I don’t recommend HeroBandIII or this watch!!

by Terre817

Watch was super easy to setup. I didn’t have any issues like some of the others spoke about. I hate the band it’s cheap & will replace.
I’d like to figure out or find out how to leave screen open longer, especially during my learning time. Now that I’ve had this watch for more than a week, I’m not liking very much. Blood pressure reader is way off. I got it specifically for this function. I have very low Bp. The show is very high. I checked it against my regular Bp cuff multiple times. My normal cuff is reading low, the same as my dr office. I’m going to see if watch is returnable

by Lil' Betty

I recently purchased the Hero Band III and installed HeroBandIII as instructed. I continue to have issues getting HeroBandIII to show the different type of exercises available and cannot select it from the Functions on the bracelet. I also am not able to share health information from my iPhone 11 and vice versa. For the record, I have disconnected and reconnected the device twice and have confirmed that my Health info app is able to share with the bracelet. These two features just have not worked regardless of how many attempts I’ve made. I am extremely frustrated!

by Ex-57 Watch Owner

Guess $40 can only go so far these days. The watch is unreliable for the most part. First, I can’t read the time when I am under the sun because the ambiance of the screen is so soft. Second, the time is wrong 1/2 of the time because the watch loses its connection. Third, it’s not the easiest thing to reconnect the watch to your phone. In fact, as I am typing this feedback, I am still waiting for the watch to be reconnected. I am done with this cheap Chinese counterfeit watch. I am going to spend a few hundred dollars to get a real Apple Watch. Please don’t waste your money on this.

by Doorman30

Very limited abilities. Not sure how accurate the steps are, but the notifications are all but useless! The messages appear for a very short time, so you have to look at it immediately or it is gone. When you get a call, the information is there only while it is ringing. In both cases, once the information is gone, it’s gone. It can’t be recalled-there’s not even a record of it or a notification of a missed call. Nada. Also, the band is almost too small for my husband and he has "normal” size wrists for a man. The battery life is phenomenal! He has been wearing it for almost a week and it still has 80+% charge without charging it again!

by OCFD

I bought this watch to avoid spending the $300 or so for an Apple Watch. I like the step counter and the notifications...that’s about all I like. I’ve had issues getting it to sync with Apple health, and now the watch won’t sync with HeroBandIII after the watch suddenly crashed yesterday. I wouldn’t recommend this watch/app.
Update:it’s better at syncing with Apple health but HeroBandIII resets a lot. For example I went to bed last night and had 9,000+ steps for the day. I looked today and I now have 0 for yesterday.
I just updated to version 1.1.2 and the notifications keep turning all on. I have them custom set but they won’t stay that way as default to all on after a few mins.

by Bjdp01

So after a few weeks of owning and wearing the watch decided to do quick review. Overall watch is ok. Getting used to how things function takes a little time but I am getting there. Battery life so far has been pretty good. My complaint thus far and reason for 3 stars is the font is too small for me I wear readers to read and I can’t see anything other than main face without them on this device wish there was a way to enlarge the font or bigger face or something.

by Dageeb1

Look, for the price it ain’t bad. I have not seen the glitches others have mentioned. I’ll take this over a 10 time pricier Apple Watch... until my kids send me one for free. But the Apple doesn’t do BP without an extra gadget and app.

As to accuracy, it seems in the ball park, but when first purchased, blood pressure was scarily high, by 20 or 30 mmhg. Then they pushed an update to the watch’s OS (not HeroBandIII , the watch itself) to vMOY-FS3-1.8.1. Now BP is reasonably accurate, but you have to add about 10 to get a close match to a real BP cuff.

My doctor says this shouldn’t work but it does.

I have one major complaint: it needs a stopwatch feature you can easily get to. Yes, there’s one buried in the Settings (cog icon), but that is silly. Come on! It should be available on the first page after home screen, like any respectable watch.

One final thing: what the heck is “Quick View”? I can’t find any reference to that. It’s not explained in HeroBandIII .

by Dizzyclover7

I love everything about this watch there could be some fixes like a button to re-sync the phone if you notice there’s something wrong. I had to completely deactivate and unhook from Bluetooth when the watch would work.

Also on the design your own watch face I wish there was a battery life % on it. I never know when it’s going to die because it’s not on the watch face.

I also wish it vibrated more for the social media apps and the calls and messages. Sometimes it doesn’t even vibrate or show what it was.

by Mynameiskkandwillalwaysbe

This is a GREAT watch I got it with money I earned but I do wish it had a few different things I wish the charger was like my iPhone one and a plug and a bit longer so it could also track my sleep but it is an amazing watch and I highly recommend it for ALL AGES I love vampires and changed the screen to my fav emoji! It allows you to do a lot of stuff but it is a pain to get back I didn’t mean to press reset and had to work on it for a few days to get back on but other than that it is a great watch.

by Rock My World

I saw this on Fox News morning segment of gift ideas. I went out on a limb buying this watch one of the main reason is - it is close to the
iwatch in recording my oxygen. I am still learning this watch. My biggest complaint is the band. The silver tab, that you insert into the hole should be just a wee bit longer - it would be helpful for people like me with arthritis hands... the tuck in of the band is a spot on idea!!!