[ugurs]

Are there any privacy-friendly wearables in the fitness tech scene? It seems like most wearable gadgets send data to remote servers, whenever possible.

[doix]

Most Garmin watches _can_ work without connecting to your phone and the app. It just stores the files locally on the watch and you can just connect it to your PC and read the files.

[mac-attack]

Please let me know if you know of any options to streamline the process.

[Semaphor]

Bangle.js 2: https://banglejs.com/

[0_____0]

If you just need heart rate, you can pull data off a plain sensor to your phone or to a computer, they report over BLE.

[busymom0]

What sensor would you recommend? I have tried Apple Watch and i really only care about the heart rate. But it doesn't poll the heart rate constantly unless in exercise mode. I wish I could just constantly track the heart rate every second.

[fiftyacorn]

Depends which sport - but golden cheetah lets you link a range of apps to your PC and store locally