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Review Amazfit Balance: The Perfect Balance Between Style and Functionality


More and more Dutch people wear a smartwatch every day. Whether you choose a cheap Xiaomi band or an expensive Apple Watch, a smartwatch can have many advantages. In this review we look at the Amazfit Balance. A smartwatch with a luxurious appearance, many features and an attractive recommended retail price. Is the Amazfit Balance the ideal smartwatch for you?

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The latest smartwatch from the manufacturer Amazfit, known for its good price/quality ratio, is available in many different colors. In this review we look at the Deep Sea (Special Edition), where the manufacturer combines a silver metal frame with blue tones and a blue silicone wristband. In addition to the Amazfit Balance, we find a black charger and a manual in the package. The Amazfit Balance is also available in the colors Woodland, Lagoon, Meadow, Sunset Gray and Midnight.

Design

When we pick up the Amazfit Balance, we immediately notice that the smartwatch is made of high-quality materials. The aluminum frame in combination with the fiber-reinforced polymer bottom shell immediately makes it clear that we are introduced to a robust product that can withstand a blow. The housing is waterproof (5 ATM), measures 46x46x10.6mm and weighs 35 grams.

It is also noticeable that the Amazfit Balance has the appearance of a traditional and luxurious watch, so you can wear the smartwatch in many circumstances. Whether you go to a meeting with a suit or simply wear a sweater during a birthday party, the Amazfit Balance is the ideal accessory.

The silver casing of the Amazfit Balance has a very light copper tint and the round screen has a blue edge. On the right side we find two buttons. You use the crown with blue detail to navigate through the interface, while you can start a workout with the push button. Our sample came with a blue silicone wristband, but if this isn’t your taste you can easily replace the wristband with another 22mm strap. This is ideal if you prefer a metal or leather wristband.

The round screen is 1.5 inches and has a resolution of 480 by 480 pixels. It is an AMOLED display with beautiful colors and deep contrast. Thanks to the maximum brightness of 1500 nits, this screen is also easy to read outdoors in sunlight. Amazfit has provided this screen with a layer of tempered glass, an anti-reflective glass edge and an anti-fingerprint coating.

Functions

It is important to know that Amazfit smartwatches do not run on Google’s Wear OS operating system, but on its own Zepp OS 3.0. As a result, the Amazfit Balance does not have the Play Store, making it not possible to install Android apps. However, Amazfit does have its own app store, with which you can download a limited number of applications and a large number of watch faces. All standard applications that you can expect on a smartwatch are of course already present on the Amazfit Balance.

Zepp App StoreZepp Watchfaces

Zepp OS 3.0 runs very smoothly and the interface is easy to operate. The screen is also very sensitive, making the user experience feel premium. You can fully control the interface with the AMOLED screen, but you can also choose to navigate the interface using the rotating crown on the side of the smartwatch. Small vibrations provide pleasant feedback when you use this crown.

A swipe to the right opens the widget interface that allows you to scroll through a list of frequently used features. This includes a music widget, a weather widget, a steps widget, a heart rate widget, an alarm widget and much more. You can adjust the layout of the widget overview yourself by pressing and holding a widget and then moving the widget down or up.

With a swipe to the left you can scroll through the most used smartwatch functions. This includes your daily activities, an overview of your heart rate rhythm, weather forecasts, your music and more. You can view incoming notifications with a swipe up and open the settings menu with a swipe down. By pressing the crown you open a list containing all installed applications and with the push button under this crown you can start a workout. You have a large number of workouts to choose from, such as walking, running, cycling, swimming, etc. It’s all self-explanatory, so you can quickly master the controls.

Of course you can also adjust the watch face. You can select a different watch face by pressing and holding the current watch face, after which you can scroll through all pre-installed watch faces.

Amazfit has equipped the Balance with various measuring instruments, including a BioTracker™ 5.0 sensor, a temperature sensor, a gyroscope and a dual-band GPS antenna. The sensors are able to constantly measure your heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen level, temperature and movements. This information is necessary to monitor your health and sports activities.

The built-in GPS antenna allows route tracking without having to take your smartphone with you. This is of course very useful when you want to run around the neighborhood. Because the antenna connects to 6 satellites simultaneously, the result is very accurate, even when you walk through streets with many tall buildings. You can look back at the routes traveled with the associated times and distances on a map and compare them with each other.

One of the biggest advantages of an Amazfit smartwatch is the long battery life. While the Apple Watch and smartwatches with Wear OS usually do not last longer than 1 to 3 days on a single battery charge, you can easily wear an Amazfit smartwatch for several weeks before the smartwatch needs to be placed on the magnetic charger again. This is no different with the Amazfit Balance. On average, the Amazfit Balance lasts more than two weeks on a battery charge. The battery life may differ per individual, depending on how active he or she is. The use of GPS tracking in particular consumes a relatively large amount of energy.

The Amazfit Balance uses Bluetooth to connect to your smartwatch. This connection is stable and we did not encounter any connection problems during our test period. It is also possible to connect the Amazfit Balance with other Bluetooth devices, such as sports accessories or a Bluetooth headset. This allows you to choose to store music offline on the internal storage space of the smartwatch and then pair the Amazfit Balance with a set of wireless earbuds. This way you can listen to music at the gym during your workout without needing your smartphone.

More and more manufacturers are incorporating AI technology into their products, including Amazfit. For example, Amazfit has introduced the Zepp Aura tool. Zepp Aura is a sleep coach/chatbot that can analyze your sleep based on smart learning models and then send you weekly/monthly overviews and give you tips that should help you get a better night’s sleep. Zepp Aura also reads your biometric data via the smartwatch and the tool uses this data to create music that should help you relax and fall asleep faster.

Zepp Aura is not a free tool, by the way. You can test Zepp Aura for two weeks, but after that a subscription is required for which you have to pay monthly. That’s why we only recommend using Zepp Aura if you have trouble sleeping.

Conclusion (Advantages/Disadvantages)

The Amazfit Balance is a beautiful watch with many possibilities. Thanks to its luxurious appearance, the smartwatch is suitable for wearing in any situation, but thanks to the many sensors and accurate GPS tracking, it is also ideal for active athletes. The bright AMOLED screen in combination with Zepp OS 3.0 works flawlessly and responds quickly. This is something that Amazfit has been doing well for years. The long battery life is one of the biggest advantages and with a recommended retail price of 249 euros, the Amazfit Balance is fairly priced.

The only downside is the lack of a major app store, such as the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, which limits the use of third-party apps.

  • beautiful modern and slim design
  • long battery life (more than 14 days with normal use)
  • clear screen

  • practical bracelet, suitable for any wrist.

  • many setting options for sports activities, plus route tracking
  • monitoring of heart rate, temperature and O2
  • charge quickly

  • No Google Play Store

The Amazfit Balance is available from various online stores for just under 250 euros. You can go to Amazon and Bol.com, among others.

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How to make your own watch faces or dials for an Amazfit watch


One of the advantages of having a smartwatch is that you can change its appearance almost completely by changing the dial (also called dials). In the specific case of Amazfit connected watches, from its application you can install dozens of spheres And that’s not to mention unofficial places with even more designs, like AmazfitWatchfaces.


There is no shortage of watch faces for Amazfit watches, but if you have a specific idea, you will have to roll up your sleeves. Creating watch faces for an Amazfit watch is not difficult, although it does require dedication and patience. Here we will see how to create watch faces for your Amazfit smartwatch in three ways with different levels of difficulty and customization.

From the Amazfit app

If you come you want to put a photo on your watchThe easiest way to do this is to use the official Amazfit app. This is the easiest method to give your smartwatch a unique touch, although it has the downside that the customization is limited to the background image and is not available in a analog version.

To create a personalized sphere, you need to open the Amazfit app on your mobile. In the tab Profile, tap your watch to open its options screen, where you need to tap Watch appearance settings. Then touch Personalize.

Now comes the fun part. Press on change background sphere to choose a background photo, which you can take with the camera or from any gallery app you have installed, such as Google Photos. Before continuing, you can adjust the cropping of the photo.

The app lets you choose three places for the time, which is superimposed on the image you chose previously. Choose the one you like the most and press the button Synchronize, which will send your personalized watch face to the smart watch.

Avec ‘Amazfit Watchface Builder’

If you want to create a totally custom sphere instead of changing the background image, you will have to resort to third-party tools. Amazfit Watchface Builder is a web page for designing watch faces for Amazfit watches with support for watch faces in WFZ format.

This is the case with the Amazfit Pace, Amazfit Stratos and Amazfit Verge, although the Amazfit catalog grows frequently, so the list is not long. WFZ files are basically ZIP with images and XML files, so they are relatively easy to edit even without using any application. However, Amazfit Watchface Builder makes the process infinitely easier.

You will need to create an account, but otherwise you can start creating your sphere right away. The best is that you can clone any sphere from its list to make edits, which will be much faster than creating one entirely from scratch

This tool allows you to create a sphere by changing the settings from the web browser. For this, you have several boxes in which you can adjust position and design of the main elements that make up your sphere. They are as follows:

  • Info on dial. the name of the sphere and its description.
  • Digital. Here you can choose the font, size and position to use on the digital watch.
  • Context. The background image of the sphere.

  • Analog. The design of the clock hands for the hours, minutes and seconds, as well as the (optional) crown design. In the list, you can choose from several ready-made templates.

  • Widgets. It is a collection of items ready to be included or not in the design of the dial, such as time, date, distance traveled or battery. You can also choose its position, but not its design.

Creating a custom sphere with Amazfit Watchface Builder takes some time, although with enough patience you can create something very personalized without much effort. When you are finished, press Download to download your sphere in formwato WFZ, which you can install on the smartwatch using specialized tools, such as Amaztools.


With GTR Watch Face Editor

While you can technically create a fully customized sphere with an image editor and notepad, use apps like the GTR Watch Face Editor by SashaCX75Available for Windows makes your job easier. You can download this tool here.

With this app you can create spheres for Amazfit GTR 42 or 47 mm, Amazfit GTS, Amazfit T-Rex and Amazfit Verge Lite. It’s similar to the web app we saw earlier, though it does make your job less easy (it doesn’t help you with typography or include out-of-the-box designs). However, you have more control over the outcome you have to create everything from scratch. Fortunately, you can also open a sphere you already have and edit it by pressing Unpack the bin. So you can open spheres downloaded from AmazfitWatchFaces.

This will unzip the dial to a folder on your hard drive, including the images used in it and the JSON file which includes instructions on what is what and where they are. Now comes the tricky part: modify the files to get the sphere of your dreams. The images are standard PNG files, so you can use them with any graphics editor you have installed.

In the application, all changes must be made in the tab Editing, where there are different groups to configure the appearance of the elements of the sphere. For example, in the sphere that I downloaded, I put the logo where the weather information was displayed before, so in the tab Time can i turn off Activate so that the time is not displayed.

Each tab has its own options, but generally you will have to choose the position of each element and which image is used for it. The images are numbered, so if the minute hand on your dial uses image 26, you will need to edit the file 0026.png to modify it.

I won’t lie to you, creating spheres with this app is not overly easy, although it is easier than it looks at first glance. After struggling with the options for a few days, you need to start figuring out. These are the following sections that you can configure:

  • Context. the background image of the sphere.
  • Time. Adjust the appearance of the digital clock. It can be disabled.
  • Give you. It allows you to add the date on the dial, with different options to display the day of the week, year, etc.
  • Progression of days. Displays the current day, but in graphical form.
  • Progress of stages. A graphic to show the steps.
  • Activity. Here you can add an indicator with steps, distance, heart rate, calories and goals.
  • Status. Set status icons (bluetooth connection, alarms, lock, do not disturb)

  • Drums. It allows you to include the clock stack as numbers, icons, and graphics.
  • Analog clock. Here you set the appearance of the clock hands.
  • Time. Here you can configure whether the current time and temperature icon is displayed.
  • Shortcuts. You can include up to four shortcuts to directly open the step-by-step, pulse, time, or power saving display mode when you touch in a specific area.
  • Animation (beta). Experimental function to add animations in your sphere.

The good thing about this app is that it shows you a real time preview what your sphere looks like with every change you make, so you can play around with the settings to see what changes. In the background, in most cases, you will just change the X or Y coordinates on the location of a specific image.

With a lot of patience, creativity and an image editor, you can create a sphere completely in your image and likeness. Creating spheres is easy, although they are not that beautiful. When you’re happy with your creation, tap Pack and compress the tray to create a file that you can install on your Amazfit.

The app does not install the sphere, but you must use an application to transfer your face to the watch. On Android, a good alternative is Tools & Amazfit. To install a custom watch face with this app, you need to go to the Options tab and touch Custom install, then choosing the file you created with GTR Watch Face Editor.

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13 tips for Amazfit and Zepp: get the most out of your smartwatch or smart bracelet

We are going to teach you some of the best tips and tricks for Amazfit and Zepp smartwatches, Huami smartwatches. Both are managed with the same app and they have almost identical configurations. So, we are going to go over the key functions to set up a new Amazfit and Zepp smartwatch, so that you can get the most out of it step by step.


This guide is general, so it works for almost all of the company’s models.. There might be slight differences between the one and the other (for example, if you have a simple bracelet you will have less functions than in a watch), but the vast majority of the tips and tricks that we are going to provide you are worth whatever device you have.

Set an alarm from your mobile

Amazfit and Zepp watches and bracelets allow you to set different alarms from the device itself. However, if we want to organize some alarms in a more comfortable way, we can do this process from the phone, to easily program alarms. Just open the Zepp (Amazfit) app and click on the “Enjoy” section. Here you will find as the first option ‘Alarm clock’, where you can program them in an easy way and send them to the clock.

Change the order of the menus on your watch

Amazfit and Zepp watches have various settings in the interface itself, although we don’t need all of the options they offer. To configure the content that we will see on the clock screen, just follow these steps:

Schedule push notifications with weather information

A very useful feature of the Zepp app is that we can receive push notifications with weather alerts. This will help us to know the weather changes in our area, even if we do not have weather apps on our mobile for this purpose.

  • Open the Zeep app on the mobile
  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch

  • Enter Time setting

  • Tap City
  • If you want your current location to be used, check Obtain location automatically
  • If you prefer to enter the location manually, uncheck the box and search for the name of your city

Configure button behavior

Amazfit and Zepp watches usually have one or two buttons with different functions. If we want, we can change what happens when we interact with these buttons. To be able to modify these options, just follow these steps.


  • Open your watch menu
  • Go to setting or more
  • Select the function you want to assign to the button

Use the watch as a flashlight

A somewhat unknown feature of Amazfit and Zepp watches is that we can use them as flashlight. It may seem unnecessary, but in total darkness situations it is much faster to activate the clock flashlight than it is to unlock the mobile for this purpose. To activate the flashlight, you just need access the watch’s quick access menu and click on the flashlight icon. The panel will be fully illuminated and sufficiently bright with white light.

Search for your mobile if you don’t know where it is

From our Amazfit watch we can find our cell phone. We have to open the menu and click on “Find a phone”. In the case of Zepp watches, we have to open the quick settings menu and click on the phone icon, it will start ringing automatically.

Or search for the watch on your mobile

We can do the same process in reverse, to find our connected watch from the Zepp app.


  • Open the Zeep app on the mobile

  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch
  • press Find a watch
  • Pay attention to the sound of the watch vibrating

Activate incoming calls

Some Amazfit watches and bracelets do not have the ability to receive phone calls on the device by default. portable, a basic function. We can activate it manually, to make sure we don’t miss any incoming calls when we have the watch on.

  • Open the Zeep app on the mobile
  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch
  • Enter Incoming call
  • active Incoming call alerts

Enable app alerts

Likewise, in most cases the Amazfit app it does not inform about all the applications that we have installed on the mobile, but we have to select them manually.


  • Open the Zeep app on the mobile
  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch
  • Enters App Alerts
  • Tap Manage apps
  • Check all the apps you want to receive notifications from

Eliminate inactivity notices

By default, Amazfit and Zepp watches They usually send notifications every hour if they detect that we are not moving. It’s usually quite complicated (at least if you work in the office) to get up every hour, so we can turn off these notices so they aren’t that intrusive.

  • Open the ** Zeep * app on your mobile
  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch
  • Go into Inactivity Alert
  • Disable Inactivity Alerts

Unlock the mobile with the watch

If you wear the watch you can use it to unlock the mobile. This is thanks to Google’s Smart Lock, which allows you to set up the watch as a trusted device. So, if you take the watch with you, you won’t need to unlock the phone as it will happen automatically.

  • Open the Zeep app on the mobile
  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch
  • Click on ‘lock screen’
  • Click on ‘Go to settings’
  • Set the watch as a trusted device

Lock the watch when you take it off

One of the most useful features of the Zepp app is the power lock the watch as soon as it is removed. This way, we make sure that no one can access it if it is intercepted without our permission. You just need to go to the settings of the Zepp app, click on the smartwatch and click on ‘Bracelet lock’

Change the detection method

To try and save battery power, Amazfit watches and bracelets typically measure sleep at night. However, in many cases we can activate sleep and heart rate measurement simultaneously, to have more precise data on the quality of sleep. If we want to configure this, we have to follow these steps.

  • Open the Zeep app on the mobile
  • Enter Profile
  • Tap the name of your smartwatch
  • Click on ‘Health check’
  • Detection method
  • Adjust to taste

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