Amazon's $79.99 fitness band with a small colour AMOLED screen, launched in December 2021 with heart-rate, SpO2 and sleep tracking tied to a paid Halo membership app. Amazon shut the whole Halo program down in 2023: the band and app stopped working on August 1, 2023, and full refunds covered only purchases made in the prior 12 months.
This entry is written from the 5 sources listed at the bottom of the page. The numbers are our editorial estimates drawn from that material, not measurements, and no statistical sample sits behind them.
It depends on how you will use it. 33% would buy it again, which means roughly 67% would not. Device and app became useless after August 1, 2023, and remaining health data was deleted.
For its first months the Halo View worked as an adequate budget tracker, though reviewers still called it a work in progress, citing thin phone integration and patchy sleep logging. The real regret came in 2023, when Amazon killed Halo, the band stopped working and only purchases from the previous 12 months were refunded.
Device and app became useless after August 1, 2023, and remaining health data was deleted. Early buyers from its December 2021 launch fell outside the 12-month refund window. Body-fat scans and voice-tone analysis struck reviewers as invasive.
Worth it for: No one today - it no longer works; Budget activity tracking while it was supported. Think twice if: Anyone buying used or leftover stock; Subscription-averse buyers; Runners who need GPS.
Our reading of how sentiment moves across an ownership period, drawn from the sources below. It is an editorial estimate, not tracked longitudinal data.
| At purchase | 6.5 / 10 |
|---|---|
| First week | 6.2 / 10 |
| One month | 5.8 / 10 |
| Six months | 5.0 / 10 |
| One year | 4.0 / 10 |
| Two years or more | 0.5 / 10 |
Owner reviews move this score. The researched figure stays visible next to it, so you can always see what the sources said before anyone voted.
Leave a review on the live pageEvery complaint and every piece of praise above traces back to these. The summaries are ours; nothing is quoted, and no link, quote or username anywhere on this site is invented.
Amazon's official notice: support ended July 31, 2023, devices and app stopped working August 1, purchases from the past 12 months and unused prepaid subscriptions refunded, data deleted after August 1.
Reports the April 2023 shutdown and layoffs, the 12-month refund window, refunds of prepaid fees and the $3.99/month membership, with Halo View buyers getting a year free.
Places the Halo shutdown within Andy Jassy's cost cuts and confirms past-year purchase refunds and deletion of remaining data after August 1.
Sept 2022 review: $79.99 with a year of membership; praises week-long battery, light design and app, but criticises limited notifications, no GPS, missed sleep data and invasive body-scan and Tone features.
Calls it an average tracker whose app and membership are the main draw; comfortable with strong battery and accurate heart-rate zones, but no GPS and a small 0.95-inch screen.