Amazfit Active 2

The Amazfit Active 2 is a round, 44 mm fitness smartwatch that Amazfit announced at CES on 6 January 2025. It is built around a 1.32-inch AMOLED screen, a stainless-steel bezel, built-in GPS with offline maps and a battery rated at up to 10 days of typical use, and it was priced to undercut the premium end of the market. This page is a spec-and-information-based review compiled from Amazfit's published specifications and press material, so performance and accuracy statements are manufacturer claims unless stated otherwise.

Where it sits in the lineup

Amazfit sells the Active line as its everyday fitness watch family, a step below the rugged T-Rex and the training-focused Cheetah and Balance ranges. The Active 2 comes in two versions. The standard one is priced at $99.99 and has a silicone strap in black or red with a tempered-glass screen. The premium version is priced at $129.99, adds a sapphire glass cover and a black leather strap, and includes a red silicone sport strap in the box. In Europe, the premium model carries the name Amazfit Active 2 NFC because it supports contactless payment through Zepp Pay. Amazfit's announcement made the watch available for pre-order in the United States from launch, with worldwide availability planned for February 2025.

If you prefer a squarer face, the same family includes the Amazfit Active 2 Square, which uses a larger 1.75-inch display. Those who want much longer battery life can look at the Amazfit Active Max, which Amazfit lists with up to 25 days of battery life and a 1.5-inch AMOLED display, and the Amazfit Active 3 Premium belongs to the same Active line.

Design and display

The case is 43.9 x 43.9 x 9.9 mm, built from a stainless-steel bezel and a polymer middle frame, with two buttons. Without a strap, the standard version weighs 29.5 grams and the premium version 31.65 grams, so it is light for a stainless-steel watch. The display is a 1.32-inch AMOLED panel with a resolution of 466 x 466 pixels and about 353 pixels per inch. Amazfit quotes a peak brightness of 2,000 nits, with a footnote that this level is not available when the battery is below 30 percent and depends on automatic brightness being enabled. The standard version uses tempered glass with an anti-fingerprint coating, and the premium version uses sapphire glass.

Straps are 20 mm quick-release. The silicone strap fits wrists of 135 to 195 mm, and the leather strap fits 150 to 210 mm. Water resistance is rated at 5 ATM, which Amazfit describes as suitable for splashes, showering and swimming, with third-party testing by SGS. The watch has a microphone and a speaker for Bluetooth calls, and it uses a rotor motor for vibration. The look is deliberately closer to a classic watch than a sports band, and the leather option reinforces that. Two buttons handle navigation: the top button opens the apps and the bottom button opens workouts.

Performance, software and features

Amazfit does not publish chipset or memory figures for the Active 2, so this page does not guess them. What it does publish is a feature set: more than 160 workout modes (164 in the specification table), including a HYROX race mode and a strength-training mode that recognises 25 exercise types and counts reps, sets and rest time. There is also support for 5 satellite positioning systems with a circularly polarised antenna, offline maps with turn-by-turn directions that can be read out through the built-in speaker, and the Zepp Coach plans for 3K to marathon distances.

The Zepp Flow voice assistant lets you control watch settings by voice in supported countries, and Android users can reply to messages with a keyboard or speech-to-text. The watch pairs with Android 7.0 and above or iOS 14.0 and above through the free Zepp app, and Bluetooth 5.2 with BLE is listed. Amazfit's page highlights more than 400 downloadable watch faces, Bluetooth calls, music control from the phone and sync with Strava, adidas Running, TrainingPeaks, komoot, Relive, Google Fit and Apple Health. Third-party music apps cannot be installed on the watch, so music is controlled rather than stored.

Health tracking

The Active 2 uses Amazfit's BioTracker 6.0 PPG sensor, with a dual-LED and 5PD design according to the announcement. Amazfit says its PulsePrecision algorithm improves heart-rate accuracy to the level of the T-Rex 3, and that the RestoreIQ algorithm improves sleep tracking. Those are manufacturer statements and have not been independently verified here. The watch tracks heart rate, blood oxygen, stress and skin temperature around the clock, offers one-tap measurement of four metrics in 45 seconds, and gives a daily Readiness score, sleep heart-rate variability, PAI and menstrual cycle tracking, with a Wild.AI mini app for cycle-based training advice. It also contains a barometric altimeter, a gyroscope, a geomagnetic sensor, an accelerometer and an ambient light sensor.

Battery and charging

The rated battery capacity is 270mAh. Amazfit quotes up to 10 days of typical use, up to 19 days in battery saver mode, up to 5 days of heavy use and up to 21 hours of continuous GPS. The footnotes define typical use as all-day wear with heart-rate checks every 10 minutes, sleep monitoring and 150 notifications per day, so a heavy user of GPS and voice features will land closer to the lower numbers. Charging uses a magnetic base that takes about 2 hours from empty, and the box includes the base but no USB-C cable.

Who it is for

• Everyday fitness users: People who want sleep, heart-rate and workout tracking without a monthly fee, since the Zepp app is free.
• Style-conscious wearers: The leather premium version looks closer to a classic watch than most sports bands.
• Budget-minded buyers: At $99.99 for the standard version it undercuts most big-brand smartwatches.
• Comparison shoppers: The page Amazfit Active 2 vs Galaxy Watch8 shows how it differs from a full smartwatch, and the Pixel Watch 3 page explains what a Google-branded alternative offers.

Compromises to know about

The Active 2 is not a full smartwatch in the way a Galaxy or Pixel watch is. There is no installable third-party music apps, no music storage, and the only payment feature mentioned in the announcement is Zepp Pay on the premium NFC model sold in Europe. The display is bright, but the 2,000-nit figure is a peak value that drops when the battery is low. Standard-version buyers get tempered glass, not sapphire. Android-only features such as quick replies are not available on iOS, and phone camera control is limited to iOS. The 164 workout modes are numerous, but the sensor quality and algorithm accuracy are claims that independent testing should confirm. The page rankings shows how it fares against other watches on the site.