This fitness band is awesome!!! Quite surprising for the price, I actually labeled it a cheapo. I've been a Fitbit user for 7+ years now. My last Inspire gave up the ghost, I suspect from being used about 3x a week for tracking swim laps. I had ordered a replacement Fitbit, a Charge 5, that was taking forever to arrive, and their cust svc reps can't tell me why the status keeps saying "processing". As a side bar here, I've noticed that ever since Google bought Fitbit, svc there has tanked. Tracking was inaccurate, if at all.So I researched other swim trackers, and the Xiaomi Mi Band 6 was on all the lists as the cheapest yet most accurate swim tracker. However, it isn't available anywhere anymore, so I bought the next step up, this Xiaomi Mi Band 7. I was very pleasantly surprised. The default clock face was very colorful like in the box and the ad on Amazon's website. After charging, I scanned the QR code on the watch to download the Mi Fitness app--not to be confused with the Mi Fit app, which was replaced by Zepp Life. Reviews online said to download one or the other, I chose to download the Mi Fitness app. The tracker paired easily and quickly.The Mi Band 7 tracked my steps accurately, and only true steps. As opposed to ALL my other Fitbits that also "counted" my hand movements when I played keyboards as steps. It also tracked my swim laps accurately, even when I didn't do flip turns. As opposed to ALL my other Fitbits that were usually off by several yards, usually counting less, especially when I didn't do flip turms. My other Fitbits also took a while before starting to count laps, like I would be on my 8th or even 10th warmup breaststroke lap before it starts counting laps. Additionally, ALL my other Fitbits would "recognize" my ironing as swimming laps! Go figure! The only caveat I found that I wasn't very happy with, was the difficulty stopping the tracker after I'm done with my swim: it's very easy to turn it on and start it, but even after drying it thoroughly for a minute or two, the face was unresponsive to my taps that was trying to call up the screen that would allow me to stop the tracker from tracking. As a result, it told me I finished a normal 40-minute swim exercise in 1 hr 14 mins, coz that's how long it took me to actually get it to stop.Appearance-wise, it has a pleasingly vibrant and colorful clock face that you can change. The choices were so many, it was hard to make up my mind! I uploaded one as a sample here. Even the apps and stats are colorful. If I had received my Fitbit Charge 5 by now, I could probably compare and see if Fitbit/Google improved their black-and-white clock face to a colorful one as well. The dashboard on the Mi Fitness app was easy to read. I'll probably try using Zepp Life concurrently with the Mi Fitness app.Another thing I love about this tracker is that it detects whether I've been sitting or standing for a long time. It vibrates to tell me to Walk Around. My Fitbits never did that as well. Not sure if Xiaomi trackers have a mini gyroscope that tracks your positioning as well. I've played keyboards with this tracker, and it has NEVER counted my hand movements as steps.Another caveat: almost every other fitness and health app do not sync or pair with Mi Fitness. So I had to download MyFitnessPal & manually add my Mi Band 7 stats there. I use the Virgin Pulse health app coz it's the preferred health app by my insurance that will be reimbursing me for the purchase of this Xiaomi tracker. Virgin Pulse does sync with MyFitnessPal. All you tracking and health apps out there, you should look to letting Xiaomi Mi Band users connect with you. It's the best, most affordable, beautiful-looking tracker I've ever bought!! And at $49.99, who can beat that price?? It's definitely got MORE value for the money, compared to Fitbit after it was bought by Google.Another note: I bought this to mainly use it for swimming; walking, some hiking, treadmill, yoga, weights are my other go-to exercises that I use my trackers for. This tracker does NOT have a GPS, and I'm not a runner. However, runners will also love this tracker coz it syncs with Strava. If you do long runs, though, and a GPS is an essential for you, I suggest the Xiaomi Smart Band Pro 7 that does have GPS plus all the other activity tracking stuff that my Mi Band 7 has. (My husband bought the Smart Band Pro 7, that's how I know.)