UGREEN FineTrack Duo (4 Pack)
design
UGREEN has opted to be a square peg in a round market with the FineTrack Duo. Where most look to replicate the AirTag’s little disc design, this is a square with its corners sanded down. Closer in spirit to a Eufy SmartTrack Link than anything Apple has shipped. It’s slightly larger than an AirTag, but at 36mm across it’s still small enough to easily tuck into a bag pocket or glovebox. The all-plastic build is an obvious cost measure, but it looks smart enough with plenty of UGREEN’s gunmetal grey design styling.
The built-in keyring hole is one of those small things that makes a real difference in practice. AirTag users will know the annoyance of needing to spend extra on a holder just to attach the thing to your keys. The FineTrack Duo does actually come with a small rope lanyard for each of the four trackers in my set, but it doesn’t need them really. There’s a single button on the front and a small LED indicator, both functional rather than decorative, but neither offensive.
The standout feature here is power. Unlike the standard FineTrack models in UGREEN’s lineup, which still relies on a replaceable coin cell battery, the FineTrack Duo features a rechargeable internal battery charged via USB-C. It’s quoted at 12 months of battery life on a single charge, and I’ll take UGREEN’s word for that for the sake of getting this review out in time. What I will say is each tracker arrived nearly fully charged already out of the box, needing just 10 or 15 minutes each to show as full.
There’s a small rubber dust cover protecting the port which is a sensible decision given how easily a charging port can accumulate fluff in a bag. The problem is that the rubber cap is very small, and I’m sure it will absolutely end up being lost pretty quickly. UGREEN has clearly anticipated this, because they include a couple of spare covers in the box. That’s either thoughtful or a subtle admission of a flaw, depending on how you look at it. You’ll get a small sheet of playful icon stickers too, which is a nice practical touch when you’re managing a four-pack and need to tell them apart at a glance.
performance
It’s worth mentioning before we go too much further that the Duo in FineTrack Duo has nothing to do with the amount of trackers in the box. The Duo relates to ecosystem compatibility, you can use these with both Apple and Android devices. I’m an iPhone user so all my testing has been in iOS, but the FineTrack Duo supports both Apple Find My and Google Find Hub, making it one of the few trackers that a mixed iPhone/Android household can share. Each tag can only be paired to one platform at a time however, so it’s less “works with everything simultaneously” and more “won’t become redundant if you switch phones.”
The UGREEN FineTrack Duo makes a first strong impression when it comes to setup, it was super simple. Press and hold the button for two seconds, bring it near your iPhone, open the Find My app, and you’re done. It might as well have been an official Apple AirTag for how straightforward the pairing process was. No third-party app, no account creation, no QR code scanning ritual. It just appeared in Find My and was ready to name and deploy within about a minute. This was true of all four in the set, one after the other they happily paired without any hiccups about duplicate devices.
Once paired, Find My tracking has been consistent and accurate throughout testing. There’s a caveat worth knowing about however, if you haven’t had the app open for a while and you pull it up to check a tag’s location, you may be looking at a position that’s long out of date while it refreshes. This isn’t unique to the UGREEN FineTrack Duo, it’s standard behaviour for how Apple’s network handles third-party accessories, but it’s worth managing expectations. I found it’d often take 20 seconds to refresh after opening the app, so for knowing your bag is still on the train you left it on, it’ll do just fine. Left behind notifications also work well, you’ll get a ping to say it’s no longer near you just as you would with an Apple device or AirTag.
I passed one of the FineTrack Duo tags to a friend without sharing the tracker with his Apple account in Find My, essentially simulating what would happen if an unknown tag ended up travelling with someone. After about a day, he received a native notification from FindMy alerting him that a tag had been tracking him. Great to see that functionality still on offer here, albeit more the work of Apple than UGREEN.
Adding him as a legitimate shared user was seamless. Location updates came through consistently for both of us as he moved around during the day and each of us had the ability to trigger sounds or ask for directions to the tracker. Again a lot of that smoothness is Apple’s infrastructure doing its job, but the FineTrack Duo is well-behaved enough to take full advantage of it.
In my testing that speaker proved adequate rather than particularly impressive. It’s loud enough to locate a tag you’ve left somewhere in the house, under a sofa cushion or buried in a coat pocket, but don’t expect anything that’ll cut through a noisy public environment particularly well. If your item is actually lost somewhere out in the world, you’re relying on the Find My network to get you to the right postcode and the speaker to handle the last five metres. For that job, it does fine.
It’s local positioning where the FineTrack Duo’s ceiling is lower than an official AirTag’s. There’s no Ultra Wideband support, which means no Precision Finding, so none of the directional arrow and “2 metres, turn left” guidance on a compatible iPhone. That’s a relatively niche feature though and not one I imagine most people are turning to for a tracker like this regularly. For everyday use, confirming where you left something, checking luggage made it onto your flight, keeping tabs on a shared item across a family, that gap is easy to live with.
summed up
In a funny way, the best thing about the UGREEN FineTrack Duo isn’t actually a feature of the trackers themselves, it’s how much you paid for them. At full price it’ll set you back £45 for the four pack I’ve been testing, the two pack is just £27. In the time I’ve been testing them I’ve regularly seen drops to under £30 for a four-pack on Amazon, working out to around £7.50 per tag. A four-pack of Apple AirTags is £99, the price difference is large while the feature difference is small.
Both will get you into Find My, both will track items reliably via the same network, and both will alert you if a tag is left behind. Yes, the AirTag delivers a more premium physical finish and Precision Finding but the FineTrack Duo delivers USB-C charging, a built-in keyring hole, and three extra tags for nearly the same money. For most people, especially anyone building out tracking across multiple items like keys, luggage, a bag and a car, that value proposition is difficult to argue with. The UGREEN FineTrack Duo does a great job as a general item tracker, this isn’t a budget experience, it just makes the AirTag look like a premium purchase.
