Garminvívoactive 5, Health and Fitness GPS Smartwatch, AMOLED Display, Up to 11 Days of Battery, Ivory

The media could not be loaded. I used to have an Apple Watch, but decided to give the Garmin vívoactive 5 a try—and I’m so glad I did. The tracking is on another level, especially when it comes to fitness and health metrics. Everything feels more accurate and detailed, which has really helped me stay on top of my goals.Another huge plus is the battery life. I was charging my Apple Watch almost daily, but with the Garmin I can go up to 10–11 days without worrying. It’s such a relief not having to charge it constantly.Comfortable, stylish, and packed with useful features—definitely worth the switch!

I decided to order a Garmin Vivoactive 5 when my Fitbit Versa expired on me in Nov.2024. It took a couple of weeks for it to arrive, mainly due to the holiday season, but it has been worth it. The battery life on it is much longer than what I previously had on Fitbit, and there are a lot of features available. It will take a while to familiarize yourself with so many features, but once you do they will be worth it. If you use it to monitor your workouts, as I do, there are many categories of workouts that it will evaluate, running, walking, strength workouts, biking, cardio, etc. You get great data on your sleep patterns, morning reports, weather updates, etc. What I enjoy is that when you download the Garmin app on your phone you can use your data from Garmin to enter into competitions with other Garmin members. Fitbit, once bought out by Google, began to eliminate a lot of the groups and competitions you could be involved in, so Garmin was a breath of fresh air in this. The band on the watch feels great and the watch looks stylish. I am sure that there are a ton more features out there that I have not even gotten to yet, but my impressions on a Garmin smartwatch is that they are definitely worth the money if you enjoy using a smartwatch daily.

Fantastic fitness product. It reminds you to get up and move, counts your steps, tracks if you take naps, tracks regular sleep, measures your heart, syncs with your alarm outside of the Garmin program.... This is very efficient. Helps wake me up! Can see who's calling you, without checking your phone... Is a bonus. It even gives you positive affirmations in the morning. It helps with my depression recovery. I LOVE it. My first time trying such technology.

Four stars out of five - it does a lot of things very well, but lacks some features that I thought it had because of the description on the Garmin web page - most notable the inability to track respiration during workouts. It does track respiration all day, so this must just be a software issue to get you to buy a more expensive version. The watch faces are a little finicky to design, but there are a lot of them on the Connect IQ shop (some free, some not).I've worn an A brand watch that works seamlessly with my iPhone since they first came out. I would say that that watch is an outstanding smart watch with a mediocre fitness tracker. This Garmin Vivoactive 5 (they now have the 6 released) is an excellent fitness tracker with an average smart watch. It pairs with the Garmin App and gives you much better granularity into your fitness metrics. It has a solid battery life - my first test lasted six days before it went into low battery mode and I used it for about 12 hours of workouts (which is a battery drain). The best feature for me is that it allows me to put all my workouts (including my cycling with a Garmin 1030) into one location, Garmin Connect.Overall, it isn't a replacement for my smart watch, but it is a great entry level fitness tracker. I'm planning on using it for several months to completely understand all the features, then I may try going for a high end Garmin watch as a replacement for my trusty A-watch. For now, I am (ugh) wearing one watch on each arm.

I really like that you can turn the heart rate on or off, gps, on or off etc basically turning all emfs so you can wear it without those harmful effects and only turn them on when working out. The battery life works well and long. My husband and I have the same watch and wear it together. Occasionally his will say he ran a little further (for example mine will say I ran 1 mi while his will say .9 or 1.1) I have noticed the longer distances make the accuracy closer to the same. I love that you can customize the brightness and colors. We’ve set our face clock to more warm lighting so that even at night it isn’t too awful bright and yet it’s still visible in the sun. I got the white and love the aesthetic. I also haven’t noticed it yellow or easily discolor. Feels great on and doesn’t rub while running. Doesn’t feel too heavy either. For what you get the price was right. I got mine on sale for about $200.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Reviews, price, band size, watch faceWatch quality:Reviews are high, on and off AmazonSync ability:Links with MyFitnessPlan and Android phone easilyAccuracy:More readings and seems to pick up on activity better than previous watch