Customer Ratings & Reviews

One of the best smartwatch brands. Perfect if you’re an athlete or want to track sleep, heart rate, stress levels, etc.

Batterie lasts forever and it is more accurate with my steps. And it is affordable compared to apple!

This is my first garmin after years of Apple Watches. I super dig it!!

Great watch with many useful features from sleep monitoring to tracking steps, weather, etc.

I purchased this watch to replace my old Venue 2, and the differences are abismal, this one is way better.

Love it! Great battery life! Took me a little to get used to but now I love it!

This has been the best fitness tracking watch I’ve owned. I prefer this over the Apple Watch. Tracking sleep, food, water, etc. I love it

Impressed with battery life. still getting familiar with the other functions of the watch

This watch has been amazing at helping me monitor my stress levels and sleep habits. Highly recommended

Omg i love this watch ..Its been great keeps ip with all of my miles .

Betthen apple watch to be honest.i will recommended for sure .

Perfect ⌚ for fitness, super slim, battery last for more than 6 days.

Great Display and features health and exercisegood.

Great product. Sometimes the HR feature seems off but no product is perfect. Not clunky at all! Would recommend getting it!

Great watch, haven’t had any problems with it at all.

First let me tell you a little about myself, I am a triathlete, marathoner and a hiker so to keep track of any or all these I must have a good watch that does a good job and has a great battery life. The Garmin Venu 3 does a great job on all the sports as well as every day tracking. I got the Garmin Venu 3 because when I completed the Camino de Santiago (The way of St James) I had a Garmin Fenix watch and it worked excellent and I gave that watch to a family member that is going train for a triathlon so now I am starting to use the Garmin Venu 3 since it just came out. So far I have ran outside as well as inside, worked out, went on a walk, cycled and slept with the watch, unfortunately the pool has been closed at my gym but I am certain it will work there as well. Running outside, I ran a few miles without the watch being on, so make sure that once you are going for a run, first, it will get the GPS signal, once it has a good signal then it will let you know it is ready so then you have to press the start button and then go. Once I knew how it worked It did a great job tracking the run, and it gives plenty of information, pace, distance, heartbeat, time, elevation, cadence, and more. The Venu also has options in running like mixed intervals, quarter mile repeats, run and walk, workouts, training calendar and finally the LiveTrack. I took it out on a bike ride and it also gives you the distance, total time, average speed, total accent, average heart rate, and it goes into details plus has great visual charts including the map where I ran with the colors showing the speed, I like the LiveTrack feature because it keeps track of your location during the activity and lets your friends and family follow along. So, LiveTrack is useful for instance, if you are doing a race, your family and friends will know where you are so they can meet you in different spots without guessing. I like that I have a button that I can press so I can have access to my assistant, so if I have my phone on my backpack and I push the button of my watch I can ask my assistant and will answer with the watch speaker, I do not need to take my phone out. Also the body battery function is great to have, it tracks my sleep, my activity and lets me know if I need to let my body rest or if I am ready to go out again and workout. The sleep coach is also something I like, it keeps track on how well I rested and it also gives me a score and even tips on when I should go to sleep. Pool swim, you can set your watch to do 25 50 meters or yards or even custom to what the pool size is. Among other activities you also have walk, run, treadmill, bike, pool swim, strength, cardio, yoga, meditation, bike indoor, bouldering, breathwork, climb indoor, disk golf, elliptical, ebike, floor climb, gaming, golf, handcycling, handcycling indoor, hiit, hike, indoor track, open water, padel, pickleball, pilates, row, row indoor, ski, snowboard, snowshoe, stari stepper, sup, tennis, walk indoor, xc classic ski, and you can change the order on what you want to be first on the list. The Venu 3 also comes with different useful apps, Wallet, phone, music, flashlight, alarms, timer, stopwatch, health snapshot and tips. Also connect IQ Store, Body battery, calendar, calories, challenges, contacts, dial pad, floors climbed, Garmin coach, hearth rate, history, hrv status, hydration, intensity min, jet lag and each of these are helpful. I like the application; it shows my day stats, challenges, calendar, news feed and more. Connect with other people is also fun to encourage each other on activities. I also like that I can customize the look of the watch as well as preset buttons. Overall the list is long on the things I like about it, battery life is one big yes for me, it lasts up to 14 days, it might last less if you have all the notifications sent to the watch but perhaps 10 days with all the notifications, I like that a lot. The one thing I would like is a bigger size since the Venu 3 looks a bit small at 45mm.

Get broken in 26 days, turning off after 2 minutes, after every restart, no support

Horrible, leaves rashes all over wrist, even when wearing it loose, so loose it just spins around on your wrist. Contacted Garmin because others said they will swap your bands with a fabric or different material one. They told me no, gave me a bunch of crap to stop it from leaving a rash basically saying just don't wear it or barley touch it to your wrist and clean it everyday all day... They offered to buy it back from me instead of just a new band but ok. Have this allergy causing crap back. Loom on reddit everyone has the same issue.

The case of this is a bit large (45mm diameter), but it is delightfully thin, at only around 11mm (not including the heart rate sensor bump on the bottom). If this is too big, Garmin offers a Venu 3S that is smaller. The biggest thing for me is that it is incredibly light, weighing under 48g. This is the first device that I have owned that is actually comfortable enough to wear while sleeping (there is a sleep tracking system that also monitors your heart rate variability – nice). But if you don’t find the straps to be comfortable, then they can be removed using the quick release spring bars, and replaced with any two-piece 22mm watch strap that you want to use. The battery life is also impressive, with a realistic life of around 10-12 days, given moderate usage. As a fitness tracker, this is great. There is both a heart rate and a blood O2 sensor, as well as the usual motion tracking and GPS goodies on board. Doing a quick run will yield a GPS map outline of your path, as well as keeping all useful statistics. There are dozens of activities supported, including paddleboard and e-bike as options, as well as the usual walking, swimming, running, cardio, and others. The information is shown on a nice and bright round OLED display that is visible even in bright sunlight. While in an activity the data fields can be customized. When not being used in an activity, it does the usual tricks of showing your heart rate on a variety of watch faces, as well as other information, including current temperature and weather, sunrise and sunset times, number of steps taken, calories burned, current heart rate, and a lot of others. Alerts and messages from your phone can also be displayed, including text messages, emails, and phone calls. Phone calls can actually be taken through the speaker and microphone on the watch. A long-press of the middle button can also access your phone’s voice assistant. You can also control music being played back on your phone with the usual volume and playback controls. There are several customizable watch faces built-in, and you can download more from the “Connect IQ” marketplace. Many are free, and some cost a couple of dollars. I like the “LCD X” watch face, and it is worth the buck and a half asking price. You do need the marketplace app to install any additional apps, activities, or watch faces, and that same app is also used to make any customizations. It also supports a wallet, where you can store credit or debit card info, similar to Google pay or Apple pay. Once activated, it takes a four-digit PIN to unlock the cards. The only issue is that it identifies the cards by the last four digits of the car number, and you cannot give useful text names to the cards. Otherwise, it works well. So far this sounds like an excellent device, but now we get to the one area that needs work: integrating with your phone. Overall, this does a good job, but there is ONE FEATURE that it really needs that is lacking: integration with the phone’s mapping software. While navigating with Google maps (I am an Android user), it would be highly desirable to have the watch buzz and alert me to upcoming turns. While I am walking, I want my watch to vibrate and tell me that I have to turn right in 30 feet. Sadly, this does not seem to be possible at all. Showing any sort of map at all is not supported by Garmin, which is funny given that their background is in GPS and mapping. There are some 3rd party map applications, but they all have limitations and require jumping through some hoops to get them working, when they do work at all. It also does not allow you to read your email or messages (except through notifications), but this is fine given the small size of the screen. But if you ignore the lack of Google maps integration (I cannot speak to use with an iPhone), then this is an excellent product. I am hoping that Garmin will add this feature soon.

Before getting the Garmin Venu 3 GPS, I have been switching smart watches between a Withins ScanWatch ($350) and a Tissot Connected T-Touch ($1200). The reason behind choosing those 2 watches above others was the amazing battery life where the Withins would give me a month of usage (with limited smart watch features but good fitness tracking) and 6 months of battery use with the Tissot (good fitness tracking and poor smartwatch features). When I saw the Venu 3 that claimed almost 14 days of battery life, a bigger screen with Garmins reputation with fitness tracking, I decided to give it a try. Build quality and design: I love the black polymer look where its not fully gloss but not fully matte either, the band is comfortable and stays clean, the watch looks biggish and stylish with everything you wear, and I can wear it to work and to work out or basketball unlike my metal withins and Tissot. Features I am enjoying the most: - One very underrated feature is nap tracking, this is the first watch that does that without messing sleep tracking. - Bright screen with images from texts and newsfeed showing on the screen! - Body battery energy that seems and feels very accurate - Calory expenditure and showing how many calories I spent during activity and during rest! This helped me a lot with regulating my intake. - Stress monitoring and management. - Great app with detailed features while still getting most of the information collected on the watch itself. - Heart rate monitor - Respiration rates - Calendar snapshots which show you your activity withing the app. - Good selection of watch faces in the app. Features I miss having that are not available in this watch: - Integration with Google Fit (both my Withins and my Tissot integrate with fit and that’s how I have been tracking and having most of my fitness stats since 2014. This is not available with Garmin. - No Oximeter. And honestly at this price point, its disappointing. - Strange charging port placement and clickness. I have charged the battery once and I was afraid that I will snap the port pins while I was plugging the watch in. Real life usage for what this watch is intended for: I do like hiking a lot and I do hard hikes a few times a year, I did one hike recently while having this watch in Smokey Mountains to top rock and I had another fitness tracker on and 2 of my friends have different trackers/ smartwatches as well. The Venu 3 was as accurate as any of them and it was really great to see all the different measures it takes in real time. Conclusion: In my opinion and through my use of different smart watches that fit my life and priorities, I do believe that that Venu 3 is a great option that have most features I need from both a smart watch and a fitness tracker without the compromising short battery life. I intend to keep using it and I do recommend it for anyone who wants a good smart watch with a good battery life.