Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works great..Tracks my workouts and steps. I would recommend!

If you want a Fitness Tracker with all the cool features, this is perfect! It's basically a mini-Fenix

Brought this as a gift for my wife. She loves it. Colorful with loads of useful options.

Never really wanted a fitness watch, but after getting the Garmin Vivoactive HR I'm glad I did.

Got this for my father for Christmas. Easy to set up and configure for him and he loves it!

Worked well for me, but upgraded to vivoactive 3. Same great watch with more features

Extremely comfortable and vey accurate. I switched from a fitbit, because of the swimming capability.

Great design, color screen, need to improve the dim light

Keeps me on track... at least in my mind!! Especially, since it syncs with my fitness pal.

The square chipless reader is easy to set up and use.

Very comfortable to use. Pedometer, cycling are what I use it for. Love sleep pattern viewing.

I absolutely love this watch. Works exactly how I expected it.

Great watch! Very lite weight. Tons of great features and accurate. Golf software is great!

Monitoring features are great. Very intuitive to use.

Once screen freeze since couple of month.overall good

Is very nice, light and accurate. I love the way track your runs and swimming. I totally recommend

I am completely satisfied with my Garmin watch. I use it for running, biking and rowing.

Great for just about anyone, regardless of whether you are a weekend warrior or more advanced.

Seems very accurate when tracking steps and miles ran. Pairing with my fitness pal is a huge plus

Vivoactive doesn't impress me. It is more activity tracker - but even there it fails quite a lot. Pros : comfortable to wear, Readable in bright sunlight, Battery lasts for many days Cons: Too many. Not a good HR tracker. My Microsoft Band (version 1) from 2 years ago does a much better job. Unfortunately that is getting worn out and Microsoft discontinued their Band product, so I was trying out the Vivoactive. Sleep tracking is terrible. If you are sitting down, tt thinks you are asleep. No option to manually set sleep tracking on when you actually go to bed. It also does not track when you fall asleep or if you woke up in the middle of the night very well. Readings off by 2 hours on an average day than my very accurate Microsoft Band. Deep Sleep, Light sleep info in the Garmin Connect app is not accurate I think the problem lies in the fact that the Vivoactive's HR reading is very wrong. Smartwatch misses things like alarm, stop watch, countdown timer - all basic functions included in any 'Sport Watch' For all these basic functions it looks like we have to download individual apps. The app store is also confusing -Garmin doesn't have apps to cover these 3 basic watch functions. Activity tracker includes niche activities like SUP while not including Yoga. How many people do Yoga regularly in the USA - 10-20 million weekly. How many do SUP - maybe a few thousand weekly??. Garmin you fail. I selected a cardio (other) workout program for my Yoga today. HR reading from Vivoactive was 120 max, average 100, Calories 190 for an 1 hour intense Yoga class. My Microsoft Band read HR 140 Max, 120 Average, 400 Calories for the same class. I was wearing both to test their accuracy against each other. Usually Vivoactive shows higher HR, but today with the Cardio activity it was off by a lot. Step tracking - again not accurate. Even after calibration with a 30 minute brisk walk. Microsoft Band is better. Every morning my Vivoactive tells me I 'walked' 30-40 steps in my sleep !!! Every day it is 20% higher than Microsoft Band. Swimming- didn't measure my 1 swim in the last week of wearing Vivoactive. somehow during the swim the button to end the activity got pushed (poor positioning) when my hand must have brushed against the swim lane divider, so the activity monitoring stopped. I will try again soon, but not hopeful of good results. Move reminder is ok GPS tracking ok - during my biking. But biking activity does not have a pause/continue - to stop tracking, like when you are waiting for 2 minutes for the light to cross a trafficked road. Again something the Microsoft Band had. Garmin's usability experts need to be fired and replaced by people who actually do some activity in the real world.