Customer Ratings & Reviews

- **Design**: The watch features a sleek and lightweight design, making it comfortable for all-day wear. The vibrant display is easy to read, even in bright sunlight. - **Fitness Tracking**: It offers comprehensive fitness tracking capabilities, including GPS, heart rate monitoring, and various sport modes. The accuracy of the tracking is commendable, providing reliable data for runners and athletes. - **Battery Life**: With an extended battery life, the Forerunner 265 can last up to two weeks in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode, which is excellent for long training sessions or races. - **Smart Features**: The integration with the Garmin Connect app allows for easy syncing of data, and you can receive notifications directly on the watch, keeping you connected without needing to check your phone constantly. - **User Experience**: The interface is intuitive, and setting up workouts or tracking progress is straightforward. The watch also offers personalized training plans, which can be a great motivator. Garmin Forerunner 265 is a solid choice for fitness enthusiasts looking for a reliable and feature-rich watch. Its combination of accurate tracking, smart features, and stylish design makes it a worthwhile investment for anyone serious about their fitness journey.

The design is sleek and comfortable, with a bright AMOLED display that looks great indoors and outdoors. Fitness and health tracking are top-notch—heart rate, sleep, stress, workouts, and even Body Battery are all accurate and easy to read. Battery life is excellent, lasting nearly a week on a single charge, which beats most competitors. It also has great smartwatch features like notifications, music storage, Garmin Pay, and customizable watch faces. Overall, it’s reliable, stylish, and packed with features. If you want a watch that helps you stay healthy and connected without constant charging, the Garmin Venu 5 is hard to beat.

I am extremely happy with this watch. I switcedh from an Fossil Android watch and this does everything that I used on that watch but much better. Battery lasts for many days, fitness and sleep tracking stuff works great, notifications are just the right amount of annoying.

Works perfect and keeps up with my workouts and the battery life is great!

First time owning a garmin watch. Works very well for health tracking and monitoring. Battery life is very good. Sleek design and very versatile

This device is amazing, the battery has a long duration even better than other smart watch devices. It's really accurate measurement distances and other health metrics

Better than a fitbit and apple/samsung watch. Battery lasts for days and it can track sleep and steps while still keeping you updated on phone notifications.

The display is bright and clear, making it easy to read even outdoors. I really appreciate the variety of tracking features—heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, stress management, and built-in GPS. It's lightweight and comfortable to wear all day, which is great since I tend to wear it during both workouts and everyday activities.

I've owned a Vivoactive HR, 4, and recently just purchased the 5. Overall, I love these watches. I use it primarily for nonral workouts, walk/runs (no serious training or anything), and most importantly golf. I feel naked when i dont have it on. Here are my pros/cons from the VA 4 to 5: Pros: (1) battery life is significantly better on the 5. I was charging my 4 every 5 days at first and then every 2 days after roughly two years of use. I am getting a steady 7/8 days with normal workouts, notifications, etc on the 5. (2) New AMOLED display is head over heels better than prior versions. (3) ability to respond to texts and calls has been upgraded. Cons: (1) They are getting cheap with builds. Looks like they are making the VA 5 their entry watch, and the 4 was made better. The button are now plastic, and I've seen a lot of people saying it is easily scratched (I haven't personally had this issue yet). (2) No barometric sensor - so you no longer can see elevation during runs or stairs climbed. This wasnt a deal breaker for me, but certainly is a bummer. These watches have a lot of functions and pack a punch if you are active and want a tool to add to your lifestyle - these are just the majornthings that affected my use of it. I have yet to golf with the new watch, but looking forward to any changes they made there, and even if it is the same I wouldn't be mad.

Great watch, battery lasts multiple days and its basically what I needed in a smartwatch. My only complaint would be that sometimes, it constantly connects and disconnects from my phone by itself, i have tried different troubleshooting methods and nothing seems to fix it. It doesnt do it all the time, but when it does, it gets annoying because you keep receiving notifications of it happening. I have an iphone 15 pro, if that helps any. Other than that, its a great device.

Great battery life, way better in comparison to the Apple Watch. It is day five since the last charge and currently at 49%. Great fitness tracking. The only drawback is not being able to reply text back on the watch itself

I love this watch,is never giving me any problems, i took out the country to Honduras and it works perect,I hight recomend this wach, it last long time charged.

The watch has allowed to keep track of my fitness goals. It’s easy to use and very reliable

In terms of working out way better than the apple watch! It does exactly what I need. I also love how the battery quite literally lasts FOREVER!

This has been the best watch after switching from Apple! I have really enjoyed the sleep score and workout options they have. The battery will last me up to 8 days no problems, even sleeping with it at night!

The Garmin Vivoactive 5 delivers exactly what you're looking for: simplicity and strong health features. It's easy to use, offers in-depth tracking across stress, sleep, energy, and workouts, and keeps going for about a week without charging. For everyday wellness and versatile sport tracking, it's a great match. Just be aware that if you need altimeter-based metrics or a very rugged, premium feel, higher-tier Garmin models could be better.

This watch has been great. I’ve worn it for over a year and it’s been a great everyday watch to track my activity.

Really great watch, it was a gift for my mom and she loves it, and battery lasts a really long time.

Great watch. This is my second Garmin watch. It replaced my old 920xt forerunner Watch that I had for 10 years. Easy to use. Distance is very accurate. Built in heart rate monitor is great and battery life is great.

It is great. The style is elegant enough to be a dress watch - none of the massive buttons that suggest military. I have read that quality wise it is a drop from the vivoactive4 that had better buttons but since I don't swim or shower with it I am confident not to be hurt by that. I loved that a lot of the setup was by default. This includes the night time face that is dull to encourage sleep, and the morning report that has good info. The choice of free faces could be better but the ones that are not free are not so expensive that you don't want to try them. It picks up the GPS fast enough and it looks as though the GPS is accurate. Battery life is great. I am not an athlete and so there are days I don't use the GPS. 24 hrs without GPS seems to consume 4% of the battery. This will drop over time but I think I am looking at charging every 4 days. That is great for business trips. I wish there were wireless charging but I don't know what features I would have to give up for that. I don't like proprietary cables. The cable is regular USB at one end. It can be regular USB at the other too. At the end of the day I have no deal breaking complaints. Pleased with it.