Description
- Easy-to-use, comfortable smart fitness tracker, once setup through the Garmin Connect app, has a touchscreen and button interface plus a brighter, bigger display than vívosmart 4 for larger text.Supported Application:Sleep Monitor,Heart Rate Monitor,GPS,Fitness Tracker,Contacts,Messages,Calendar. Connectivity technology:Bluetooth.
- Get an uninterrupted picture of your health with up to 7 days of battery life in smartwatch mode; safe for swimming and showering, too
- Understand your body by monitoring your respiration, Pulse Ox (Pulse Ox not available in all countries; it is not a medical device), Body Battery energy levels, women’s health, hydration, stress and heart rate (This device is intended to give an estimate of your activity and metrics) with low and high heart rate alerts once set up through the Garmin Connect app
- Get a score for your sleep quality, plus get further insights on how to improve your sleep via the Garmin Connect app
- Reach your fitness goals through fitness age, step tracking, calories burned, intensity minutes and more
- Built-in sports apps feature activity profiles such as walking, running, yoga, cardio, pool swim and more
- Connects to your smartphone’s GPS to track outdoor walks, runs and rides
- Stay connected with smart notifications for incoming calls, text messages, calendar view and more when paired with your smartphone
- When connected to your smartphone, incident detection (during select outdoor activities) and Assistance sends messages and live location information to emergency contacts (Requires setup and your smartphone to be in an area with network coverage where data connectivity is available)
- Interchangeable bands provide user-friendly designs, making band replacements easy and convenient
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Jesús de la Fuente –
this is overall a very good health tracker, if not for some minor problems:
pro:
1, the fucntionality are really good, get the improtant data you need without the unnecessary stuff like gps
2, app show plenty of metrics, which is very useful
3, charges pretty fast
con:
1,for me, wrist band cause allergic reaction in certain situations, and there’s no none silicone alternatives, so i had to improvise with some tape
2, app is useful, but i’d rather it work without online connection
3, with all the sensors on, the battery life isn’t very long
Pizza –
I used to be a Fitbit user for 10+ years. My last Fitbit Charge 5 died 6 months ago. I thought about replacing it but with Google buying Fitbit, I wasn’t sure. I tried an Apple Watch 10 and I didn’t like it (I’m not a watch person – too bulky and too many functions). I then tried a Fitbit Charge 6 for 1 whole minute. Google now forces you to move your Fitbit account to your Google account in 2025. I researched and came across this Garmin Vivosmart 5. It’s exactly what I was looking for, but it’s actually better than Fitbit! It is lighter than a Fitbit Charge 5. It has group challenges for example plus all the bells and whistles Fitbit had/has. I like the Garmin format a lot better than Fitbit though – who knew?! For a competitive price, I highly recommend giving the Garmin Vivosmart 5 a try.
Mai Anh Le –
Amazing minimalist health watch. It provides all of the neccesary information at such a low price. The battery life is great comparing to my old apple watch. The garmin connect app is easy to use. 10/10
Jesús de la Fuente –
Me está encantando su simplicidad y sencillez para utilizar en el día a día. Si desean tener una visualización más precisa de sus registros y actividades es importante descargar la app de Garmin Connect. Un detalle que he alcanzado a notar es que al menos a mi no me dura el 100% de la batería los 7 días de la semana. Tengo la configuración de Frecuencia cardiaca activada 24/7 y probablemente se deba a eso.
John Luther –
Was always an avid Fitbit 5 user but the quality of Fitbit has declined. I have gone through two in the past two years. So far the positives on the Vivosmart 5 (cost comparable) are the all-in-one protective band, sleek design (a little bit narrower than the Fitbit 5). The functions are impressive, accurate and limitless but not simple to use. Initial set-up is a breeze, step by step on the band and app but there are no instructions after that so plan on spending some time getting to know your Vivosmart 5, don’t get frustrated it may take 4 or 5 days but once you figure it out your going to love it, I do. Some functions will not appear for a couple of days as data must be gathered to generate results. Biggest draw back is no found logging. They work in conjunction with My Fitness Pal, which wants you to pay premium to use almost any of their features, yuck and the syncing between the two is not great, so there is never a accurate breakdown of calories in/out without bouncing back and forth between the apps. Fitbit 5 wins over Vivosmart 5 for food logging. Very happy with the purchase and excited to put my Vivosmart 5 to the test!
Z Mark –
Lleva 3 días y marcha muy bien el reloj y la calidad de la marca parece garantía. Solo que el de paquetería dejó el paquete fuera de casa solo. Cuando llegamos vimos pero bueno el producto bien.
Shreeyash Mittal –
This device was my third Garmin purchase after two Vivosmart 4s (the only issue with the 4 was the strap). However, the Vivosmart 5 does nothing well. The strap design is worse. The watch comes off the wrist in the middle of the night (so no sleep tracking). Yesterday, the screen was stuck with repeated reminders to add emergency contacts (and that too 3). Today, the screen is stuck with a 7-day overview. The battery life is the biggest disappointment, which lasts, arguably, less than an Apple watch (which was never the case with the Vivosmart 4).
I’m just glad that I have kept the box and now I’m going to return it.
Amazon Customer –
I’ve been wearing a Garmin smartwatch for the past 5 or 6 years to track steps, heart rate, and sleep. I recently reverted back to wearing analog watches (Oris Aquis and Luminox Navy SEAL) but wanted to continue tracking these metrics. The Vivosmart 5 has met my needs and expectations adequately. I do miss the ability to track stairs, but that isn’t critical to me.
Battery life is great for the size of the device. I’m getting 10+ days out of a single charge since turning off the gesture function. Iwas getting 6 or 7 days prior to turning gesture off. If I want to see where I am in terms of steps, I simply double tap. In the meantime, I look to my analog watch for the time.
Miel –
First fitness tracker that I’ve owned, and I like it.
The purpose of getting this was for me to better understand if I was being too sedentary when working from home, and to see how good/bad I was sleeping.
The tracker is great at delivering good information about how active I am, and the sleep data seems pretty accurate as it describes pretty much how I feel when I wake up.
I was a bit skeptical about the claimed battery life, but it’s pretty accurate. 6-7 days with daily workout tracking, wearing it all night, and without the consistent pulse ox monitoring.
Picked this over a Fitbit and I’m happy with my selection.
John A. Johnson –
I decided to purchase the Vivosmart 5 when my aging Vivosport started reporting wildly inaccurate heart rates. I immediately saw a host of improvements with the Vivosmart 5, beginning with a greater range of activity types to choose from. Finally, I don’t have to record my daily Yoga as “other” and then reclassify it in Garmin Connect. And the moving graphics for activities make it very easy to find the activity that I want to record. Some reviewers have indicated that the font on the tracker is so small that it is unreadable. I disagree. Even without my glasses, which I always need for reading, I can make out the words displayed on the tracker.
One reason I have hesitated in moving from the Vivosport line to the Vivosmart line is that the former has built-in GPS and the latter does not. But I figured that, except for swimming, I always have my phone with me anyway, so tracking distance should be no big deal. However, I was surprised to find that the Vivosmart, paired with my phone, consistently reported a walk that I know to be exactly a mile (from online mapping sites) as 1.1 miles. That is 10% too high. My former Vivosport always reported the distance correctly, between 1 and 1.02 miles.
Aside from the GPS issue, I have been pleased with the tracker’s features. I like the way it produces an overall sleep quality score and breaks it down into the components of good sleep. My subjective experience of sleep quality does not always correspond exactly to the Garmin score, but it does more often than not.
I like the way the tracker nudges me to move and stretch every so often, and I find that I do not have to move around vigorously for a long time (like I did with the Vivosport) in order to convince my tracker that I indeed took a break to move.
Sometimes I am surprised by the initiative taken by the tracker. the other day it asked me if I wanted to do some breathing exercises. Perhaps it thought I was too stressed; I don’t know. At any rate, I said sure, and took a break to breathe.
I have been using the Vivosmart for a month now, and I can think of a couple of ways that the tracker software could be tweaked a bit more to make it better, but, all-in-all, I have been pretty happy with this tracker.