Ratings & Reviews for Garmin vivoactive 5 Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled
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What Customers Are Saying
Customers overwhelmingly praise this fitness watch for its accurate activity tracking across diverse sports, detailed sleep analysis with stage breakdowns, and exceptional battery life lasting days or weeks without recharging. The bright display, customizable watch faces, and Body Battery stress monitoring are frequently highlighted as standout features. Many users switching from competing brands note the superior data depth and actionable insights. While most are highly satisfied, some mention the interface requires a learning curve with occasional navigation confusion. A few report minor issues like Bluetooth disconnections or inconsistent pace tracking, though these concerns remain uncommon. Overall, reviewers strongly recommend it for fitness enthusiasts.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Great smart watch!
After about 4 years I replaced my (original) Garmin Venu with this Garmin Vivoactive 5. I was a little sceptical because this watch was quite a bit less expensive, and I was hoping that it would like it as much as the Venu. I wanted mainly a large heart rate display during activity, an alarm, and sleep monitoring. After I personalizing the Vivoactive I couldn't be happier! I was able to download my spotify playlists onto it and do not need my phone during my workouts anymore. It is slightly thin...
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Glad I bought it.
Bought this about a month back, when my VivoActiv 3 finally died. I had found that one mildly useful, but never got into beyond the basics. The 5 is so much better, better display, better usability, everything I had imagined a smart watch "should" be. So, I like it a lot.
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Love This Watch!
This is my fourth vivoactive fitness watch (1, 4, and now 5). As a runner and triathlete, I've used the vivoactive watch to train for four half marathons over the past three years. From triathlon training to golfing to pickleball to walking, this watch does everything I need to help me train, stay active, and make it easy to see notifications from my iPhone. Love my vivoactive 5 fitness watch!
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Vivoactive 5 love it
I have had several Garmin watches, vivo active 4, Swim 1, 2, several triathlon watches and have gifted other to my friends and family members. Garmin is always great quality and the extra's keep going up. I was using the Vivoactive 4 to this and the battery was starting to drain down so I jumped up and bought the next line up and am amazed how much better it is then what I had! Everything is so quick, great battery life, heart rate never stops. I am currently recovering from a severe car acc...
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Vivo 5 Upgrade
I upgraded from a Vivoactive HR to the Vivoactive 5 because I liked the fact that it had a much longer battery life and had more functions such as an alarm and timer which were lacking in myprevious version.
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I HATE this watch!
There's a code I can hardly read and is even harder to enter in order to log into some of the features. The watch face is hard to read, and the date isn't on the main face. My last watch was a forerunner, and I loved it, but the band broke in a way that can't be fixed.
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No more altimeter :(
I have been wearing a vivo since the 3, and was excited to get this “upgrade” to a 5. The bright display is great, yep. The loss of the altimeter is not great, however, and unfortunately I have returned the watch. It’s not in the 6 either. The “fix” I was given was that I could view the altitude after the activity in the app, however elevation is something I check during the activity, not after. Huge bummer, Garmin.
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Great Up Grade
I bought this to update the one I was using. Love the bigger numbers and the brightness at night. Much easier to see.
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Great features!!!
I bought my Garmin a little over a month, and I absolutely love it. Nothing can compare
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Excellent features teasy to use.
I purchased it approximately two months ago, and it has been functioning excellently.
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Great features
I love my wash, easy to use very detail information, long life battery, excellent quality 👌
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Vivo5
Much better health accuracy with the apps. Still exploring it's capabilities.
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Barimetric Altimeter was removed
I have a Vivoactive 4 and felt the Vivoactive 5 would be an upgrade with a longer lasting battery. I went skiing with it the first day and saw that it did not keep track of runs. On further investigation I found out it does not have an altimeter like the 4 has so it is useless to me for skiing and biking. I returned it. In the future I would recommend to Garmin that when you release an updated model you don't remove key features.
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Great Features
I bought this about 3 weeks ago and I am glad I did. I owned a Garmin before. I had it several years and it stopped working. I tried a cheaper brand which was awful, so I switched back to Garmin. I like that it has its own GPS and doesn't need to connect to my phone during my workout. I like that the face is big enough to show distance, pace, heart rate and over all time at one glance. No need to switch back and forth between faces.
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Great watch!
I've had my Vivoactive 5 for a few years now and it's one of the best investments l could make to keep track of my health. It's inexpensive, light, and not bulky. It's streamline shape and size fits perfectly for my needs.
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great watch/ tracker
I really like it. I’m a longtime customer Garmin and I just upgraded from a vevo active three to the vivoactive 5. Garmin is great.
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Very happy with the Vivoactive 5. Had a Venu Sq prior so everything connected quickly. The sq watch face seemed to fit my wrist a little better. Thanks for continuing to make an affordable quality product.
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works in pool
It is easy to use but does need to be charged daily. Also would be nice if the time was listed in hours and minutes not by just hands. Does work in the pool while a teach a water fitness class.
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Needs improvement
Dont know why phone is connected and disconnected 3 inches from phone multiple times during. An hour. Can reply to things after phone sends it. Why can't i message someone from watch all the time? No audio, just buzz.
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Terrible SW update experiences
Love my watch when it works. However, EVERY time there is a software update then the battery life goes from 9 days to less than a day. The only way I've been able to figure out how to fix it is to factory reset the watch, uninstall the app from my phone and then set everything up over again. Then it works fine until the next SW update. They also don't allow users to disable updates.
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