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.Not bad
Not as user friendly as other devices I've owned. I had to set the time for sleep; if I go to bed earlier or later, it doesn't seem to detect that. Has a lot of features but can't seem to sync usage. Admittedly some of this may be user error.
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Best decision I’ve made leaving Apple
So happy that I decided to buy this watch. It does everything I hoped it would and then some. The Fitness tracking, Golf, sleep and the battery life is phenomenal. Highly recommend.
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Great Bargain. Move Fast
I've had a Vivoactive 3 for years and loved its size and features, but it's resolution wasn't too great and it's color rendition and clarity were limited by today's standards, so I just upgraded to Vivoactive 5 at a bargain price, below the current Vivoactive 6, while supplies last. Wow!!! What a difference. Lighter, slightly smaller, the colors and resolution pop, more features, better glass, and more memory. I love it. I took off one star simply because they took away the barometric press...
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Terrible
Terrible watch. Does not keep a charge really want my money back. Apps are not correct. Does not catch a true depiction of my sleep or body. False advertising/ cheaply made and extremely disappointed
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Love this device. In the best shape of my life thanks to this . So much better than any smart watch
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Versatile Tracker
This is a nice watch for a wide variety of people. I'm not into sports but it works just fine for my focus on health tracking. It gives me enough depth for sleep and daily stats to be very useful. I think it would be useful for people into sports too.
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So helpful!!
I love the “new to me” features with this watch. Compass, hints, morning reflection, and encouragements throughout the day. More features than I expected with this upgrade.
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Great fitness watch!
I bought this looking for a great fitness tracker for overall workouts and runs with all of the tracking. I’ve had the watch for 2 weeks now and I really love the sleep tracker and the programmable workouts so I don’t need to keep checking my phone. I also horseback ride and while I do hope that in the future, that feature will be available on this watch, the cycle feature does work just as well. Overall I’d definitely recommend!
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Horrible battery life
If the battery life lasted more than a day, Id really like this watch. The first week it worked fine with minimal features. Then it did a software update. Now it won't last more than 24 hours with a full charge on the battery saver setting.
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Garmin over Apple any day
I’ve had this watch for over two weeks now and it easily out does my Apple Watch hands over fist. Yes it doesn’t have all of the fitness activities the Apple Watch has, but it by far more accurate and more reliable. I’m glad I bought this watch and slowly getting away from the Apple eco system.
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New Tricks for an old dog.
2 weeks in and very happy, still learning the ropes. The battery lasts 5 to 7 days so far.
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Great Smart Watch!
I love my garmin Vivoactive 5! It is awesome! And looking great! I enjoy to wear it everyday! Thank you!
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Great Features
I bought this a month ago and I love it! It tracks everything even your sleep and it recommends how many hours of sleep you should get every night and I need to get my sleep on course! I also like how it gives you medals for activities that you do
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Replacement for Garmin Tracker
I've used Garmin trackers for years. My last one finally bit the dust and I bought a Vivoactive 5. Very happy with it. The battery is fantastic. I charge it once a week and it usually has 35% or more left.
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Great!
Still hate the charging cable but glad I came back from Apple Watch.
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Great Features and Long Lasting Battery
I had my Garmin watch for almost 3 weeks now and I am impressed with the features on it and I am also impressed with how long the battery lasts before I have to charge it again. I have an Apple Watch and I had it for a few years and I would need to charge it maybe twice in the same day. I still will continue to use my Apple Watch so that I can track all of my activity on that watch and of course now on my Garmin watch
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Love my new Smart watch
I bought the Gremin smart watche about a month ago, and love the features. I would highly recommend this watch for active people.
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Great price for a smart watch, does everything I need it to and reliably. Used for tennis, running, swimming, sleep score, etc.
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Lots of Features
Have had this watch for 2 weeks now. Love all the new features and the battery has a long life. So glad a got this Vivoactve 6.
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A nice upgrade from the vivo active 4
I got this watch, because my vivo active 4 stop working and it has been a great upgrade so far. Improved battery life and display. Plus, the new activities are great for me, especially soccer.
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