Garmin – vívosmart 5 Smart Fitness Tracker + Heart Rate Small/Medium – Cool Mint – (2023)

God value - Reasonable price, replaced two devices with subscriptions and this doesn’t require one so I really like that. The app and display are very customizable. The band is not very comfortable and there aren’t very many other options to replace it

Better than vivosmart 4 - Finally upgraded to the vivosmart 5 after having the 4 for the past several years. Definitely more features available, but biggest benefit is replaceable strap. Biggest drawback is that it's a little bigger than the 4, but after a few weeks, I've gotten used to it.

Garmin vivosmart 5 - Wife likes the Garmin. She had a fitbit that she fought for 2 years and it went bellyup. No more fitbit's.

Garwin Vivosmart 5 Fitness Watch - Love it. I had the Vivo 4 but decided to upgrade. Excellent watch.

Good Watch - Bought this to track my sleep. It’s comfortable for a small wrist. Messages are hard to read so I turned off notifications. Battery like is pretty good, lasts 3-4 days with a lot of activity logging.

Garbage - Don't waste your money on this. The tracking is ridiculously inaccurate. I do the same workout every day and I never get the same results. One day my heart rate can be in the 160s and other days, I'm fighting for my life on the incline and it's just like "your heart rate is 110 =)". Obviously it's not that low if I'm about to die. It also only tracks the oxygen for a few hours at night. It stops HOURS before the time I set to wake up. The timer for workouts is also off. My treadmill times the workout and this watch loses about 5 seconds for my 20min workout. It may not seem like a lot because it's a small scale, but if an actual watch lost over an hour every week, it would be a big deal. It also doesn't register that I am awake if I get up at night to use the bathroom. Somehow it accumulates steps from the time I go to bed until I wake up, yet it doesn't register being awake. I've made sure it's tight enough and in the appropriate place on my wrist. This watch is just garbage. Photos of EXACT SAME workout two days in a row and oxygen not being tracked hours before waking up.

Good tracker - bad delivery time - The Vivosmart has been good so far. I was frustrated though that it wasn't ready to pick up at the store next day like the website said when I was ordering. It took a few days to arrive and I discovered I couldn't cancel the order while it was in transit. Moral of the story - Best Buy website available times should be treated with suspicion.

Do not recommend - Died in 7 months & never thought it was as accurate as my previous FitBit

Fantastic exercise watch. - Watch feels great and works perfectly. Battery life exceeds expectations and blows the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 out of the water. My Fitbit Luxe was needing to be charged daily as well. This Garmin lasts 3 days at least with high use. Sleep analysis is great. Step count seemed off, but there is a way to customize based on your actual stride length.

Great tracker - Great simple tracker that includes more functions that you might expect. Simple to use and a useful app to monitor trend details. Love the sleep tracker insights.

Garmin - Best Buy had the product I was looking for at a very competitive price. The purchase and delivery process all went smoothly.

Geat watch to track steps - Easy to use and nice to have to help keep track of health

vivosmart 5 - Replacing prior vivosmart 5 watch, its different than the first one.

Good for basic tracking - It keeps track of steps fairly accurately. It tracks heart rate and oxygen.

It's okay for simplistic folk - It's not a bad watch. I like how long the battery lasts. It's small and skinny so doesn't get in the way. Wasn't super fond of having to download an app for it. Certain things require the app to be opened like if you want to track a specific activity or if you want to see your sleep score since everything has to sync from watch to phone. It's good if you want a minimal watch, but honestly I'm just going to get an Apple Watch. Apple Watch just works seamlessly with iPhone. Also - this watch has to be within like 30 ft of your phone for it to stay connected. It doesn't just work off the same wifi like the Apple Watch. Basically if you have iPhone, I recommend the Apple Watch. But the Apple Watch doesn't compare to this watch's battery life. This watch says great for athletic tracking but I disagree.

Like the battery life - So far, it’s good. Still trying to learn how everything works. Like the battery life a lot. Was used to FitBit Luxe so trying to get used to the different way that this Garmin functions. This was the closest thing I could find to the Luxe.

Nice but not durable. - I liked it while it worked; however, it quit functioning after one year.

Better than expected. Eye-opening data. - I have been wearing the Vivosmart 5 for over a month now. To my surprise, I have been wearing it 24/7 and have found it extremely informative and 99% of the time comfortable. When it does become a little uncomfortable, I take it off for about 20 seconds, put it back on, and adjust the band. Data I never tracked is now at my fingertips: heart rate, stress, body battery, and breathing rate. I have turned off almost all notifications, so the battery lasts more than a week per charge.

Good for the price - I've had it for two years now. It covers a lot of health metrics for the price and is pretty durable for workouts and everyday wear. The unit can be taken out of the band for cleaning. Drawbacks: the touch screen can be finicky, especially if your body temp is up high or if anything is smudged on it. A few times the heart rate monitor has failed to pick up my heartrate accurately during a workout and once it froze in the middle of a strength training session so I couldn't use the set function and had to completely restart it to get it unfrozen. The band can irritate the skin on your wrist if you don't keep the underside clean and wear it too tight. I don't enable the PulseOx function so it's able to run about about 6-7 days between charges and charging it fully takes less than an hour.

Great watch/Fitbit - It is perfect for what I needed and really like the color and the functions.