GarminGarmin vivosmart 5, Smart Health and Fitness Activity Tracker with Touchscreen, Mint, Small/Medium

Great product! Really useful and accurate feedback. I bought this product to monitor my stress levels which it does really well but also has lots of other really useful features, such as body battery and sleep score. Better than many of the more expensive similar products on the market.

After my Fitbit health tracker band finally gave up the ghost, I decided to look for the closest equivalent I could find. The Garmin Vivosmart 5 seemed the best fit for me regarding size and function. In fact, this device exceeded my requirements for trackers for Heart Rate, Blood Oxygen, Step count, Sleep monitoring, etc. I wanted a band size similar to my old FitBit and a sub £150 price tag. So far so good.I am pleasantly surprised at the Vivosmart 5. Functionality outstrips my old FitBit, and the companion Garmin App actually gives me most (if not all) what I would have to pay extra for by having to subscribe to FitBit’s premium subscription.Battery life can be quite short (approximately 2 days) if the Blood Oxygen readings are set to constant (Pulse), but I get approximately 4 days use (permanently on my wrist) without charging if this function is turned off.I can of course switch this on again if I require a check, so I know it’s available.My only minor niggle so far is that if I want to use non-metric weights and distances, the weather temperature (synced from the app on my phone) displays in fahrenheit rather than celsius. Even though it's celciius on my phone. It seems this cannot be changed unless I select metric weights and distances. Not a major issue for me, as the weather apps on my phone suffice for this data.So, in conclusion, after a few days of ownership, so far I’m impressed.If I could score 4.5 stars I would.

A great item, my wife loves it and its so much clearer than her Fit Bit.

Really happy with this purchase. Everything works as expected. Great if you want an uncomplicated solution to tracking your activity and sleep. It does also give you notifications for calls and messages but I have turned that feature off.

First off - I’ve worn a Vivosmart 4 for the last year and was looking forward to the upgraded version. I like the simplicity and sheerness of the 4, as I wear a watch on the other wrist. Since it’s been 3+ years since the last iteration, I was expecting the 5 to be substantially better than the 4.What a shame Garmin! This watch would have been obsolete in 2020. You added almost no new features besides the ability to change the clock face. Does it really need a button? No - the tap to navigate menus worked fine before. You forgot to add the ability to reorder clock face widgets. So you’re stuck staring at data you may not want to see (you can add/rearrange widgets on the sub menus). As far as actual size, it’s almost twice as wide and sits noticeably higher. The black and white screen is light years behind almost all other trackers. The battery life seems to be a joke, since it burned through 10% in 15 minutes of having it sync and going through menus.As far as price, it’s grossly overpriced- it is currently 15£ more than the Fitbit Charge 5 (which in all aspects is a superior product) and close to the same size as the 5.If you’re expecting an true upgrade to the Vivosmart 4 - this is not it.

This was my first try at using a Garmin having always used FitBit. I was disappointed as I couldn't fully customise the swim length. Great as a step tracker but not much more. I returned and upgraded to the Forerunner 55 which I love!

This is great for basic health monitoring, heart rate and sleep - excellent feature for strength training with counting reps which is accurate most of the time, the pulse ox meter is also useful for checking your oxygen levels. It obviously does not have GPS function, so you must carry your phone with you if you wanting to map and record distance for an activity. I bought this watch because I already own an Edge 540 for my bike rides and therefore didn't want the GPS function. I do wish that it would read a Heart rate strap for more accurate results when running. All in all a good watch for the price.

If like me you just want a simple fitness tracker then this is probably as good as it gets at the moment.I seem to have missed the boat for simple trackers as everyone wants to sell you watches that do everything, but I just wanted a tracker to sit alongside my analogue watch.The vivosmart 4 is much smaller and therefore better suited to wearing with a normal watch, but you can just about get away with it with this one!However it's accuracy for swimming tracking (which is my primary aim) is much improved over the 4 - I guess that's why they removed the option to correct the lap counter at the end of a session!The battery life is ok, again probably helped by the larger size, and I don't have the PulseO2 constantly on - with that you will need to charge every couple of days.Logging is good and by using Health Sync on Android I can get all my data into Google Fit (some may have an opinion on that, but it's a good central place).Also the intergration out to swim.com and my local gym is great so another win for Garmin.Look out for this on offer - at full price it stops being good value for money, but you may find a good amazon returns offer or similar.I don't regret buying it!