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Garmin Vivoactive 5 Smart Watch
4.3 out of 5 stars
stars1,534 ratings1,525 reviews
  1. 5 stars64% (976)
  2. 4 stars18% (276)
  3. 3 stars9% (138)
  4. 2 stars4% (67)
  5. 1 star5% (77)

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Jul 4, 2025
Bambi10
5 out of 5 stars review

Great overall watch

It's a good upgrade from the vivoactive 4s. Battery is better (lasts 7 days), the screen looks brighter, you can actually text on here, see images in your notifications, and it gives lots of detailed info on sleep, body battery, and suggestions for exercise based on how stressful your day has been.

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Jul 27, 2025
L Mason
5 out of 5 stars review

Perfect for me!

I am so glad I bought the Vivoactive 5! I have tried multiple smart watches and smart rings and they didn’t meet my needs. The vivoactive is meeting them! Great step counter, hrv is tracked and multiple other things. It is a GREAT investment!!! Buy it. You won’t regret it.

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Aug 14, 2025
Kamibob
2 out of 5 stars review

Weird....

I've had my Vivoactive 5 for a couple of years now and it works well except for the incident alert feature wihch is really clumsy and awkward. If I am out snowshoeing and stop to talk with someone, it sends an alert like I have fallen and can't get up. Also, today after a bike ride, the watch was no longer connected to my phone. None of my previously saved data was available on the watch or the phone. After re-pairing the phone to the "new" watch, all was good again. Then I got this request to review my new watch. Very weird.

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Aug 18, 2025
Dar_el
3 out of 5 stars review

Hoping to love it

I got this as a gift after my Apple Watch died and I was really excited about the 11 day battery life that was advertised but soon realized that only happens if you basically never track anything on your watch. I’ve only gotten at most 3 days on a single charge. Also, the watch band has apparently given me a rash and looking up reviews on Reddit it appears to be a common experience. So I have to spend more money to buy a different band. That’s a bummer. Hope once I get my new band and my rash is gone, I’d be able to start loving it.

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Jul 20, 2025
TJDURB
5 out of 5 stars review

GARMIN VIVOACTIVE 5

I bought this watch a few weeks ago and am already impressed with the battery life. this watch replaced an old model Iwatch that worked as well; however the battery life was horrible! I love being able to wear the Garmin watch for days, but especially enjoy the sleep analysis which I could not do with the Apple watch because of the poor battery life that required nightly charging.

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Jun 30, 2025
ChrisGr
4 out of 5 stars review

Great value! Worth upgrading.

I'm a frequent runner who also likes to dabble in cycling, hiking, strength training, and soccer. I bought this to replace my Vivoactive 3 Music, which met almost all of needs/wants (gps, activity tracking, onboard music), but was right on the edge of battery life limits if I wanted to run anything more than a half marathon. The Vivoactive 5 was just the right step up in battery life without compromising elsewhere. I do wish they had kept the barometric altimeter for my hiking ventures, but I live in Indiana so I'm mostly fine without it.

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Aug 16, 2025
Tacobender
5 out of 5 stars review

Great visibility

I have been using my vívoactive 5 for 3 weeks now and absolutely love the bright readable display. I was having issues reading my old venu, the pixels were getting dim. I am still learning all of the features. I like listening to music on my earphones without needing my cellphone.

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Jul 14, 2025
AshG01
5 out of 5 stars review

All around great watch!

I have really enjoyed this watch. I have all my data at my fingertips. Vivo 5 is very lightweight, I forget it’s in my wrist. The bands make it stay on my wrist better without shifting. The amount of features it has is incredible. I enjoy running and all the data it provides me during and after make it easier to train.

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Aug 6, 2025
Outdoorsman
3 out of 5 stars review

Accurate but

I bought this mainly due to some health issues that I’ve been having and needed to be able to check my heart rate. I’ve had the opportunity to compare the heart rate versus monitor and it is very accurate, no complaints at all with this aspect. But to track these I have everything running in the background and can get barely two days out of the battery. Besides the issue for me it does everything it should and the price point was very reasonable.

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Jul 9, 2025
AvgUser1001
3 out of 5 stars review

Ehhh...jury is still out

Bought it a month ago. Was a FitBit user. The changes and differences are enough to generate the overall meh rating. Sure it does most things I was looking for adequately and can do a lot more that I do not care about. Plus there is so much to learn and I have not been willing/interested in putting in the time. So...meh so far.

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