I really enjoy having this watch and highly recommend it! I was never into watches before, but since I’ve become more active, walking daily and going to the gym, this has been a great fitness tracker. The battery life is excellent; I don’t even take it off most days. I was debating between this and the Apple Watch, but having to charge a watch every day felt pointless to me. This one tracks calories, steps, and logs all my activities, which helps me stay on track with my fitness goals. It's also lightweight and has a modern design, which I really appreciate.

This is my second Garmin, and I like it better than the first. The first was an Instinct, and although I did like it, it was difficult to work with and I found it very frustrating to operate. I am finding the Vivoactive to be very user friendly simple to use it's functions. The other part is that being a woman, the Instinct was very masculine and my Vivoactive is more feminine, which is to my liking. Overall, I would say, so far so good. Battery life is always good on Garmins and it was very easy to setup on the app.

This watch is very versatile you can choose the watch face that fits your personality, you also are able to choose the activities, apps and what stats you want to keep track of.This is a great watch for the beginner user or for the expert wanting to upgrade.

I bought my Vivoactive 5 a few weeks ago. I've worn a watch my entire life, but not a "smartwatch". I've had GPS watches that I bought for exercising, but never used them as a day to day watch. I'm enjoying my purchase. The main reason I bought the watch was for running. The ability to download music and listen without carrying my phone combine with Garmin's top of the line GPS were important in my decision. I also realized this might replace my Garmin S42 golf watch. I've enjoyed the ease of changing watch face designs via the IQ app. I still haven't gone for a run or played golf with the new watch, but will explore both this week. So far, a versatile, economical watch with a lot of potential. I'm happy with my purchase.

Its a great watch and I really like it. My only qualm is that it is difficult to get it to display the seconds on the watch face. As someone who needs to take vitals this makes things difficult. I do not use this watch on shift for this reason, but its great for runs and general health tracking.

I had a Fitbit for years and absolutely loved it it was easy to set on the items I wanted to track it was very easy to read the watch and or the corresponding info from my phone. I do not know how to work this Garmin. I am not a tech person… What should I have to be to know how to work my smart watch???? I wish there was a human I could contact to teach me if this watch can do the things I require it to do. The simplest thing like I don't even know how to set it to track my walks, or my swims… There is no timer... I do not believe my sleep data is accurate. I wake up multiple times every single night yet this tracks that I have zero awake times. Not happy with this product. Plus it seems it needs to be charged way too often.

I bought my first watch about a month ago. I’m a runner and I needed something to track my pace. I also knew I wanted something to be able to play music from without having my phone. I still have not figured out how to download my Spotify playlists but I can skip and turn up volume for now. I never thought I’d become the person that tracks their steps but I am. I also love keeping track of my hydration levels. I really never thought I’d be someone to sleeps with it either because I never even wear watches or bracelets. I wear it to bed every night and it’s the best alarm. It just taps on your wrist to wake you up. Which surprisingly works because I’m a heavy sleeper. I wish you could play text or respond to them but other than that it’s amazing. I love my watch and it was so worth the investment.

I have had practically every fitness watch on the market-FitBit, Polar, Galaxy, etc. My Polar cracked so I compared many brands. The Vivoactive 5 checked all the boxes so I pulled the trigger. I am SO happy I did. The features are all there and it was very easy to get comfortable with how it works. Bonus for the variety of bands and watch faces.

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.

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.