This is my 3rd Garmin smart watch! I started with the Vivosmart, then upgraded to the Vivoactive 4S dust gold. After 4 years of loving my Vivoactive 4S, I decided to further upgrade to the Vivoactive 5 metallic orchid. Talk about a real upgrade! Appearance wise, I love the color of the watch and the face size. Watch features are a game changer! Huge step up from the Vivoactive 4s and more like the Fenix 7, that my husband wears. The vibratant colors and details of each item on display is easy for anyone to read. I love seeing and understanding what is draining my body battery or how I slept. All of these details help in overall wellness. I am over the moon happy with my Vivoactive 5.

I am glad I bought this to update my vivo 4 after cataract surgery as amoled display was easy to read. My only complaint and if anyone can refuse I’ll listen is that screen stays on unless you swipe off. I have tried multiple settings. Otherwise would have been five stars

There are a lot of good features on the Vivoactive 5, including the night mode with less activity that can disturb sleep, and the longer battery life. The big disappointment I have is it doesn't seem to track floors, which previous vivoactives do. I had switched from my Venu Squared back to the Vivoactive, hoping to regain that feature, as I wanted to do the step climbing challenges. My search engine had indicated the feature was on this watch, but it doesn't appear to be the case. Other than that, it seems to track my other activities, like swimming, walking, and biking very well. I also like how it talks through my phone when I hit lap milestones with my walks.

I had very high hopes but this is not for me. Limited number of activities. Hiking, rucking are not included & not able to be downloaded. Some days pedometer did not activate. One day I did a very challenging highly very vertical 3 mile hike and the watch messaged me I had a relaxing day and needed to move more (even though my heart rate was over 130 at times on the hike).I am returning it.

Overall the Vivoactive 5 has some great upgrades - very clear screen and cool stats! What I miss is the feasibility of the 4s. I used the 5 last week during my triathlon and found the interface a little clunky for race day. I was unable to get activities started quickly and missed out on tracking my own stats. It could be the fact that I'm still new to it and have not become familiar enough with the interface. I also need to figure out how to turn off all of the questions after a work out because that was also frustrating on race day as I was focused on time - not feeling. I was also a little bummed there wasn't a small watch face size as I have a pretty small write. The regular size has worked out just fine but feels bigger than I would like.

In a little over a year I have had three different vivoactive 5s because they either stopped working or would no longer charge. I don’t use the watch for anything it can’t handle. The only good thing is that I got replacements due to the year warranty. At times I wish I just stuck with my Apple Watch because I had it for about five years and had no issues, I decided to switch to garmin because I heard such great things, but so far that isn’t true. A watch should be able to last more than 8 months.

I own 2 other Garmin watches, but purchased the vivoactive because as an older active person I could not read the data on the watch face easily due to poor contrast (for my eyesight). This watch has great features and is easy to read with the data contrast on the face. I wish it would go longer than 4 days between charges, but I love the watch!

My last Garmin was a Vivoactive and I loved it! I’m still learning the features on my Vivoactive 5, but I am so disappointed that it doesn’t have the floors app or tell any elevation information when using GPS. I love hiking and enjoyed seeing my elevation change when I would sync with my phone. Is there anyway to add the app in an update??

I came from a Fitbit Sense. It was the 3rd Fitbit watch I'd had as a user of ~8 years. There are only two things missing from this that I had before: ECG and Altimeter. The flights of stairs were laughably wrong anyway and I didn't use the ECG often. There are several benefits to the Vivoactive 5 that any Fitbit user thinking of switching will appreciate. Blood Oxygen can be set to track while sleeping or all the time, no separate watchface required. The other is that every data point the watch can get, you can get, without a pay wall. Honestly, that makes me more interested in what Garmin has behind the paywall cause what the watch does natively is impressive. Nothing feels half baked and the battery life is so freaking great!

It keeps me motivated to move more and get to bed earlier. At first I was afraid of how big it looked on my wrist but I’ve gotten used to it and actually like the way it looks. The lilac color matches most of my clothes. It makes exercising more interesting and fun. I love the fitness age aspect.