I bought a Venu 3 in early June 2025 and as of this writing (6/22) have been very pleased with its performance. My primary workout and use to date is very brisk walking which it appears to track very accurately. I've also been pleased with its link to my iPhone 16 pro and ability to delivery notifications reliably. To early to give good feedback on battery life overall, however, 7 days or more between charges works for me. I've barely scratched the surface of its capabilities, but so far, so good!

I'm BACK! After being lured away from Garmin for the bells and whistles...I find the Venu 3 to be the perfect fit of smart watch and health smart device. I like the GPS accuracy as it's hands down the best in the industry. I found a watch face that looks sharp and brings me just the right amount of data and information in a stylish display. Glad to be back Garmin!

I bought the venu 3 a few months ago it has everything I needed and more but yhe build quality felt cheap the buttons were like sponge when you pressed them and the app is a little clutered not at all what I expected im still on the search for the perfect watch so to be continued

So far, I am very satisfied with my Venu3. Very responsive, the battery life is excellent. I didn't like the band, and I think I'll change it. My Samsung band had a magnetic opening mechanism that is much better. It would be great if the Garmin watch could sync with Google Fit.

1. The bottoms to cancel or confirm an activity are very sensitive. I must to be super careful to avoid tou h them.even with my shirt sleeves or just passing hands over the watch unintentionally. 2. Sometimes the watch send messages with no sense: i.e., I walked for couple ours and I'm eating or just quiet and the watch tell me "time to move" Still to new for me but I'm sure Garmin can improve this and more issues

I really wanted to love the V3 and would have, had it not been for its inability to track floors or stairs climbed. That's right, there's no altimeter on this watch, even though there's one on the previous version. For that reason, I had to return it.

I've purchased the Venu 3 in black (husband) and silver (myself) 2 1/2 weeks ago coming off the Apple Watch. I like the features and the style it gives out. Not so bulky too. The battery was the main purpose for the purchase. I am very pleased with how the battery last for 10 days versus the Apple Watch being charged every day. I limit a lot of the notifications that comes through, and just kept the text and calls going. Overall, happy customers with Garmin product.

The battery life is great - no need to charge it more often then once a week. I like the features, the style and the functionality. Coming from another major Fitness-Tracker brand I must say even the flag ship model of the other brand doesn't come close to what Garmin Venu 3 has to offer! I would love to see this watch coming with a screen protector as standard as a watch can easily scratch.

Happy to be back with a long-battery life garmin watch, but in terms of features outside of battery life it is not better than Fitbit's sense/versa offerings. Previously with fitbit, I had a better-than-average waking experience with the smart wake feature. For some reason Garmin doesn't include this, despite tracking all of the body data that would make it possible. Third party apps support the functionality somewhat, but at the cost of overnight body data tracking which in turn removes a lot of the body battery / etc feedback on the watch. It is frankly embarassing that Garmin hasn't implemented this feature in 2023. If you're a busy person that doesn't always have a consistent bedtime then you'll need to find another alarm solution to make up for Garmin's feature oversight. Currently wearing my older fitbit to bed to make up for this.

Loveb my new V3. Big upgrade from my Vivoactive 3. Many more features than my former watch. My only disappointment if that this watch does not have a yard work feature like the Vivoactive 3 did. Would be nice to have kayaking on it as well. Not just rowing. Everything else on the watch is great! I