I really like a lot about the watch, although I've had it for two months now and want to upgrade. Most of the features work pretty well, however when I work out and sweat the heart rate recorder doesn't work at all which is frustrating. As well as it disconnects from my phone at least 3 times a week and I have to reconnect which is irritating. Overall I'd rate the watch 3/5 stars, definitely a beginner watch. Great if you just want to record steps but wouldn't get it for working out.

I’m loving my new Vivoactive watch. I previously had a Garmin Instinct and found it hard to read and the multiple buttons not very efficient. The Vivoactive screen is very easy for my 68 year old eyes to read and having fewer buttons more efficient to get where I want to be.

Nice improvement on the Vivoactive 4. The battery life improvement is much better than I expected and the graphics and displays are significant improvements over the prior versions the 3&4. The interface and experience of this new device are great!

This watch is great, health metrics are good, gps is okay (it doesn't really work indoors). The coach plan doesn't seem to be very good, it's more robotic. The heart rate chart on the phone is okay, but doesn't show the zones as well as the watch does. It's an easy fix since they already do it on the watch, but they probably won't. The injury part comes from the coaches plan not telling a person they need to stretch, how to stretch, or that it's even a thing. They have the capacity to show exercises and how to do them with videos but not stretching for some reason. There isn't even an activity for stretching. So you have to make custom ones for each stretch, which if you dont stretch right you could easily hurt yourself. They should definitely change that. Otherwise it might be an issue if someone hurts themselves. Watch is great though, it's just let down by the software around it, and a person can hurt themselves just blindly following the coach plans suggested workouts.

I bought the Vivoactive 5 about a month ago because my Vivoactive 3 died. The reason I purchased this model was for the stair counter. I spent many hours looking for the activity on the watch and googled it several times. Finally found on a Garmin owner forum that it is no longer on the watch and Garmin did not remove it from the list on the website. Needless to say, I was very disappointed. Other than the stair counter, I really like the new watch.

I’ve been using this for almost a month and no complaints here! Love the look (round face) over my previous watch for sure. Main reason for switching was for tracking my workouts plus more. Does everything my previous watch did and price point is definitely better. In love and won’t go back!!

After 3 months of using vivoactive 5 watches disappear from my phone and as a result no notifications on my watches will appear. Garmin app is installed on my Pixel 7a and every morning I open the app to sync watches, but I receive a notification that I need to add a device! I did 3 months ago! Why I need to repeat this action every day? What happened?! Troubleshooting instructions did not help.

I was an avid Fitbit fan, but after the Google takeover of the company, the products went downhill. After yet another Fitbit having battery issues and then not working at all, I decided to look elsewhere. I did a lot of research on alternate options out there and found Garmin to have the best reviews, options and capabilities. I will admit it was hard to pick just 1 Garmin, there were so many options and price points. After using the comparison tool I narrowed it down to 3 and ultimately chose the Vivoactive 5. I bought one for myself and one for my husband to replace both of our Fitbit Sense 2 - we have been amazed since the first use! Excellent battery life, so many features and tools we are still exploring. The app is fantastic, I found the long-lost challenges option that Fitbit had done away with and so many more useful activities. I feel more encouraged than ever to get my steps and activity in and trust that the data is accurate. I cannot recommend the Vivoactive 5 enough - I will be gifting to a few family members as well this year as it is that amazing! Thank you Garmin!

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 have had vivoactive 2-5. I love the 5. The features are great! I really like the sleeping coach. The only thing I’d like to see on this is I would live to be able to answer texts from the watch. I have an Apple phone so it is not compatible with text answering as I believe the android is. I do wish the phone and Bluetooth of the watch would reach a bit further. All in all I love this watch!