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Garmin Vivoactive 5 Smart Watch
4.3 out of 5 stars
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1,616 ratings1,607 reviews
  1. 5 stars64% (1,027)
  2. 4 stars18% (286)
  3. 3 stars9% (149)
  4. 2 stars4% (71)
  5. 1 star5% (83)

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Aug 6, 2025
KarenElizabeth
5 out of 5 stars
5 out of 5 stars review

Perfect for my needs

I absolutely love this watch! I got mine on Monday and ordered my husband one Tuesday. Great battery life, lightweight but built very well, fitness, health tracking, and some bells and whistles. You can even respond to texts as it will pull up a keyboard. I previously had another brand and loved it, but love this one even more. You can choose different clock faces (large selection) right from your watch. The app is great too!

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Aug 14, 2024
Golson22
1 out of 5 stars
1 out of 5 stars review

Disappointed!

I had a Gamin Venu for several years and was very happy with it. I am disappointed with the Viviactive as twice in the last 4 days it has stopped tracking my bike ride with more than 10 miles to go. On three occasions it has indicated I have left my phone behind and wants new to use find my phone even though my phone was in my bike shirt pocket. While many other features seem to work ok, I can only give this a one as my primary need was a watch to accurately track my rides and it is failing at that.

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Jul 3, 2024
Fanoos
5 out of 5 stars
5 out of 5 stars review

Apple Watch versus Garmin

I bought this watch as a replacement of my old Apple Watch and I definitely like it a lot more because it holds the charge for at least three days as opposed to running out of a charge in less than 12 hours Also, the watch does not offer a lot of features that are never used by me in the Apple Watch

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Jun 26, 2024
CtNE
4 out of 5 stars
4 out of 5 stars review

Nice watch, good features

I got this watch as a replacement for my 4S that broke. This newer version has more features and a better interface (I think). However, things I don't like are the top button is hard to push sometimes to get the menu to come up and it's glitchy every once in a while for no reason. I couldn't sleep with my 4S because of the bright blinking sensor lights, but with the new 5 the sensor lights on the bottom are hardly noticeable. Overall I do like it.

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Jul 30, 2024
C0L0RAD0
3 out of 5 stars
3 out of 5 stars review

Not as good as I was hoping.

My FitBit died, and I thought I'd upgrade to something fancier, but this isn't it. At least once a week I get an alert that my watch isn't recording data and i have to reboot it and reconnect it, and then I get an email welcoming me to my new Garmin, when i've had it for 8 monhts. It doesn't record steps nearly as well as FitBit. Why do I have to tell it I'm walking? It hasn't been an upgrade for me at all.

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Jan 8, 2025
da-t
3 out of 5 stars
3 out of 5 stars review

50/50

I am getting used to it, however, not as user friendly as the I-watch. From what I can tell, you don't have audio alerts which I rely on. And for some reason I can't get my text messages to show up. When you google it has solutions but never for the options on this watch even when you put the specific watch.

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Dec 27, 2024
Maj1
4 out of 5 stars
4 out of 5 stars review

A nice looking watch

I am overall pleased with the vívoactive5 except for the GPS tracking system. Sometimes when I am running. my heart out it will announce that I am going at a much slower pace. I called Garmin about this and they tried updating and resetting. But it is doing the same things.

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Dec 26, 2024
Anonymous
5 out of 5 stars
5 out of 5 stars review

Even better than my Vivoactive 3!

After my Vivoactive 3 stopped charging, my husband bought me the 5 and I absolutely love all the new features such as the body battery and the sleep score. I also feel like it correctly counts my caloric burn when I work out. Great new upgrade and I can set it up and see everything at a glance. It also has a long battery life. I wear it everyday and I only have to charge once per week.

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Jul 17, 2024
Giggles LaRue
5 out of 5 stars
5 out of 5 stars review

Does EVERYTHING!

I got this to help pace myself with my long covid and it does more than I could’ve imagined! It catches my unique (and poor) sleep patterns, counts my steps (and adjusted the goal when it realized the original goal was impossible for me, keeps track of heart rate and heart variability which is important with long covid. I also appreciate the body battery, although I’m not sure I really “get it” yet. It looks great, has all sorts of things like weather and notifications at my wrist, and the battery life and recharging is AMAZING-especially after the Apple Watch I had that needed to be charged every day. I highly recommend!!

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Dec 4, 2023
Pln4esc
3 out of 5 stars
3 out of 5 stars review

Garmin Vivoactive5

Watch works very well. The touch screen is annoying at times. The buttons were better. The brightness of the display is great. The functions are very useful for tracking your health. I replaced the band on day two with a nylon one. Less chaffing on the wrist.

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