I was excited to use this discreet, screenless tracker to monitor my gym sessions on the Concept 2 rower and SkiErg, alongside my four to five weekly runs. However, the Connect+ experience falls short. The app lacks running-specific training plans, interval support, and pace guidance. For a premium subscription, there are too many standard features missing. Furthermore, the Active Intelligence feature is a letdown; instead of a real conversational AI chat to help analyze my training and recovery, it only provides basic summaries. It is an average product that requires a significant software update to fully support a dedicated athletic routine.

Good, but these are my frustration points 1) Battery Life is stated at 10+ days, that is true if you turn numerous options off 2) No reports when there is no access to the internet, I go camping and often have no access, therefore the device is useless 3) I thought I would go with the lighter colored band to better blend in with the arm, it gets dirty very quickly More later as I have only had the device a few weeks

I wish there was capability to designate primary sleep wearable. I have many Garmin wearables and it's silly that I have to switch which wearable I'm using that day or night as my primary device. The cirqa should default to sleep unless a watch is detected. But I bought the cirqa for its size and weight while sleeping. A watch while sleeping is clunky.

Surprisingly light and minimal given how much data it collects. And finally, the Cirqa, Forerunner, Index Scale and BPM, Connect+ all come together. The first time you can exist in one ecosystem will full health and fitness tracking, recovery, nutrition, sleep, lifestyle, etc. Having everything under one app with no integrations is outstanding.

Could be a perfect compliment to my other Garmin products... but is not. I'd love if it seamlessly picked up where my current Fenix left off when I swap which one I'm wearing. But it doesn't. "Primary wearable" logic is flawed, only the primary will calculate into body battery. I want all the features of my Fenix without the watch face, as it stands this is an ok step counter.

Generally love it. As an avid fenix 8 pro wearer and triathlete and distance runner. Switched it to my daily wearable for sleep and work (no notifications is great). Keeps all my garmin data and sync is generally very good. Things that can be improved: the ability to swap device seamlessly between devices (sometimes the CIRCA needs a restart to turn the sensor back on), and adding gps would be epic.

I returned mine after 2 days. Firstly the sensor does seem to work with my tattoos. Apple Watch Ultra 3, Whoop, and my Polar Verity Sense all work great in the exact same spot. It did work when I rotated it to the underside of my wrist so I did get to test out the sleep tracking. It was absolutely terrible. Night 1: 3 hours sleep compared to 7 measured by both Oura and AWU3. It thought I woke up at 3am. Night 2: 5 hours sleep. Slightly better but still way off the 7.5 hours Oura and AWU3 agreed on. Originally I thought I had a faulty device but a friend also had a remarkably similar experience (and also returned it)

I love the Cora band. I have been using a Garmin watch for many years now for all my activities. From running and biking to obstacle course racing and triathlons. I've also tried “other” similar bands, which will remain nameless if you know what o mean? And I much prefer the Cirqa. All the same in depth information you come to expect with Garmin and far more lightweight and comfortable. I had to check a few times to make sure it was still there I barely felt it on.

Switched from an Apple Watch to this and I definitely prefer it. More relevant and realistic data for someone that is exercise/training oriented. Also nice not to have a watch face so I can access (or ignore) my data on my terms, whenever I want to. The Garmin Connect app itself could use a bit of a facelift (some of the features aren't as intuitively laid out or accessed, but with enough exploring in the app you can figure it out). My CIRQA still hasn't auto-tracked any activities for me, which is kind of a bummer but I may just be in the calibrating phase still. It's not that hard to manually start/stop an activity anyways. Overall, worth the purchase!

I bought this to see how my recovery was progressing and have had it for a little over a week and loved it but the past couple of days things don't seem to be going smooth. Shows the heart beat slower now than what it is, sleep didn't record last night and the warning that my battery is low keeps coming up on my app. Don't know what is going on.