Additional information
| Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 0.2 x 0.5 inches |
|---|---|
| Item Weight | 0.64 ounces |
| ASIN | B07GM59D12 |
| Item model number | 010-01995-13 |
| Batteries | 1 A batteries required. (included) |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #4,711 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)#26 in Activity & Fitness Trackers |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Other display features | Wireless |
| Device interface - primary | Touchscreen |
| Colour | Black |
| Included Components | Vivosmart 4 smart activity tracker, Manuals, Charging/data cable |
| Department | Unisex-adult |
| Manufacturer | Garmin |
| Country of Origin | Taiwan |
| Date First Available | August 30, 2018 |
rSquare –
This watch is amazing. After reading and re-reading a lot of reviews, I was wary, but I have used Garmin devices for years and needed an upgrade. I have loved every Garmin watch I have had and took the chance on this one. Short story – I love it. I need it for steps, move alert, and heart rate. It has more features than that, but that’s okay. It is slim and comfortable to wear 24/7. It is neutral and stylish enough that I can wear it with professional or semi-formal attire, and casual enough that I don’t look ridiculous wearing it with yoga pants on the weekends. This is not a hardcore running/hiking/swimming/etc watch, and it is not a medical device. This is a really nice pedometer with some cool added functions. I have historically chosen pretty basic activity trackers, and this is my first venture into something with so much functionality. To be honest, I don’t need much of it, but I still really like the watch.I got this watch after my doctor recommended I get a watch that tracked heart rate. I have a condition that causes tachycardia, heart palpitations, and other really uncomfortable symptoms. This has helped my care team identify how often these episodes are happening and even what some of the triggers are. Before, I would track these episodes only when I could feel the symptoms, but I found that I am experiencing tachycardia about 2.5x more often than I noticed. This is definitely not a medical device, but it has been a huge help in tracking symptoms and getting information to my doctors.TLDR version for info listed below: Super comfortable, seems durable for normal wear and tear, and no weird skin rash. The move alert, steps, and heart rate are accurate and are exactly what I need. The pulse ox would be cool, but it is hit and miss. The display widgets are easily customized. Definitely don’t get this for swimming. Battery life is 6-7 days and it charges quickly. I don’t use the GPS, body battery, stress level, or phone alerts.Fit/Comfort: This watch runs slightly smaller than the vivofit 2 and vivofit 3. I do not have particularly large forearms, but I do lift weights so they are not super skinny, either. On my previous devices, I had 4 openings left. On the Vivosmart 4, I have the band on the 5th opening, so it’s definitely smaller. I think if my wrists were any bigger, I would have to go to the large size band. The band and watch are very narrow compared to my previous devices, and this makes it so comfortable to wear. This is first watch that I have worn 24/7 consistently, and it does not bother my wrist to have it on all the time. I work on a computer about 60% of the time for my job, and sometimes, I do take it off for typing or drafting, but that happens way less now than it did with the wider watches.Durability: The most hardcore thing I have done with this watch on is gardening and yard work. I walk several miles everyday and do home improvement projects. This watch has held up to those. The metal band around the watch face hasn’t come off, and to date, hasn’t seemed lose. I did buy protective covers for the watch face to protect it from scratches; this has not interfered with the responsiveness of the touch screen.Weird skin rash: This is something that seemed not uncommon for other reviewers. I have very sensitive skin, so I was concerned. However, I haven’t had skin reactions to Garmin devices in the past, so I hoped I would be immune. After wearing this almost 24/7 for nearly a month, so issues. The only thing that I may do differently is that I do not wear mine in the shower.Move alerts: This is the reason I initially went with a Garmin Vivofit years ago. I am often sitting at work, and I love that this watch vibrates and reminds me to get up and move around. This isn’t a key feature of the watch, but it’s one of the things I love about it and wanted to share. It’s still there, and it’s still exactly what I need.Display/Widgets: I don’t usually read user manuals (which sometimes comes back to bite me), and this time was no different. This interface was intuitive and simple to figure out. I like that I can set nighttime hours when the display won’t come on automatically, but I can still double-tap the screen to find out what time it is. I also really like that I can customize which widgets are on my watch and what order they are displayed in, and the same with the specific activities. Just like with other Garmin devices, some of these settings have to be adjusted from the app – but if you want to use the full functionality of this watch, you have to check the app occasionally anyway, so it’s not really a hassle.Using in water: I don’t usually wear my watches in the shower, but did so just to see if I had the same issue as other reviewers. And I did. This watch kinda sucks when it gets wet. The water droplets cause the screen to turn on and select widgets, but the display won’t respond to my touch at all. But I don’t like swimming, and didn’t get this watch for that purpose. It is a little misleading that this watch includes swimming as an activity, because I don’t think it would work well. However, since this won’t affect me, it didn’t affect my rating. Also, this wonky screen behavior stopped once the watch face and my hand were both dry.Step counter: I don’t really count my steps, but I am still walking about the same number of steps as my old watch says, so I am guessing this is accurate.Heart Rate: This is the main reason I upgraded to this watch, and it has come in very useful. This watch is not a medical device. BUT I wear it tight to my wrist and have alerts set up so that when I start experiencing tachycardia, I know to stop my I’m doing, use my actual medical devices to track what is happening with my body, and rest. It has been helpful in finding patterns for what is triggering symptoms and showing my doctors what they can’t see when I’m at home. Now, having said that this is not a medical device and I don’t use it as such, I will say that the heart rate is usually spot on, or else within 3-5 bpm. When my heart rate is irregular (a setting that I was able to customize), the watch alerts me by vibrating on and off constantly until my heart rate returns to normal.Pulse Ox: This is not a feature that I needed, but it is one that I was excited about, since this is another vital that I have to measure multiple times daily. Unfortunately, this one is not as accurate as the heart rate. This is usually 7-9 percentage points below what my actual reading is (if my pulse ox is actually 99%, the Garmin device will say it is somewhere between 90% and 92%). HOWEVER, sometimes it is spot on. I haven’t figured out yet how to make this more accurate more of the time. But since I take this measurement throughout the day on my own device and it doesn’t change as rapidly as my heart rate, this one doesn’t bother me.Body battery and stress levels: I have no idea how these are being measured and what I am supposed to do with this information. These widgets seems like marketing gimmicks to me and I don’t use them. Sometimes when I am perfectly relaxed and falling into a nice afternoon nap, my watch will vibrate me awake and tell me I need to breathe and relax. Sometimes when I am feeling extra energetic, it tells me my body battery is low. Who knows. Definitely not me. These aren’t what I bought the watch for so I’m not too concerned about it.GPS: This requires the your phone to be within Bluetooth range and the GPS locating is actually done through your phone. Seems cumbersome. Not what I got the watch for, so I have no opinion either way about this.Phone alerts: I don’t have mine set up for this. I don’t want to be that easy to get a hold of, especially since my personal phone is my work phone. I like to silence my phone and relax from time to time, so I opted out of this feature. Again, no opinion since I haven’t used it.Stride length: My stride length changes a little, as I’m sure everyone’s does, but this does seem to be reasonably accurate. The app will walk you through setting it up.Flights of stairs: This count seems to be way off. A lot of other reviewers have said the same. I have stairs in my house, and walk up and down them so many times a day that I don’t remember. I usually don’t even get up to 4 flights of stairs according this watch.Battery life: I am guessing that the battery would last about 6-7 days. However, since I sometimes take it off when I am on my computer for long stretches, I keep the charger on my desk and charge it a couple times throughout the week. My Vivofit 2 and 3 had ~1 year battery life, and my Forerunner has to be charged after nearly every run. There are so many devices with some many chargers, this one doesn’t bother me. Just part of life with lots of gadgets.
Michelle B –
Love love love. I love the mobile app and all the stats!It has helped me recognize how stressed I was at work. I have since taken steps to relax and can see how my stress level has decreased as well.I love the badges it gives you for random achievements.I love how it makes me want to be more active.I think the stats are very accurate and I’ve previously had bad luck with heart rate monitors. I’ve even purchased other fitness monitors and returned them. But, I am totally in love with this one!!I am buying one for my significant other right now!
Vikki Y –
I’ve been a Fitbit user for close to 5 years now. Fitbit was great when I was using their Flex model but their newer models such as their Inspire HR and Charge 4 just didn’t live up to the hardware of their Flex model. The newer ones kept dying on me after a few months of use. Having had enough, I finally made the switch to a different brand and chose the Garmin viviosmart 4 as my new tracker replacement.I love it so far. Let’s get the only thing that I don’t like about the Garmin brand first — its app. The Fitbit app was the only thing that I missed. It was easy to read and track the things I am interested in. The Garmin Connect app misses some feature that I love from the Fitbit app such as Sleep Score. I also don’t like the overall layout of the Garmin Connect app as compared to the Fitbit app.What I do like about the vivosmart is that it is sleek and the overall look and feel of it is modern. I don’t miss the ability of changing the bands like I used to when I used Fitbit. I also like that the goal for each day is customized and changes everyday depending on how you did the previous day. Fitbit is set at 10K steps a day. I do miss the reminders to walk every hour though. This does vibrate if you have been sitting too long but it doesn’t have the hourly steps goal that I rely on so much when I had the Fitbit. The battery lasts for almost a week.Some features I enjoy on this include the heart rate monitor and its automatic tracking of different exercises such as walking, running, etc. These features were also found on the Fitbit counterparts.I do find that syncing data from the vivosmart to my app is smoother than with my Fitbit. I used to have to refresh it so many time in order to get the numbers to update. The Garmin is more seamless.So far, the hardware seems more sturdy and I hope high hopes that it will last a lot longer than my Fitbit models. I have used this Garmin model for a little over a month now. Last time, my Fitbit Charge 4 died within less than 30 days. Hopefully this won’t be the case for this model.
H Schmidt –
I love all of the things this measures and that it can integrate with some other apps to track other points of data such as calorie counts! It is just the right size for my small female wrist and looks nice. I am still learning all of the features and how it measures some of the metrics, which is why “Easy to Use” is at 4 stars. It really has helped me meet my goals by giving me data I need to measure for them.The only things I don’t like about it is that the heart rate monitor may not always be accurate during exercise, and if I take it off for a little while in the evening and put it back on before bed, it doesn’t accurately measure sleep time. Garmin does warn you that the heart-rate monitor may not always be accurate during workouts as well as tells you that wearing your device all the time will help readings be more accurate. These are also just drawbacks of a wrist-mounted fitness tracker. So I can pretty easily work around them and still love all of the information that I get from it!
OceanLover –
I’ve had my Vivosmart 4 for about 2.5 weeks now. For me, it’s been durable, reliable, and easy to customize via the app. I don’t use the Pulse Ox option at nighttime, so my battery life has been about 5 days per full charge. Now that the weather here is improving, I’m eager to take a walk using the timer.I’ve noticed the inside of the band develops kind of a funky smell after a few days of wearing it (even showering with it), so I’ll wipe it with a lens cleaning wipe every now and then.My last fitness tracker was a FitBit One, and I did like how it clipped to my clothes. The Vivosmart’s wrist band has been kind of tough to get used to after about 15 years of not wearing a watch, but it’s comfortable and not at all bulky for my small hands.Having read the other reviews on this product, I opted for the screen protectors and ordered them at the same time. I took the Vivosmart right out of the box and slapped a screen protector on it right away.For me, this was a good buy and well worth it. I think I’ll opt for a Vivosmart again once this one wears out.
BunnyButtercup –
I bought this, the charge 3 and the Alta hr and this is by far the best. I have very small wrists and the Vivosmart 4 was the only one that fit comfortably especially while sleeping. I was only able to wear the charge 3 for about 10 hours before I had to take it off. I didn’t even get to sleep with it on. The best feature for me on the Vivosmart 4 is the intensity minutes. It’s automatically set for 150 minutes a week of moderate intensity activity, which is what the American Heart Association recommends, but you can change it to whatever you want. During a workout it uses what would be considered your moderate intensity heart rate and vigorous intensity heart rate and adds that to your weekly goal. It’s really helpful because the vigorous activity counts twice as much as the moderate and this figures all of that out for you. I haven’t been able to get the rep counting to work for me. The count is always off, but I don’t do a lot of upper body work. I also like the body battery. It’s helpful when I’m trying to give myself a good reason to go to bed earlier. I also found the Garmin connect app to be a lot better than the Fitbit app. There’s way more info. Overall it’s a great device.
Mat –
The top thing for me that makes this device so good is the water proofing. I had a cheap Chinese one, and I had to take it off to wash my hands, I had to take it off to wash dishes, I literally DO NOT WORRY about this thing, showers, dishes, covid-19 excessive hand washing, except to charge it once a week because I have it tracking EVRYTHING the battery is a one week survivor instead of two. The only thing that rubs me wrong is bad motivational grammar “Done Good” is one that I see on a walk while STILL walking. Yeesh, I’d rather demotivational messages with good Grammar “Walk faster, you fat pig!” vs. “Done good.” I can recommend this for the water proofing and okay battery. The watch faces are a smidge limited.
Duppie –
I replaced a Fitbit Inspire HR with the VivoSmart 4. The Inspire is perfectly fine, and is now used by my wife.This is great news: The Vivosmart now has connected GPS!. It was not available when first introduced, but a September 2019 firmware enabled it. This was the main advantage of the Inspire HR, but that no longer existsOther comparisons:2. Garmin Connect (the companion app) is much more data driven than the fitbit app. Good for data junkies like myself, but it may be overwhelming for novices or casual users3. FitBit recently introduced a Sleepscore. It was one-number giving you an indication of how well you slept. Garmin has no such thing. instead it has the usual data (sleep-phases, duration, movement, etc)4 Garmin has “Body Battery”, an indicator of your energy level. This sounds good, but I can’t (yet) figure out if it is accurate. One day when I thought I was hardworking (i have a desk job) , my body battery increased significantly throughout the day. Next day, in a similar situation, it decreased throughout the day.Overall I think both devices are very similar in functionality. Both will work. I think it comes down to what user you are. A data junkie? go with the Garmin. A user who likes to get an overview of their healthstats without too much data? go with the FitBit
Yes I Can –
I’m giving this 5 stars but that’s really for those of you who want to invest some time and effort to make the device work for you so you get something out of it.If you want convenience and comfort, this is probably more like 2 stars tbh.It’s a bit of an involved set up unlike Apple products which are all super easy to use.But I like mine because it helps me be significantly healthier, in part by being customizable and giving me lots of data compared to other smart watches.I’ve lost 7 years in fitness – meaning I’m now 7 years younger supposedly based on my fitness level. And I feel better.I was out of shape from a cardiovascular perspective as I was focused on yoga and being less stiff from sitting all the time.I’m slightly overweight and lost a little weight. Walking a lot more and working out more motivates me to eat better since otherwise what s the point of all this hard work.My dog is healthier too as I walk my dog more often and longer now.I climb more stairs even though I set my daily stair goal as just 1 flight because I’m focused on making sure I walk 10,000 steps or more a day first. So sometimes I’ll reach 700% of my daily stairs goal, lol.My spouse has the same watch and she doesn’t really use it enough to be much healthier but every little bit of extra walking helps.I gave a loved one the watch and they haven’t even set it up – so be careful buying it as a gift.But definitely consider buying it for yourself!Set up is a bit of a pain but just follow the instructions and be patient.My friend review hundreds of smart watches, then tested several over several nights. They said this one is the best. I agree, but only IF you want:*more data. Hard to measure Sp02, VO2Max, fitness age, REM, deep sleep but it does measure them (unlike most other smart watches) and is probably directionally correct at least if not accurate enough.I believe many factors affect our mood, performance and energy levels.But I like having more data than less so I can decide if I was a little extra coffee or rest a bit more, listen to calming music when my HR and stress levels are too high and I’m feeling a bit anxious, etc.*like to be able to customize setting like I do. I show steps first because right now I’m focused on doing 10,000 steps every day. But you can set it to show time, weather, stairs.*you’re ok with very few 3rd party apps. It integrates with Strava, etc. but the Apple Watch has more functionality.*you’re ok with a small social network is small but I still find friends I can do daily and weekly step challenges with. Many more people have Fitbit and everyone’s on Strava but I like Garmin Connect because I’m focused on walking and steps. I manually enter my yoga practice.*you’re not too sensitive to rubber. My spouse and I both get itchy wearing it.The blue band is very light. My wife likes it but I was expecting a much darker blue.The black band is fine.It’s not a conversation piece if you care about that. Looks pretty understated.Stability/Customer Support: The customer support is fine. I read complaints from others. I forgot what happened to my watch but it wasn’t working right. They told me to restore defaults which was fine and sent me decent instructions on how to do it. It’s a lot of steps but you just have to follow it exactly and if they miss a couple things you just have to sit and think a bit and figure it out. My data was still there so I could track progress and changes over time.Challenges: The challenges are a motivator. I use the 65K weekly step challenge and my friends and I do a small one among ourselves where we might write comments and talk sh*t to each other to motivate each other, tease each other and have fun.Battery life: I charge it every 3.5 days. I don’t use the wrist action to turn on the watch by just turning my wrist towards me because it uses significant battery and would turn on when I was trying to go to sleep.Charger: It’s a bit of a pain to charge it and there’s only the proprietary charger they give you.
Levin –
I needed a wristband for sleep tracking and had been doing research for a while and aslo tried different brand before settling on this one. It tracks sleep well with good accuracy. Looks great too in the gray color. Decent battery life. Real time heart beat tracking. I especially like the Abnormal Heartbeat Alert which is pretty accurate. It happened a few times when I started riding the bike machine at home. The heart rate went up and the wristband alerted me right away.That said, there are 2 areas that still need improvement for me. 1. The sendentary alert is way off. Often times it told me to get up and excercise when I was already in a soccer game or ride the bike. On the same note, when I was playing soccer it recorded all kinds of excercise sessions with different durations. 2. There is no way, or I haven’t found a way to turn off upcoming alarms from the wristband. For example, I set up an alert for some activity at 4 pm, and by 3:55 pm I am ready but there is no way to cancel the alarm from the wristband and I will have to get my phone, open the app and turn it off. This is even more annoying when you need to turn off a recurring alarm because late you will have to turn it back on.