Know the real you with the Venu 3s smartwatch, the ultimate on-wrist coach designed to support your goals. With up to 10 days of battery life, this GPS smartwatch is purpose-built with advanced health and fitness features to help you better understand your body. During the day, switch up your activities with animated workouts and more than 30 built-in sports apps — including ones for active wheelchair users — plus advanced training features to keep you going strong. With its built-in speaker and microphone, the Venu 3s smartwatch makes it easy to make and take calls right from your wrist when paired to your smartphone — and even reply to texts by using your phone’s voice assistant¹. Plus, enjoy connectivity features such as music storage, Garmin Pay™ contactless payments and more.
New Features as of June, 2024
NEW! GARMIN MESSENGER™ APP
It’s here — direct messaging from your wrist! This app lets you communicate via two-way text, exchanging messages with friends and family directly from your smartwatch. (Requires both the sender and receiver of messages to have the Garmin Messenger app installed on their paired smartphones)
NEW! FIND MY PHONE FEATURE
During a GPS activity with your smartwatch, an enhanced Find My Phone tool automatically stores the location should your phone get lost or disconnected. This feature can notify you that your phone is no longer detected and help you easily navigate back to where it was last connected to your smartwatch.
MORE NEW FEATURES:
- RECOVERY HEART RATE FOR LOW-IMPACT ACTIVITIES
- ADD SELF-EVALUATION TO ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
New Feature as of March, 2024
NEW! JUMP ROPE ACTIVITY
Choose from free mode or goal mode (target time or target reps) to track duration, total reps, total rounds, round info, max streak, heart rate, calories burned and jump beats per minute. It also offers a customizable alert interval and countdown timer.
New Features as of December 6, 2023
NEW! DEXCOM WATCH FACE INTEGRATION
People with all types of diabetes (Type 1, Type 2 or gestational diabetes) who use a Dexcom G6 or Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System and a compatible Garmin smartwatch can view their glucose levels and trends on their watch face.
The Dexcom Connect IQ app must be installed on your smartwatch. Compatible smartphone must have a data connection and be in BLE range of both the Dexcom CGM and Garmin smartwatch.
The Dexcom Connect IQ apps are only for secondary display of data from the Dexcom CGM system and are for passive monitoring purposes only. The Dexcom apps on Connect IQ are not intended to replace the Dexcom CGM System, nor replace self-monitoring practices as advised by a physician. All therapeutic decisions, including those regarding calculating insulin or other drug dosages, should not be based on data displayed in the Dexcom apps on Connect IQ.
NEW! SKIN TEMPERATURE
When wearing your watch to sleep, see how your average skin temperature changes, which can be related to your recent activity, sleep environment, potential illness and more.
NEW! RED SHIFT MODE
This feature changes the display to shades of red to help you better acclimate to darker conditions and reduce sleep-cycle disturbance.
NEW! WORKOUTS APP
Easily find and organize workouts across all your athletic pursuits — including preloaded workouts plus those downloaded or created in the Garmin Connect™ app. You can even review your workout history directly on your device.
NEW! WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
NEW! WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required.
NEW ACTIVITY PROFILES
Get better at whatever with new preloaded activity profiles for team sports ranging from football, baseball and basketball to soccer, rugby, hockey, lacrosse and more — plus racket sports, boxing and others.
NEW Features in Garmin Venu 3s (vs. Venu 2s)
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customize your report to show what you want to see.
WHEELCHAIR MODE
Wheelchair mode tracks pushes — rather than steps — and includes push and handcycle activities with preloaded workouts, animated workouts for strength, cardio, HIIT, Pilates, yoga, challenges specific to wheelchair users and more.
SLEEP COACH AND NAP TRACKING
Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Even keep track of different sleep stages and naps — and see several key metrics over your sleep period, such as HRV status to better understand your health².
WORKOUT BENEFIT AND RECOVERY TIME
Better understand how each workout affects your body and how much time you need to recover so you can take on any fitness challenge.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy².
JET LAG ADVISER
Monitor your sleep while traveling with personalized tips to help reduce jet lag.
BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE
When paired with your compatible smartphone, make and take phone calls right from the watch. Plus, use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.
BRIGHT AMOLED DISPLAY AND LONG BATTERY LIFE
Up to 10 days in smartwatch mode, up to 21 hours in GPS mode
30+ SPORTS APPS
Track all the ways you move with more than 30 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps — including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, activities for wheelchair users and more.
PLUS, More Great Features:
HRV STATUS
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health through heart rate variability while you sleep.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
The Venu 3s smartwatch constantly samples your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night².
STRESS TRACKING
Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Track your menstrual cycle and pregnancy and get exercise and nutrition education.
HEALTH SNAPSHOT
Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
PULSE OX SENSOR
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep³.
MEDITATION
Help reduce stress, anxiety and more with guided meditation practices.
MINDFUL BREATHING
Start a breathwork activity to track your stress and respiration.
HYDRATION
Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated.
RESPIRATION
See how you’re breathing throughout the day and night.
ANIMATED ON-SCREEN WORKOUTS
Follow preloaded animated workouts for strength, HIIT, yoga and more, available in the Garmin Connect app.
GARMIN COACH
Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches.
FITNESS AGE
Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
WORKOUT CREATION
Create step-by-step workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app, and send them directly to your watch.
AUDIO PROMPTS FOR ACTIVITIES
Get guided audio prompts straight from your watch for run and walk activities.
INTERVAL CREATION
Build your own interval workout for running and cycling activities.
PERCEIVED EXERTION
Record your rate of perceived exertion after each workout.
INTENSITY MINUTES
Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.
ACTIVITY TRACKING
Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed (not available in wheelchair mode) and more from your wrist².
VO2 MAX
See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more (not available in wheelchair mode).
CYCLING POWER
Venu 3s shows power data in watts when paired with your compatible power meter or indoor bike.
GARMIN CONNECT APP
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone or Android smartphone.
ON-WRIST TEXTING
With an Android phone, respond to texts with the on-watch keyboard.
VIEW PHOTOS
With an Android phone, view photos sent to you directly from your watch’s screen.
GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
MUSIC
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
SAFETY AND TRACKING
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location4.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
TWO FONT SIZES
Choose between a small or larger font size so you can view your data with ease.
¹When paired with your compatible iPhone or Android smartphone. Certain smartphones are not compatible with Venu 3s voice functionality features; see Garmin.com/VoiceFunctionality
²Activity tracking accuracy
³This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
4When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety. Incident detection is unavailable when the watch is in wheelchair mode.