Know the real you with the vĂvoactive 5 smartwatch, the ultimate on-wrist coach designed to support your goals — whatever they may be. Featuring a bright, colorful display and up to 11 days of battery life, this GPS smartwatch is purpose-built with essential health and fitness features to help you better understand your body. Body Battery energy monitoring helps you keep your energy levels in check with personalized insights based on sleep, naps, stress, workouts and more. Improve the quality of your sleep with personalized sleep coaching and nap detection plus even more details such as HRV statusÂą. During the day, switch up your activities with more than 30 built-in sports apps — including apps for active wheelchair users — plus advanced training features to keep you going strong. When paired to your smartphone, vivoactive 5 makes it easy to receive texts, emails and other smart notifications right from your wrist. 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! 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 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 vivoactive 5 (vs. vivoactive 4)
BRIGHT AMOLED DISPLAY AND LONG BATTERY LIFE
Up to 11 days in smartwatch mode, up to 21 hours in GPS mode
SLEEP COACH & 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 .
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 for strength, cardio, HIIT, Pilates, yoga, challenges specific to wheelchair users and more
GEN 4 HEART RATE SENSOR
More accurate heart rate sensor that can better track your workouts, improved Pulse Ox performance and moreÂą.
WORKOUT BENEFIT & 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.
MEDITATION
Help reduce stress, anxiety and more with guided meditation practices.
PLUS, More Great Features
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.
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.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Know your body better with extensive health monitoring features, including wrist-based heart rate, morning report, fitness age, stress tracking, menstrual cycle and pregnancy tracking, meditation and more²
WORKOUTS & GARMIN COACH
Choose how you workout with workouts for strength, cardio, HIIT, yoga, Pilates and more. Create your own workouts with our exercise library and send them directly to your watch. Even get free Garmin Coach running training plans for 5K, 10K or half-marathon distances.
GARMIN CONNECT™ APP
See your health and fitness information all in one place in more detail than on the watch. Find personalized insights and more.
MUSIC
Listen to music from your favorite music providers phone free with your wireless headphones.
GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS & TEXTING
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone ® and Android™ smartphone. With an Android phone, respond to texts with the on-watch keyboard, and view photos sent to you directly from your watch’s screen.
PERCEIVED EXERTION
Record your rate of perceived exertion after each workout.
INTERVAL CREATION
Build your own interval workout for running and cycling activities
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 locationÂł.
VIEW PHOTOS
With an Android phone, view photos sent to you directly from your watch’s screen.
TWO FONT SIZES
Choose between a small or larger font size so you can view your data with ease.
ÂąThis 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.
² Activity tracking accuracy
ÂłWhen 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.