Garmin Vivosmart 4 Smart Activity Tracker with Wrist-Based Heart Rate and Fitness Monitoring Tools, Azure Blue, Small/Medium
Garmin vivosmart 4
Smart Activity Tracker.
Accent your style while enhancing your fitness with the vÃvosmart 4 activity tracker. This slim, swim-friendly wearable comes loaded with fitness and wellness features to help you make the most of a healthier, more active lifestyle. A wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor lets you estimate blood oxygen saturation while you’re sleeping – or you can spot-check your oxygen levels anytime during the day. (Not a medical device and not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition).
Stylish, Smart Design
This slim wristband tracker, available in multiple colours, complements your style with its distinctive design, metal trim accents and bright, easy-to-read display. The display is only on when you need it. And when it’s on, it auto-adjusts to ambient light levels, so it’s visible even in bright sunlight. Whether you’re going to the office, the gym, the pool or anywhere in between, vÃvosmart 4 is the perfect fit for your lifestyle.
- Slim, smart activity tracker blends fashionable design with stylish metal accents and a bright, easy-to-read display
- Can gauge blood oxygen saturation levels during the night with the wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor. (Not a medical device and not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition)
- Fitness and health monitoring tools include estimated wrist-based heart rate, all-day stress tracking, relaxation breathing timer, VO2 max, Body Battery energy monitor and more
- Features dedicated activity timers for walks, runs, strength training, yoga, pool swims and others
- Get vibration alerts for all notifications, including calls, text messages and more (text replies available for Android device users)
- Battery life keeps up with you; lasts up to 7 days (excluding Pulse Ox sleep tracking) and is safe for swimming and showering, too
Garmin vivosmart 4
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Pulse Ox at Your WristThe Pulse Ox sensor on vÃvosmart 4 estimates your body’s blood oxygen saturation level. Your Pulse Ox measurements are dependent upon a number of factors, including your overall health and fitness. Checking your Pulse Ox can help gauge how your body is absorbing oxygen. Turn on the feature to gauge your SpO2 overnight, or use it to take a spot measurement anytime to learn more about your body. | Advanced Sleep MonitoringSleep is important to your overall health, well-being and physical performance. To give you an idea of how you’re sleeping, vÃvosmart 4 tracks your light, deep and REM stages of sleep, along with movement throughout the night. For added insight, turn on the Pulse Ox feature to view your blood oxygen levels during your sleep. When you wake up, you can easily review and compare your sleep stats in the Garmin Connect Mobile app. | Optimise Your Body’s EnergyBody Battery energy monitoring on vÃvosmart 4 uses a combination of stress, heart rate variability (HRV), sleep and activity data to gauge your body’s energy reserves at any moment, so you can plan your day to optimise times for activity and rest. A higher number indicates you’re ready to be active, while a lower number suggests you might need to relax and rest a bit before tackling a workout. Body Battery can also help you make sense of patterns throughout your weeks, so you can understand how the past few days have influenced how you’re feeling today. |
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All-day Stress TrackingYou most likely experience stress at some point in your day, but how much? Your vÃvosmart 4 lets you know when you are having a calm, balanced or stressful day and everything in between. Tracking your HRV (the time interval between each heartbeat), vÃvosmart 4 calculates and displays your stress level. There’s also an optional ‘Relax Reminder’ feature that you can turn on in the Garmin Connect app. If your stress level gets elevated during your day, it will provide a vibration alert on your wrist and display a message (“Take a moment to breathe?â€) to let you know it’s time to relax. Use the relaxation breathing timer, which walks you through the Fourfold breathing technique, proven to calm your mind and body. | Daily Fitness and Wellness MonitoringUsing the Elevate heart rate data collected from your wrist, vÃvosmart 4 can — with a VO2 max estimate — give you an idea of your current fitness level. In general, as your aerobic fitness increases, your VO2 max does the same. Based on your VO2 max, vÃvosmart 4 is also able to estimate your fitness age — a stat that you may be able to decrease over time with hard work and exercise. For added insight, vÃvosmart 4 will notify you if your heart rate unexpectedly rises above a threshold you’ve set. If you’re inactive for more than 10 minutes and your heart rate stays above your set threshold, you’ll get an alert. | Stay ConnectedWith a vÃvosmart 4 tracker on your wrist, you don’t have to choose between staying connected and staying more active. Check the weather, control your music, receive smart notifications, find your phone, even reply with preset text responses (Android only), and access social media notifications on your tracker’s display — all while keeping your smartphone stowed away. |
Keep Track of Your Active Life
Your vÃvosmart 4 greets you each day with a personalised step goal. Then it tracks and displays your progress. In addition to steps, its activity tracking capabilities include floors climbed, calories burned, intensity minutes and more. You’ll also see a move bar and get vibration alerts to remind you when it’s time to get up and move.
Track Your Workouts
You can use the preloaded activity timers to keep track of your exercise times and more. When using the strength training activity, it estimates your exercises, reps and sets along with your work and rest times so you can leave the notebook at home. And if you forget to start a timer, the Move IQ feature on vÃvosmart 4 will automatically detect exercises such as walking, swimming, cycling and elliptical training — and it even starts timing select activities. When finished, your activities are pushed to Garmin Connect, Garmin online community, where you can review, edit and share the activities with your connections and friends.
| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 1.05 x 19.7 cm; 16.5 Grams |
| Model: | 010-01995-04 |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. (included) |
| Manufacture: | Garmin |
| Department: | Unisex-Adult |
| Department: | Unisex-Adult |
| Origin: | Taiwan |
This has some pros and cons. I like the app, and it’s a way of encouraging yourself to move about. That said, however much I clean the sensors it’s not very accurate. It’s not so bad on steps but is terrible on stairs and the pulse oximeter is wildly inaccurate. That or I should be clinically dead. One or the other.
I would buy again, but Garmin either need to step up the technology or just avoid the gimmicky bits.
The activity tracker looks good has a clear, easy-to-read screen and counts my steps well. However its ability to pair with my phone is sporadic and even if it does it often will not transfer data to Garmin Connect so I have been unable, so far, to test out the facilities like sleep tracking.
This is the perfect fitness watch, thin on the wrist and the fitness tracking is very accurate. I workout with a friend who uses an Apple Watch for tracking and our stats are almost identical!
I’ve had an older version of garmin watch and I think they’re great! You can use GPS from phone if you’re running and want a map of the run.
Easy to use, minimal set-up.
Good value compared to more expensive alternative.
Auto synchronisation with the Garmin app, and clear data display.
Had a Fitbit in the past and I thought it was difficult to beat but this Garmin is far better. It looks really good, is very comfortable, battery life is 5 to 6 days and the mobile app is really good.
Highly recommended.
I’ll hold my hands up and admit I didn’t check it thoroughly, but it has no Google Fit direct connectivity. Also the auto pick up for running and walking is average at best, meaning it’s a case of manually starting up the tracker for when you exercise! No different to when you do so on your phone but I kinda wish it was a bit more “let’s do this!”.
Sleep and VO2 is where I really wanted it though, and I’m happy (and mildly depressed) to say that it is very accurate and gives lots and lots of information about it all.
Overall, it’s good for the money, however if you can save an extra 20/40 for some more accuracy, I would do so.
I’ve been using Garmin products for training for years, and i thought i’d give an activity tracker a go and so i bought a Garmin because i like their products.
Unlike other companies, Garmin don’t charge you to use Garmin Connect, there is no premium to pay for to get at all your stats. You buy the product and get all the Garmin services for free.
This is a great little product that i’ve been using for a year now. Really like it and certainly recommend it as an activity tracker.
So far it’s really good, I just need to get to grips with exactly how it works
Liked the fact one could choose which facilities were best suited to them, and set up accordingly. Nice to have so many options available.
Really great piece of equipment but I have a couple of issues – not with the unit itself as that is great – no with Garmin.
I have thick wrists and ankles,,,,,, and the only Garmin Vivoactive 4 that would fit me is the black one – very masculine!! I would’ve loved to have a Berry or even an Ice Blue one but these only come with the small size wrist strap, no good for me, so come on Garmin make nice coloured straps for us ladies!!!!
Super watch overall does exactly what’s described!
The only issue I have is with the battery. I don’t even have it linked to my phone but I do have it tracking everything and it’ll barely last 3 days unfortunately.
However for the price I don’t think that’s too bad.
Presented to my wife as a gift.
Replacement for an old Fitbit.
Likes it very much, smaller, lighter, features.
I have my phone set to ‘sleep’ from 11.30 pm to 7.30 am. My watch seems to think I have a wonderful sleep every night! In actual fact, I’m a dreadful sleeper, up at least 4 times during the night pottering, making cups of tea etc.
I didn’t realise the battery would need charged every few days, my last Garmin would run for over a year before the battery needed replaced, which was much better.
On the plus side, it does tell me to move if I’ve sat for too long!
I’m surprised by some of the negative reviews for this tracker. Sure, there’s room for improvement but it has loads of features and is a neat compact size for wearing every day (unlike some of the smart watches which seem huge by comparision).
PROS:
— heart rate monitor
— pulse ox
— stress monitor (with breathing timer thing for relaxation)
— pedometer
— vibrates to prompt you to move
— waterproof (for swimming and shower)
— excellent app; lots of features, very customisable (like linking to calorie journal MyFitnessPal)
— syncs to app quickly
— plus a lot of other features that I haven’t used yet (GPS, phone notifications, etc.)
CONS:
—the most annoying thing is the strap: because of the charging port, it’d very difficult to remove/change/buy a cheap replacement/different colour, but also the soft rubbery material and the buckle are irritating to my skin. Fortunately, wearing it much looser seems to help a lot (and doesn’t affect the monitoring tools) as well as taking it off/drying it thoroughly when it gets really wet (although that somewhat defeats the object of getting a waterproof tracker). This was not an issue on the vivosmart 2 which was a harder kind of silicon – if only they hadn’t changed it.
— you do have to charge it every few days but there’s a battery indicator on the screen (I used to have a garmin vivosmart 2 which never needed charging, so I’ll have to get used to this)
— the charger is proprietary (i.e. unique to this tracker) so if you break/lose it you can’t just use another spare charger
— the sleep data is interesting but dubious, although it does track when you sleep (not just between the hours you set, which I initially thought)
Overall, I’d say it was definitely worth getting (low price, thanks CamelCamel alerts!), and no tracker is going to be 100% perfect – but I’d say this is better than expected so far.
I do not know/ have data how well it tracks the sleep. I see my sleep data every morning and think maybe i have not slept well.
Now, the biggest con:
The battery life is very poor, extremely poor. It does not last more than four days compared to its advertised 7 days. It is not only mine but a friend has the same issue. It kinda sucks there.
Quite pleased with this apart from a few little things. It took me a while to get used to the sensitivity of the swiping/screen. Sometimes it tells me I was asleep when I know I wasn’t and it’s a bit hit and miss whether it records flights of stairs. All in all I’m pleased with it though, I like the slimline style as I have a small wrist.
I love my watch. It looks smart and tracks activity well. It can be used in conjunction with myfitnesspal which means I can record my weight and calories. It tells me the person messaging or email author. My son is also taken with it ao it looks like it will be a good Christmas present. Recommended
Great colour choice, nice “personal battery” feature and very waterproof! Would buy again!
I’ve just gone back to amazon to see how long I’ve owned this and its been three years now, so I think I can now write a review on it. It’s a great fitness watch that’s accurate and helpful in alerting you to moments of stress etc. and guides you in a little meditation in such times.
The accompanying app lets you personalise your step length etc to make the readings it gives you more accurate.
This last year the ability to measure your blood oxygen level has been very useful.
Tracking weight lifting was kinda tricky.
It’s handy to get call and text notifications on your wrist.
I’ve worn it every day for three years now including in the shower and the swimming pool, the bath and the sea, climbing, gardening, all kinds of everyday activity. It is still working just as well as it was when I bought it.
The strap has gotten a little worn, and the bevel on the face has just fallen off but I can probably glue it back on. I have to charge it more often now which is a little annoying but apart from that, it’s still working perfectly.
A good buy? Yes, but I’ve just upgraded to a smarter watch with more functionality, the kind of which wasn’t available for the price that they are now at the time. (mi watch).
I love my Vivosmart 4, so much so that I went on and bought my daughter, and my 75 year old Dad one each, and a Vivosport for my son! They have kept us all really motivated, cycling, running, cardio sessions, yoga, setting up step challenges against each other, earning badges and getting “streaks”, the sleep tracking is really interesting, and the “Stress details” were absolutely fascinating the night after my first Covid vaccination! Really impressed at how short a time it takes to charge up, only 60-90mins, I tend to put it on charge whilst working or watching something on tv, so never miss out on recording any activity. The mobile app is really easy to use, and holds far more information than I expected.
At times the watch can be a little slow to react to “taps” to start it, but only a minor issue. Totally recommend!
What can i say fantastic good value for money sleep app is so useful as i have always had problems sleeping and it has made me realise how much
Love thIs small tracker, mainly used for steps only but also walking with gps to my phone with no issues. I would question the accuracy compared to my other Garmin this definitely counts more ages but not sure which one it more accurate! Loving the app, have always used this for running so it didn’t take long to get used to how it works.
If you are debating between this and a Fitbit, I would highly recommend the Garmin! I’ve purchased both and have found that this watch gives a much more realistic step count, is much easier to use and the app is much easier to navigate and gives you better tracking features. Only complaint is that the auto save feature when you are doing a run/walk can be frustrating as it stops recording your activity if you slow down your pace too much- sometimes this is good motivation to keep going!
The best feature is the body battery. Not just how much it says you have but how quickly you burn it. Really invaluable tool for pacing.
Other useful features include stress levels, heart rate monitor, oximeter, pedometer and exercise/activity tracker.
Oh and I’ve been admitted to hospital while wearing it and can therefore attest to it’s accuracy. Heart rate and oxygen saturation levels matched the hospital equipment every time I checked.
The app also gives you a summary of previous days which is useful for health professionals.
Only issue, which isn’t really a problem for me, is that when my heart rate goes out of control it thinks I’m exercising. Personally I think this is handy when describing how I’m feeling to the doctor i.e. my watch thinks I’ve done 2hrs of intensely vigorous exercise when I’m lying in bed….but I can see maybe some people might find this annoying or misleading.
I love it. It’s helped me manage my condition so much better. Thanks Garmin x
I’m an user of Gramin myself and got this one for my 11/12 year old daughter and feel its best as compared to other gadgets in the market for yuongones.
The only complaint I have is that that you cannot create the profile on Connect app for Garmin for anyone under 16 years of age and this watch doesn’t connect to Junior Connect app.
Nearer than the Vivosport it replaced, albeit without built-in GPS. However it can get that info from the phone via the app. Nice little screen.
I prefer this to the fitbit. Find the app more user friendly
his was bought to replace the previous one which messed up when the company got hacked. So far after one day it is doing all what it is supposed to
Bought for my dad to replace the older version vivosport, chosen for the additional health features which seem to work well but I hadn’t realised how thin it would be. As the vivosport was small/medium I ordered same size but this seems smaller.
However I think the data available will hopefully help him work on his stress and anxiety.
It said it would automatically recognise walking / running activities which it doesn’t seem to do very well so dad’s walks are coming up very short.
Just changed from the VIVO Smart 3 to the 4. The Garmins are far superior to all other tracker devices. Well worth spending the money, Christmas present for the wife. She has slim wrists and therefore needed the smaller version. Absolutely perfect. Always go for quality, Garmins are it. No issues, great choice.
Other garmin models is more expensive, this device is cheap compared to other garmin watch / apple watch, but it can measure most of essential things you need to make yourself healthier, i. e. Stress, active hours, sleeping hours etc.
Did everything it said except counting floors climbed, and steps arent always accurate in my opinion, overall decent for the price
Absolutely love this. Bought to replace an old fitbit. Slim, plenty of detail. Only problem is that it does not track flights of stairs well…. And I run up and down a lot!
moved from another brand, wish I had done it earlier – great watch, only drawback is that you can’t change the strap like I could on the other one, so when it breaks will have to buy new watch
I have previously been a fan of Fitbit but this was recommended to me, as I was about to spend around 3 times the amount on a new Fitbit smart watch.
I’m well impressed and am now a Garmin convert.
love this,looks good,does what it says on the tin,very happy.
Great fitness tracker. Accuracy a bit off on sleep tracking but the other functions work well. The GPS link to smartphone makes up for no inbuilt GPS. Found the gym tracking to be problematic. The software and graphical functions are excellent.
Replaced a Fitbit charge 3 works great, app not as good overall on the mobile but the device is far superior.
I have moved from Fitbit to Garmin. The Fitbit was fine and gave basic info but it wasn’t very in-depth and most of the more advanced features you have to pay for.
The Garmin is just a better bit of kit as is the app. It’s a little harder to navigate but there is more on offer.
I love this watch. I got it about eighteen months ago to replace my heart rate belt. The heart rate seems to be accurate and I love the other features like the performance graphs and being able to get messages from my phone.
The app is very good with lots of interesting features and after you have worn the tracker a few months gives you insights into your activities. You earn badges for different accomplishments so can be very motivating.
The tracker is nice and slim which is great for me as I have small wrists. Very comfortable to wear both day and when sleeping.
I’ve been using it to track my cycles, yoga, dancing, and walks. Its measurements are inline with what Strava records.
It also has a few extra little features that help motivate me to drink more water through out the day, get enough sleep, and to take a few moments to breathe and regulate my stress response.
I tend to overtrain, so the body battery function really helps me to recognise when I need to chill out and it encourages me to rest when I need it.
Very happy with my choice
Girlfriend is overjoyed with this. It is a great little product. Easy to set up and use. Tracks almost everything.
The sleep tracking is pretty much second to none and about as accurate as it can get. It shows rem sleep as well as time awake and deep/light sleep. I didn’t appreciate fully how accurate it was until I recently misplaced it and substituted it with a forerunner 30. The difference was remarkable. No rem sleep shown on the fr 30 and it also didn’t record any of the times I woke up in the night, even when I went to the loo.
Apart from the sleep tracking, it has a lot of other features that I had enjoyed but not fully appreciated until they disappeared when I was using the fr 30. When connected to the Garmin app it has a body battery tracker which is good at showing when you could do with either putting your feet up or going for a run. It also shows how many flights of stairs you climb/descend and there’s a stress tracker which shows levels of stress throughout the day.
Tiny downside is that the display isn’t always on. It comes on either when you tap the screen or when you raise your arm. So when using it as a watch it can be a bit of a pain but for me not a dealbreaker.
Size wise it’s by far the most delicate and pretty of any of the fitness trackers I’ve looked at. It’s waterproof and you can shower/swim without worrying it’ll suffer.
The garmin connect app is also really really good. It’s easy to see and easy to use and personalise.
Love it 🙂
Bought one for my partner and my dad and they love it! Small and smart. Easy to use and collects lots of data – recognises weight lifting etc.
I spent a long time thinking about spending a lot more money on a wearable device and I’m so glad I bought this. My only observation is that I have a Garmin Fenix for running and having worn them both for Park Runs I have found the Vivosmart GPS less accurate than the Fenix – but there’s a huge difference in price.
The Vivosmart was always intended as a 24-hour wearable for sleep and stress tracking and it does that job admirably well – it means I can wear an expensive Omega watch during the day (that has sentimental value) and then swap the Vivosmart for the Fenix when I’m running.
Very happy customer.
Ok for the purpose. Fells like a size for children but luckily I am petite.
It’s not clunky and I don’t have to take it off for water sports
Bought for my wife after her other tracker broke she absolutely loves it would recommend .
Sleek and comfortable to wear, battery life is good but sleep tracker is not always accurate. Great value for money.
light weight and easy to use, requires charging every 5 days, simple set up to sync with mobile phone.
Does what I need it to do. Great design and light. Just what I wanted.
Good replacement for my old garmin. Screen is a bit small and can’t seem to only have time and date on it. Some of the alerts are rather annoying but I’m sure I can turn them off just haven’t explored that yet.
It’s small and neat. As I have a small wrist I much prefer the size compared to most trackers. However because it is so narrowmessages are broadcast sideways. I don’t know why this is as other writing comes up reading across. The icons are not easy to flick through.
Lastly I really don’t know how accurate it is. After cycling indoors with Zwift it records twice as many calories burned as Zwift! I suspect Zwift is under estimating, but I also suspect the vivosmart is over estimating. However it does sync well with app.
A good size for slim writs, comfortable and easy to read. Oxygen saturation is fairly accurate.
It has a great feel and build quality. It feels solid.
It doesn’t have GPS built in, but it DOES allow you to use the GPS on your phone to track walks and activities. Some reviews say this isn’t possible, but it definitely is as of Oct 2019. I walked the dogs this morn and tracked it using GPS on my phone. See the attached image.
It isn’t 100% accurate when using the activity trackers for counting reps or distance (when not connected to GPS). But for me I don’t really mind. I use it more to monitor how active I have been throughout the day. Not to count the exact number if reps I have done or miles I have walked. When connected to your phones GPS, it is actually very accurate.
The Connect app is brilliant and does a great job of displaying your stats for the day. Really easy to read and understand.
The stress, sleep quality, heart rate and body battery features are great. I don’t know for sure how accurate they are but the readings are accurate enough for me. It definitely does a great job of capturing when my heart rate is high I.e. when I have been doing burpees or similar. And it uses all the information available to it (which is quite a lot) to determine your stress levels and body battery stats. I really like these features. The sleep tracker has been very accurate too.
The touchscreen is great. Some people don’t like it because it’s tiny. But I really like it. Garmin do a great job of displaying so much information on such a small screen. It’s pretty clever. It doesn’t respond to touch 100% of the time, but it’s good enough so as not to degrade the user experience or for me to not really notice.
Overall, I love it. I would definitely recommend it to people who are conscious of their health and fitness. If you don’t have unreasonable expectations, it seriously wont disappoint. Use it to monitor, health, well being and fitness. And to get an insight into how you’re looking after yourself. Not to track how far you ran to the exact meter or how many reps you did with 100% accuracy.
If you are looking for a fitness tracker to wear on your wrist but like your current watch, this is probably the right choice. It’s no thicker than a band and gives exactly what you need.
It’s good but does keep loosing connection so continually vibrates which can annoying
Seems to be accurate, huge improvement on the old model. Much smaller, so it fits under shirt sleeves comfortably.
This activity watch has so much spec it’s brilliant. It does so Mich and is defiantly reasonably priced
Fits perfectly easy set up, not quite as accurate as I would have liked though but I’m being picky
I had a Vivosmart 3 which was beginning to perish. The 4 improves on the 3 and is slightly smaller. A step up as it were!
I like this fitness tracker. Makes me more motivated to move and feel better for having it. Simple and easy to use. Good app.
Accuracy of steps is a bit off, but overall happy
Small, elegant and full of features, the only downside is that it’s a bit delicate and can be easily damaged
Also good for swimming, was a bit hard to get it to start and stop workouts.
Small lovely to look at and wear exactly what i wanted
No gps in retrospect i wish i had purchased one with gps but i love this
Bought this for my mum for Mother’s Day, I have the forerunner 35. I was really surprised at all the features this has, easy to use too. Thinking about one for myself
Great battery life, easily lasts seven days if notifications turned off. Screen is to small to try and read a message anyway. Heart rate monitor is good for low level and daily monitoring like it’s supposed to. Doesn’t record very well for heavy sessions like weight lifting. Worth the money though
Very good. I have had three different fitbits over the years the vivosmart is so much better!
Really nice, my girlfriend love it. It works really good.
This Garmin Small/Medium vivosmart 4 Smart Activity Tracker with Wrist-Based Heart Rate and Fitness Monitoring, is slimline but also has a display that you can read.
The app and the data you get from the app is excellent and really in depth.
I really like the fact that you can track your oxygen levels which really helps me with keeping an eye on my asthma, and it also has a ‘stress level’ that I find a bit quirky and I’m not sure how accurate it is as it works off your heart rate and other data which then notifies you to take a breath and relax for a few mins.
I would recommend this tracker for sure, it is comfortable to wear and looks great, another excellent product from Garmin.
I already own the Fenix 5 & Vivosport, I highly recommend it!