GPS Smartwatch with Wrist-based Heart Rate

GPS smartwatch with a sunlight-readable, high-resolution color touchscreen
Built-in sports apps include GPS-enabled running, biking, swimming⁵ and more — no phone connection required
Customize with free watch face designs, widgets and apps from our Connect IQ™ store
Receive smart notifications¹ and smart coaching from Garmin Connect™ when paired with your phone
Up to 8 days' battery life² in watch/activity tracking³ mode or up to 13 hours using GPS

vívoactive HR Heart Rate Screen

All Heart, All the Time

With Elevate™ wrist heart rate technology³, you can ditch the chest strap and measure heart rate from the wrist for all your sports except swimming, where optical heart rate isn’t available. Using heart rate data, vívoactive HR provides calories burned information and quantifies the intensity of your fitness activities, providing better credit for your efforts.

Keeps Up With All Your Active Moments

Run, bike, swim, golf, ski and more with vívoactive HR. Its GPS-enabled built-in sports apps track your stats while smart notifications allow you to stay connected — all so you can keep your life in balance. vívoactive HR continues to track activity³ throughout your day by counting steps and floors climbed as well as monitoring sleep and calculating intensity minutes. You won’t have to worry about this watch keeping up with you. The rechargeable battery lasts up to 8 days² in watch/activity tracking mode or up to 13 hours using GPS.

Insights from Garmin Connect

Throughout your day, vívoactive HR automatically syncs¹ to Garmin Connect. Garmin Connect is the only free app that gets to know you and then delivers the insights to help you beat yesterday. These include cues to move if you’re not on track to meet your step goal — or shoutouts when you do hit those milestones. Plus, you’ll get healthy tips from experts that become like virtual coaches.

vívoactive HR Last Run Screen vívoactive HR My Day – Cycling Screen

Hit the Ground Running

Using its built-in accelerometer and GPS, vívoactive HR allows you to run both indoors and out. You can set up vibration alerts for heart rate, pace, run/walk intervals and more. Other training features include Auto Lap^® and Auto Pause^®. Provides post-run summary with stats such as total mileage, calories, average pace and overall time.

On the Bike

The GPS-enabled cycling app measures time, distance, speed and calories. It’s compatible with sensors⁴, such as speed and cadence, to measure your progress on training rides as well as daily commutes; also compatible with Varia^® lights and radar for safer riding.

Dive In

Hit the pool’s lap lanes and see detailed stats like total and interval distance, pace, stroke count, stroke type⁵ and more. Let the swimming app calculate your efficiency with swolf, which adds the time and the number of strokes it takes to swim a pool length. Interval Count lets you seamlessly pause and then resume your workout. At the end of a workout, view your summary data, which includes interval and session averages, overall time and personal records.

Tee Off

Play new courses every day by downloading 1 of 40,000 course maps worldwide from our golf course database. The golfing app can show a simplified view of the green and help you track your score, letting you see if you’re under or over par.

Row, Row, Row

If you like to paddle board and row — indoor or open water — the built-in paddle boarding app tracks and displays all your stats. See pace, overall time, distance and stroke all at a glance when out on the water or in the gym.

On the Slopes

For a day of skiing or snowboarding, vívoactive HR measures your 3-D speed by calculating the speed and distance on an incline versus latitude and longitude. It also provides your splits automatically and gives you the option to turn on Auto Pause, which freezes the timer automatically when you stop or ride the lift.

vívoactive HR Smart Notifications Screen

Stay Connected

vívoactive HR gently vibrates to alert you to all the same notifications you receive on your compatible device¹ — from phone calls to social media alerts to other alerts from mobile apps. vívoactive HR also displays weather information, temperature and more. Additionally, it lets you control the music on your phone, locate your phone¹, remotely control your VIRB^® action camera and let your friends and family track your activities in real time with LiveTrack. Personalize vívoactive HR with custom watch faces, data fields, apps and widgets from our Connect IQ™ store.

Wear Your Personality on Your Sleeve

Download the free Garmin Face It™ watch face app to customize your device with any photo from your smartphone. Just download the app, choose an image from your photo library, adjust the style for time and set it as your watch’s face. Whether it’s a scenic view from your last hike or a picture of your new puppy, with Garmin you can add personality to your watch that’s uniquely you.

¹When paired with a compatible smartphone
²Battery life varies based on usage and smartphone model
³Activity tracking accuracy
⁴Sold separately.
⁵Swim features are designed to work for the 4 recognized competitive swim strokes.

Device wear and care

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General
Lens Material	chemically hardened glass
Case material	polymer
Strap material	silicone
Physical size	30.2 x 57.0 x 11.4 mm Regular: 137-195 mm circumference X-large: 161-225 mm circumference
Weight	Regular: 47.6 g X-large: 48.2 g
Water rating	5 ATM
Battery type	rechargeable lithium
Touchscreen
Display type	sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Display size	0.8" x 1.13" (20.7 x 28.6 mm)
Display resolution	205 x 148 pixels
Color display
Battery life	GPS mode: Up to 13 hours Smart mode: Up to 8 days
Memory/history	7 timed activities, 14 days of activity tracking data

Clock Features
Time/date
GPS Time Sync
Automatic daylight saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch

Sensors
GPS
GLONASS
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Barometric altimeter
Compass
Accelerometer
Ambient light sensor

Daily Smart Features
Connectivity	Bluetooth® Smart and ANT+®
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Calendar
Weather
Music controls
Face It™ watch face creator
Find my Phone feature
VIRB® remote
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone®, Android™, Windows®
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
Find My Watch feature

Activity Tracking Features
Step counter
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
Calories burned
Floors climbed
Distance traveled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp™
Move IQ™

Training, Planning and Analysis Features
GPS speed and distance
Customizable data pages
Auto Pause®
Auto scroll
Auto Lap®
Manual lap
Customizable alerts
Vibration alerts
Activity history on watch
Touch and/or button lock
LiveTrack

Heart Rate Features
HR zones
HR alerts
HR calories
HR strap compatible	yes (not HRM-Tri™ or HRM-Swim™)
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)

Running Features
Preloaded run profiles	Running, Indoor Running
GPS-based distance, time and pace
Foot pod capable

Outdoor Recreation Features
Preloaded outdoor recreation profiles	Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Indoor Rowing
Back to start

Cycling Features
Preloaded cycling profiles	Biking, Indoor Biking
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
Compatible with Varia™ lights
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)	yes

Swimming Features
Preloaded swim profiles	Pool Swimming
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
Swim efficiency (SWOLF)

Digital scorecard
Golfing Features
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
Yardage to layups/doglegs
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)