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Garmin Small/Medium vivosmart 4 Smart Activity Tracker with Wrist-Based Heart Rate and Fitness Monitoring Tools – Black
£96.47£99.99 (-4%)
- Slim, smart activity tracker blends fashionable design with stylish metal accents and a bright, easy-to-read display
- Fitness and health monitoring tools include wrist-based heart rate, all-day stress tracking, relaxation breathing timer, VO2 max, Body Battery energy monitor and more
- Includes advanced sleep monitoring with REM sleep stages and a Pulse Ox sensor at the wrist to gauge blood oxygen saturation levels
- Get vibration alerts for all notifications including calls, text messages and more (text replies
- Battery life keeps up with you; lasts up to 7 days. Safe for swimming and showering, too. Display resolution: 48 x 128 pixels. Lens material: Polycarbonate
- The slim, stylish Garmin vivosmart 4 fitness tracker now connects with GPS on your compatible smartphone to track outdoor activities
- Fits wrists with a circumference of 122-188 mm
by Qui
I have given only 4 stars not because of the performance or the connectivity to the app,but because the strapp it’s not replaceable. Had to purchase a new one as accidently damaged the strap I don’t like the V5 version
by Mrs M
As someone living with Long COVID I bought this as I’d read about a few people finding the Garmin body battery feature being helpful for managing energy levels.
I definitely find it interesting/useful to be able to see how much energy this believes I have, although I always make sure I listen to my body.
I already have, and love, my Apple Watch and have been wearing both devices for a couple of months now. The Apple Watch doesn’t have the body battery or anything similar, but is definitely better at tracking my sleep. The Garmin tells me I’ve had a good nights sleep, when I know I’ve been awake for a few hours in the middle of the night and even got up to make a cup of tea! I can’t help but think this will impact the accuracy of the body battery.
The other thing it uses to inform the body battery is your heart rate variability (HRV) – this is definitely worth reading up about, particularly if you have Long COVID, but there are other free options to measure this – the best one I have found is the Welltory app.
Having said all that, I am still wearing my Garmin, and do find it useful to review the graphs in the app to see the impact of various activities and how they have affected the physiological stress my body is under (my HRV), but that may be because I’m 26 months in to my Long COVID journey and still desperately searching for answers!
by Mrs. Z.S.Q.
It’s honestly made a huge impact on my health and its so easy to monitor everything. I wanted something that was discreet on my wrist and its such an amazing gadget …
by Max Nealon
I am back on the ‘lose a little weight’ journey and for the last few months have been tracking workouts using Strava (cycling), my phone (walking) or an my Apple Watch (gym). I am also logging my weight with a BT scale and what I eat with MFP.
Because I have nice watches that I want to wear daily and because I often leave my phone on my desk etc, I wanted to get a tracker that monitored my activity 24/7, but also one that integrates with the fitness tools as seamlessly as possible. But it had to be ‘not a watch’, it had to be something to wear on my no-watch arm.
Many years ago I had a FitBit, so my first order was for a Fitbit band. While I waited for it to arrive I got back into my old FitBit account and then tried to set it up to talk to my other apps. Quite simply Fitbit does not integrate with Apple Health, nor does it like to really play nicely with anything else. You are expected to use their software and mostly their hardware too. I cancelled the order before it arrived.
Based on a recommendation I bought this.
My first impression was that it is a little but taller than I would like – the form factor could be better, if it were about 3mm shorter and that was offset with, say 2mm of width, it would be better, but you get used to it quickly, The display is tiny, you are not going to want to use this as a watch, nor is it going to be confused with one, this is a very good thing for my use-case.
Step counting accuracy is spooky, it is incredibly accurate I literally counted my steps for 200 steps, looked at the device and it said 199, before ticking over to 200. Pulse rate is also bang on – I monitored my pulse and again 100% accuracy.
Over the last few days I have been wearing it, it has tracked my sleep and my exercise, the mileage estimates are slightly low – I think I need to adjust my stride length, but that is fairly trivial.
Where this really shines though is the level of integration with Apple Health and MyFitnessPal. Rather than force you to switch allegiance to a different dashboard, it integrates the data it collects to Apple Health and MFP and augments the data from both into its own dash. This is integrations done perfectly.
In addition to all of that, battery life is brilliant too.
So, here are my Pro’s and Con’s
Pro’s
– Small Light, unobtrusive tracker that does not try to be a watch
– Decent battery life – 1week+ when tracking sleep too
– Sleep Tracking
– Very accurate Pulse and Step measurements
– Brilliant integrations with popular apps
– Great dashboard
Cons
– If you want a watch replacement, this is not it
– The strap is integrated, which means if you damage the strap, you need to get the whole thing replaced.
In summary, if you are looking for a highly integrated, very accurate tracker, this is the one to buy.
by reddevilKaren
I bought this to replace a fitbit after having 2 snap where the strap attaches.
Steps recording seems accurate, but activity recording isn’t as good as on the fitbit, it hasn’t picked up a workout yet.
Sleep recording is again not up to the standard of the fitbit charge, rather than a sleep score you get body battery but there seems to be no pattern to this, I can have a good night’s sleep and body battery barely charges, other similar nights and it goes to 100% rarely anything in between. It also doesn’t detect naps for some reason.
The mobile app is OK, gives lots of data, particularly if you’re a runner, and it doesn’t have anything you need to subscribe to, which is better than fitbit.
Battery charge seems to last 5 days rather than the 7 promised. The watch itself is small but the screen is readable in sunlight which was a huge problem with the charge or inspire. The watch is also more comfortable than the fitbit charge, and for about £40 cheaper and no subscription. Is good value, it also connects to plenty of apps including mfp.
by Hells bells
Nowhere near as reliable as my previous Garmin (sane model but not renewed). Keeps failing to record sessions and stopping part way through. Good for telling the time but that’s about it.