Customer Ratings & Reviews

Garmin makes great fitness watches. I bought this when my 4-year-old Vivoactive started to lose battery life. The Venu 3 is an upgrade in almost every way. One of the features I like about Garmin watches is how long a charge lasts. I was concerned that the new, brighter screen would shorten battery life but I still get nearly 2 weeks on a charge and work out 3-4 times a week. The new heart rate sensor is accurate enough for me to ditch my old chest strap, which is a big plus. I also am enjoying the improved sleep tracking. Being able to load music and connect to my bluetooth headphones means I can run or bicycle without needing to carry my phone

I traded in my Apple Watch Series 6 for this and honestly do not regret it. The Apple Watch had issues with detecting my wrist underneath my tattoos but this watch does so with zero issue. The only downside is not being able to control my music playing on my phone with it, but it is not Apple proprietary so it makes sense. I love how fitness focused this watch is and really helps me track every workout I do for the most part. The ability to track your strength workouts down to the sets, reps and weight is a huge pro in itself. I haven’t been able to test the GPS aspect when it comes to outdoor workouts because of the cold but I’m sure it will work superior to an Apple Watch.

So far so good , it does everything the wife wants it to do, battery life for the activities she has running is about 2 weeks and she loves the sleep score and sleep coach, and her favorite is able to use your own picture from your phone as a watch face. Garmin is on top for a smart watch.

This is my first smartwatch purchase, and I have had this device for a month. I am something of an athlete - normally swimming over a mile in flip-turn laps every other day and biking trails. Interestingly enough, I had a very rare health crisis - an autoimmune issue that hit my heart muscle - and that has effectively killed my swim/bike season and almost me. The good news is that I am expected to make a full recovery. And that is what informed my choice of this watch. I needed something that would monitor my health - but once I regain that health, will also monitor my athletic performance. Hence the title - it truly does keep watch over me. What I sacrifice are some of the app flexibility I would have gotten with a Google watch. That said, this still has everything I need - full health monitoring including a basic ECG that will detect arrhythmias, and a pulse monitor that will alert the wearer to rate abnormalities. It works well with the excellent Garmin Connect app on my phone (a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra) - uploading to that app all the stats it measures where I get very detailed data and graphs of everything from my sleep patterns to ECG traces to calories burned to stress levels and much more. Clearly, I have not yet worked with athletic measurements, but I am confident those will be equally helpful progress measures. It even has a GPS maps, weather radar, and will send tracking information back home so that when I am on the trails, they will know precisely where I am on a map at all times. As a pilot, I've used Garmin avionics. As a gravel biker, I use a Garmin Edge 530. So I have had experience with other products from Garmin and have found consistency with regard to product durability, intelligent design, and straightforward software interfaces. After a month of use, the Venu 3 meets the same bar. Two physical attributes of note: battery life was an immediate plus in my decision to pick this watch over any of the Googles or Pixels. It has not disappointed me. And the watch itself if very durable. I've managed to hit and scrape the gorilla glass face already - not a mark on it. The options to download custom watch faces are endless. For those who may be curious, the one depicted is Fallout (by frinkr), which has all the data I need at a glance. In all, 5 stars all the way down - and I don't often do that.

This is my first Garmin watch. I've had it for a couple months now and thus far I'm pleased with it. For years I loved my Galaxy Watch 3, but after a few years the battery life was struggling. I looked into the new Galaxy watches and they only promoted a day or so battery life. So I made the switch to the Garmin Venu 3. It had all the features I wanted in a smartwatch, but I didn't have to worry about charging it every day. With my current settings, I can usually get exactly a week. This includes logging workouts 5-6 days a week (45 min to an hour long), sleep metrics, notifications etc. I only have a couple issues with the watch. In the few months I've had it, I've already had 2 instances where the screen will go black but the apps will still be running and I have to reset it. But maybe that's just a normal glitch. The biggest concern I have is the screen. Within the first month I was doing some light home maintenance and I barely brushed the watch against a cabinet and now there's a scratch on the screen. Not a huge deal, but with my work and lifestyle, I'm pretty rough on things so I have to be extra careful not to hit it on anything. I just figured a fitness watch like this would be more resilient to minor bumps and scratches. All in all I am happy with my watch and will likely look to Garmin in the future.

I absolutely love this product!! Awesome for keeping up with my workouts and water consumption. Also helps me a ton with tracking steps and calories would absolutely recommend!!! The battery life is no joke. Lasts forever.

Had the Venu 2 Plus...I see that the two watches are identical...even Battery Life...I use the GPS one hour a day and get about 9 days between charges... Only thing I would like to see is Wireless Charging like my cell phones.

My favorite garmin yet. I have had or at least tried alot of Garmin and other smart watches/fitness trackers. This one checks alot of the boxes. Comfortable, lightweight, longish battery life, great fitness and smart features. My favorite thing with this one is the separation of activities and apps. Surprised Garmin has not made this standard for other devices, makes finding things and organizing apps and activities so much better/easier.

After using an apple smart watch with PATHETIC battery life & having to charge it every single day & not having it last for 1 full day at time, The switch to Venu 3 has been AMAZING!!! I charged it on a Friday, went on travel for a full week & then back home of Sunday & the watch still had 10%+ battery life left. This includes few days of active long walks. I also considered other Garmin watches like Forerunner & Epix, but the Venu 3 has the best pricing:features. I wish they made one with Sapphire glass too.

Battery life is amazing! Comfortable fit, making it easy to sleep with on! Couldn’t recommend it enough!

Very good smart watch compared from Apple, this watch is much more fitness oriented. The battery life itself my favorite part easily last 9days. While some features of the driving directions or able to text a response are not there compared to Apple, overall it’s a better choice for keeping track of your fitness. I personally also like how it looks more professional.

This is my first smart watch and I'm very happy with it. I've had it for a couple of months now and the battery life is amazing. My wife has to charge her Galaxy watch every day but I only have to charge my Garmin Venu 3 once a week. Easy integration with the Garmin Connect app to see all activities on my phone. The only complaint is the Jet Lag Advisor. It was not very useful on our recent to to Japan.

Watch is amazing, battery lasts about a week and even without a screen protector it hasn't had any scratches. It also connects to the app flawlessly.

Coming from the Fitbit Sense, this watch is a huge upgrade. I loved my fitbit, it was everything I needed it to be. However, the Garmin Venu 3 has everything I didn't even know I needed and more. The battery life is great. The sensors are amazingly accurate and it's just an amazing smart watch all around.

I had been considering buy a smart watch for months, it would be the first one I’ve ever owned. After looking at apple and samsung watches, I decided to go with this Venu 3 and am so satisfied! I wanted it mainly for its capabilites to track my workouts. You can also get phone notifications to your watch if connected to bluetooth. Initially i bought the 41mm thinking 45mm would be too big, the 41mm looked to feminine in my opinion. I love the 45mm in black. No regrets on this purchase!

I have been very pleased with the performance all the features of the Garman VENU 3. It has surpassed all my expectations. Very pleased indeed.

I don't normally give reviews but felt this watch deserves it. I'm not fully up to date on all the smart watches, I don't always wear one. I'm coming from a Galaxy Watch 3 or 4, honestly forget, haha. I've worn this for almost 48 hours now, been using to track sleep, I've gone for one run so far, my battery is sitting at 83%. It takes a little getting used to coming from the Galaxy. I really like the light weight, very nice screen. I dabbled around with the golf gps and it will serve it's purpose for stats and distance if you would like to use it for that. As someone new to the Garmin and smart watch family I highly recommend this as a nice hybrid watch. I've already switched the band to something a little different. I also synced some podcasts to the watch. My only cons is the connect IQ app is a little wonky sometimes when syncing the phone and also the interface feels a little clunky but some of that is im not used to it. The galaxy I liked having the different "app widgets" you could rotate to. This you have something similar but you swipe down and put in the data you want to see. The other con unless I'm doing it wrong is i can only see the current day of my synced Google calendar but not the whole month. I can't comment on all the activities as I'm still messing around as it is setup differently than the galaxy watch. Overall very pleased. Synced with a Pixel 7 phone.

It has a clean look. It is easy to setup and the pages have good detail. It is fitness oriented. So, not many "smart features" but i prefer it like this: not wasting battery on smart unnecesary background apps. Battery is great: more than 10 days.

Overall I am very pleased. This has exceeded my expectations and is a must have for anyone who exercises. The heart rate monitor is accurate and I’ve come to realize the benefits of the sleep tracking. My one complaint is the app can be a bit clunky. In particular the built in work outs and how that sends/stores them on the device. But I expect that to continue to get better over time. Would recommend.

Great product. Sometimes the HR feature seems off but no product is perfect. Not clunky at all! Would recommend getting it!