Garmin Connect™

Garmin

About this app

The Garmin Connect™ app is your one-stop source for health and fitness data. Whether you’re training for a race, keeping active or just staying on top of your health, Garmin Connect provides the information and inspiration you need to reach your goals.

Once you pair your phone (1) with a Forerunner®, Venu®, fēnix or another compatible Garmin device (2), you can review your tracked activities and health metrics. Plus, you can create workouts, build courses and challenge your friends on the leaderboard.

With Garmin Connect you can:

- Personalize your home screen, so the most helpful information is instantly visible
- Analyze your activities with detailed statistics(3)
- Create customized workouts and courses
- Review trends in health metrics like heart rate and steps
- Earn badges for accomplishments
- Sync with other apps like MyFitnessPal and Strava
- Get support for Garmin devices and their features

Learn more about Garmin devices and how they work with the Garmin Connect app at Garmin.com.

(1) See compatible devices at Garmin.com/BLE
(2) See a full list of compatible devices at Garmin.com/devices
(3) See Garmin.com/ataccuracy

Notes: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Garmin Connect needs SMS permission to allow you to receive and send SMS text messages from your Garmin devices. We also need call log permission to display incoming calls on your devices.

Ratings and reviews

They added more clicks to view items, where the old version you could have more cards front and center. Been playing with the new version putting the data I like back, and I don't see anything really new of value so far. Steps are gone? Would have liked to see and update where they kept the cards you had. Hopefully there are improvements on the back end of the app that are useful. Otherwise my perception so far is that they rearranged the furniture but in a way that you need to put some back.

Eta well they definitely made the switch and it's awful. This is not user-friendly. Takes way more clicks to see data. Bummer I hope the beta home screen is not the future because it's awful. I took myself out of beta just because I disliked it that much. I am not a fan at all. Keep the same functionality and visibility on the home screen. The in focus mode would be good to add as an OPTION, but not a requirement. Those of us who aren't raining for a race probably don't want the extra clutter.

They just updated the homescreen to make it "personalizable" but with the braindead limitation that the "at a glance" section can now only show up to 8 distinct metrics, so if you want to see the same set of metrics that the app used to show, you have to click through extra menus to find them. I don't want "Events", "Training Plans", "Challenges", I just want my homescreen to show ALL of the metrics I'm interested in without clicking through to more screens.

What's new

Garmin Connect has a new look. You can now personalize your home screen to put what’s most important to you front and center, including your preferred stats, events, training plans, challenges, historic trend data and more.