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

Having had an Amazfit watch previously with their Zepp application. I can honestly say Zepp is by far the better application for fitness, body health checking. My Garmin application is a bit bitty and nowhere near as intuitive to use. The local weather is wrong most of the time as I think it gets the weather from an inland weather station, which isn't coastal (where I live) and so temperature is displayed incorrectly.

Your hardware is great and the app works. However, I get plenty of alerts from my VPN indicating you're using Google analytics to track the app usage. It should be straight forward to opt out from this, but there's no option to do so. Back to five stars if the tracking attempts stop or at least a permissions popup is implemented.

Fantastic, better than Fitbit in almost every way. One thing I would like though, is a way to check kilometers / miles travelled. As well as that, maybe see if you can sync settings as well as stats, I changed my app to metric, but my watch, (a Garmin Venu sq 2) still stayed imperial, and it took me a while to figure out how to change that on the watch. Other than those, fantastic app, great watches, better than Fitbit.

What's new

With the bug fixes and performance improvements in this version of Garmin Connect, tracking your health and fitness stats is easier than ever before.