Varia™

Garmin

About this app

When paired with a compatible Garmin Varia device¹, the Varia app has the tools you need to ride with confidence. Using the Varia app, you can:

- Be alerted right on your phone when approaching vehicles are within 140 meters behind your bicycle.
- View color-coded alerts based on surrounding traffic: Green means you’re all clear, yellow means a vehicle is approaching, and red means a vehicle is coming at you quickly and you should take caution.
- Receive tone and vibration alerts for approaching vehicles even when you’re not looking at your phone.

With a compatible Garmin Varia Rearview Radar Camera, you can also:

- Set the camera in the best position for capturing videos and photos.
- Record videos or take photos while riding with a simple button press on your phone.
- Automatically record videos of incidents and save the video footage with the Incident Recording feature.

By adding the Varia eRTL615 Rearview Radar Tail Light, you can:
- Configure and edit light mode configurations for your tail light.

Easy to Use
Pairing your Garmin Varia device with the app is quick and easy. Once you set it up, the Varia app will automatically recognize your device.

Even if you already have a Varia device paired with a compatible Garmin device or head unit, the Varia app provides additional awareness and peace of mind while riding.

¹ Compatible devices are the Varia RVR315 Rearview Radar, Varia RTL515 Radar Tail Light, Varia RCT715 Rearview Radar Camera and Varia eRTL615 Rearview Radar Tail Light.

Ratings and reviews

Good display and audio tones to indicate when stuff is coming up behind you. When I'm just using the radar, the app will still ask for location info, but you can just decline and it will still work normally. I wish there was an option to disable the location message but it's just a mild annoyance.

It is 100% accurate for warnings when cars come from behind. It makes bike riding much safer. I can use it and also listen to Spotify. I do lose my app ability that I normally use that shows my riding metrics. If Garmin reads this, please consider adding a window the bottom 25% of the screen showing key riding metrics (speed, distance, ave speed, time riding) and this will make it a perfect cycling experiance. Consider having that data fed by Garmin watches. I use a Forerunner.

Nice unit works great for me. MAJOR fault is the warning sound is inaudible. With street noise you can't hear it and it only beeps softly once. It needs to beep louder and for a longer duration. Better yet let us set the sound we want to hear and for how long. That would make it perfect. GARMIN please fix this. I still like it in conjunction with a rear view mirror. art

What's new

This version of the app has added an “Alerts over Other Media” setting to Sounds & Alerts. This setting plays your Varia alerts at a louder volume than other media, such as music.

This version of the app features bug fixes and performance improvements to help you ride confidently with Varia.