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 your heart rate, steps, sleep, stress, menstrual cycle, weight, calories and more
- 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

I don't know what the geniuses at Garmin did to their app with this latest update (Oct '24), but they sure didn't fix any bugs. In fact, they seem to have created a huge one in that it no longer connects with my watches so that it doesn't automatically upload my activities. I have to physically tether my watches to my PC with the data cables and transfer via Garmin Express. Pretty much defeats the purpose and convenience of Bluetooth. Good one, Garmin! Welcome back to the early 2000s, anyone?

I didn't like all those settings I spent hours figuring out anyways. Pesky things like turning on a backlight when I looked at the face. Updated away. Now I can't see the time day or night, which is great because it's an annoying feature for a watch to tell time. At least the step counter goal, that I never bothered with still send notifications for completely random goals. It's fun to try and remember what yesterday's count was because it will be different today. And the HR monitor is still fu

App redesign is much more difficult to navigate and less user friendly than previous version. Probably more of a problem with my Garmin watch than the app, but it has become quite inaccurate in tracking distance with more than a 10% variance on the same course. Also, it stopped pushing notifications from my phone to my watch, except if I try to use the stopwatch on my phone, then I get a notification for every single second that passes.

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.