Garmin Venu 3 GPS 45mm Smartwatch, AMOLED Touchscreen, All-day Advanced Health & Fitness Features, Voice Functionality, Music Storage, Wellness Smartwatch with up to 14 days battery life, Black

This is a great watch! It is much improved on my previous garmin. It's smoother, easier to navigate and the battery life is amazing.I bought this one for myself, and the smaller version for my wife, and she loves it.Back in 2018 she got an iwatch and I got the Garmin Vivoactive 3. They were life changing at the time, as we were very active in the gym and outside. It was clear that my wife preferred many of the functions on my watch that the iwatch didn't have, although hers did look much better.My Garmin had battery issues back in 2021 and the iwatch screen got a crack in it last year (2024).So, a few years on, we are less active and want to get back to it. But I lacked the motivation. Then I remembered how I used to monitor my sleep, heart rate and training sessions on the watch and thought...maybe a new smart watch will give me the get up off the sofa I need.So I researched the best smart watches of 2024 & 2025...and this one kept coming up.So I bought two (2), the smaller stylish one for my wife and this larger one, for me.They are brilliant, the Garmin App is much improved too, much easier to record my gym sessions.This watch can monitor your HRV, it can provide a sleep coach, it's is sleek and stylish, and is better at dealing with messages and calls.I highly recomment this watch!

I have been using fitness bands for the last few years to track my daily routine and my occasional outdoor exercises (cycling and hiking mostly).I wanted to have a watch instead of a band and tried some Fitbit devices but they were too buggy. I mulled over this watch for a long time due to the price, but to be honest, once I got it, I can honestly say it's the perfect one for me.I use it all day and night to track my daily routine and sleep. Body battery is accurate since when it shows being close to 0, I really do feel like my energy is gone completely. Morning reports on the watch are a nice touch to get a quick feel of what your sleep quality was and also what's in store for the day ahead.Never had any issues with the watch during exercises, the data it captures is accurate and very detailed. The mobile app is really good and the connection to the watch is seamless, never have I struggled to sync anything (hear this Fitbit?). Battery life is about 1 week when doing 4-5 exercises that use GPS too, so pretty good.You have access to some default watch faces, get some from the store or even design your one.To be honest, I've recommended this watch to friends that wanted a smart watch, since although it's from Garmin, you don't have to be an athlete to use one.

Firstly, the wtch looks good, isn't too big and chunky (or too small and weedy).I'm still setting up the watch to suit the configurations that I want day-to-day - but I'm very happy with my putchase. V accurate GPS, great features, especially the body battery and general well-being features. I recommend.

Its been 10 days since I am using the new Venue 3 continuously and the battery is still 24% charged, so that’s quite satisfying for me. Smartwatch is very responsive compared to my previous Fitbit Versa 3, the watch size and display is nice and looks good. Lot of choice on watch faces, yet to explore all options. I like the stress, intensity and body battery features. Only gripe is that it doesn’t record workouts unless I explicitly add that activity. As I said, need to explore the activities options in more detail. Also, the Garmin Pay doesn’t work with my current bank credit cards (Amex, Barclaycard), which is a shame. Overall, quite satisfied so far with this watch.

This was a gift for my partnerGood value for money good dealFunctionally I’d fantasticShows Fitness levels n your health stats ur stress levels sleep patternsBest quality n long lasting batteryEasy to download the app & Bluetooth connect

I have enjoyed using a Venu 2 plus for several years. It had some imperfections, especially with regard to sleep tracking and the assistant feature but on the whole I liked it a lot. I decided to upgrade to the Venu 3 recently as it had several enhancements to the interface and came in a bigger size. I was particularly interested in the nap feature, as I get a lot of my sleep that way and wanted it all to be accurately recorded. Unfortunately my hopes in this regard were dashed, as it very rarely noted that I had had a nap and even when it did it only gave the alleged duration of the nap. In some cases, if the nap were fairly late in the day, it would be added to the night's sleep data but you would then be got at for having a restless night. In addition the body battery seems a lot worse than the Venu 2 plus version, as it was always saying my battery was depleted to the extent that I would be bound to have an arduous day. And as for the sleep coach this was just laughable as it was suggesting I should sleep for about two hours more than my norm in order to be able to function during the day - all very annoying and not at all true. The final straw is that the enhancements, if that is what they are, over the Venu 2 plus are mostly software related and there seems be no reason why the Venu 2 plus could not be updated with the new interface, which I do rather like. The display is really good, as is the battery life and the fitness tracking is excellent but then it is just as good on the Venu 2 plus, so the upgrade seems pointless taking all into consideration.Fianlly the price is excessive at over £400.

Easy to use and comfortable to wear. Sensors work well.

The watch is EXACTLY as described except....Garmin just announced a pay wall for advanced software features (doesn't affect existing features) but you can be 100% sure that in the future this subscription model WILL slowly include more features that are consiy standard/free now.Garmin have been saying for years that they would not do this and suddenly reverse course with a sharp 180 and implement it.Do not buy. Go check out Coros (does not have subscription/pay wall) and other brands.