It's a nice tracker, and I love garmin's ecosystem
347606
It's a nice tracker, and I love garmin's ecosystem, but this thing is very uncomfortable. The heart rate bump protrudes so far it causes a pressure point and hurts my arm.
3396570
This fitness tracker seems fairly accurate, perhaps a bit on the generous side when counting steps and miles but not too much - I have compared end of day mileage with a colleague with a Fitbit after working together all day, and we had  similar results. The tracker makes a good looking and easy to read watch, and it is very easy to move between the different functions. My favorite function is the red bar that reminds me to get moving when I sit for too long. The sleep tracker function is very nice and the results make sense - more deep sleep after yoga, less after a stressful day. It tool me a couple of tries to figure out that "sleep" is the next click after "sync".  To my delighted surprise, the software runs well on my old Android smartphone and the vivofit has no problem communicating with it.  The small band fits my wrist snugly on the last holes (I am 5' 3" and fairly small boned). I suspect that the fit would be a bit lose (like a bracelet) on smaller people.  My only complaint is the band, that occasionally gets open even with the ring in place. With a better band I would give it a solid 5 stars.
1141401
This could end up being a 5-star product IF I can get some of the idiosyncrasies ironed out.

First off: it installed and fired up beautifully, no problems at all. The wires are all ISO color-coded, and I made no mistakes connecting everything (Huzzah!). All of the applications worked right first time - - radio, GPS, Bluetooth hands-free, etc. Oh and BTW, the GPS is amazing at signal acquisition. I'm used to Garmin taking a while to get a position, especially after sitting un-powered for some days. But this unit found satellites and got a position after only a minute or so, even after being shipped across 10 time zones!! And it picks up a good GPS constellation even under my carport.

My current complaints are few and minor: the audio has a hiss in it, and I see that Pumpkin has a power filter (free) to solve this issue. The GPS does not seem to have a "north up" setting, which I much prefer over "track up". Also, the existing GPS software has map colors that are very poorly chosen. It's almost impossible to see secondary roads, and I may have to change that software before all is said and done.

The physical unit is fairly large, around 4" vertical dimension, and it was a very snug squeeze in my Ford Ranger console -- but it worked.

The Android system is fairly conventional, but with all the apps and configurations, it's sometimes puzzling as to where to find a particular setting. Time will iron this out. Nice to have "home" buttons both on the touch screen and the push-buttons.

I'm overall quite pleased, ESPECIALLY for the price. I expect to have a lot of fun with this.

UPDATE 2017 March
After almost two years of almost constant "fixing", I'm about to give up. Support has been great, very responsive -- but there's a lot they just can't do. As of today:
-Bluetooth hands-free won't auto-connect
-Hands-free audio is garbled and unintelligible to my callers
-Sound system has background hiss
-Google Play has quit entirely, will not allow login -- no download of apps or updates is possible
-Some apps cannot recognize external SD
-Some apps can't work with GPS
-Some apps simply won't activate after loading
All I'm trying to do is use hands-free calling, GPS mapping apps, and play music. As of right now, it won't do any of those properly or at all. I have another unit that I bought after my initial liking this one, and it's just as bad.

So sad, it had such promise. The only time it ever worked right was in the first few months. After Android and Google changed their software, this poor product never caught up with them again.
2928945
I have had this device for awhile now.  Initially, I was very happy with it.  What I am later finding out is Garmin does not appear to be in a hurry to get this device compatible with several of the programs many people use these devices.  I have also had the LEDs start going out after having the wristband for less than a year.  For the price of this band, I have to recommend going  with something else.  I liked that it is waterproof.  I used it for snorkeling and had no issues.  The battery life was around a week which was nice.  It also charges quickly.  The lack of support with other programs and having both the upper and lower rows of LEDs go out kills the device for me.  I would have gone with a FitBit if I had it to do over again.
2003927
Loving this tracker. Tracks your activity with acceptable accuracy, and shows you where you stand for the day with a couple taps and pretty flashing lights. That's all I need. No, it won't measure your heart rate, calculate your lifespan or predict the winner of the next presidential election. The disc's light display is stupid simple, but the smartphone app lets you see details like steps, calories, activities etc. Syncs fine with My Fitness Pal. Bicyclers: this is not a cycling tracker. I can tell it when I start riding, but it usually only captures a few minutes. I have to go into the app manually and tell it how long I rode. Could be its more accurate capturing riding if worn on your ankle? It does seem to calculate cycling calories pretty well with that caveat. It tracks sleep well too, showing different colored bars for restful sleep, light sleep and waking. I now have proof that my cat wakes me up every night between 3-4am. Thanks a lot Bam Bam, you dillweed. Finally, this tracker is gorgeous. I have the Coca Cola red version, and get lots of compliments on it. There are lots of good fitness tracker options. Between the good looking, simple and intuitive wristband disc and the more detail focused app, this tracker hits the sweet spot for me.
3665336
I've had my band for about a week -- and it's been a week of learning about myself. Like many people, I've settled into a pretty sedentary life and wanted a tool to help me remember to exercise more and eat less. I don't have very current smart phone, so I needed something that interfaced with my laptop rather than my phone. I've been happy with my Garmin GPS, so I decided to give the Vivo-fit a spin. It didn't hurt that I found it on a sale (because it's an older model) and it was much less expensive than its competitors.

Not only do I love it, it's got me moving and I've lost a couple pounds already. I would have guessed that I was mostly sedentary at my office and was active on the weekends to make up for it. Not the case at all. Now I pay attention more to when I just veg out on the couch and at least get up and move every so often. The red indicator is a good motivator without being too obnoxious. The step count reminds me to move more in the morning and not save so much up for after dinner (when I don't feel like moving at all.)

The band is fairly comfortable and there is a latch that keeps it from falling off that they must have added (which I read was a problem previously). I wouldn't say it was the most attractive design -- sometimes I wonder if people think it's a tracker for a prison-release program -- but I can get different colors if I want. I take it off when I shower, but I like that if I got it wet, it wouldn't really be a problem. I tried using the sleep mode for the first few days, but now I take it off at night as well. All my night time reports seemed to be about the same and I don't really care about that.

I'm not sure how accurate the step counts are. It seems to register a combination of moving forward and moving your arm. Sometimes when I'm driving, I notice I've logged a bunch of steps. On the other hand, if you are carrying something or pushing a cart, it registers nothing. (I was incensed to find the other day that an hour's worth of grocery shopping counted as "not moving for an hour" even though I tried to push the cart with my other hand.) My feeling is that for my purposes, it probably evens out.

The Garmin Connect dashboard is easy to use and is also a pretty good motivator. If my PC is up and running, I just have to push the button on the Vivofit to sync it. There are all sorts of metrics and reports to look at and the little green bars give me a sense of accomplishment. One panel selects a few random people who are about as active as you are to "race" against for steps. That's kinda fun. There are also groups you can join or create if you'd like that as a motivator. I was able to connect the dashboard to MyFitnessPal and I log my approximate calories for each meal; It's got a good database for foods -- pretty much what used to do with the WW program, but this one is free.

All in all, I'm very pleased with my new little task-master. I wish I'd gotten one years ago.
2562672
Overall, I am mostly satisfied.  I wanted to upgrade to bluetooth and voice command to make the user experience easier, and the user experience is more pleasant with these additions.  There are things which bother me about the unit which I consider shortsighted and poorly considered by the designers at Garmin.

1.  No vertical dashboard.  The Garmin 50LM has a nice "More Data Layout" in its display options which is basically its vertical dashboard.  However, all of the 2595LMT's dashboards are horizontal.  I strongly prefer the vertical dashboard because it allows the eyes to focus on either the map or the dashboard.  The Garmin LM50 has a nicer layout with the vertical dashboard than this "advanced" 2595 LMT unit.  Makes me wonder why Garmin didn't include an equal number of vertical and horizontal dashboards with the software or as an option to cover all preferences.
2.  Overall the 2595LMT fonts look smaller than the Garmin Nuvi 50LM, and the screen looks dimmer and fuzzier.  I'm not sure if this is an illusion, but it is something to consider. Also this could be because I'm used to having a vertical dashboard which concentrates the image and pixels more than the horizontal dashboard does.
3.  Unlike the Garmin 50LM, there is no way to change your country map and then find your city.  Voice Command offers some relief because if you "Find City", there is a "Change Country" option.  Absent that, you have to hope that the city comes up when you enter it.  I think this is a flaw for a device that covers "North America".
4.  Speed Camera Proximity alerts are now available only with a Cyclops subscription for the 2595 LMT at $25 per year  This was included with the 50LM free of charge.
5.  It would be nice if Garmin designers would be a little bit more like Magellan and use US Zip Codes as an optional starting point for destination entry.
2165115
I'm quite happy with the features and app interface. I like the sleek Over 1 month in and It has actually motivated me to move more every day :-)
Love that it is waterproof. Wish more people had Garmin instead of fitbit's so I had more friends to compete with.
3125914
Fitness trackers are huge now as we begin to be more aware of our trend toward inactivity as a country. Unfortunity, not everyone can afford to pay the premium for name brands, and that is where these types of devices come in.

Learning how to operate this tracker will take a little getting used to, but it's nothing you can't figure out without a little tinkering. The step count is a little bit higher than it should be, at least when compared to the tracking on s health and my gear s2, but this doesn't matter too much. It's a measure of activity either way.

The color is a nice purple and the feel of the silicone band is soft. It went on easily even on my 7 inch wrist. It is also very comfortable and did not feel bulky while wearing. The screen is very simple so the battery lasts a long time between charges, which you do by popping the black part out of the band and sticking in a USB port.

The main issue I have with this is the app. It controlled the device just fine, but I did not like that it hangs out in your notification bar, or that it is a bit of a battery drain. There was also no easy way of closing it as far as I could find. Had to go to task manager.

I received this product on promotion in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. I think the app needs work, but it's nothing that firmware updates can't fix.
133089
I wanted a health tracker that didn't look like a man's watch, so I purchased the Bellabeat. It looks lovely and I regularly receive compliments about it. I don't find it uncomfortable to wear to bed as a bracelet or necklace, and I like the sleep tracking it's provided. Its "all-in-one" dashboard in the app is great: I love being able to see multiple stats in a single place. However, the period tracker with its semi-circular display is confusing and I am unable to make notes for any given day. For these reasons, I still use a separate fertility tracking app which provides a "typical" 30-day calendar format and allows me to enter notes for any day of the month. The advertising materials I read during the purchasing decision-making process were misleading in that I thought the Bellabeat itself tracks steps. This is not the case: steps logged by your phone must be transferred to Bellabeat through syncing. This was a significant disappointment for me, because I don't like to carry my phone during all of my exercise activities. Overall, I think it's a decent product for anyone who wants to track multiple items (steps, sleep, etc.) in a single app with an attractive tracker.
1758302
Really helps to interface with my Garmin, and do up dates, downloads.
35259
Overall, I like the watch.  It seems to offer a ton of features not typically found in a $180 watch (fully customizable data fields with up to 4 items per screen, a pretty useful "Back to Start" feature, elevation gain/loss, and the ability to count down the time until your activity is finished, sort of like a GPS unit you'd use in your car.

What I like:
-The watch looks very attractive and has a very low profile
-The watch uses a normal USB cable to charge, not an awkward looking device-specific charger like the other companies utilize
-The route tracked on the map appears to be very accurate.  So far, it looks identical to the actual running route, right down to the particular side of the street I ran on.  Better than my previous Garmin watch
-Tons of items can be added to the training screens (1-4 data items per screen, up to 8 total screens), and these screens are easily accessible by pushing the down/up buttons while running.  This is all customizable through Polar Flow, which I actually prefer compared to setting this up on the watch itself
-There are tons of different sports profiles that you can set up, and with each profile (cycling, treadmill, running, even badminton... yes, badminton), you can completely customize the information you see on your training screens.  This is useful for seeing metrics in MPH when cycling versus min/mile when running, and seeing exactly the items you want for specific activities.

What I don't like:
-There is no alert vibration and the alert beep is barely audible.  You have the option of increasing the volume, and even at "very loud" I can still barely hear it when I have headphones in.
-I'm not a fan of Polar's lap feature.  I want automatic laps to appear on the watch while running (not just a screen that flashes after the auto lap).  I want to look down and see what my last lap pace was, and what my current lap pace is.  In order to use these features on this watch, you have to manually click the button to end that lap and start a new one.  Some might prefer this, I guess, but I just want the watch to automatically beep (loudly) after a mile, or 2 miles, or whatever I set up as an automatic lap, and I want data to be calculated using that auto lap distance.  Having to manually end a lap doesn't seem very useful to me.
-Software is not up to par with Garmin
-The mobile app syncing is currently only available with iphones.  If you have an Android phone and download the app, the app currently only allows pairing to a different Polar watch (Polar Loop).

Overall great buy.  The watch offers a lot of customization and the price is very competitive.
1875728
I only bought it for pokemon GO, but after the trend died I am still using it to track my fitness goals, mileage, and speed.
2329242
There's lots to like about this product - battery life is excellent and the website application is very good.  My tracker started having LCD issues shortly after receiving it, and the bad LCD area kept growing. I don't know if this was an anomaly or not.  I might have considered just getting a replacement tracker, but I also did not like the plastic strap - it was rather difficult to clasp, and over time was very irritating to my skin. If a different type of strap (leather or elastic cloth?) was available, I would try it again.
1629932
It's got everything an average runner could want. Tracks time, distance, and speed with reasonable accuracy. I do a lot of trail running, and I'll sometimes get variances of as much as .05 to .1 miles on the same 8-mile course. Looking at the map of my run on GarminConnect, it's clear that the watch doesn't know precisely where I am. (It has me veering on and off the trail a lot, which I don't actually do.) It's close enough to suit my needs. I attribute the occasional inaccuracy (and I'm guessing) to signal-blocking foliage, as I don't seem to have this problem when running on roads. (GarminConnect tracks me perfectly on road runs, and I observe virtually no variance running the same road course over and over.) I love the average-pace-for-the-mile feature, as I find this far more meaningful and helpful than a snapshot pace of how fast I'm running at a precise moment (a precise moment 5 to 10 seconds in the past). I was a little apprehensive about buying it, but have now logged 200 running miles wearing it and am loving every minute of it.
1564412
I don't use activity trackers (as I really don't care how many steps I take or calories I burn), but this one is different. The swim tracking (although not perfect), does beat what I expected it to report. Also, the running mode shows how hard your feet are hitting the ground and reminds on technique (preventing injury from heavy foot strikes). Overall, it's a neat little gadget, and isn't obtrusively large like other bands.
3273744
Its an ok fitness tracker, but it had enough drawbacks that I eventually returned it.

First, the clasp device they've come up with to keep it from falling off your wrist is TOO effective.  The first version of vivofit apparently popped off people's wrists a lot, so Garmin wanted to design a secure clasp.  They definitely did, but I'd say they overshot the mark a bit as its a real pain to take it off and put back on.  I'd even go so far as to say it can be mildly painful.  The clasp really sticks, and jerking it free sometimes means that your fingers get the wrong end of the plastic edges.  If you never plan to take it off, maybe it won't be an issue for you.  I like at least a few hours a day of freedom.

Second, sleep tracking is weak.  I found it not very accurate at determining when I went to sleep, or woke up.  And when I woke up in teh middle of the night, even if I was up for hours, the tracker would still show me as being asleep, and count that time as sleep time.

Its a shame because the readout I found attractive, better than any other wrist device I've used (including charge hr).

Everything else was fine, steps tracking was reasonably accurate, the website I thought was not too far off of Fitbits, and of course the year battery life is phenomenal.  The red "non-movement" lines were fun at first but then just became tedious.  Garmin, fix the clasp (why not use a watch clasp?) and improve the sleep monitoring, it'll make a big difference.