Better at fitness than it first appears; Fairly good battery life; Supports notifications, including WhatsApp; Uses the same app as Garmin’s advanced watches;

No GPS; Screen visibility only okay in bright light; Design could do with more refinement;

The Garmin Vivomove HR delivers a highly appealing mix of affordability and features

Lightweight and comfortable; Lots of fitness features; Looks great;

Logging activities can be fiddly; Smeary screen; Mediocre battery life;

Garmin's heart-tracking blend of fashion watch and fitness watch is a great choice for everyday watch wearers who want a fully embedded fitness experience.

Full fitness features on a regular-looking analog watch; The Vivomove HR includes heart rate, step count and sleep tracking, and smart functions like notifications; It works on Android and iOS and has 50-meter water resistance and a weeklong-plus battery life.

The tiny touch display is hard to navigate; There are no physical buttons; It lasts longer in watch-only mode but won't track fitness, and the glass body can collect scuffs.

Why can't smartwatches look normal?

Garmin's heart-tracking blend of fashion watch and fitness watch is a great choice for everyday watch wearers who want a fully embedded fitness experience.

Full fitness features on a regular-looking analog watch; The Vivomove HR includes heart rate, step count and sleep tracking, and smart functions like notifications; It works on Android and iOS and has 50-meter water resistance and a weeklong-plus battery life.

The tiny touch display is hard to navigate; There are no physical buttons; It lasts longer in watch-only mode but won't track fitness, and the glass body can collect scuffs.

The Garmin Vivomove is a fitness tracker for those with more discerning aesthetic tastes. Like the range, it's visually very much a watch first, activity tracker second. It won't stick out like a sore thumb if you need to transition from an afternoon workout to an evening gala.

Stylish design; Accurate sleep tracking; Easy to track activity progress; One-year battery life

No vibration reminders and alarms; No background syncing; Hard to navigate app

It's worth buying only if you want a basic activity tracker and a regular watch in the same package. Even so, it's overpriced. A $20 wristwatch and a Jawbone UP3 or FitBit Flex gives you about the same thing for almost $100 less.

Love it! The stress monitoring feature is very helpful. Stair tracking is hit or miss, but that isn't a big deal. Looks very nice, best combination of a traditional watch and tracker that I have found.

Garmin’s Vivomove HR is an attractive timepiece, but its smart fitness-tracking features leave a lot to be desired.

Can be used as a watch; no phone required; Stylish enough to wear all day

Inaccurate sleep tracking; Display is difficult to see in sunlight; Lightweight workout features

Dissapointing quality and warranty. Watch got moisture from inside after 6 month of very careful usage, no scratches at all. Warranty did not cover it as im not inside the US any more. I do not reccomend it at all, too expensive for a watch of this quality

It's a product I love. The touch screen works, but I find a little too fiddly for me to successfully use. Does what it says on the tin - apart from the watch strap, the pins do come undone from the body of the watch without too much persuasion so I'll need to contact Garmin it seems.