The Vivomove has one big rival in the stylish fitness watch stakes: Withings' Activité Pop . The Withings has a few extra features, such as a silent vibration alarm, automatic sport detection for running and cycling, and automatic time sync with your phone over Bluetooth.

Subtle and stylish looks; No information overload; Brilliant battery

Too simple for serious sports-fiends; Missing a few features

Love my Garmin. Easy to use, easy to link to my phone. So many compliments

My Fitbit stopped working and my partner asked me what I would like for my birthday present. I wanted a nice gold watch but also wanted a smart watch. I couldn't decide. So I googled smart watches and in the end I didn't have to choose because the Garmin Vivo Move Hr looks like a normal watch and...

Watch by itself looks great.It is been done solid and beautiful. But, you are not going to be able to adjust time without connection to your cell phone with internet and location connection and share all your information with Garmin.

: 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 has bombarded us with fitness trackers and running watches this year, but the Garmin Vivomove HR might be the most exciting of the lot. The first Vivomove was essentially a fitness tracker in traditional watch form, but the Vivomove HR is a full hybrid of style and smarts, layering features...

Classic timepiece design; That hidden screen; Heart rate tracking

No GPS; Screen too small for notifications; Hard to read in bright sunlight

The Garmin Vivomove HR is an affordable, versatile take on the hybrid smartwatch with more features than its price suggests. Here’s our full review

Garmin's Vivomove HR is a beautiful analog watch first and a smart fitness tracker with a heart rate sensor second.

Stylish, analog watch body; Records steps, stairs, sleep, 24/7 heart rate, and stress; Customizable display; Supports notifications.

Proprietary charger; Difficult to read in sunlight; So-so heart rate accuracy.

The Garmin Vivomove HR is a very smart take on a watch that initially doesn’t appear to be smart at all. It’s a minimalist watch that after a few taps turns into a surprisingly good fitness tracker. More than just a step counter, it has a barometer and a solid heart rate tracker too. A dabbler in all areas, it even offers proper notifications from your phone. In typical Garmin fashion, the utility and aesthetics can seem at odds with each other at times. And both the normal Vivomove and Nokia Steel HR have more coherent designs. But with the screen off this really does look like a normal watch, and it can simply do more fitness tracking stuff than most in its class.

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 is a fine looking hybrid smartwatch that is best at being a very subtle activity tracker. It lacks GPS, but makes up for it with clever design, a heart rate monitor and great battery life. If you want to regularly track runs then you might be best off with a GPS running watch that puts this first. But for more casual step and heart rate tracking in a watch you can wear all day, the Vivomove HR is a viable alternative to a Fitbit.