Garmin has taken an inconspicuous approach to the Vivosmart 3 with a slim, seamless design. This does mean that any form of customisation goes out the window. Unlike the Fitbit Charge 2, the bands here aren't detachable, meaning you're stuck with whatever colour choice you opt for.

Discreet and comfortable design; Good battery life; Touch interface is easy to use; Water-resistant

Garmin Connect app is still messy; Can't respond to notifications; Rep counting feels tacked on

Absolutely love my garmin fitness tracker! Great price and super easy to set up. I love the design as its very sleek and not bulky. It gives great indepth information like heartrate and stress levels and when you download the app you can set targets for the step counter manually.

Wish I had brought a Fitbit. Thought this would be better, but boy was I wrong. Does not count floors anywhere near accurately. I wake up and shower and it says I reached my intensity minute target for the week. Never buying Garmin again

Easy to use and what i want in a watch

The Garmin Vivosmart 3 might not look like much but it's packed full of fitness tracking features, from rep counts to a fitness age. It's good value too, but more aimed at gym-goers than runners.

Rep counting; Auto activity tracking; Smart notifications

No GPS; Hit and miss wake movement sensing; Plain design

Works well. We use it for tracking heart rate and sleep, not for 'standard' activity-type tracking. Effectively we are using it for medical monitoring, although the instructions have lots of legal jargon saying you can't do that. The battery lasts a number of days between charges, which is good.

Works as described. As usual, the stairs counter is useless and complaints about the screen being unsharp are true. Icons are rather cryptic as well. Not sure anything out there is much better though.

The Garmin vivosmart 3 has a lot of features. However, I am finding that sometimes it doesn't always respond as expected. Lifting and turning your wrist to see the time doesn't always work. Sometimes I have to give it a few hard taps to light up.

Bought for my wife and she lo as it. It fits her wrist well and it is quite accurate. The size is just big enough to make the screen usable for texts and to see valuable information

I bought this watch a week ago as part of my get fit initiative and it's great. It has some really good features like sleep analysis, stress management as well as step counter and heart rate measurement. The fact it's waterproof is also a real bonus as means I can wear it in the pool.