Vívoactive® 3

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GPS Smartwatch with Contactless Payments and Wrist-based Heart Rate

  • Garmin Pay™ contactless payment solution lets you pay for purchases with your watch¹
  • Personalize your watch with thousands of free watch faces, apps and widgets from our Connect IQ™ store
  • More than 15 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps, including yoga, running, swimming and more
  • Monitor your fitness level with VO2 max and fitness age estimates, plus keep an eye on how you handle stress²
  • Get connected features³ such as smart notifications, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect™, LiveTrack and more
  • Battery life4: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; 13 hours in GPS mode

From playing to paying, vívoactive 3 is the smartwatch for your active life. Make contactless payments with ease, right from your watch, and with more than 15 preloaded sports apps — you can choose how you like to get fit. Built-in GPS lets you record the distance, pace, location and more for your outdoor activities.

Pay Your Way

vívoactive 3 is our first wearable to feature Garmin Pay, which lets you pay for purchases with your watch. Use it just about anywhere you can tap your card to pay1. So, if you left your wallet in your locker or just forgot it, that post-run morning caffè latte can still be yours. Just tap and go.

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Make It Yours

vívoactive 3 is compatible with our Connect IQ store, where you can download watch faces, widgets and apps that make it go from smartwatch to your watch. Keep tabs on when your Uber is arriving, turn on your lights at home with the SmartThings app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start. You can also use our free Face It™ watch face app to add personality to your device that’s uniquely you. Just download the app, choose any image from your photo library, make your customizations, and set it as your watch’s face.

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Play More Sports

With more than 15 preloaded sports apps, finding a fun way to stay active is easy. Hit the golf course, go for a bike ride, take a yoga class, or even try your hand at stand-up paddle boarding. When you head outside, built-in GPS lets vívoactive 3 track the details of your chosen activity — with no phone connection required. From snowboarding to swimming and at least a dozen other options in between, this watch is the perfect playmate.

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Fits You and All You Do

Feel free to take this watch outside in all kinds of weather. Not only is it safe for swimming and showering, its Garmin Chroma Display™ is easy to read — even in direct sunlight — and housed under extra-durable glass. It also features the Side-Swipe™ interface, which makes for quick scrolling and swift navigation of menus and widgets. Whether you scroll with your thumb or index finger, you can choose how to wear it. Comfortable, convenient and easy to see — vívoactive 3 just fits.

Download and Create Workouts

Keep your workout schedule fresh and invigorating. Create your own custom running, cycling, cardio or strength workouts, and download them to your watch. Then, your vívoactive smartwatch will keep track of the exercises, reps, sets and rest time for you.

Daily Fitness and Stress Tracking

With help from Elevate™ wrist-based heart rate technology², vívoactive 3 lets you monitor key aspects of your fitness and stress to show how your body responds under various circumstances. For example, it’s able to estimate your VO2 max and fitness age — 2 indicators of physical fitness that can often improve over time with regular exercise. It also tracks your heart rate variability (HRV), which is used to calculate and track your stress level. vívoactive 3 can make you aware when physical or emotional sources cause your stress level to rise so you can find a way to relieve the pressure.

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Always Connected

Life doesn’t have a pause button, so stay connected with your vívoactive 3 smartwatch while you’re playing hard or working out. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you’ll be able to receive and even respond5 to text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. Find your phone, access music controls and let friends LiveTrack your sports. Your finished activities will even automatically upload to our Garmin Connect online fitness community.

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Share and Compete

Syncing your activities to Garmin Connect is for more than just storing your data. Garmin Connect is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete by joining challenges, encourage each other’s successes and even share their triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone with the Garmin Connect™ Mobile app.

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Track Your Cycle

Get a better understanding of your body using the Garmin Connect menstrual cycle tracking feature. Use it to track cycle details, log physical and emotional symptoms and record personal notes for regular, irregular and menopause transition cycle types. You’ll get education about training and nutrition during each phase of your current cycle, too. With the Connect IQ app6, you’ll get cycle updates — such as period reminders, cycle details and symptoms logged for the day — delivered to your wrist.

General

LENS MATERIAL

Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

BEZEL MATERIAL

stainless steel

CASE MATERIAL fiber-reinforced polymer with stainless steel rear cover
QUICK RELEASE BANDS yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
STRAP MATERIAL

silicone

PHYSICAL SIZE

43.4 x 43.4 x 11.7 mm

Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm

TOUCHSCREEN Yes
COLOR DISPLAY Yes
DISPLAY SIZE 1.2" (30.4mm) diameter
DISPLAY RESOLUTION 240 x 240 pixels
DISPLAY TYPE sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
WEIGHT

43.0 g

BATTERY LIFE Smartwatch mode: Up to 7 days
GPS mode: Up to 13 hours
WATER RATING 5 ATM
MEMORY/HISTORY 7 timed activities, 14 days of activity tracking data

 

Clock Features

TIME/DATE Yes
GPS TIME SYNC Yes
AUTOMATIC DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Yes
ALARM CLOCK Yes
TIMER Yes
STOPWATCH Yes
SUNRISE/SUNSET TIMES Yes

 

Health Monitoring

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE (CONSTANT, EVERY SECOND) Yes
DAILY RESTING HEART RATE Yes
ABNORMAL HEART RATE ALERTS yes (high)
FITNESS AGE yes (in app)
ALL-DAY STRESS TRACKING Yes
RELAXATION BREATHING TIMER Yes
SLEEP Yes
HYDRATION yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
MENSTRUAL CYCLE yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)

 

Sensors

GPS Yes
GLONASS Yes
GALILEO Yes
GARMIN ELEVATE™ WRIST HEART RATE MONITOR Yes
BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER Yes
COMPASS Yes
ACCELEROMETER Yes
THERMOMETER Yes

 

Daily Smart Features

CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth® Smart and ANT+®
CONNECT IQ™ (DOWNLOADABLE WATCH FACES, DATA FIELDS, WIDGETS AND APPS) Yes
SMART NOTIFICATIONS Yes
TEXT RESPONSE/REJECT PHONE CALL WITH TEXT (ANDROID™ ONLY) Yes
CALENDAR Yes
WEATHER Yes
CONTROLS SMARTPHONE MUSIC Yes
FIND MY PHONE Yes
FIND MY WATCH Yes
VIRB® REMOTE Yes
SMARTPHONE COMPATIBILITY iPhone®, Android™
PAIRS WITH GARMIN CONNECT™ MOBILE Yes
GARMIN PAY™ Yes

 

Safety and Tracking Features

LIVETRACK Yes

 

Activity Tracking Features

STEP COUNTER Yes
MOVE BAR (DISPLAYS ON DEVICE AFTER A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY; WALK FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO RESET IT) Yes
AUTO GOAL (LEARNS YOUR ACTIVITY LEVEL AND ASSIGNS A DAILY STEP GOAL) Yes
CALORIES BURNED Yes
FLOORS CLIMBED Yes
DISTANCE TRAVELED Yes
INTENSITY MINUTES Yes
TRUEUP™ Yes
MOVE IQ™ Yes

 

Gym & Fitness Equipment

AVAILABLE GYM ACTIVITY PROFILES Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
CARDIO WORKOUTS Yes
STRENGTH WORKOUTS Yes
AUTOMATIC REP COUNTING Yes

 

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

HR ZONES Yes
HR ALERTS Yes
HR CALORIES Yes
% HR MAX Yes
HR BROADCAST (BROADCASTS HR DATA OVER ANT+™ TO PAIRED DEVICES) Yes
GPS SPEED AND DISTANCE Yes
CUSTOMIZABLE DATA PAGES Yes
CUSTOMIZABLE ACTIVITY PROFILES Yes
AUTO PAUSE® Yes
ADVANCED WORKOUTS Yes
DOWNLOADABLE TRAINING PLANS Yes
AUTO LAP® Yes
MANUAL LAP Yes
VO2 MAX Yes
TOUCH AND/OR BUTTON LOCK Yes
AUTO SCROLL Yes
ACTIVITY HISTORY ON WATCH Yes
PHYSIO TRUEUP Yes

 

Running Features

AVAILABLE RUN PROFILES

Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running

GPS-BASED DISTANCE, TIME AND PACE Yes
CADENCE (PROVIDES REAL-TIME NUMBER OF STEPS PER MINUTE) Yes
RUN WORKOUTS Yes
FOOT POD CAPABLE Yes

 

Golfing Features

YARDAGE TO F/M/B (DISTANCE TO FRONT, MIDDLE AND BACK OF GREEN) Yes
YARDAGE TO LAYUPS/DOGLEGS Yes
MEASURES SHOT DISTANCE (CALCULATES EXACT YARDAGE FOR SHOTS FROM ANYWHERE ON COURSE) Automatic
DIGITAL SCORECARD Yes
STAT TRACKING (STROKES, PUTTS PER ROUND, GREENS AND FAIRWAYS HIT) Yes
GARMIN AUTOSHOT™ Yes
GREEN VIEW WITH MANUAL PIN POSITION Yes
HAZARDS AND COURSE TARGETS Yes
PINPOINTER Yes
ROUND TIMER/ODOMETER Yes

 

Outdoor Recreation

AVAILABLE OUTDOOR RECREATION PROFILES

Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing

BACK TO START Yes
TOTAL ASCENT/DESCENT Yes

 

Cycling Features

ALERTS (TRIGGERS ALARM WHEN YOU REACH GOALS INCLUDING TIME, DISTANCE, HEART RATE OR CALORIES) Yes
AVAILABLE CYCLING PROFILES

Biking, Indoor Biking

COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ RADAR (REAR-FACING RADAR) Yes
COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ LIGHTS Yes
SPEED AND CADENCE SENSOR SUPPORT

yes

 

Swimming Features

AVAILABLE SWIM PROFILES

Pool Swimming

POOL SWIM METRICS (LENGTHS, DISTANCE, PACE, STROKE COUNT, SWIM EFFICIENCY (SWOLF), CALORIES) Yes
STROKE TYPE DETECTION (FREESTYLE, BACKSTROKE, BREASTSTROKE, BUTTERFLY) (POOL SWIM ONLY) Yes
BASIC REST TIMER (UP FROM 0) (POOL SWIM ONLY) Yes
TIME AND DISTANCE ALERTS Yes

 

Kid Activity Tracking Features

TOE-TO-TOE™ CHALLENGES yes (optional Connect IQ app)

 

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