Garmin Venu 3 - Black/Slate

I purchased this primarily for the health monitoring functions. I have had a problem with Afib for the past year, which is hopefully now fully resolved. The Venu 3 gives me easy access to the monitoring and information I want, along with other useful data that I hadn't thought too much about. The battery life is also incredible, usually 10 days between charges, with super quick power refills when needed. The watch is good-looking, and comfortable to wear. Thanks for a really good product.

This has been a great watch for me and my life style. Garmin works amazing with my Samsung phone better than my iPhone watch. I get all my messages and calls and still can't check my steps and bike ride. And one week of battery is so good.

When buying this watch as a replacement or upgrade of another smart watch, you have to keep one thing in mind. The Garmin Venu 3 is the most "smart watch like" watch in Garmin's line-up, but it is a fitness tracker first and a smart watch second. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good news is that this watch has amazing health trackers, being very accurate. This watch also has smart watch features like notifications and text messages. However, the watch does not sync with your phone's notifications seamlessly like other watches on the market. Your notifications go to both the phone and the watch, a result of the third-party app Garmin Connect. I wish this was more seamless, but it is somewhat of a welcome change from the traditional smart watch from other manufacturers. The main thing I love about this watch is the battery life. Lasting up to 14 days with the Always On Display turned off is just amazing. Even with the Always On Display turned on, you still get up to 5 days out of the battery. This is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else on the market. In conclusion, if you want a fitness tracker that is also a smart watch, definitely take a look at the Garmin Venu 3. Amazing battery life and health sensors set this watch apart from the competition. However, if you are looking for a smart watch first, look elsewhere. The connection is not as seamless as other watches on the market such as the Apple Watch or Galaxy Watch.

The functionality of this watch, and larger screen size, are excellent. Also used the Data Lover watch face by Peter Decker. It has all the fields I need.

After owning several versions of another brand of fitness/smartwatch and finding the accuracy and features lacking, I settled on the Venu 3 after much research. There is a bit of a learning curve to overcome - there are A LOT of features and sorting out which ones are important to you can take some time. The main ones I use are the EKG App, Steps, Heart Rate and Pulse Ox. The step count is much more accurate than my previous watch. At a recent doctors appointment I compared the Venu 3 readings to actual medical devices. Heart Rate was within a beat or two of being spot on, Pulse Ox was off by about 10 points - the finger monitor reading was 98% and the Venu 3 was 88%. My doctor was interested in the comparisons so we did this several times and the Venu 3 was consistently low. The big surprise for me was the EKG App - comparing the EKG readings from the Venu 3 and what was taken in the office showed almost identical readings. I was not expecting this level of accuracy. The Garmin messaging feature is cumbersome and not intuitive so I don't use it. Getting texts and call notifications from my iPhone works very well most of the time. There have been several times I have gotten a text but it didn't show up on my watch. Not a big deal to me, but if you're counting on 100% notifications, it may not happen. There are more apps and features on this watch than most people will likely use. That being said, it is very customizable to whatever data set you're looking to track. The downside is it is not very intuitive and getting things set up takes awhile and a measure of patience. If you very tech oriented this may not be the watch for you. The silicone band is secure, but gets uncomfortable after a long day, it doesn't breathe so sweat and moisture tend to collect. I haven't researched alternative bands yet, but I likely will. There are hundreds of alternative watch faces available to add, many free, some are not. It is very easy to overload the watch face with so much data it is near impossible to read. I have tried several different faces and gone back to the default every time. For my needs I am so far happy with the Venu3 despite some of its drawback.

This watch does it all, it did take a little getting used to coming from an Apple Watch, but it still has smart watch capabilities and all the health/ fitness tracking is great, plus the battery lasts forever which is amazing! I only put 4 starts because the watch will not connect to the e-bike in my gym no matter how long I sit there and try to let them pair so my bike work outs just show the time and my heart rate which is a bummer. Overall great watch.

I bought my watch on January 2025, I was ok with the features, but not with quality of the volume of the speaker, it sounds too low when try to talk through it. The others features are fine. Less than 4 months of use I couldn't answer calls through the watch, the green icon to do so was broken.

I waited for a watch that had all the Garmin features but with Apple call ability. This is a long awaited but needed to compete against them. I love it as I learn more and more. Very happy.

I got my Venu 3 weeks ago and loving the running stats and accuracy and the battery life is amazing. Would recommend this beauty to anyone!

Opened the box. Put on charge. Started to set up the phone per instructions, and everything is in French. I’ve tried everything. Can’t figure out factory reset.

Some features like the weather app don’t work. What’s the point if basic features aren’t accurate. Too expensive for nonsense like that especially with the news of connect plus paid subscription.

Not all that I expected and can be very difficult to learn operate. The small videos on YouTube are not very helpful. One more thing is that you cannot import data from FitBit ☹️

I got this a month ago and I am loving all of the features. I love the battery life, the sleep scores and the fitness tracking.

It scratches really easy, not accurate when off WiFi. Other then that it’s a good watch

I have used my Garmin Venu 3 for a month while cycling and going through my day.The watch delivers critical health information I need to monitor my Afib & heart rate; I can broadcast heart rate to my Garmin 540 cycling computer throughout my rides (no more wearing the chest strap).

I've had the Venu 3 for a few weeks. My Venu 2 of about four years experienced the blue triangle and could not be revived. Garmin offered to replace it with another Venu 2 but I decided to upgrade to to Venu 3. Garmin offered a generous discount and I upgraded. I am very glad I did. It has much more to offer to the Venu 2 and I use it for walking, running on the treadmill, rowing and cycling. Great watch.

Loveb my new V3. Big upgrade from my Vivoactive 3. Many more features than my former watch. My only disappointment if that this watch does not have a yard work feature like the Vivoactive 3 did. Would be nice to have kayaking on it as well. Not just rowing. Everything else on the watch is great! I

Received a refurbished unit after the Original Venu 3 just stopped working all together. No display whatsoever. Prior to it totally going blank, it had connectivity issues. It would frequently flash "phone disconnected"..then "phone connected "...back and forth. I just received this refurbished unit 3 days ago and have swam the last 2 days in the pool, it recorded the swim sessions just fine, but this morning the watch went to dim mode and a default clock face was present upon awakening. I had to reset and reconnect. Later this morning I will call customer service and ask for a replacement. My Original unit lasted about 11 months before having any issues. I primarily swim 3-5 times a week, about an hour each time.

I am impuwirh this watch so far. It does everything. The only problem is that is doesn’t allow to reply to messages and so may apps for everything. Besides that, it performs very well, battery life is very good. It is very fast and responsive.

The watch is beautiful and live the ease of changing watch faces. The sport part of the watch can take some getting used to and provides a lot of stats. Need to add d/l reports. Importing of Fitbit/MyZone data does Not work ☹️

Good coaching and feedback. Phone function is useful when hands are full and on the move but need to have phone nearby so cant rely on it for safety if you leave phone at home. Speaker not loud but ok and perfectly ok for calls but headphones required for decent volume during exercise. Downloading music useful if you want to leave your phone at home (e.g. for running). Variable font size is handy and should future proof the watch for someone who is starting to wear glasses but not for exercise. Mapping is limited (breadcrumb only) but can download apps such as Komoot which can integrate maps if you pay subscription.

I love wearing my Venu 3 all day and night. It's so light and versatile for work and play. Battery life is excellent!! I forget I have it on all day.

Bought it a month ago and I'm glad I did it does everything I want and more. I'm still learning new ways to use it everyday.

I bought this watch to replace my Venu 2 as the battery died. The GPS did not work so the sent me a refurbished watch (not a new one) and the refurbished watch does not have a functioning GPS either. In short, don’t waste your money on this watch as the basic functions don’t work.