From playing to paying, vivoactive 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.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Pay Your Way
Vivoactive 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 pay. So, if you left your wallet in your locker or just forgot it, that post-run morning caffe latte can still be yours. Just tap and go.
Make It Yours
Vivoactive 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.
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 s...
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From playing to paying, vivoactive 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.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Pay Your Way
Vivoactive 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 pay. So, if you left your wallet in your locker or just forgot it, that post-run morning caffe latte can still be yours. Just tap and go.
Make It Yours
Vivoactive 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.
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 vivoactive 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.
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 Corning Gorilla 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 - vivoactive 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 vivoactive 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 technology, vivoactive 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. vivoactive 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.
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 respond 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.
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.
Maps & Navigation
Memory/History 7 timed activities, 14 days of activity tracking data
SPECIFICATIONS
Display size 1.2 inches (30.4mm) diameter
Display resolution: 240 x 240 pixels
GPSL Yes
Weight: 43.0 g
Display type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Battery life: GPS mode: Up to 13 hours
Smartwatch mode: Up to 7 days
KEY FEATURES
3-axis compass with HSI (horizontal situation indicator): No
Touch and/or button lock: Yes
GPS coordinates: No
Audio prompts: No
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep): Yes
Auto CourseView updates: No
Downloadable training plans: Yes
Measures shot distance: Automatic
Heart rate: No
Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar): Yes
SwingTempo: No
Task timers (2, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes): No
Pool swim workouts: Yes
Race an Activity: No
Hot keys: No
Activity history on watch: Yes
Ground contact time and balance: No
Auto max HR: No
Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display): Yes
HR alerts: Yes
Foot pod capable: Yes
Compatible with Vector (power meter): No
Training Effect (anaerobic): No
Vertical speed: No
Lactate threshold: No
Customizable data pages: Yes
Race an activity: No
Finish time: No
Elevation profile: No
Configurable lap alerts: Yes
Automatic sync (automatically transfers data to Garmin Connect): No
PlaysLike distance: No
Virtual Partner: No
V02 max: Yes
Customizable alerts: Yes
NEXRAD on moving map: No
Back to start: Yes
Vertical oscillation and ratio: No
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC): No
Altimeter with adjustable baro setting: No
Physical size: 43.4 x 43.4 x 11.7 mm
Fits wrists with a circumference: 127-204 mm
Move bar: No
Chronograph: No
Preloaded gym activity profiles Strength Training, Cardio Training, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
Face It™ watch face creator Yes
Ambient light sensor No
Bezel Material: stainless steel
Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point): No
Hazards and course targets: Yes
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly): Yes
TruSwing compatible: No
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes
Calendar: Yes
Barometric altimeter: Yes
Weather: Yes
Auto Lap: Yes
Sunrise/sunset times: No
Floors climbed: Yes
% HR max: Yes
% HRR: No
Case material: fiber-reinforced polymer and stainless steel
Preloaded outdoor recreation profiles: Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
TracBack: No
Storm alert: No
Water rating: Swim/5 ATM
Advanced Vector support: No
Handicap scoring: No
Audible alerts: No
Color display: Yes
Multiple bike profiles: No
HR zones: Yes
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): Yes
Connectivity: Bluetooth Smart and ANT+
Find My Phone: Yes
Stride length (real time): No
Custom targets: No
Downloadable cartography support: No
Swim efficiency (SWOLF): Yes
Preloaded run profiles : Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): No
Stopwatch: Yes
Run workouts: Yes
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories): No
Training Effect (aerobic): No
Worldwide airport database(s): No
Waypoint information page: No
GPS speed and distance: Yes
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): No
Area calculation: No
Find My Watch: Yes
Advanced workouts: Yes
Strava features (Beacon, live segments): No
VIRB remote: Yes
Smartphone compatibility: iPhone, Android
Dual grid coordinates: No
TrueUp: Yes
Timer: Yes
Multiple time zones with Zulu/UTC: No
Courses (compete against previous activities): No
Compatible with Varia lights: Yes
Thermometer: Yes
Alarm clock: Yes
Wirelessly receive flight plans from Garmin Pilot: No
Group LiveTrack: No
Intensity minutes: Yes
Interval training: No
Gyroscope: No
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal): Yes
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile: Yes
Touchscreen: Yes
Virtual starting line: No
Preloaded topographical maps: No
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor): yes
Sun and moon information: No
Night vision mode: No
Preloaded swim profiles : Pool Swimming
Tempo Training: No
Move IQ: Yes
Advanced swim features (time/distance alerts, countdown start, advanced rest timers): No
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor: Yes
HRV stress test: No
GLONASS: Yes
Smart notifications: Yes
Sight 'N Go: No
Garmin Pay: Yes
Automatic daylight saving time: Yes
Projected waypoint: No
Bread crumb trail in real time: No
Time/date: yes
Rewards (coins): No
Calories burned: Yes
Customizable activity profiles: Yes
Segments (Live, Garmin): No
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices): Yes
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): No
Music controls: Yes
Power meter compatible: No
Total ascent/descent: Yes
Garmin Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map): No
PinPointer: Yes
Step counter: Yes
60-minute activity goal: No
Trail run auto climb: No
Chore: No
Physiological measurements: No
Barometric trend indicator: No
Automatic rep counting: Yes
LiveTrack: Yes
Moving Map with aviation airports, navaids, roads, bodies of water and more: No
HR calories: Yes
Point-to-point navigation: No
Anchor Alarm: No
Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes
Auto Pause: Yes
Running dynamics: No
Full vector map: No
Tack assist mode: No
Worldwide NAVAID and Intersection database(s): No
Preloaded cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking
Future elevation plot: No
Accelerometer: Yes
Recovery time: No
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only): Yes
Around Me mode: No
Hunt/fish calendar: No
Course guidance: No
Strap material: silicone
GPS Time Sync: Yes
Countdown timer: No
Auto scroll: Yes
Analog hands: No
Round timer/odometer: Yes
Compass: Yes
Digital scorecard: yes
Lens Material: Corning Gorilla Glass
Cardio workouts: Yes
Green View with manual pin position: Yes
Performance condition: No
Strength workouts: Yes
Distance to destination: No
Training Status: No
Manual lap: No
Distance traveled: Yes
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories): Yes
GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes
Garmin AutoShot: Yes
Fitness Age: yes (in app)
Unit-to-unit route/location sharing: No
FTP (Functional Threshold Power): No
Built-in barometer and tide tables: No
Race predictor: No
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